Guidelines for the Submission to the CLIVAR Newsletter Exchanges

The CLIVAR Newsletter Exchanges is an un-refereed means of rapidly disseminating scientific results and information about the CLIVAR programme and related science and organisational issues. The articles that we accept often present preliminary results or summaries and are of limited length - contributions should not exceed a total of 3 pages, INCLUDING figures. As a guide, 3 pages generally amounts to a maximum of 3000 words and two figures. We only have the centre four pages for colour figures so please try to keep the number of these to a minimum.

For your information: we use 2 columns, app. 9cm-wide, 10pt font size, font: Palatino. Note, that there is no need to adopt this layout, since it has to be redone anyway!

Submission after the posted deadline may be accepted at the discretion of the editor.

The newsletter is produced electronically, so electronic submission is required. All contributions should be submitted to icpo@noc.soton.ac.uk.

Please, contact the editor first before sending in a contribution by any other means. Contributors are invited to discuss proposed articles with the Newsletter editor before submission. The editor reserves the right to edit or NOT to publish contributions.

The following guidelines have been produced to assist potential contributors:

1) Provide text and figures separately ! I.e. in separate files !

2) Electronically mail the text of the contribution (incl. figure captions, full references according AMS¹ standard) to the editor in the following formats:

Word

Indesign

ASCII text. (Note, that a special formatting of the text is not required.)

3) Figures should be provided in Postscript or EPS format for graphics and TIFF, JPEG or GIF-format for photos. Bitmap formats, such as TIFF, JPEG or GIF are only acceptable if the resolution is higher than 200 dpi (for photos) or 300dpi for other graphics at the size to be printed. Please do not create postscript formats from bitmap (gif, jpg, tiff, etc) graphics !

In addition, graphics in Illustrator and Photoshop are acceptable, as are figures in pdf-format if produced in high quality.

The figures should be placed on an ftp-server. Send an e-mail to the editor first to get/provide ftp details. The space for colour figures is very limited - generally only four pages for an issue. You should restrict the number of colour figures to one per article. Other figures must be greyscale or monochrome.

If any contributor can not provide input according to the above guidelines the editor will advise on other acceptable electronic submission formats.

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¹Example for a correct reference:

Full list of authors, year, title, journal, volume, page numbers

Meehl, G.A., G.J. Boer, C. Covey, M. Latif, and R.J. Stouffer, 1997: Intercomparison makes for a better climate model. EOS, 78, 445-451.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Material published in the CLIVAR Newsletter may be referenced and used provided that the authors permission is obtained and appropriate references and acknowledgement are given.