Submissions
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 it is before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- For starting the handling and the peer-review process of your manuscript, we accept only pdf files. For this purpose we recommend the Free PDF Creator software or an also free online pdf converter: Online2Pdf.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Copyright Notice
Central European Geology is an Open Access, Online Only journal. Authors of accepted manuscripts are requested to pay an article processing charge of EUR 450 to cover the publishing costs of their paper.
Corresponding authors from the following countries are entitled to discounts, based on country of the funding agency:
- World Bank Lower-middle-income economies: 50%
http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending-groups#Lower_middle_income
- World Bank Low-income economies: 100%
http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending-groups#Low_income
- Discount for Editorial Board / Advisory Board members: 50%
Please note that there is no peer review charge, the only applicable fee is the article processing fee for authors of accepted papers. Please note that production of your manuscript can only commence IF your manuscript is accepted for publication, we have your signed license agreement, and the corresponding article processing fee has been paid.
Therefore, please DOWNLOAD (URL: https://akjournals.com/page/OpenAccessModels/open-access-models), FILL IN and SIGN one of the above mentioned statements and UPLOAD it in step 2 (2. Upload Submission) as a "Copyright Transfer Statement / Open Access Statement" file during the manuscript submission process.
Open Access policy of Central European Geology includes the free and unrestricted self-archiving of the final published version of papers on the Authors webpage or on the Authors institutional repository with open or restricted access. When self-archiving or communicating a paper via e-mail, the Author should quote the correct citation and enclose a link to the published article (https://doi.org/[DOI of the Article without brackets]).
Advantages of the Open Access model:
- Increased readership without limitations.
- Readers will find the final, official version on a credible site.
- More accurate citations to the article in greater numbers.
- Copyright shall be retained by the author under a Creative Commons License (CC-BY or CC-BY-NC)
- Compliant with the requirements of research funds (NIH, Welcome, OTKA, etc.)
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