Climatic Change
Submission guidelines
Instructions for Authors
Length of paper
Climatic Change will consider submissions up to 10,000 words, inclusive of all text, references, figures and tables. Figures and tables are counted as 300 words each against the total word total, beginning with the fourth figure or table. Submissions exceeding the limit will be returned to the authors before review. We encourage our authors to write concisely and clearly for our broad, interdisciplinary audience and recommend that authors use Electronic Supplemental Material for detailed background and methodology descriptions that are more relevant to a disciplinary audience. Authors who find the page limit to be particularly restrictive, especially as a result of disciplinary differences, are encouraged to contact the Climatic Change office for guidance.
Commentaries on published papers, Essays, and Book Reviews should be limited to six published pages (a text equivalent of approximately 3,000 words).
Language
We appreciate any efforts that you make to ensure that the language is corrected before submission. This will greatly improve the legibility of your paper if English is not your first language. British English or American English spelling and terminology may be used, but either one should be followed consistently throughout the article.
Article Types
This journal seeks reports of original inter-disciplinary research on observed impacts of climatic change and projections of risks over coming decades on the following sectors: agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, fisheries and unmanaged land and aquatic ecosystems. Impacts on human health and infrastructure are equally of interest.
1. Original Research Articles submitted to Climatic Change should emphasize the interdisciplinary aspects of the research, especially in the context of illuminating new issues and insights regarding climatic change and attendant social, political, and environmental consequences. Manuscripts that present statistical trends or correlations in climate variables without novel data, methods, or insights or plausible underlying physics models will not be considered.
Articles rooted primarily in a single discipline or describing a case study should demonstrate the value of the research to non-specialists, provide connections to research in other disciplines, and clearly address the relevance of the research to the broad, interdisciplinary audience of Climatic Change. All Original Research Articles may precipitate an invitation for a Springboard Commentary.
Case studies of observed impacts on these sectors should be based on climatic changes and variations as documented over decades or longer, supported by freely accessible meteorological records and/or by surrogates such as tree rings, pollen analysis, etc. as well as by indicators of impact such as crop yield or epidemiological data. Scenarios of potential climatic change should be based on GCM runs driven by a broad range of recent emissions and socioeconomic futures. Scenarios based on historical analogues such as droughts, extended wet periods, etc. are also of interest.
In addition to the sectors enumerated above, case studies should consider possibilities for pro-active adaptation to the impacts of climatic change with currently available and/or foreseeable technological advances. Opportunities in managed ecosystems (farms, forests) to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and/or increase their capture and sequestration are also of interest.
Case studies should be of wide geographical applicability and consider, wherever possible, wide-scale socioeconomic ramifications of climatic change. Reports of research limited to small areas or political entities are not of interest unless their broad implications and relevance to similar areas worldwide can be soundly demonstrated, or unless these studies employ new analytical methods that can be applied broadly
2. Review articles offer more than an overview and report on the literature about a particular subject. To be of interest of Climatic Change, a review article should evaluate and synthesize the literature, distill key messages, invoke its author’s judgments about the latter, and highlight emerging areas of knowledge. Length is the same as for a Research Article (10,000 words) but some additional allowance may be made for the reference list. Before submitting, authors are encouraged to inquire with our Managing Editor about our interest in receiving such a submission on the area of interest.
Review Articles will be considered only when the review provides a synthesis of the literature in an area where a need is demonstrated; straightforward summaries of the literature will not be considered.
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