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GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS


Introduction

Technical articles of interest to Civil Engineers in the areas of Engineering Geology, Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Rock Mechanics are invited for publication in this Journal. Articles should normally report original and thought-provoking problems in research, design or construction. Short informative articles may be submitted for publication under “Technical Note”. Articles should be brief and submitted online at www.igsjournal.org followed by a hard copy submission of standard covering letter (specimen available online) enclosing the abstract of the article with full details of the authors to Prof. Sivakumar Babu G L. / Prof. Madhavi Latha G, Editors – Indian Geotechnical Journal, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012.

Certificate

The article in full or in substantial portion should not have been published before in any Journal / publications. A certificate to this effect shall follow the online submission along with the abstract. Refer a standard format for covering letter available in the web site for this purpose. The paper submitted for consideration should not be sent to any other Journal till an adverse decision is given by the Editor.

Online registration

Those who wish to submit an article shall register at the web site www.igsjournal.org as an author preferably with his/her name as the user name. The registered reviewers can submit articles after registering as author with his / her name as user name but with an extension of _ath. Once registered, future submissions shall be made with the same user name login.

The author can view the status of the paper, review comments, etc. in the net and shall carry out the necessary follow up actions such as re-submission, corrections, etc. The final corrected articles shall be re-submitted in the same fashion.

Online Submission

  1. The submission shall have minimum three and maximum five files.
  2. The first file shall have the name ‘title’ and shall have only the title of the articles, author’s names, affiliations and addresses, email IDs and other contact details.
  3. The second file shall contain the article with title, abstract and key words and shall not contain the author names and details. The paper should not include acknowledgements.
  4. The third file shall contain all illustrations, tables and figures. If the file size exceeds 2Mb, place the tables and figures in two files (third, fourth and fifth) for easy upload. These files shall also not contain the author details.
  5. The files shall have short names, preferably with same prefix (not having the author name) and an underscore followed by title, article, figure respectively. Add R1, R2, etc. to the file names while resubmissions.

Format for submission of soft copies

  1. All the files should use A4 (297 × 210 mm) paper size leaving 40 mm margin in the left and 25mm on all other sides. The type set shall be 12 pt Times New Roman with double spacing.
  2. Use MS word for submitting the articles. Graphs shall be in excel embedded in the MS word. All the drawings shall be prepared in word or Auto cad. Photographs / plates shall be in JEPEG format embedded in word file. Use equation editor or Mathtype for equations. Scanned or Xerox copy of the figures shall not be used.
  3. Keep the size of figures within 110 mm (wide) x170mm (tall) and the letter size in the figures may be 8pt and preferably in Ariel font. The physical size of the table shall be limited to 110mm x 170mm using 9pt Ariel font. (please refer sample paper available on the net).The template for the final formatting available for download can also be used for making the file containing figures and tables.

Arrangement of the article

  1. Title. Make sure the title is not more than 70 characters long including spaces between words. Avoid titles beginning with "Analysis of ...," "A Note on ...," "Theory of ...," "On the ...," "Some ...," and "Toward a ....", etc.
  2. Abstract. The abstract sheet should have title of the paper and a list of selected key words (6 nos.) (A list of suggested key words may be referred on above web site). The paper shall contain the references and a list of notations if found relevant. Write an abstract of 150¬ to 175 words for paper or technical note. The abstract should be written in plain language and include a summary of the key conclusions. It should be written for a general engineering audience such as recent graduates/beginning graduate students. To be most useful to the engineering community, the following should be clear: the purpose of the work, the scope of the effort, the procedures used to execute the work (if of special interest), and the major findings. Do not include mathematics or references to other literature in the abstract. Click here for reference keywords in RTF format and click here for reference keywords in PD format..
  3. The length of the paper be of restricted to 7500 words (equivalent to 30 pages including figures, table, references etc. complete) for the technical paper and less than 4000 words for the technical note. The editor may waive these restrictions to encourage papers on topics that cannot be treated within these limitations. Such topics may include state¬of-the-art reviews and detailed case histories. However, authors are advised that most topics can be covered within these limitations, and that clear justification is required for longer manuscripts.
  4. The articles and the discussion thereon should be written in the third person. Gender-Specific Words. Avoid "he," "she," "his," "her," and "hers." Use words such as "author," "discusser," "engineer," and "researcher."
  5. Mathematics: Clearly type all mathematics and make sure special characters and super scripts and subscripts are distinguishable. List symbols alphabetically in a section called “Notation” at the end of the manuscript (preceding the references). Identify the levels of subscripts, superscripts, and exponents. Matrices, tensors, and vectors should be typed either in boldface or placed consistently within brackets, e.g., X or [X]. In text, write single-level expressions, e.g., 1/(a + b), not stacked equations. In numbered (displayed) equations, stack numerators over denominators. All displayed equations should be numbered sequentially throughout the entire manuscript, including equations in appendices. Equations should be in the body of a manuscript; complex equations in tables and figures are to be avoided.
  6. All symbols should be defined wherever they first appear and conform to the internationally accepted symbols. A list of notations should precede the references. Note that the section is typed double-spaced and that capital letters precede lowercase letters. The Roman alphabet comes first, followed by the Greek alphabet. Do not intermingle alphabets. Note also that the Greek alphabet is in the Greek alphabetical order.
  7. Figures and tables should be numbered serially with the word Fig. and Table respectively. The figure and table titles shall be in Title Case and centred. The same material should not be presented in the form of both graphs and tables. Any figures/ tables that are reproduced from another source need to be acknowledged. Please indicate in the legend if figure is "based on research by...", "used with permission from...", or "Adapted from...", as the case may be.
  8. Conclusions. Write a set of conclusions, or a summary and conclusion, in which the significant implications of the information presented in the body of the manuscript are reviewed.
  9. Acknowledgments. Include an acknowledgments section to recognize any advisory or financial help you received, if required. However, this shall be included only during the final submission of the paper after reviewed and accepted tentatively for publication.
  10. Appendices. Use appendices to record details and data that are of secondary importance or that are needed to support assertions in the text. Make sure the text contains references to all appendixes.
  11. References cited in the text should be indicated by the author’s name and the year of publication in parenthesis. To cite sources in the text, use the author-date method; list the last names of the authors, then the year. The formats are as follows: one author—(Madhav 2004); two authors—(Madhav and Miura 2004); three or more authors—(Madhav et al. 2004). Prepare a reference section listing all references alphabetically by last name of the first author. For anonymous reports and standards, alphabetize by the issuing institution. Double-space the reference section. They should not be numbered and should be typed at the end of the paper in the alphabetical order. The title of the work referred to should be within single inverted commas. References should be given in the following form (for abbreviations of titles of periodicals please refer to relevant Indian Standards).

    Baecher, G.B. and Christian, J.T. (2003): Reliability and Statistics in Geotechnical Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, New York, USA.

    Venkatachalam, G., Dodagoudar, G.R. and Quadri, S.S. (2003): ‘Landslide Hazard and Risk Assessment using Fuzzy Sets’, Proc. Int. Conf. on Geo-environmental Engg., Singapore, pp. 235-242.

    Genevois, R. and Remeo, R. (2003): ‘Probability of Failure Occurrence and Recurrence in Rock Slopes Stability Analysis’, International Journal of Geomechanics, 3(1), pp. 34-41.

    Web Pages: Moxhay, A.L., Tinsley, R.D. and Suttuon, J.A. (2000): ‘Monitoring of Soil Stiffness During Ground Improvement Using Seismic Surface Waves’, http://www.gdsinstruments.com/technical_papers/ground_eng/GE_Jan_2001.pdf> (July 7 2006). Include an author if possible, a copyright date, a title, the Web address, and the date the material was accessed or downloaded (in parentheses at the end).
  12. SI system should be adopted throughout the text, tables and figures.

Please click here for a sample abstract, click here for a sample paper, click here for a sample covering letter and click here for a sample Table of Contents of Indian Geotechnical Journal.