1、该刊只有国际刊号。

2、投稿方式：官网投稿。

3、官网网址：

https://www.elspub.com/journals/continent-and-life-evolution/home

4、投稿系统：https://jms.elspub.com/login

5、主办单位官网：https://geology.nwu.edu.cn/

6、官网邮箱：contle@elspub.com

7、出刊日期：季刊，一年出版四期。

8、主办单位微信公众号：NWU地苑

2025年9月25日星期四

Instructions for Authors

【官网信息】

1. General Information

1.1 Authorship

The authors who meet the following four conditions could be added as co-authors. Please refer to ICMJE for details.

Substantial

contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the

acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and

Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and

Final approval of the version to be published; and

Agreement

to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that

questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work

are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Authors are encouraged to utilize CRediT to delineate the contributions of each author.

1.2 Types of Journal Articles

Article:

Articles are definitive accounts of significant and original studies.

They present important new data or provide a fresh approach to an

established subject.

Letter:

Letters are usually preliminary reports of special significance and

urgency that are given expedited publication. They are accepted if the

editor believes that their rapid publication will be a service to the

scientific community.

Review: Reviews integrate, correlate, and evaluate results from published literature on a particular subject.

Survey:

A survey paper summarizes and organizes recent research results in a

novel way that integrates and adds understanding to work in the field.

It emphasizes the classification of the existing literature, developing a

perspective on the area, and evaluating trends.

Commentary:

Commentaries are short, narrowly focused articles that are responses to

recently published articles that are interesting enough to warrant

further comment or explanation. This type of commentary discusses

specific issues within a subject area and the previously published

article rather than the whole field.

Perspective:

Perspectives discuss one or a cluster of recently published papers or a

current research topic of high interest in which an author's

perspective sheds an incisive light on key findings in research.

Note:

Continent and Life Evolution accepts extended versions of conference

papers. However authors should ensure that (1) the extension should be

more than 1/3, (2) copyright permission should have been obtained from

the conference holder, and (3) the original publication should be cited

and the difference from the previous conference publication should be

stated in the cover letter.

1.3 Copyright Permission

Note

that it is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission

from the copyright holder for any figures reused from elsewhere. Please

add references to the figure caption and put appropriate credit lines,

for example: Reprinted with permission [2]. Copyright 2021 Elsevier.

1.4 Publication Ethics

Continent

and Life Evolution maintains a high standard of publishing ethics. All

authors are expected to follow the guidelines of COPE.

1.5 Research Data

ELSP

is determined to improve knowledge exchange among scientists and

facilitate open science. We encourage authors to share the research data

to the open repository, such as general data, Figshare, Dryad, Harvard

Dataverse, Zenodo; computer software or code, GitHub.

The research data could be published as Supporting Information together with the paper if there are limited research data.

1.6 Figures

It

is author’s responsibility to ensure that the figures are legible and

technically correct. Therefore you must ensure that the resolution of

figures should be at least 300 ppi. Figures must have captions that

include figure number and a brief, informative description preferably in

a non-sentence format. Text in the figure legend must have the same

font style (Times News Roman) and size (16px). Figures must be numbered

sequentially using Arabic numerals in order of discussion in the

document (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.) and parts of a figure are

typically indicated with a number and letter (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure

1(b), etc.). The accepted formats are JPEG, TIFF, EPS, PDF, and

Graphical source files.

1.7 Tables

All

tables must be numbered and cited consecutively using Arabic numerals.

Every table should have a brief and informative title. Detailed

information should be provided in the table footnotes. Table footnotes

should be given as superscript letters such as a, b, etc. Cite the

original source as references at the end of a caption if the data were

previously published.

2. Manuscript Submission

Please

use ELSP Journal Manuscript Platform to submit your paper. You are

recommended to provide a cover letter during submission and the cover

letter should include: (1) the novelty and significance of your

manuscript, (2) an explanation of how it fits well into the journal’s

scope, and (3) the manuscript should not be submitted to any other

journal for publication.

Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files for every submission.

2.1 Reviewers Recommendation

Please recommend three reviewers who are experts in the relevant topic and do not have a conflict of interest.

2.2 Graphical Abstract

You

are recommended to supply a graphical abstract to represent the paper.

It is a descriptive and concise interpretation of the research work

presented. The file type name should be named as Graphical Abstract. The

Graphical Abstract should be at least 300 ppi. The accepted formats are

JPEG, TIFF, and EPS.

3. Manuscript Writing

3.1 Manuscript Templates

We recommend you use Word template or Latex template to prepare your manuscript.

3.2 Reference Citations

The

citation should be put in square brackets, e.g. [1], [2-5], etc. The

references should be listed in numerical order. All references should be

cited in the text and all citations must have a corresponding

reference. References such as [1] a) ...., b) are not allowed. You are

recommended to use bibliography software such as EndNote, Mendeley

Reference Manager or Zotero to prepare references. This journal

encourages you to cite datasets, computer code, and other citable

research materials. Please download the ELSP_Endnote / ELSP_Mendeley /

ELSP_Zotero files if you are using EndNote / Mendeley / Zotero to manage

the references.

3.3 Manuscript Structure

For

an original research paper, normally, the manuscript should be

presented in the sequence: title, authors, abstract, keywords,

introduction, method, results, conclusion, and acknowledgements. For

other types of papers, the author decides the sections and subsections.

Please find the detailed guidelines for manuscript structure in the Word template and Latex template mentioned above.

3.4 Reference Preparation

Direct

quotations from another author's work should be cited. For publications

that are Accepted or Submitted or In preparation, please just add a

note at the end of the corresponding reference.

References

should be indicated in square brackets in line with the text. Author

names can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be

provided. Furthermore, references (numbers in square brackets) should be

numbered in the order in which they appear in the text.

Please find the detailed reference formatting guidelines in the Word template and Latex template mentioned above.