期刊名称：JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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The Journal of Animal Ecology first appeared in 1932. It publishes the best in original research on any aspect of animal ecology. Recently it has published papers on population ecology, behavioural ecology, community ecology, physiological ecology and evolutionary ecology. Field, laboratory and theoretical studies based upon terrestrial, freshwater or marine systems are all published. The editors are keen to promote all these traditional areas and also to encourage publication of papers in new and emerging fields such as molecular ecology. Print ISSN: 0021-8790
Online ISSN: 1365-2656
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Instructions to Authors
The British Ecological Society publishes four international journals that between them cover research in all aspects of the science of ecology. The subject matter and types of paper accepted vary between journals, but all journals employ a uniform format. Please follow these instructions carefully to ensure that your manuscript is dealt with speedily.
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Following the move of the Journal of Animal Ecology to online submission, the journal will cease to accept submissions of paper copies of new manuscripts as from 1 March 2003. After that date, all manuscripts must be submitted online at the following address: http://BritishEcologicalSociety.manuscriptcentral.com/ Intending authors are encouraged to use this facility as early as possible. In the meantime, four copies of any typescripts on paper should be sent to:
Professor Dave Raffaelli,
Environment Department,
University of York,
Heslington,
York,
YO10 5 DD,
UK.
Tel: + 44 (0)1904 434060
E-mail: dr3@york.ac.uk
Authors should retain a reserve copy in case of loss or damage of manuscripts. Editors cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage. Because of high postal charges, manuscripts, whether accepted or refused by the editors, may not be returned to authors. Do not send original figures until the paper has been accepted.
Editorial policy
Journal of Animal Ecology publishes original papers on any aspect of animal ecology, from molecular to community ecology. Types of paper published: Standard, Essay Review, Forum.
Welfare and legal policy
Researchers must have proper regard for conservation and animal welfare considerations. Attention is drawn to the 'Guidelines for the Use of Animals in Research' published in each January issue of the journal Animal Behaviour since 1991. Any possible adverse consequences of the work for populations or individual organisms must be weighed against the possible gains in knowledge and its practical applications. Authors are required to sign a declaration that their work conforms to the legal requirements of the country in which it was carried out (see below), but editors may seek advice from referees on ethical matters and the final decision will rest with the editors.
Typescripts
Papers are expected to be no more than 10 published pages in length, unless otherwise agreed or invited by the editor. There is no page charge. All papers accepted become copyright of the British Ecological Society.
Submission
Submitted manuscripts must be accompanied by the following signed declarations, either in the covering letter or on the Authors Declaration Form.
- that the work as submitted has not been published or accepted for publication, nor is being considered for publication elsewhere, either in whole or substantial part.
- that all authors and relevant institutions have read the submitted version of the manuscript and approve its submission.
- that all persons entitled to authorship have been so included.
- that the work conforms to the legal requirements of the country in which it was carried out, including those relating to conservation and welfare, and to the journals policy on these matters. (see above)
Typescripts should be typed in double spacing with a generous margin, and pages should be numbered consecutively, including those containing acknowledgements, references, tables and figure legends.
Typescripts must be in English and spelling should conform to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English. Editors reserve the right to modify manuscripts that do not conform to scientific, technical, stylistic or grammatical standards, and minor alterations of this nature will normally be seen by authors only at the proof stage.
Online submission and review of manuscripts is now available. When your manuscript has been prepared in accordance with these instructions, please access the following web site: http://BritishEcologicalSociety.manuscriptcentral.com/. You must select the Journal of Animal Ecology when you log on to the online submission site.
- A Copyright Assignment Form must be completed for all articles accepted for publication in the journal. This form is available from the Editorial Office.
- A File Description Form must be completed for all electronic submission of manuscripts.
Revision
All types of paper are subject to peer review. If a typescript is returned for revision, the correspondence author should return the revised typescript (two copies) within 6 weeks. Otherwise, revisions may be treated as new submissions and sent for further evaluation by new referees, unless there are special reasons for prolonged delay agreed with the editor.
Disks
On acceptance of their paper, authors must submit a disk of the final version. (The hard copy and the file on disk must be the same.) Please note the software used, the type of computer and any special (non-keyboard) characters used. Do not use the carriage return (enter) at the end of lines within a paragraph, and turn the hyphenation off. Always enclose a hard copy of the figures and tables.
Handling the Proofs
Proofs will be sent via e-mail as an Acrobat PDF (portable document format) file. The e-mail server must be able to accept attachments up to 4 MB in size. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following Web site:
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proofs. Proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available; in your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your e-mail to retrieve the proofs.
Alterations in the text, other than printers errors, may be charged to the author. Proofs must be returned by first-class mail or airmail within 3 days of receipt to:
Journal of Animal Ecology,
Blackwell Publishing Ltd,
9600 Garsington Road,
Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 776868
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 714591
Foreign contributors might consider nominating someone in the UK to correct their proofs for them; they should do this when submitting their revised typescript. The editors reserve the right to correct the proofs themselves, using the accepted version of the typescript, if the authors corrections are overdue and the journal would otherwise be delayed.
Offprints
Authors will be provided with 50 printed offprints and one electronic version of their paper. Additional paper offprints may be ordered at prices quoted on the order form, which accompanies the proofs, provided that the form is returned with the proofs. The cost is more if the order form arrives too late for the main print run. Offprints are normally despatched within 3 weeks of publication of the issue in which the paper appears; however, please note that they are sent by surface mail, so overseas orders may take up to 6 weeks to arrive. Please contact the publishers if the offprints fail to arrive.
Electronic offprints are sent to the first author at his/her first e-mail address on the title page of the paper, unless advised otherwise; therefore, please ensure that the name, address and e-mail of the receiving author are clearly indicated on the manuscript title page if he/she is not the first author of the paper. A copy of the publisher's terms and conditions for the use of the PDF file will accompany the electronic offprints and the file can only be distributed in accordance with these requirements.
Types of Paper
Standard Papers
A standard paper should not normally be longer than 10 printed pages. (A page of printed text, without figures/tables carries c. 800 words.) The passive voice is preferred in describing methods and results. The active voice may be used occasionally to emphasize a personal opinion (typically in Introduction and Discussion sections). The typescript should be arranged as follows, with each section starting on a separate page.
Title page. This should contain:
- A concise and informative title (as short as possible). Do not include the authorities for taxonomic names in the title. Titles with numerical series designations (I, II, III, etc.) are acceptable provided the editors agreement is sought and that at least Part II of the series has been submitted and accepted before Part I is sent to the printer. Such series must begin in one of the journals of the BES.
- A list of authors' names with names and addresses of Institutions.
- The name, address and e-mail address of the correspondence author to whom proofs will be sent.
- A running headline of not more than 45 characters.
Summary. This should list the main results and conclusions, using simple, factual, numbered statements. It must not exceed 350 words.
Key-words. A list in alphabetical order not exceeding five words or short phrases, excluding words used in the title.
Introduction. This should state the reason for doing the work, the nature of the hypothesis or hypotheses under consideration, and should outline the essential background.
Materials and methods. This should provide sufficient details of the techniques to enable the work to be repeated. Do not describe or refer to commonplace statistical tests in Methods but allude to them briefly in Results.
Results. This should state the results, drawing attention in the text to important details shown in tables and figures.
Discussion. This should point out the significance of the results in relation to the reasons for doing the work, and place them in the context of other work.
Acknowledgements
References (see Specifications).
Tables (see Specifications). These should be referred to in the text as Table 1, etc. Do not present the same data in both figure and table form.
Figure legends (see Specifications). Figures should be referred to in the text as Fig. 1, etc. (note Figs 1 and 2 with no period).
Illustrations (see Specifications) should be referred to as Figures.
Essay Reviews
The editors welcome short review articles on topical subjects which are of general interest to the readership. Intending authors are advised to consult with the editors before preparing essays for submission.
Forum
This section of the journal is designed to stimulate scientific debate. Contributions may be short articles presenting new ideas (without data), opinions or responses to material published in the journal.
Book Reviews
Journal of Animal Ecology no longer handles book reviews.
Specifications
Figures
The publishers would like to receive your artwork in electronic form, together with the hard copy of the lettered figure (use Times New Roman font for the lettering if possible). Please save vector graphics (e.g. line artwork) in Encapsulated Postscript Format (EPS), and bitmap files (e.g. half-tones) in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). Ideally, vector graphics that have been saved in a metafile (.WMF) or pict (.PCT) format should be embedded within the body of the text file. Detailed information on the Blackwell Science digital illustration standards is available on the BSL Homepage at:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp
Photographs should be glossy prints of good contrast. Where several photographs are used together to make one figure, they should be well matched for tonal range. Lettering or arrows should be in place using suitable transfer film. Colour photographs may be allowed if colour is an essential feature of the result, but the author may be asked to contribute to the cost. Four photocopies/copies should be provided for circulation to referees. It is the policy of the Journal of Animal Ecology for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of any colour figures. Therefore, please note that if there is colour artwork in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, Blackwell Publishing require you to complete and return a colour work agreement form before your paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as a PDF* from the internet. The web address for the form is: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/Sub3000_X_CoW.pdf
If you are unable to download the form, please contact Penny Baker (at the address below), who will email or FAX a form to you.
Once completed, please return the form to:
Penny Baker
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
9600 Garsington Road
Oxford OX4 2DQ
Penny.baker@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com
Any article received by Blackwell Publishing with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned.
* To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this program, this is available as a free download from the following web address: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Figure Legends
Legends should be grouped on a separate sheet. Furnish enough detail so that the figure can be understood without reference to the text. In the full-text online edition of the journal, figure legends may be truncated in abbreviated links to the full screen version. Therefore, the first 100 characters of any legend should inform the reader of key aspects of the figure.
Tables
Each table should be on a separate page, numbered and accompanied by a title at the top.
References
References to work by up to three authors in the text should be in full on first mention, e.g. (Able, Baker & Charles 1996), and subsequently abbreviated (Able et al. 1996). When different groups of authors with the same first author and date occur, they should be cited thus: (Able, Baker & Charles 1996a; Able David & Edwards 1996b), then subsequently abbreviated to (Able et al. 1996a, b). If the number of authors exceeds three, they should always be abbreviated thus: (Frank et al. 1996). The references in the list should be in alphabetical order with the journal name in full. The format for papers, entire books, chapters in books, and PhD theses is as follows.
Holyoak, M. (1993) New insights into testing for density dependence. Oecologia, 93, 435-440.
Warham, J. (1996) The Behaviour, Population Biology and Physiology of the Petrels. Academic Press, London.
Møller, A.P. (1997) Parasitism and the evolution of host life history. Host-Parasite Evolution (eds D.H. Clayton & J. Moore), pp. 105-127. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Stevenson, I.R. (1994) Male-biased mortality in Soay sheep. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
References should only be cited as 'in press' if the paper has been accepted for publication. Other references should be cited as 'unpublished' and not included in the list. Three copies of any paper cited as in press must be included with the typescript so that they can be sent to referees. Work not yet submitted for publication may be cited in the text and attributed to its author as: full author name, unpublished data.
Units, symbols and abbreviations
Authors are requested to use the International System of Units (SI, Système International d'Unités) where possible for all measurements (see Quantities, Units and Symbols, 2nd edn (1975) The Royal Society, London). Note that mathematical expressions should contain symbols not abbreviations. If the paper contains many symbols, it is recommended that they should be defined as early in the text as possible, or within a subsection of the Materials and methods section.
Scientific names
Give the Latin names of each species in full, together with the authority for its name, at first mention in the main text. If there are many species, cite a Flora or checklist which may be consulted for authorities instead of listing them in the text. Do not give authorities for species cited from published references. Give priority to scientific names in the text (with colloquial names in parentheses, if desired).
Makers' names
When a special piece of equipment has been used it should be described so that the reader can trace its specifications by writing to the manufacturer; thus: 'Data were collected using a solid-state data logger (CR21X, Campbell Scientific, Utah, USA)'.
Mathematical material
Mathematical expressions should be carefully represented. Suffixes and operators such as d, log, ln and exp will be set in Roman type; matrices and vectors will be set in bold type; other algebraic symbols will be set in italic. Make sure that there is no confusion between similar characters like 'l' (ell) and '1' (one). Also make sure that expressions are spaced as you would like them to appear, and if there are several equations they should be identified by eqn 1, etc.
Numbers in tables
Do not use an excessive number of digits when writing a decimal number to represent the mean of a set of measurements (the number of digits should reflect the precision of the measurement).
Numbers in text
Numbers from one to nine should be spelled out except when used with units; e.g. two eyes but 10 stomata and 5°C.
Editorial Board
Editors
Ken Norris, University of Reading, UK
k.norris@reading.ac.uk
Dave Raffaelli, University of York, UK
dr13@york.ac.uk
Rob Smith, University of Leicester, UK
rhs2@le.ac.uk
Editorial Board
S. Boutin, University of Alberta, Canada
T. Burke, Sheffield University, UK
J. Clobert, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
R.M. Cormack, University of St. Andrews, UK
S. Ellner, Cornell University, USA
A. Gilburn, University of Leicester, UK
P. S. Giller, University College Cork, UK
H.C.J. Godfray, Imperial College at Silwood Park, UK
B.T. Grenfell, University of Cambridge, UK
W.S.C. Gurney, University of Strathclyde, UK
S. J. Hall, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia
P.J. Hudson, University of Stirling, UK
A. Illius, University of Edinburgh, UK
R. A. Ims, University of Tromso, Norway
J. Jaenike, University of Rochester, UK
P. Jarman, University of New England, Australia
B. Jonsson, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway
J.H. Lawton, Imperial College at Silwood Park, UK
C.M. Lessells, Heteren, The Netherlands
S. Nee, University of Edinburgh, UK
C. Thomas, The University of Leeds, UK
P. Warren, University of Sheffield, UK
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