Guide for Authors
Fungal Ecology publishes investigations into all aspects of fungal ecology, including the following (not exclusive) population dynamics; adaptation; evolution; role in ecosystem functioning, nutrient cycling, decomposition, carbon allocation; ecophysiology; intra- and inter-specific mycelial interactions, fungus-plant (pathogens, mycorrhizas, lichens, endophytes), fungus-invertebrate and fungus-microbe interaction; genomics and (evolutionary) genetics; conservation and biodiversity; remote sensing; bioremediation and biodegradation; quantitative and computational aspects - modelling, indicators, complexity, informatics. The usual prerequisites for publication will be originality, clarity, and significance as relevant to a better understanding of the ecology of fungi.
Submission of Manuscripts
There are no submission fees or page charges. Submission to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines to prepare your article. Via the homepage of this journal https://www.elsevier.com/journals you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the author's homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail.
It is a condition of publication that all manuscripts must be written in clear and grammatical English and be submitted to the Fungal Ecology Web site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/funeco. Text and tables should be submitted as Word documents, and figures should be submitted as TIFF or EPS files (300 dpi). The accompanying cover letter, outlining the basic findings of the paper and their significance, should be addressed to the Editorial Office. Authors are asked to submit the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three to five potential reviewers within their cover letter.
Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that no substantial portion of the study has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere and that its submission for publication has been approved by all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out. This should be stated in the covering letter. Manuscripts that do not meet the criteria or standards for publication in Fungal Ecology will be immediately returned to the authors, without detailed review.
Types of paper
Short Reviews and Commentaries: Fungal Ecology review articles (about 3500 words) and commentaries are usually solicited by the Senior Editor or Editorial Board members. However, suggestions and proposals will be considered. There is no rigid format for reviews, but they should include an Abstract, an Introduction setting the background to the article, and should finish with a Conclusion section, which mentions future directions.
Methodological papers: This section of Fungal Ecology publishes articles that describe the development of tools for studying fungal ecology. Manuscripts submitted to this section will be reviewed as rigorously as our Regular Research Articles. These papers are not "Research Papers" or "Short Communications", but full articles that describe the development and evaluation of tools for analysis of fungi. Such tools include microscopy, molecular, genetic and computational/modeling methods.
Preparation of Manuscript
Authorities for species are not necessary. It is important to differentiate between genes and proteins. Therefore, all gene names and loci should be typed in italics. Most recommendations of the Council of Biology Editors should be followed; consult the CBE Style Manual, 6th ed. (Council of Biology Editors, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814). Nonstandard abbreviations should be defined at their initial appearance.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout. Please ensure your paper has consecutive line numbering - this is an essential peer review requirement. Pages should be organized as follows:
The title page (p. 1) should contain the article title, authors' names and complete affiliations, footnotes to the title, and the address for manuscript correspondence (including telephone and fax numbers and an e-mail address). Authors' home page addresses (URL) may also be provided at the authors' discretion.
The abstract (p. 2) must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper in less than 150 words. After the abstract a list of up to 10 index descriptors that will be useful for indexing or searching should be included.
The Introduction should be as concise as possible, without subheadings. Materials and methods should be sufficiently detailed to enable the experiments to be reproduced. Results and Discussions may be combined and may be organized into subheadings. Acknowledgments should be brief and should precede the references.
Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
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