Dear all! Today I got the final acceptance letter that Elsevier journal Marine Micropaleontology (Marmic) would publish aspecial issue on stratigraphic results obtained from Leg 177 studies. The European editor Dave Lazarus will manage the handling for the Marmic side. He likes to point out the following criteria to be fulfilled to make this special issue a success. This is what Dave Lazarus wrote in his acceptance letter: The papers have to meet all the usual criteria for acceptance by the journal. This may become an issue if there is a pedestrian ms where the results are not very interesting, and advance neither general knowledge of the subject (e.g., improved/revised zonal scales/calibrations of the region with the studied fossil group) nor are the results much used by other papers in the same volume. The pmag paper would be ok as (I assume) its results will be extensively integrated into many of the other mss. Shingling and minimum publishable units - The suggested titles show a fair amount of subdivision of the time intervals into separate papers. Most titles at least a first glance seem ok, but I'll need to look at the Flores/Marino papers for possible oversplitting (naturally I do not worry about the duplicate title listing you gave in your email). I generally like to see the mss once when they are first submitted so I can flag any mss that are fundamentally problematic (such as the criteria given in 1 above), and point out some journal specific editing standards that all mss will need to follow. Once I've given an initial ok I turn over the reviewing process and editing to you. I want to be informed about progress occasionally, and am happy to answer any questions, for example where journal policy might affect your decisions on editing a ms. Once the mss have been reviewed and revised I take a last look at them (hopefully pro-forma by this point) and the mss can then be sent by you to Elsevier's login department for printing. ------------------------- END OF LAZARUS LETTER I think there is no problem to handle all this. We will inform you on the way how to submit your final version after Daves (Hodell) return from Yucatan. Dave Lazarus also points out that for all plates that should be published in the Marmic papers high quality original plates must be submitted. To fullfil your ODP obligations you must submit your paper(s) to the ODP publication office (initial manucript submission) by the deadline. If you feel not to be able to submit your paper(s) by June 12, you must contact ODP (delgado@odpemail.tamu.edu) and ask for an extension of the deadline. Although the ODP Leg 177 deadline is on June 12 we will accept final versions of the papers for the special issue until July 30, 2000. (This means that you need to submit your paper(s) to ODP by June 12, but you can resubmit a revised version until July 30). This procedure has been endorsed by the ODP publication office. It will give some extra time to all of those who need to incorporate the bio-magnetostratigraphic and isotope stratigraphic age models that are only now becoming available. Attached you find the guidelines for Marmic authors. Regards Rainer Marine Micropaleontology Guide for Authors General instructions 1. Papers must be submitted in their final form, bearing in mind that no further correction/addition is possible. 2. Submission of an article is understood to imply that the article is original and unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. 3. Manuscripts should be structured in a way that conforms to that of the journal in question. 4. 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