This journal publishes research in Geology, Geography (Human Geography, Physical Geography), Iinformation Science, Chemistry, Life Sciences, and Mathematics.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal undergo two rounds of plagiarism checks via the CNKI database before the peer review and before publication. Articles with a plagiarism detection rate exceeding 15% will be rejected.

1) The manuscript must have a clear line of arguments, authentic data and easily understandable charts. The manuscript must include title, abstract, information about all authors (affiliation, zip code, city), author names with Chinese characters and Pinyin. The manuscript must also include 3 to 8 keywords, in both Chinese and English.

2) The manuscript must be written in standard words and in strict accordance with the current national standards, industrial standards and the format required by the journal.

3) References should be listed following sequential coding system, and the contents of literature citation shall comply with national standards. Generally, the number of referred literature should not be less than 15 articles.

4) The manuscript should be funded by research projects above provincial and ministerial level. Please mark the project name and number on the first page of the manuscript.

1) The journal has an anonymous peer-review system. The evaluation focuses on whether and how the research is on the to the research frontier, if it is creative and innovative and contains research results that merits attention from the scientific community

2) After the manuscript has been peer-reviewed and approved for publication, the authorship(s) and affiliation(s) cannot not be modified or changed.

3) If you are unwilling to publish through certain media, please indicate it on the front page of the contribution. Before the manuscript is adopted for publication, the author(s) must sign the Letter of Confirmation regarding copyright transfer, and transfer part of the copyright to the journal.

4) The journal strictly abides by academic norms and apposes all kinds of academic misconduct. In case of infringement of others' copyright or personal rights.  The author will be held fully responsible and will have to compensate for all losses. Multiple submission is strictly prohibited, and the author will be held responsible and must cover all the estimated losses from such misconduct.