Before submitting your manuscript to Advanced Geoscience Research Letters, please read these guidelines carefully. They will guide you through each stage of the submission and publication process.
We welcome presubmission enquiries for Articles, Review Articles, and Perspectives. A brief description of the work (200–300 words) and a statement of why AGRL is the appropriate venue is sufficient. Responses are typically provided within 5 working days.
Initial submissions may be provided as a single PDF for editorial assessment. The following elements are required:
Authors wishing to participate in double-anonymised peer review must prepare a separate anonymised version of the manuscript in which all author-identifying information has been removed, including acknowledgements, author affiliations, and self-citations presented in a way that identifies the authors.
All submissions receive an initial assessment by a professional editor within 12 days on average. Manuscripts not meeting the journal's threshold for significance or scope are returned without external review. Manuscripts proceeding to peer review are typically assessed by two independent experts; we target a first decision within 30 days of submission for peer-reviewed manuscripts.
Authors may appeal a rejection decision in writing within 30 days. Appeals must identify a specific factual or scientific error in the review process; appeals based solely on disagreement with editorial judgement are unlikely to succeed.
Where a manuscript is of high quality but better suited to another NRP journal, the editors may offer a transfer; acceptance of a transfer is entirely at the authors' discretion.
Upon Acceptance in Principle, authors are asked to provide a fully formatted final manuscript following the AGRL formatting guidelines, high-resolution figure files, and to link their ORCID iD to their manuscript tracking account. Corresponding authors must complete ORCID verification before final acceptance can be granted.
Formally accepted manuscripts are transferred to the production team, who will carry out professional copyediting, typesetting, and proofing. Authors are sent page proofs to check for typographical errors only; substantive changes at proof stage are not permitted. Average time from formal acceptance to online publication is 18 days.
Matters Arising are scientific comments or technical clarifications on research published in AGRL. Before preparing a full Matters Arising, authors must submit a pre-submission summary to the editorial office. The original authors will be given the opportunity to prepare a simultaneous Reply, which is published alongside the Matters Arising. See Contact for submission details.