Journal of Biogeography
Author Guidelines
1. SUBMISSION
Authors should kindly note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium. All submissions must be concisely and clearly written in grammatically correct English.
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2. AIMS AND SCOPE
SCOPE:
The Journal of Biogeography publishes research at the intersection of biology and geography that is scientifically important and of broad general interest. We seek papers describing patterns and revealing mechanisms that shape biodiversity, through time, throughout the planet, from the deep past into the future, and from local to global scales. Diverse approaches are encouraged—including ecological, evolutionary, genomic, geographic, empirical, theoretical—considering any aspect of biogeography, from molecules to ecosystems and from microbes to plants and megafauna. Through this broad and inclusive scope, we aim for papers in Journal of Biogeography to address understudied, vexing, and urgent questions and to advance basic understanding of the origins, distributions, and fates of life on Earth.
Manuscripts submitted to Journal of Biogeography should be original and innovative, concise, well written, rigorously analyzed and argued, and consequential. While many such studies will be multifaceted, comparative, and draw generalities, we also welcome exceptional case studies that illustrate particularly interesting deviations that, in their aggregate, shift preconceptions.
The Journal of Biogeography is edited and reviewed for the community by a team of practising biogeographers. We support open data, accessibility to publish and read, and a constructive peer-review process.
VISION:
The Journal of Biogeography is the discipline’s first and foremost journal. It’s established history publishing influential papers in biogeography, its topical breadth, and its strong reputation in the community, provide the foundation for the journal to continue to grow as the most respected journal in the field. Nonetheless, as disciplinary and publishing trends change, to remain at the forefront of biogeography, the journal must innovate such that it represents not only core biogeography but also novel advances in emerging areas. Biogeography is an integrative discipline and the journal aims to increasingly complement its strong foundations with the most exciting multidisciplinary research.
3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS
The Journal publishes articles under the following main headers: 1) Research Article, 2) Letter, 3) Methods and Tools, 4) Data, 5) Synthesis, 6) Perspective, 7) Commentary and 8) Correspondence. All submissions are subject to peer review.
1) Research Article. Research Articles present new biogeographic research, usually resulting from the analysis of a novel question and hypotheses. The main headers in the main text will be Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, and References. Research Articles will rarely exceed 12 pages when printed at final journal sizing. Therefore, a typical Research Article is likely to be composed of the title page (title, structured abstract [≤300 words), and other frontice material), 5–7 pages of text (should not exceed 6,000 words), 2-3 pages of illustrative material (up to ~6 tables and figures, including captions), and 2-3 pages of references (~35 references per page) and other required statements (Conflict of Interest, Data Availability, Biosketch, Author Contributions). The proportions of different sections may vary, but in sum they should not exceed the specified 12 pages length for Research Articles. Manuscripts will include tables with their legends above; list of figure legends; and embedded figures. Methods need to be described in a manner that allows a competent practitioner in the field to repeat the study. Authors must allow repeatability by either providing a thorough description of the methods or by providing relevant computer code.
Structured abstracts. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, presented as a series of factual statements under the following headings: Aim, Location, Taxon, Methods, Results and Main conclusions. The Aim should give a clear statement of the principal research question(s) or hypotheses, the Taxon indicate the main group (eg angiosperms), the Methods should give details of materials/sampling/methods of analysis, and the Main conclusions should give the main take-home message.
Biosketch/Biosketches. A short Biosketch/Biosketches entry (30-100 words for one author/150 words total for the first three authors, respectively) describing the research interests of the author(s) should be provided. For papers with four or more authors, biosketch details should be supplied for the first author only and/or a general statement of the focus of the research team (which may include a link to a group web page) plus, in all cases, a statement of author contributions, e.g. Author contributions: A.S. and K.J. conceived the ideas; K.J. and R.L.M. collected the data; R.L.M. and P.A.K. analysed the data; and A.S. and K.J. led the writing.
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