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Author Guidelines

Publication fee Publishing an article in Tellus B incurs a fee of €50 per typeset page (US A4 format) excl VAT (Europe), or $69 (rest of the world).

Please note that for authors based in the EU territories, the publication charges will have an additional VAT charge added to your total invoice unless you or your insitution or organisation or research funder can provide a VAT registration number. Thus, should you not be able to provide a VAT number, the actual price per page is €62.5 (i.e. €50 + 25% VAT).

One typeset page contains approx 800-900 words, tables and figures excluded.

Color illustrations: There is no charge for color reproduction.

Supplementary material: Large data sets, videos etc. may be added free of charge, and will be published in the form in which it is received, alongside the article. For further information on how to submit supplementary material, please visit our support page.

For a list of universities/institutes and funders supporting Open Access publication and from whom the publication fee may be retrieved, please see here. Additional information on how to claim reimbursement/support for publication fees can be found here.

Open Access Key As a Co-Action Publishing author you are now able to manage your publication fee using Open Access Key (OAK).

Co-Action Publishing is one of the first publishers in the world to implement OAK, a unique new online payment platform designed to manage and consolidate author publication fees and connect authors to their universities, research funders or learned societies. To register and start using Open Access Key, please visit http://www.openaccesskey.com

Preparing for submission Tellus B publishes articles, short contributions and correspondence. Authors submitting a contribution do so on the understanding that the work has been read and approved by all authors and that no similar paper, other than an abstract or preliminary report, has been or will be submitted for publication elsewhere. Short contributions should not exceed 4 printed pages. Correspondence is intended for discussion of papers published in Tellus B and should not exceed one printed page.

Plagiarism Detection Co-Action Publishing is a member of CrossCheck by CrossRef and iThenticate. iThenticate is a plagiarism screening service that verifies the originality of content submitted before publication. iThenticate checks submissions against millions of published research papers, and billions of web content.

Co-Action Publishing uses iThenticate to screen all submissions for plagiarism before publication, but authors, researchers and freelancers can also use iThenticate to screen their work before submission by visiting http://research.ithenticate.com.

Language All articles should be written in English - British or American as long as consistency is observed. Please subject the manuscript to professional language editing before submitting the final version if you are not a native speaker.

Acknowledgements All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chairperson who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.

Conflict of interest and funding Authors are responsible for disclosing all relationships that could be viewed as potential conflicts of interest.

Color illustrations There is no extra charge for color reproduction.

Supplementary material Supplementary material may be added free of charge, and will be published in the form in which it is received.

Manuscript layout Wherever possible, the paper should follow the traditional layout: Begin each section, including figure and table legends, on separate sheets; insert running page numbers. In order to facilitate the review process, please also insert line numbering in your manuscript.

Title page Organize the title page in the following way: 1) title of manuscript, 2) name of author(s), 3) name of department(s) and institution(s), and 4) name and full postal and email address of the corresponding author who also acts as 'Guarantor' for all parts of the paper.

The title should be informative and accurate and at the same time trigger the interest of the reader. A short running head will be derived from the title to appear on each page of the article.

Figures Upon acceptance of your article, please supply figures/graphics/images in at least 300 dpi. For further information please see Guidelines.

If the figures/graphics/images have been taken from sources copyrighted by others than the author(s), it is the author’s sole responsibility to secure the rights from the copyright holder to reproduce those figures/graphs/images for both worldwide print and web publication. All reproduction costs charged by the copyright holder must be borne by the author.

When figures/graphics/images copyrighted by others are reproduced, a parenthesis should be added to the figure legend thus: (Reproduced with permission from xxx.)

Articles must include an abstract of 200-300 words providing sufficient information for a reader to be able to decide whether or not to proceed to the full text of the article. After the abstract, please give 5-10 key words; avoid using the same words as in the title.

Units, abbreviations and symbols. The 'Système International d'Unités' (SI units) should be used. However, the units hPa and mb are accepted. Only standardised terms which have been generally accepted should be used. Unfamiliar abbreviations must be defined when first used. Particular care should be taken to ensure that all symbols are clearly identified.

Section headings Please use a maximum of three levels of headings and please make sure that each section and corresponding subsections are enumerated.

References Articles should be fully documented with references in the text and reference listings grouped alphabetically by authors names at the end of the paper. The order for references to articles is: author(s), year, title of article, abbreviated title of journal (italics), volume number (bold), first and last pages; and for articles in book form: author(s), year, title of article, title of book (italics), editor(s) (in brackets), publisher, city of publication, first and last pages. Titles of journals should be abbreviated according to International list of periodical title word abbreviations (International Standard 833-ISO). References to unpublished manuscripts or manuscripts in the submitted stage cannot be allowed. Examples:

Raustein, E., Sundqvist, H. and Katsaros, K. B. 1991. Quantitative comparison between simulated cloudiness and clouds objectively derived from satellite data. Tellus 43A, 306-320.

Schell, D. and Georgii, H.-W. 1989. Design and operation of a two-stage fogwater collector. In: Mechanisms and effects of pollutant-transfer into forests (ed. H.-W. Georgii). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 221-229.

We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.

EndNote reference styles can be searched for here: http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp

Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here: http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp

File format Please provide a complete manuscript as a text file (Word, RTF, WordPerfect) or a LaTeX file, with all figures, tables, legends and supplemental material (if applicable) placed at the end of the manuscript after the reference list. For further details regarding Tellus General Editorial Comments click here.

For LaTex submissions, please prepare the manuscript using the Tellus class file click here. With the class file you can use the natbib.sty style file to cite references. A sample LaTeX file is provided: tellsamp.tex. If LaTeX file is used, please also upload a PDF of your manuscript.

 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. I, the corresponding author, am authorized by all of my co-authors to submit this paper. The paper has not been submitted, in its current version, to any other journal.
2. The article contains nothing obscene, indecent, objectionable or libellous.
3. I/we have strictly followed the guidelines provided and made sure that:
   - the URLs to access references online are provided and ready to click (e.g., www.tellusb.net)
   - only one space has been entered after the full-stop at the end of a sentence
   - the text has not been justified; a ragged right-hand margin has been used
   - a double hyphen (--) has been used to indicate a dash in text
   - TAB has been used when indenting paragraphs or separating columns in tables
   - 'italics' or single quotes have been used for emphasis (avoid using underlines!)
   - the same elements have been keyed in exactly the same way throughout the manuscript.
4. In order to facilitate the review process, I/we will submit a complete manuscript as a text file (Word, RTF, WordPerfect) or a LaTeX file (+ PDF), with all figures, tables, legends and supplementary material (if applicable) placed at the end of the manuscript after the reference list. The manuscript is double-spaced and I/we have inserted line numbers in the manuscript to further expedite the review process.
5. I have suggested 5 potential reviewers (names and email addresses) in the "Comments for the Editor" field below.

Copyright Notice

Authors contributing to Tellus B agree to publish their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it, under the condition that the authors are given credit, that the work is not used for commercial purposes, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear.

Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to the International Meteorological Institute in Stockholm (IMI). However, authors are required to transfer copyrights associated with commercial use to IMI. Revenues from commercial sales are used to keep down the publication fees. Moreover, a major portion of the profits generated from commercial sales is placed in a fund to cover publication fees for researchers from developing nations and, in some cases, for young researchers.

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