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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.
  • The submission has not previously been published and is not under consideration for publication by another journal.
  • The manuscript is submitted in the PDF format and was created using the GAMMAS LaTeX Template.
  • A reviewer, preferably a member of the GAMM Juniors, may be proposed by the author via the "Comments for the editor" field.
  • Except for educational articles, the author must either be a student or a recent graduate with no more than one year between the time of graduation and submission of a manuscript.
  • The submitting author must name a supervisor who endorses the submission of the manuscript.

Author Guidelines

Submission Requirements

Submissions to GAMMAS must be well-structured and written in a clear and concise manner. We strongly encourage authors to provide supplementary materials to ensure the replicability, reusability, and accessibility of their results. This can include raw data or source code as well as videos and further multimedia content.

The main author of a research paper or a technical brief must either be a student or a recent graduate with no more than one year between the time of graduation and submission. Each submission of a research paper or a technical brief must be endorsed by a supervising senior researcher. Note that in case supervisors are listed as authors, this should be clarified in the  CRediT author statement.

Educational articles may also be submitted by senior researchers.

All articles are peer reviewed (double open) to meet the quality standards and to initiate an instructive discussion.

All manuscripts submitted to GAMMAS must be written in English and must be formatted using the unmodified LaTeX Template.  For the initial submission, a PDF version of the manuscript is sufficient. Subsequent submissions need to include all necessary LaTeX source and image files.

Section Policies

  Research Paper Technical Brief Educational Article
Page Restrictions 5-15 pages 3-6 pages 5-15 pages
Authors students until one year after graduation (M.Sc.) students until one year after graduation (M.Sc.) students as well as graduated researchers
Review double-open
Article File Size 10 MB plus supplementary material of max. 50 MB

Further Documents Required for Publication

Before publication of a research paper or a technical brief, authors must provide an informal endorsement of their submission signed by their supervisor, a proof of their student status, and a copy of the signed License Agreement.

We encourage the submission of supplementary files such as animations, interactive graphics, or source codes. We accept the following formats: TIF, JPG, GIF, PS/EPS, PDF, MP3, WAV, MPG, AVI, MOV. Source codes should be submitted as ZIP or TAR archives. The files should not exceed 10 MB for the manuscript and 50 MB for the supplementary material.

CRediT author statement

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) was introduced with the intention of recognizing individual author contributions, reducing authorship disputes and facilitating collaboration, see here.

CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work.

CRediT statements should be provided during the submission process and will appear above the acknowledgment section of the published paper as shown further below.

Term

Definition

Conceptualization

Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims

Methodology

Development or design of methodology; creation of models

Software

Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components

Validation

Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/ reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs

Formal analysis

Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data

Investigation

Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection

Resources

Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools

Data Curation

Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse

Writing - Original Draft

Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation)

Writing - Review & Editing

Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre-or postpublication stages

Visualization

Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/ data presentation

Supervision

Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team

Project administration

Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution

Funding acquisition

Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication

*Reproduced from Brand et al. (2015), Learned Publishing 28(2).

Research Articles

Authors: students until one year after graduation (M.Sc.)

Review: double-open

Size: 5-15 pages, max. article file size (pdf) of 3MB plus supplementary material of max. 25MB

Technical Briefs

Authors: students until one year after graduation (M.Sc.)

Review: double-open

Size: 3-6 pages, max. article file size (pdf) of 3MB plus supplementary material of max. 25MB

Educational Articles

Authors: students as well as graduated researchers

Review: double-open

Size: 5-15 pages, max. article file size (pdf) of 3MB plus supplementary material of max. 25MB

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