General regulations about submitting manuscripts to

1. Journal of Palaeogeography is an academic Earth science journal.The journal mainly publishes research results and original academic articles focusing on palaeogeography and relevant disciplines by both Chinese and foreign scholars, including lithofacies palaeogeography, biopalaeogeography, stratigraphic palaeogeography, tectonopalaeogeography, physiogeographic palaeogeography, human history palaeogeography, past and present environments and human civilization, sedimentology, sedimentary environments, sedimentary facies, geochemistry, palaeoecology,ichnology, palaeoclimatology, palaeotectonics, palaeoseismology, palaeokarst, basin analysis, prediction and exploration related with oil, gas, coal and other mineral resources.

2. No strict limitation of the length for academic manuscript.

3. Constitution and order of manuscript.Title, author’s name, affiliation and address of the author, correspondence address, postcode, abstract (300-500 words), key words (4-8 words), text of the paper, acknowledgements, references.

4. Other requirements for manuscript.The figures,with the largest size of 170 mm × 240 mm, should be put in the text, and the resolution of the figure should be 600 dpi. Photos and figures are numbered according to the order. The photo title and figure title are arranged below the photo and figure. Illustrations of the photos and figures are written below the photo title or figure title. Tables with the largest size of 170 mm × 240 mm, rearranged in the text.The table title is arranged above the table.

5. Requirements for references.References are cited in alphabetical order of the authors’ names and the authors’names coincide with the original references. Both Chinese and foreign authors’ names are written according to international convention. Only full articles that have been published or are ‘in press’ may be included in the reference list. In the text, references should be cited by giving the author’s name with the year of publication in parentheses, and should be given in alphabetical order (e.g.Adams, 1985; Jones, 1982). When reference is made to a work by three or more authors, the first name followed byet al. should be used in the text on all occasions. If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b, c,etc. should be put after the year of publication.

should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the paper in the following standard form:

Periodicals:Author’s name (all of the authors’names should be listed and separated by comma),Publication year. Manuscript title. Periodical’s name(italicized), Volume (issue), Starting and ending page numbers (original language).

With only one author, in the text, it should be cited as: (Robert, 1990), (Feng, 1999); References should bewritten as: Robert, H., 1990; Feng, Z.Z., 1999.