Ecological Applications
Author Guidelines
Manuscript Submission
New submissions As of January 4, 2016, all new manuscripts must be submitted through ScholarOne
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Types of Contributions
Length limits with respect to manuscripts refer to all pages (including title page, text, literature cited, tables and figures; each figure and table will count as one page) with all text and captions in double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font.
Final decisions on article types are at the discretion of ESA. Papers submitted/accepted as Communications that require more than 8.0 PDF pages in the typeset version will instead be published as Articles.
Articles.
Articles describing significant original research comprise the core of the journal. Articles generally should not exceed 60 manuscript pages (double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, including everything from the title page through the last figure). Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words. Articles exceeding 60 manuscript pages may be considered for transfer to Ecological Monographs at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.
Communications.
Communications are shorter papers (up to 8 journal pages) of immediate impact in fast-moving scientific debate or urgent practical application. These papers will be fast-tracked through the editorial, review, and production processes so as to make possible a relatively rapid publication.
These papers must be accompanied by a cover letter clearly indicating that the paper is being submitted for consideration for the Communications section and explaining why the paper warrants this special treatment. Papers deemed unsuitable for Communications may be considered for publication as regular articles.
As added incentives for authors to cast their submissions in the concise Communications format, all Communications will be freely available for no extra charge (i.e., one need not be a subscriber or have institutional access in order to view full text online). By making the Communications more accessible, we hope to increase our readership and cement Ecological Applications’ reputation as the place where authors publish the most important and exciting research findings in our science.
In order to assure rapid publication, papers must conform to a strict page limit and format. Communication submissions may contain up to 20 manuscript pages. The manuscript text (including the Abstract), literature cited, figure captions, and table captions/notes/footnotes must be double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font. The abstract can have a maximum of 200 words.
The parts of the manuscript should be assembled in this order: title page, abstract (on a new page), key words, text, acknowledgments, literature cited, tables (starting on a new page, one table per page, the caption should be included with the table), figure captions (on separate page preceding the first figure; captions should follow each other continuously and not on separate pages), figures (one figure per page; label each figure, i.e., Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.), and lastly any Appendices/Supporting Information (with each Appendix presented in separate files).
Invited Features.
Invited Features are intended to address various aspects of a theme that is likely to be of broad interest to applied ecologists. Ideally, a feature should inform a broad audience about an unfamiliar topic or an area in which there has been considerable recent progress, or it should cause the audience to re-examine an issue that is not as settled as most have presumed. Proposals for Invited features should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief. See Invited Features for additional advice and instructions that explain how to propose and prepare Invited Features.
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