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Guidelines for authors of "PAGES News" science highlight articles

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- Articles should be written for an interdisciplinary, international audience.
- Maximum of 1,200 words for the body of the text.
- Use U.S. English spelling.
- Authors and affiliations, as well as an email address for the corresponding author, should be listed as in the following example:
  C. Schmidt¹, T. Brown² and L. Smith^3
  1Department of Geology, University of Bern, Switzerland; schmidt@geol.unibe.ch
  ²Institute of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  ³School of Geography, University of Plymouth, UK
  Do not include street addresses or postal codes.
- Subheadings should be included to break up the text, as appropriate.
- Explain obscure terms, and spell out acronyms and abbreviations.
- If appropriate, use the abbreviation “cal kyr BP” for ages and dates.
- Keep acknowledgements as short as possible.
- Text, figure captions and references should be submitted in one Microsoft Word file.

References
- All data that appear in PAGES News should be submitted to an international database. Please supply the database name and URL so that these can be listed at the end of the article.
- Maximum of 5 references printed in the newsletter. Additional references cited in the text will be listed on the PAGES website. Please indicate which 5 references are to be printed.
- All references should be cited with names and dates, rather than being numbered, for example, (Schmidt et al., 2005).
- Do not use Endnote links or other referencing programs.
- References should be formatted as in the following examples, using “et al.” only when there are more than 10 authors, or for book editors:
  For journal articles–
  Schmidt, C., Brown, T. and Smith, L., 2007: Use of paleoscience data, Science, 5(25): 35-38.
  For book chapters–
  Schmidt, C., Brown, T. and Smith, L., 2007: Use of paleoscience data. In: Alverson, K., et al.   (Eds), Paleoscience Global Change and the Future, Springer, 35-38.

Figures
- 1-2 figures.
- Figures should be submitted electronically.
- Graphs should be submitted as Illustrator, eps or pdf files saved directly from
the software used to create them.
- Photos should be of as high a resolution as possible, no less than 300 dpi
(when saved at the size appropriate for final publication) in psd, tiff or jpeg
format.

Please download the checklist for authors here.

For more information or questions, please contact Louise Newman.