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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Prepare your main manuscript document in the standard format of Microsoft Word (doc, docx) single-spaced in A4 size.  If the manuscript is submitted in any non-editable files (PDFs), you will be required to re-submit the manuscript in MS Word format.

Please conform to the following guidelines:

Font type: Times New Roman
Line space: 1.0

Page size: A4 in single column.

Margin: Normal

Keep the layout simple without any special formatting, do not justify the manuscript.

Please find the full author guidelines: Download Author Guidelines

  Manuscripts should be organized in the following order:

  • Cover page (Title, Name of authors, affiliations, address, e-mail, phone, fax) on one page

The main paper should have:

  1. Title (Times Roman, 18 Font, Bold, (center-aligned)
  2. Abstract (Maximum 300 words, (10 Font, Italic)
  3. Five (5) keywords are to be listed in alphabetic order.
  4. Main (10 Font) text with sections and subsections numbered in order
  5. All equations should be numbered as per the style; Equation 1, Equation 2, etc., MathType is recommended to be used.
  6. All figures should have titles and be in high resolution and be placed in the paper at the appropriate place in the manuscript.
  7. All Tables should have titles and be placed near the place where they are mentioned or discussed in the manuscript
  8. In-text citations should be numbered in the list they should be cited by the same number in the manuscript. The citation numbers start at [1] and continue in ascending order throughout the manuscript.  Each in-text citation number should be enclosed by square brackets and appear on the text line with a space before the brackets. For example, the in-text citation should be numbered as [1], in the case of many citations, the in-test should be numbered as [2] [3] and [4] or [5] [8] and [12].  The reference section is as follows:

[1] Thammaboribal P., Tripathi N.K., Ninsawat S., and Indrajit P. (2022). Earthquake       
     precursory detection using diurnal GPS-TEC and kriging interpolation Maps: 12 May 2008,
     Mw7.9 Wenchuan Case Study, MethodsX, Vol.9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2022.101617.

[2] Liu G., Lee K. Y., and Jordan H. F. (1997). TDM and TWDM de Bruijn networks and shufflenets
      for optical communications.  IEEE Trans. Comp., Vol. 46, 695-701.

[3] Altun A. (2005). Understanding hypertext in the context of reading on the web: Language
      learners’ Experience. Current Issues in Education, Vol. 6(12), 1-15. [Online serial]. Available:       
      http://cie.ed.asu.edu/volume6/number12/. [Accessed Dec. 2, 2007].

[4] Thammaboribal P. (2022). Analysis of vertical total electron content (VTEC) from different IGS
       products and VTEC anomalies for the detection of earthquake precursor (Doctoral
       Dissertation). Remote Sensing and GIS FoS., Asian Institute of Technology.

[5] Wanthong P. (2014). Height systems calculations at Swabian Alb test area (Master’s thesis).
      Dept.Geomatics Eng., University of Stuttgart. Available: https://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/bit
      stream/11682/3967/1/Wanthong.pdf.

Article Publication Charges

IJG publishes 12 issues per year (monthly) online.  The publication charge for Online plus Open Access and DOI is US$ 475. Authors will have the following benefits:

•Free subscription of one year to one author

•Invitation to be on the Member of Editorial Board if the author becomes an Associate Member

Open Access will guarantee that anyone can read and download the paper online. This enhances citation and your professional growth.  An invoice will be sent to the author before final acceptance of the paper.

English Proofing

Many authors may be from non-native English countries and if they wish to use the proofing and editing service in advance of the paper submission, it may be arranged at a nominal cost of US$ 150. This will help in the speedy and smooth reviewing of the paper. It is encouraged for all non-native English-speaking authors. Many reviewers complain about the English language issue in the paper.  IJG will send the paper for review only after the English editing and proofing are completed. Once, the final version is resubmitted again the Paper will be proofed for English before publication.

Review Process:

The review will be online by 3 peer reviewers and will be blind. The author's name and affiliation will not be disclosed to the reviewers.

Usually, the process of review takes 4 weeks and publication of the paper can be within 4-6 weeks. It can be expedited if authors respond timely after the review

 

Copyright Notice

Upon acceptance of the paper by Editor-in-Chief, the copyright should be transferred to the publisher.