Why publish in this journal

Publishing in this Elsevier journal offers the following advantages to authors:

• Unique current awareness service increases visibility of your article — Xtracts is a bi-monthly newspa-
per distributed free of charge to thousands of research scientists active in the exploration geosciences.
Xtracts publishes abstracts of articles which have recently been published, or are about to be published
in the journals Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Marine and Petroleum Geology,
International Journal of Coal Geology, Organic Geochemistry, and Journal of Applied Geophysics. By
publishing in these journals you can be sure that your colleagues worldwide will be quickly aware of
your article.
• No page charges — we believe that this is the fairest policy and results in truly international communica-
tion of science. After all, many authors do not have access to grants for publication of their work.
• 30% discount on all books published by the Elsevier Science group of companies.
• Skilled desk editing of your electronic or paper manuscript.
• Manuscripts on floppy disk are highly recommended — all major word processing programs are
accepted for processing manuscripts electronically.
• Twenty-five reprints of each article — presented in an attractive cover.
• International distribution of the journal.
• International marketing of the journal.
• Wide coverage in appropriate indexing and abstracting services to help other scientists in their access to
your work. Abstracts and/or contents lists of this journal are published in: Geo Abstracts, Petroleum
Abstracts, INIST and in Current Contents: Engineering, Technology, Applied Sciences.

A detailed Guide for Authors is available upon request. A summary is given at the back of this issue.

Elsevier Web site: Information on all Elsevier’s Earth and Planetary Publications can be found at the
mirror-site USA: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/earth.