Ecography

Distributed on behalf of Nordic Society Oikos

Edited by:
Carsten Rahbek Deputy Editor-in-Chief Miguel Araújo

Print ISSN: 0906-7590
Online ISSN: 1600-0587
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Current Volume: 33 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 4/28 Biodiversity Conservation; 20/124 Ecology
Impact Factor: 4.099

TopAuthor Guidelines

General editorial practice

Submit your manuscript electronically by e-mailing a single Word or PDF file together with a cover letter explaining the significance of your study to: ecography@ekol.lu.se

Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that the work follows ethical guidelines and legislation within the country where it has been carried out, that it has not been published before, that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and that it has been read and approved by all authors. Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. After submission, authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various media/circumstances.

Manuscripts are screened by the editorial board before being sent out for external review and may be rejected editorially. Editorial reject decisions are based on how well a manuscripts fits the scope of the journal as well as on the quality of the manuscript. Typically, editorial reject decisions are taken within a week from submission. Manuscripts sent out for external review are evaluated based on their scientific significance and soundness. Authors will generally be notified of acceptance, rejection, or need for revision within three months. Decisions of the editor are final. Uninvited resubmissions are subject to rejection without peer review.

Manuscripts are edited to improve communication between author and reader.

Authors will receive electronic proofs via e-mail, together with a Query Form
detailing any questions we have regarding the article, and an Exclusive License Form. Correct only printer's mistakes. You may be charged for excessive corrections beyond such mistakes.

No offprints will be supplied. Instead corresponding authors will receive a locked PDF file to use at their discretion.

There are no page charges.

Authorship. Statement on authorship. Papers should conform to recommendations for authorship provided by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (the Vancouver Group; see http://www.icmje.org). That is, authorship of a paper carries with it responsibility as well as credit. All those whose names appear as authors should have played a significant role in designing or carrying out the research, writing the manuscript, or providing extensive guidance to the execution of the project. They should be able to present and defend the work in a public forum. Honorary authorship is to be avoided. All authors must be in agreement on both the submission and full content of any article carrying their name. Any violation of these conditions represents academic misconduct and will be dealt with accordingly.

Manuscripts

Format. Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout (including tables, figure legends, appendices, literature cited) with all lines and pages numbered.

Specific information for Software Notes. Abstracts for Software Notes have a 100 word length limitation. Papers in this section have a 2,500 word length limitation for all text, excluding tables and legends. Submitted notes should be subdivided only into an abstract, main text, acknowledgements, and references. Software Notes may include a maximum of three tables/figures. They should provide the basic rationale behind the software, its basic functions, and sample usage, output, and interpretation. A link to a persistent website where the software may be downloaded or used must be provided. Software Notes are not intended to replace proper user documentation, and the user's manual along with test datasets should be available form the software website. The section particularly welcomes user-friendly approaches.

To ensure that software websites referred to in Software Notes will be accessible for years to come, the journal requries authors to establish a persistent internet address (PURL) for the software published in the journal. A step-by-step guide explaining how to do this is provided at the journal's PURL page: www.oikos.ekol.lu.se/ecoPURL.html.

Language. Manuscripts should be in English. Linguistic usage should be correct. Avoid the use of the passive voice. Avoid extensive reviews in the Introduction and Discussion. Cite only essential sources of a theory or opinion. Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.

Title. The title should be brief and contain words useful for indexing and information retrieval.

Text. The first page should contain only the title and the author's name, address and email-address. Page two contains the abstract, in which the main results of the work should be summarized. The abstract should not contain more than 300 words. Begin the introduction on page three. Avoid right margin justification and hyphenation. Double-check the contents of your manuscript before submitting. Only printer' mistakes in proofs will be changed free of charge.

Illustrations. All illustrations should bear author's name. Tables and legends of illustrations should be written double-spaced on separate sheets. Do not incorporate the legend in the figure itself. Tables and illustrations should be comprehensible without reference to the text.

Colour plates may be included at the author's expense.

Plan your illustrations for the smallest size possible (one column). Do not submit originals until so instructed.

Units. Use SI units as far as possible.

Nomenclature. Binomial Latin names should be used in accordance with International Rules of Nomenclature.

References. In the list of references, the following usage should be conformed to:

Journal: Phillips, B. L. and Shine, R. 2006. Spatial and temporal variation in the morphology (and thus, predicted impact) of an invasive species in Australia. - Ecography 29: 205-212.

Book: Gavrilets, S. 2004. Fitness landscapes and the origin of species. - Princeton Univ. Press.

Chapter: von Ende, C. N. 2001. Repeated-measures analysis: growth and other time-dependent measures. - In: Scheiner, S. and Gurevitch, J. (eds), Design and analysis of ecological experiments. Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 134-157.

In the text references are given: Gavrilets (2004) or, at the end of a sentence, (Gavrilets 2004).

Titles of journals should be abbreviated following Biological Abstracts. If in doubt, give the title in full. Do not refer to unpublished material.

The reference list should be arranged alphabetically on authors' names and chronologically per author. If the author's name is is also mentioned with co-authors, the following order should be used: publications of the single author, arranged chronologically - publications of the same author with one co-author, arranged chronologically - publications of the author with more than one co-author, arranged chronologically. When there is more than one co-author, please write the first author followed by et al. Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be listed as 2004a, 2004b, etc. Reference lists not conforming to this format will be returned for revision. When in doubt, please consult the latest issues of ECOGRAPHY.

Excessive use of references casuses unnecessary long articles. To avoid excessive use of references, use only the most relevant. As a rule, avoid using more than 50 references in a regular research paper.

Acknowledgements: Keep them short.

Appendices: Supplementary material may be posted as electronic appendices on the journal's appendix site.

Authors are recommended to follow the guidelines set out in: O'Connor, M. 1991. Writing successfully in science. - Harper Collins Academic, London. Manuscripts not conforming to the requirements will be returned for revision.

Submit the manuscript to:

Ecography
Editorial Office
Ecology Building
SE-223 62 Lund
Sweden
phone +46-462223792
fax +46-462223790
email: Ecography@ekol.lu.se
Website: http://www.oikos.ekol.lu.se

or submit your manuscript as an email attachment.

COPYRIGHT
Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. (Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various medium/circumstances (please see the form for further details).

Online Open
Authors who wish for their article to be freely available to everyone can choose to submit the article as an OnlineOpen article. There is a basic fixed fee of $3000 for OnlineOpen. Colour artwork will need to be paid for seperately - more information on this elsewhere on this page. Publication of OnlineOpen articles is conditioned upon the author signing the Open Access Exclusive License Form.