Submission checklist

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Requirements at submission:

- PDF format

- 12 pt font, line numbers, and double spacing

- Manuscript under 10,000 words (unless you have talked to an editor)

- Maximum 10 figures in the manuscript (excluding supplementary material)

- Place figures within text, not at the end of the document

- Relevant data, code, and samples cited in the manuscript and/or in the Data and Code Availability Statement

- Spell-check and proofread your manuscript

- Required sections/components:

- Abstract in English (max 200 words)

- Author contributions statement using CRediT taxonomy

- Data and Code Availability statement

- Competing Interests statement

- ORCiD for corresponding author (preferably for all authors)

- Reference list with all works cited in the paper, using APA citation format with full author lists. DOIs should be provided for all references that have them. No excess references that are not cited in the paper.

- Ensure that you have copyright permissions for the use of any 3rd-party materials in the manuscript

- Suggest potential reviewers during submission in “comments to the editor”

- Submit your article as the appropriate type (research article, fast report, other report, etc)

- All authors must have agreed on manuscript contents, including the author list and contributions statement

- Your submission should not have been previously published or be under consideration at another journal. Preprints on public servers are ok; please provide the preprint DOI in “comments to the editor”

 

Requirements after acceptance:

- Format manuscript using a Seismica template (supplementary material does not need to be in a template because it will not be typeset)

- Each figure must be a png at publication resolution (300+ dpi)

- Figures with multiple parts/panels must be incorporated into exactly one file per figure

- Figures sized for either 1- or 2-column width (86 mm or 180 mm wide), maximum height 200 mm.

 

Strong suggestions:

- Place tables in supplementary materials rather than in text

- Format using the Seismica LaTeX template

- Use perceptually-uniform, color-vision-deficiency (CVD) friendly colormaps in figures (see: Fabio Crameri's colormaps, coblis tool for checking figures)

- Include a plain-language summary (max 200 words)

- Include up to two translations of the abstract into additional languages