Author Guidelines
Animal Conservation provides a forum for novel, peer-reviewed research into the conservation of animal species and their habitats. The focus is on rigorous quantitative studies of an empirical or theoretical nature, which may relate to populations, species or communities and their conservation. We encourage the submission of single-species papers that have clear broader implications for conservation of other species or systems. A central theme is to publish important new ideas of broad interest and with findings that advance the scientific basis of conservation.
Instructions To Authors
Papers should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/acv Full upload instructions and support are available online from the submission site via the 'Get Help Now' button. Please submit your covering letter or comments to the editor when prompted online.
Papers that report experimental work must comply with the standards and procedures laid down by British national or equivalent legislation. Attention is drawn to the 'Guidelines for the Use of Animals in Research' published in each January issue of the journal Animal Behaviour. Papers will not be accepted if they are based on work involving cruelty to animals or if the work may have put at risk endangered populations, species or habitats. The Editors may seek advice from the Ethical Committee of the Zoological Society of London on ethical matters.
Research involving human subjects
For research involving human subjects (such as interviews, questionnaires) authors should confirm that the study received ethical approval from an institutional review board (or equivalent) before the research was carried out. The name of the committee that approved the research and any reference number should be included in the Methods section of the manuscript. If there is no local research ethics committee, authors must describe how the research met appropriate ethical standards in the Methods section. It is imperative that informed consent was obtained from all human subjects prior to the research being conducted and a statement to this effect must be included in the Methods section. The authors must also confirm that the data has been anonymised.
The submissions listed below are considered:
Research papers
Must be limited to 5000 words, excluding the abstract, reference list and figure and table legends. Authors should highlight the relevance and implications of their research for conservation practice or policy in the Abstract and the Discussion.
Reviews
Review articles should provide a succinct analysis of the subject and can include quantitative meta-analysis, syntheses and modeling approaches, and critical evaluation. Prospects for future research directions should be described. Reviews should be limited to approximately 5000 words (excluding references, tables and figures), and have a maximum of 80 references. Extensive literature reviews will not be considered.
Prospective review authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a list of up to 20 key references, and a cover letter (two pages maximum) outlining what will be discussed in the review article, to the Reviews Editor (Iain.Gordon@anu.edu.au). The editor will supply feedback for manuscript preparation if the review proposal is accepted. Authors should note that all articles in Animal Conservation are peer-reviewed and publication cannot be guaranteed.
Letters from the Conservation Front Line
The contributions in this section should highlight particular knowledge that conservation practitioners need from conservation science to tackle issues they face at the front line of conservation. Submissions and responses should be emailed to ACV.admin@zsl.org; limited to 1000 words.
Authors are advised to observe the word limit for the article type and may be requested to reduce the length of manuscripts that exceed the word limit before consideration.
Translated Abstracts
All submissions must be written in English. However, we encourage authors to provide a second abstract in their first language or the language relevant to the country in which the research was conducted. The second abstract will be published with the online version of the article and will not be included in the PDF. Please note that second abstracts will not be copyedited and will be published as provided by the authors, who take responsibility for the accuracy of the translation. Authors who wish to take advantage of this option should upload their second abstract alongside their submission, selecting the file type “Translated Abstract not for Review".
Preprints
Animal Conservation will consider for review articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, psyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, etc. Authors may also post the submitted version of their manuscript to non-commercial servers at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
Conflict of interest
Authors must declare details of any potential conflict of interest. A conflict of interest exists when professional judgement concerning a primary interest (such as animal welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced by secondary interests (personal matters such as financial gain, personal relationships or professional rivalry).
Page Charges
There are no page charges to publish in Animal Conservation.
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Submission
Submission of a manuscript will be taken to imply that the material is original and that no similar paper is being, or will be, submitted elsewhere, either in whole or substantial part. Serialized studies should not be submitted and titles should not contain part numbers. The Editors reserve the right to accelerate the publication of high-profile papers, commissioned reviews or topical papers. Authors are required to provide the names of 2 - 4 suitable referees, however the Editor reserves the right to choose referees other than those suggested.
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