SSA Electronic Supplements

Authors are encouraged to devise and to submit supplemental digital material that will accompany papers prepared for the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) and for Seismological Research Letters (SRL). Electronic components of articles will be disseminated at this time by being placed on the SSA Web site (http://www.seismosoc.org).

The editors especially encourage the submission of high-resolution graphical information, animations of time-sequenced observations or simulations, and three-dimensional data models. Other forms of digital material may also be proposed for editorial consideration.

We have examples of some of the types of material that take advantage of the capabilities of the Web and are therefore suitable for electronic supplements.

Instructions for Preparing and Submitting Electronic Supplements

All electronic supplements (e-supps) must be reviewed by SSA's Electronic Supplements Editor and by SSA's Webmaster. Please make your supplement available at a URL accessible from the public Internet. All Web pages submitted as part of your electronic supplement must be written in valid HTML. Many Web page editing/creation programs (e.g., Dreamweaver, Homesite, GoLive, BBEdit) include an HTML syntax-checking function that will help you validate your HTML, or you can use the World Wide Web Consortium's free HTML validation service at http://validator.w3.org/. Unfortunately, HTML produced by Microsoft® Word's "Save as HTML ..." function is not acceptable.

The name of the main e-supp Web page should begin with the manuscript number. Please use the following convention: manuscript#-esupp.html (e.g., "2005631-esupp.html"). All electronic supplements should begin with a brief introductory paragraph or two describing the supplemental material. This may be on the same page as the supplemental material itself, or it may be on a separate page with links to the material. Graphic and tabular supplemental material should be referred to in the text of your supplement in a fashion consistent with SSA's editorial style (e.g., "Figure 2" or "Table 3"). Supplemental figures that are color versions of figures appearing in the main article should use the same number as the grayscale version.

In order to facilitate the handling of electronic supplements, authors should create files in widely accepted formats. Acceptable formats for images are GIF, JPEG, and PNG. Animations should be supplied as MPEG files compressed with freely-available (i.e., non-proprietary) codecs. Tabular data should be tab-delimited or comma-delimited ASCII files or HTML tables, and should be accompanied by descriptive text explaining the contents of the fields in the table. Authors of papers that have been accepted for publication are asked to keep supplemental material available online until after the paper has been published.  If that presents a problem, please contact the editorial office.

The supplement should be formatted in a style consistent with that of other electronic supplements on the SSA Web site. Please look at the following existing e-supps as examples of how to format your Web pages:

If a submission does not follow these guidelines, the author will be asked to revise the submission, or the author can elect to have SSA make the changes for an additional charge. The authors will be notified via e-mail if the submission does not comply with these guidelines.

If you have any questions regarding the preparation of your electronic supplement, please email esupps [at] seismosoc.org or bssa [at] seismosoc.org.

 

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Last Update: 27 May 2008