Geologicheskii Vestnik

The Editorial Board of the journal will consider manuscripts, if they do not exceed 2 author's sheet (1 author's sheet implies 40,000 printed characters including spaces; 1 full journal page with 170×235 mm usable area contains 0.125 author's sheets). Materials are submitted in a soft copy. The article should be completed with an abstract and key words in Russian and English. The references should conform to GOST 7.0.5-2008. The manuscripts should be original and never published anywhere else before. When an author sends the manuscript to the editorial board. they are obliged not to send this article to any other journal.

Submitting the manuscript, please, make sure to attach:

1) an expertise report;

2) details about the authors including their full names and patronymics for all authors, their degrees, positions, organizations, correspondence addresses and e-mails; ORCIDs.

3) author(')s phone number(s) and e-mail(s) for settling issues associated with the article consideration; please, indicate the authors' e-mails without quoting 'e-mail'; avoid using a full stop after the e-mail. The author responsible for communication (not necessarily the original author) can be marked with superscripted * (E.g. A.P. Petrov, D.I. Ivanov^*, S.M. Sidorov). If there is only one author or the author responsible for communication is not indicated, the original author should be deemed responsible for communication.

4) contribution of each author (if the article is created by more than one author);

5) conflict of interest claim or disclaimer; details of the conflict, if any.

6) full names, e-mails and ORCIDs of authors missed in the article head page; please, indicate the ORCID as an online link; indicate the author's other international IDs

7) additional information about the author(s) including:

- academic ranks;

- if an author works for or studies at several institutions, indicate all of them after the author's name with every institution out on a different line; the association between the author and their institution is shown with superscripted digit.

The editorial board retains the right to reject an article violating the guidelines subject to notification of the co-author responsible for communication.

The article wording is packed into a Microsoft Word or Open Office file and saved as *.doc, *.docx, *.rtf. The file name should indicate the author's last name (e.g. Ivanov.doc). Text formatting:

• top and bottom margins are 26 mm each,
• right and left margins are 25 mm each,
• the size is A4;
• sheets are not numbered;
• Times New Roman font;
• body: pica 12, line spacing 1.0, center alignment;
• paragraph indent: 1.25 cm;
• do not use end-of-line hyphenation.

References and the author's abstract to the article should conform to the editorial board's requirements.

Make sure to provide illustrations in a separate file containing all diagrams, graphs, figures (scanned in grayscale in *.jpg, *.tif, *.bmp at least 300 dpi). Photographs are allowed to be full colour or grayscale.

The editorial board retains the right to reject illustrative media, if they have inappropriate resolution.

Send your article to the editorial board's e-mail: igjournal@ufaras.ru No hard copy is required.

Since 2018 the journal has been releasing 3 issues per year. Issue 1 is released in March through April. Issue 2 is released in July through August. Issue 3 is released in November through December. Manuscripts are accepted according to the established schedule prior to the issue release.