WILDLIFE BIOLOGY
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
This page explains how to prepare your manuscript for submission to the journal Wildlife Biology, a Nordic Society Oikos publication. Before submitting, please make sure that your article fits within the journal’s aims and scope.
EDITORIAL POLICIES
Wildlife Biology is published by the Nordic Society Oikos (NSO). The NSO editorial and publishing policies regarding conflict of interest, authorship, roles of editors, copyright and licensing and open access conditions are compiled in the ethics and policies page. Please carefully read this information before submitting.
To make science more just, we ask our authors to declare whether the conduct of their study considers equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) when they submit their papers. An EDI statement for the NSO journals can be found here.
Wildlife Biology is a full gold open access journal. The NSO charges an article publication charge (= APC) to cover the cost of publishing. There are no submission charges.
Papers submitted to NSO journals are evaluated using double-blind peer review. This has implications for manuscript formatting (see quick checklist below). Further information about double blind review can be found here.
Wildlife Biology is participating in a pilot on Peer Review Transparency. During the submission process, authors will be asked if they consent to having the reviewer reports, the responses to the reviewers, and the editor’s decision letter linked from the published article to where they appear on Publons in the case that the article is accepted. Authors who do not wish to participate can opt-out from transparent Peer review.
ARTICLE TYPES
Articles must have a theoretical – conceptual basis, clearly stated objectives and research questions and/or hypotheses, and provide insights with relevance for the understanding of wildlife ecology and/or wildlife management that reach beyond the study area and study system.
Articles published in Wildlife Biology comprise research papers (reporting the results of original research), reviews, and management papers. Research articles must have a theoretical –conceptual basis, clearly stated objectives and research questions, and provide insights with relevance for the understanding of wildlife ecology or the improvement of wildlife management and conservation. Reviews can either be narrative or quantitative and must include a methods section explaining the rationale and process of literature selection and analysis used; systematic reviews are preferred. Management papers promote the dissemination of information about management problems or systems, and scientific evaluations of the effects of management actions; they can have the structure of a research paper or of a review paper. Articles should aim for ca 40 000 characters or less including tables, figures and legends. However, if justified, articles may be longer than that.
Communications are a forum for short scientific entities dealing with e.g. methodological problems or by-products of larger research projects and for promoting discussions among and between scientists and other professionals based on existing information. Thus new ideas, comments and criticism on earlier papers are welcome. Structure and style should be the same as in articles. Communications should not exceed 28 000 characters including tables, figures and legends. Analyses are included either of the literature or of the evidence reported within studies. Novelty, future research and analysis of gaps are strongly encouraged versus summary. Transparent reporting of the synthesis process is required.
FORMATTING YOUR MANUSCRIPT - INITIAL SUBMISSION
To make the submission process easier, we differentiate between initial and revised submissions.
All manuscripts must be submitted through the ScholarOne submission system. For initial submissions, we do not require journal-specific formatting and manuscripts can be submitted in any file format. LaTeX users do not have to translate their manuscripts into MSWord, but may upload them as PDF files. Please read the information below regarding formatting of initial submissions and the different parts of the manuscript.
Quick checklist for initial submissions
Submit the manuscript in separate files: title page file, blinded main text file and supporting information (optional).
The title page file should contain: title, author list and affiliations.
The main text file should contain: abstract, keywords, introduction, material and methods, results, discussion, references, figures and tables with captions. Make sure that no author information is present in the main text file, since we are using double-blind peer review. Format the main text as single column, double line spaced text with page- and line-numbers.
Figure files may be uploaded as separate files or as part of the main text file.
The supporting information file(s) should contain important, ancillary information, which is relevant to the main article. It may comprise additional tables, data sets, figures, movie files, audio clips, 3D structures, and other related nonessential multimedia files.
In the PDF generated by the ScholarOne submission system, check that equations, text and all files are correct and complete before submission.
For the initial submission please also have the following statements and information ready: Significance statement, Data archiving statement, Conflict of interest statement, Ethics statement (if applicable), Funding statement (if applicable) and Acknowledgements (if applicable). A short description of each statement can be found below.
Note that all NSO journals mandate CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy), where the contributions of each author to the manuscript, is indicated. For initial submissions CRediT information is not required, but in revised submissions it must be provided. The CRediT statement is automatically generated for accepted manuscripts and replaces any author contribution section provided in the manuscript file.
For corrections to the authorship, please refer to the NSO publishing policies.
The corresponding author must provide an ORCID ID at the time of submission by entering it in the user profile of the ScholarOne submission system. We strongly encourage that also co-authors link their ORCiD IDs to their profiles in the ScholarOne system.
When the submission is complete, you will receive a confirmation email with a manuscript ID. Please refer to this ID in all correspondence with the Editorial Office.
Format and style
File format
Submit the manuscript file in DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT or PDF format. Your file should not be locked or protected.
If you have written your manuscript in LaTeX, please submit a PDF version that can be used for reviewing.
Length
Depending on article type, manuscripts may be limited in length and be subject to restrictions on word count and number of figures. Please check the article type section for more information. In general, we encourage you to present and discuss your findings concisely.
Headings
Limit manuscript sections and sub-sections to 3 heading levels. Make sure heading levels are clearly indicated in the manuscript text.
Layout and spacing
The main manuscript text should be single-column, double-spaced.
Page/line numbers
Include page numbers and line numbers in the manuscript file. Use continuous line numbers (do not restart the numbering on each page).
Footnotes
Footnotes are not permitted. If your manuscript contains footnotes, move the information into the main text or the reference list, depending on the content.
Language
Manuscripts should be in British or American English. Be consistent throughout the manuscript. Linguistic usage should be correct. Avoid the use of the passive voice.
Nomenclature
Use the correct and established nomenclature wherever possible.
Units Use SI units as far as possible.
Species names Write in italics (e.g., Orcinus orca). Write out in full the genus and species name at the first mention of an organism in a paper. After first mention, the first letter of the genus name followed by the full species name may be used (e.g., O. orca).
Citations
Cite only essential sources of a theory or opinion. We encourage you to cite the original research rather than a review.
PARTS OF THE SUBMISSION
Title page file
In the title page file include the title, authors and their affiliations.
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