Aims and Scope. Polar Geography publishes scholarly research on physical and human aspects of the polar regions that recognize global interactions between the Arctic and Antarctic and the climate system. The journal offers scientists a venue for publishing longer papers such as might result from distillation of a thesis, or review papers that place in global context results from coordinated national and international efforts currently underway in both polar regions.

Submission of manuscripts. Manuscripts will be accepted on the understanding that their content is unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts are subject to peer review. Submissions must be typed (word-processed), double-spaced throughout, on 8½ x 11 inch white paper, with generous margins on all sides. Number text pages consecutively. Abstract, tables, figure captions, acknowledgments, references and notes (if used) must be typed on individual pages separate from text. Each article should be submitted with a separate cover page showing the paper's title, author(s), affiliation(s) and complete addresses. Please submit three (3) copies of the manuscript to Dr. Kees van der Veen, Department of Geography, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd, 213 Lindley Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7613.

Upon acceptance a digital version of the manuscript will be requested.

Please follow the style rules listed below in preparing manuscripts:

Abstract: The abstract should be no more than 150 words in length, and should state what the article does, not restate its conclusions.

Headings: The manuscript should be divided in to appropriate headings. No more than three orders of headings should be used.

Tables: Tables should be numbered using Arabic numerals and cited consecutively in the text. Each table must have a brief title. Footnotes to information in the table should be indicated in lower case roman letters and placed directly below the table. Source notes should follow information footnotes, should be indicated by the word Source in italics, and should cite the same fashion as the text, except without parentheses. Those tables based solely on one source should be relegated, to the extent possible, to a footnote. Indicate in the margin of the manuscript where the table should be inserted.

Figures: Drawings, graphs, and photographs are referred to as Figures: they should be referenced in the text, and be numbered in Arabic numerals in order of mention. Drawings and graphs should be designed carefully to ensure correct proportions and image clarity when reduced. Photographs must be black and white, of excellent contrast and exposure, and printed on glossy paper to be accepted. Provide captions on a separate sheet.

References: Contributors are asked to separate references (bibliographic entries) from notes. All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically by first author at the end of the paper under the heading References. If a manuscript requires explanatory endnotes, superscript numbers should be inserted in the text and the entries arranged numerically and under the heading Notes immediately preceding the references. Both Notes and References should be double-spaced and begun on a new sheet of paper.

Citations in text: Use the author-date system as follows: Ivanov (1994), (Ivanov, 1992a, 1994), (Ivanov, 1994; Brown, 1993). Direct quotations should be page-referenced (Ivanov, 1994, p. 268). For works of multiple authorship use full citation for up to two authors but abbreviate to et al. for three or more authors. Abbreviated citations must appear in full in the reference list.

Reference list: The editor assumes that all references are complete and correct. If authors appear more than once, arrange entries chronologically and substitute the a 3-em dash for the name after the first entry. Do not number entries. Do not abbreviate journal names. Books and journal articles in foreign languages should be cited in their original languages (transliterated when in Russian) and a translation provided. Journal titles should be cited only in the original language. Use the following entries as a guide:

Journal articles:

Clarke, James W. "The Timan-Pechora oil-gas basin: A geological review," International Geology Review, 36, 1: 3-14, January 1994.

Golovnyov, Andrey. "Bogi Yamala (Yamal gods)," Severnyye Prostory, 6: 20-21, 24, 1989.

Books:

Pomishin, S.B. Proiskhozhdeniye olenevodstvo i domestikatsiya severnogo olenya [The Origin of Reindeer Husbandry and the Domestication of the Reindeer]. Moscow: Nauka, 1990.

Chapters:

Gustafson, Thane. "The energy scene," in Rodger Swearingen, ed., Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Strategic Dimensions in Multinational Perspective. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1987, 74-99.

Articles and books with no author should be cited by the first word of the article or book title.

Copyright. All papers accepted for publication in Polar Geography will be copyrighted by V.H. Winston & Son, Inc. Accordingly, no papers can be published elsewhere, in any language, without the written consent of the publisher. Although reproduction or translation of any part of such paper beyond that permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law without the publisher's permission is unlawful, consent for limited reproduction by the author(s) for restricted (e.g., classroom) use will not be withheld. In other instances the consent of V.H. Winston & Son, Inc. must be secured.

For additional guidance on any matters not specifically addressed in the above listed instructions and examples, please consult Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.