Each paper submitted is reviewed by two members of the international editorial board. Instructions to authors Only original contributions with important new scientific information in German, English or French are called for. Submissions should not exceed 25 manuscript pages, and should be restricted to 10 manuscript pages for regional or applied papers. Submission of a manuscript is considered to be a binding assurance that the paper has not and will not be published in the same or a simular form elsewhere. With the acceptance of the manuscript the exclusive publishing and distribution rights for all languages and countries, including the rights of photocopying and electronic storage are transferred to the publisher.
Footnotes are to be numbered consecutively and referred to in the text by cardinal numbers.
Footnotes, also written double-spaced, are to be placed with their cardinal numbers at the bottom of the page they occur on. The year of publication always follows the name, enclosed in round brackets, followed by a colon. The title of the publication must be given in full, following the rules of capitalization for normal texts. For monographs, the title is followed by publisher, place of publication, and number of pages. A survey of periglacial processes and enviroments.