This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

The instructions below are specifically directed at authors that wish to submit a manuscript to Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics. For general information, please visit our Author Services website.

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics incurs and their papers will not be published.

Contributions to Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics must review published original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.


Manuscript Preparation

1. General guidelines

• Papers are accepted only in English.
• Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendices (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
• Abstracts of no more than 400 words are required for all papers submitted.
• Each paper should have 2-5 keywords.
• Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
• All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.
• Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
• For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
• Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
• When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.

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2. Style guidelines

• Description of the Journal's article style including references. All article titles should be italicized in references
• LaTeX template (Please save the LaTeX template to your hard drive and open it for use by clicking on the icon in Windows Explorer)
• Authors who wish to prepare their article using the LaTeX document preparation system are advised to download the relevant LaTeX style guide and Class file via the link provided above in this section. It is essential that authors using LaTeX also send a PDF file along with the source file as this PDF will be used during the review process.

3. Figures

• It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
• Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
• Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
• All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
• Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
• The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.

4. Mathematical Style

Special care should be taken with mathematical scripts, especially subscripts and superscripts and differentiation between the letter ‘ell' and the figure one, and the letter ‘oh' and the figure zero. If your keyboard or PC does not have the characters you need, or when using longhand, it is important to differentiate between: K and k; X, x and × (multiplication); asterisks intended to appear when published as multiplication signs and those intended to remain as asterisks, etc. Special symbols, and others used to stand for symbols not available in the character set of your PC, should be highlighted in the text and explained in the margin. In some cases it is helpful to supply annotated lists of symbols for the guidance of the sub-editor and the typesetter, and/or a ‘Nomenclature' section preceding the ‘Introduction'. In displayed equations, avoid overlong congestion and unnecessary empty spaces in order to achieve maximum clarity.

a. In both displayed equations and in text, scalar variables must be in italics. Non variable matter eg the exponential, e, and the square root of unity, i, as in e^ikx should be in upright type. Functions (eg sin), the order symbol O, and the differential, d, as in dr / dt should also be in upright type.

b. Care should be taken to avoid over shrinkage of mathematical expressions. So, for example, whereas e^ikx, is often fine, exp(-x²) is the generally preferred format, particularly in the text. Likewise, for simple fractions in the text, the solidus, /, should generally be used instead of a horizontal line, again to avoid shrinkage eg write x/(x – a) or 1/2.

c. The solidus is not generally used for units: m s-1 not m/s, but note electrons/s, counts/channel, etc.

d. Displayed equations referred to in the text should be numbered serially ((1), (2), etc.) on the right-hand side of the page. Sub-numbering is encouraged e.g. (1a), (1b), and for two equations laid out on the same line (1a,b).

e. Symbols used to represent tensors, matrices, vectors and scalar variables should either be used as required from the character set of the application you are using or marked on hard-copy by underlining with a wavy underline for bold, a straight underline for italic and a straight red underline for sans serif.

f. Use bold roman for vectors, tensors and matrices (e.g. vector r, tensor r, matrix A).

g. Typographical requirements must be clearly indicated at their first occurrence, e.g. Greek, Roman, script, sans serif, bold, italic. Authors may be charged for corrections at proof stage resulting from a failure to do so.

h. Braces, brackets and parentheses are used in the order {[( )]}, except where mathematical convention dictates otherwise (e.g. square brackets for commutators and anticommutators).

i. For units and symbols, the SI system should be used. Units should not be italicised. Where measurements are given in other systems, conversion factors or conversions should be inserted by the author.

A. M. Soward, Mathematics Research Institute, School of Engineering, Computer Science & Mathematics, University of Exeter, Harrison Building, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK

or one of the Associate Editors:

D. G. Dritschel, Mathematical Institute, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, Scotland, UK;

C. A. Jones, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK (e-mail: cajones@maths.leeds.ac.uk);

W. R. Peltier, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A7;

T. Yamagata, Department of Earth and Planetary Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 13, Japan.


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