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Notes for Contributors:
Your intention to publish your article in our journal DIE ERDE is highly appreciated! Please make sure that
you will comply with the following rules for a publication in DIE ERDE:
DIE ERDE publishes original contributions which have not or will not appear in another journal or book. In
most cases, the articles are published in English as the journal intends to function as a bridge from German
-speaking geography and earth sciences to the international scientific community. Articles in German may be accepted only in very specific cases which should be explained explicitly.
Responsibility for contents as well as for linguistic correctness and stylistic quality resides with the author(s).
The editors, however, carefully examine the article’s presentation with regard to subject matter, language and style.
Contributions to DIE ERDE should, above all, follow a systemic, integrative, synthetic or networking approach
in treating a geographical problem or should present a section of the earth’s surface in an integrativ-synthetic way with reference to a specific research question.
The manuscripts sent to DIE ERDE are submitted to a process of refereeing by at least two referees. They are
accepted for publication in a letter by the working editor. With this confirmation of acceptance the copyright
for the article including all figures, tables and photos becomes the possession of the Geographical Society of
Berlin (Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin). The editors cannot be held responsible for any loss of a manuscript sent to the Berlin office.
The editors may ask for alterations which appear necessary in terms of editorial and graphical quality,
regarding the text, figures, tables and photos. Corrections in the galley proofs by the authors should be confined to printing errors; in the case of further alterations, the authors will have to bear the costs.
Authors/teams of authors will receive 50 offprints of their article; additional copies, to be paid for by the authors, may be produced.
Authors also have to bear the costs for translation (e.g. of summaries) or linguistic editing of the texts.
Structure of the article
Please give the title in English as well as in German (if possible). Three to four keywords should accompany the title as well as a short summary of around 100-120 words, which presents subject matter, aim, central
question and hypotheses of the article.
The structure of the article, its chapters, sub-chapters etc., should be made explicit by a decimal classification
(1, 1.1, 1.1.1, ...), and sub-headings should be short, whereever possible.
The introduction should briefly and concisely present the scientific background and state-of-the-art for the
subject matter treated in the article, with reference to the literature, and should embed the contribution into the scientific context.
In a chapter on methodology, methods may be presented which have been used for the research for the article
. Standard statistical methods (like regression analysis etc.), are not described in detail. Other standardised
methods (e.g. mineral component analysis for soils; pollen analysis) are briefly mentioned, with reference to the
original literature. Special methods are presented by a short summary of the testing arrangement and precedure
without going into details. Here, too, the source should be mentioned, where a more elaborate description of the methods may be found, instead.
Depiction of results and discussion should be treated separately. Results should also be presented in tables and
figures which must be referred to in the text.
In the ‘discussion’ the results are evaluated and, if possible, compared to other and differing results and
interpretations from other studies by other authors, again with reference to the sources in the literature.
The conclusion must correspond to the hypotheses and questions formulated at the beginning. Concluding
remarks, recommendations, future perspectives as well as open questions will be outlined.
The bibliography presents all sources quoted in the article, both print media and electronic media.
The article must be accompanied by a summary in English, German and French, with a length of about half a
manuscript page. A Spanish, Portuguese or Russion translation of the summary must be delivered, if the region or subject matter treated renders such a translation meaningful.
The article closes with the author’s name / authors’ names and full postal address(es) as well as email address(es).
Formal Requirements
Apart from the text, DIE ERDE has tables, figures (including maps) and photos; all three categories should be
numbered sequentially (Tab. 1, Tab. 2; Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.) and each table, figure or photo should be self
-explanatory to a great extent, assisted by a title or caption respectively, and (if necessary) further explanation accompanying the titel.
Bibliographical sources are given in the text in brackets, mentioning the author(s) and the year of publication,
and page numbers eventually. There are no footnotes in DIE ERDE, and please restrict the number of (end
)notes to a minimum. All names of persons are set in italics, also in the literature list. Expressions in foreign
languages as well as very specific scientific terms are also in italics. Please refrain from – or restrict to exceptional cases – other accentuation (like underlining or bold characters).
Bibliographical information is given as name of author, initial(s) – both in italics! –, year of publication, colon,
title of publication, full stop, dash (not: hyphen!), place of publication; – for journal articles: no ‘in’, but a dash
instead, name of journal, volume number (in bold), issue number, colon, page numbers. For articles in edited
books: names of author(s) + ‘ed(s)’, title of book, place of publication and page numbers. If the publication
mentioned is part of a series, the series name is given, plus the series number (the latter in bold!).
Gatrell, A. 2002: Geographies of health: An introduction. – Oxford
Watts, M.J. and H.-G. Bohle 1993: The space of vulnerability: The causal structure of hunger and famine. – Progress in Human Geography
17, 1: 43-67
Blaikie, P. 1981: Nepal: The crisis of regional planning in a double dependent periphery. – In: Stöhr, W.B. and D.R.F. Fraser:
Development from above or below? The dialectics of regional planning in developing countries. – Chichester et al.: 231-259
Online sources are documented by the URL plus the date when the source was used: http://www.die-erde.de/html/hauptteil_heft_4-01.html#wetzel, 22/05/2002.
Graphics (denominated as " figures ") should be numbered sequentially in Arab numerals. The same rule applies to tables.
Formatting
Text: Manuscripts must be sent in three copies on A4 paper, with ample margins, using a 12 pt font,
preferably Times New Roman, and including all tables, figures and photos.
The accepted and corrected article has then to be delivered as a WORD file, on disc or CD-Rom. Tables
should also be in WORD, using 9pt fonts – mind the maximum size of a figure or table: 140x199 mm!
Figures – and also photos – must also be sent in digital form (eps, freehand, TIFF, bitmap), with the headings
and captions on a separate sheet and file (in WORD).
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