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Are you a Chinese Author? Do you need advice on writing a paper?

Good practice in authoring manuscripts on Geomorphology

This article, written by Professor Stuart Lane, editor of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms,  provides excellent guidelines for Chinese authors. The article has been translated into local language for easy reading and comprehension.

Chaired by Stephen Tooth, with panellists Professor Tony Brown, Simon Price and Professor Andreas Lang. Are we in the Anthropocene and no longer in the Holocene? Has human activity integrated and changed natural processes? Have we created our own geological time period?

The Anthropocene: is there a geomorphological case?

The ‘Anthropocene’, as used to describe the interval of recent Earth history during which humans have had an ‘overwhelming’ effect on the Earth system, is now being formally considered as a possible new geological Epoch. Such a new geological time interval (possibly equivalent to the Pleistocene Epoch) requires both theoretical justification as well as empirical evidence preserved within the geological record. Since the geological record is driven by geomorphological processes that produce terrestrial and near-shore stratigraphy, geomorphology has to be an integral part of this consideration. For this reason, the British Society for Geomorphology (BSG) has inaugurated a Fixed Term Working Group to consider this issue and advise the Society on how geomorphologists can engage with debates over the Anthropocene.

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Marking time in Geomorphology: should we try to formalise an Anthropocene definition?

The value of a formally defined Anthropocene for geomorphologists is discussed. Human impacts have been diachronistic, multifaceted and episodic, as demonstrated by the record of alluvial deposition in the UK. Rather than boxing time into discrete eras or periods, modern research uses calendar dates and multiple dating techniques to explore co-trajectories for a range of human impacts. Despite the value of ‘The Anthropocene’ as an informal concept and as a prompt to useful debate, arriving at a single, generally acceptable formal definition is impractical, and has some disadvantages.

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The Wiley Award winner for the best paper published in ESPL 2015:

Improved discrimination of subglacial and periglacial erosion using 10Be concentration measurements in subglacial and supraglacial sediment load of the Bossons glacier (Mont Blanc massif, France) (pages 1202–1215)

Hervé Guillon, Jean-Louis Mugnier, Jean-François Buoncristiani, Julien Carcaillet, Cécile Godon, Charlotte Prud'homme, Peter van der Beek and Riccardo Vassallo

Article first published online: 16 MAR 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/esp.3713

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Good practice in authoring manuscripts on geomorphology
Stuart N. Lane

This article aims to help potential authors of geomorphological articles to get their work published.

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State-of-the-Science papers

State-of-the-Science papers are now a regular feature of the first issue of the journal each calendar year. These papers not only review but also reframe and reformulate our current understanding of key geomorphological questions.

From March 2014 onwards, the newsletters of the International Association of Geomorphologists will not be printed in ESPL nor included in issues online. However, we have decided to host them on the ESPL homepage here, so please see the latest newsletter (No. 32 (1/2016)) by clicking here.

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OnlineOpen is available to authors submitting to Earth Surface Processes and Landforms who wish to make their article open access, free to read, download and share via Wiley Online Library.

Making your article OnlineOpen increases its potential readership and enables you to meet institutional and funder open access mandates where they apply. Authors of OnlineOpen articles may immediately post the final, published PDF of their article on a website, institutional repository or other free public server. OnlineOpen complies with new open access mandates from RCUK and Wellcome Trust.

Gold Access is where an article is made free to access in ESPL after payment of a publication fee, by either the author, their employer or funder.

Green Access is when an article is made free to access in an institutional repository, this is known as self-archiving. At ESPL, articles can be self-archived after an embargo period of 12 months from publication on EarlyView, but this may vary upon request to meet a funder’s policies.

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