期刊名称：CONSERVATION LETTERS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Conservation Letters is a scientific journal publishing empirical and theoretical research with significant implications for the conservation of biological diversity. The journal welcomes submissions across the biological and social sciences - especially interdisciplinary submissions – that advance pragmatic conservation goals as well as scientific understanding. Manuscripts will be published on a rapid communications schedule and therefore should be current and topical. Research articles should clearly articulate the significance of their findings for conservation policy and practice.
Three types of article are published in Conservation Letters:
Letters: novel findings with high relevance for practice or policy
Mini-Reviews: overviews of emerging subjects that merit urgent coverage or succinct syntheses of important topics that are rarely encountered in the mainstream literature
Policy Perspectives: brief essays for a general audience on issues related to conservation and society
Conservation Letters welcomes manuscripts in all biomes (marine, terrestrial, and freshwater), ecosystems, and cultural settings, and will strive for balanced coverage of each.
Abstracting and Indexing Information
Academic Search (EBSCO)
Instructions to Authors
Submission and handling of manuscripts
Submissions should be uploaded to our Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/conl. Upon submission we ask that you provide separate files for your text, tables, figures and supplemental materials. Please provide your text in an editable format, figures will need to be at least 600 DPI. More detailed information on the submission of electronic artwork can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/submit_illust.asp?site=1.
Authors are requested to submit the names and emails of 3-5 potential referees working outside their home institution(s). Authors may also indicate referees they would prefer not to review the manuscript. Such suggestions will be regarded as a guide only and the Editors are under no obligation to follow them. An Editor-in-Chief will select the most appropriate Editor to manage review of each manuscript, and authors must request a particular Editor.
Submissions to Conservation Letters must represent the independent work of the authors. In any case where potential overlap exists among papers submitted to other journals, authors must provide copies of the papers in question and explain in a cover letter how they present different results or differ substantially in their contribution.
The covering letter to the Editorial Office should succinctly describe why the enclosed work is novel, exciting and of general interest to a broad range of conservation researchers and/or policy makers. Please indicate as well the types of problems, interventions, or policies for which your findings are particularly suggestive. The covering letter must indicate that the enclosed work has not been published or accepted for publication, and is not under consideration for publication, in another journal or book, that its submission for publication has been approved by all relevant authors and institutions, and that all persons entitled to authorship have been so named. The submitting author must indicate in the cover letter that all authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript. Please address your covering letter to the Senior Editors, Corey Bradshaw and Ashwini Chhatre.
The journal to which you are submitting your manuscript employs a plagarism detection system. By submitting your manuscript to this journal you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagarism against previously published works.
Types of articles
Letters: novel findings with high relevance for practice or policy. Letters should be no more than 3000 words in length and contain no more than eight figures and/or tables and 40 references. Note: Specified word count is for the main text body (excluding title, abstract, acknowledgements, references, table and figure legends, and appendices).
Mini reviews: overviews of emerging subjects that merit urgent coverage or succinct syntheses of important topics that are rarely encountered in mainstream literature. Mini reviews may be up to 4000 words in length and may contain up to 60 references.
Policy Perspectives: brief essays for a general audience on issues related to conservation and society. Policy Perspectives should be 2500-3500 words in length. To make such manuscripts highly readable for a generalist audience, we ask that you limit the number of references and aim for no more than ten figures, graphs, or tables. Because Policy Perspectives are scientific essays, detailed information regarding research methods (when necessary) should be included in online Supporting Information.
Correspondence: Readers who wish to raise substantive concerns regarding articles previously published in Conservation Letters may do so in brief Correspondence. All Correspondence must be submitted within six months from the final (Early View) publication of the article receiving comment. No Correspondence submissions will be considered after this period has elapsed. Correspondences have a maximum limit of 500 words (body text) and 10 cited references, without exception. All formatting requirements for other manuscript categories apply (e.g., spacing, line numbering, reference formatting, etc.). Figures and tables are not permitted in Correspondence or Response pieces, but can be included as online supplementary information.
These limits may be waived with permission from the Editors-in-Chief.
Decision times
We aim to make all editorial decisions within 6 weeks of manuscript receipt. Decisions on fast-track submissions will usually be made within 2 weeks of submission. Please note that the above decision times apply to manuscripts once all the required material (text, figures, cover letter, novelty statement, manuscripts submitted or ’in press’) has been received by the Editorial Office. Accepted manuscripts of the recommended length and style will usually be published within 3 weeks of receipt of corrected proofs.
Fast-track
If your manuscript contains information so time sensitive that the standard review and publication processes of Conservation Letters would miss the window of time during which this information could usefully inform policy deliberations and decisions, fast-track handling is available with approval from the Editors-in-Chief.
Given the standing commitment of Conservation Letters to rapid review and publication, fast-tracking is appropriate only in unusual circumstances. Authors requesting fast-track handling should do so in ScholarOne and in the cover letter accompanying submission. Authors should include the following information in their cover materials:
(1) A brief description of the specific policy issue/debate that the manuscript will inform;
(2) The name of the specific forum in which decisions regarding this issue will be made;
(3) The time window during which this information is necessary to usefully inform deliberations;
(4) The implications of the manuscript's findings for the policy alternatives under discussion.
Please e-mail the editorial office if you are submitting a fast-track article. conservationletters@wiley.com
Presentation of manuscripts
Conservation Letters places great emphasis on its prompt and accurate reviews of submitted manuscripts. This requires that manuscripts be concise and carefully prepared: they must be complete, with all reporting of methods, results and citations fully checked and in final form. Figures and tables must be clear and well presented. All pages and lines should be numbered consecutively from beginning to end of document. Manuscripts judged to be too hastily or poorly prepared will be returned to authors for resubmission. The correct presentation of manuscripts is detailed below.
Manuscripts should be written in clear, concise and grammatically correct English. Authors for whom English is a second language should therefore have their manuscript corrected by a native English speaker prior to submission where necessary. This may be on an informal basis through a colleague or acquaintance, or on a professional basis through a copy-editing service. To assist authors who wish to use a professional copy-editor, 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, if prior to acceptance, use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preferential treatment.
Title page
The title page contains the article title, full name(s) of all author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es) of all author(s), a short running title (abbreviated form of title) of less than 45 characters including spaces, up to 10 keywords listed alphabetically for indexing purposes, the type of article, the number of words in the abstract and in the manuscript as a whole, the number of references, the number of figures and tables, and the name and complete mailing address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address) of the person to whom correspondence should be sent. It is essential that the keywords be chosen carefully to assist in the choice of appropriate editors and referees.
Abstract page
The abstract page should contain a short summary not exceeding 150 words for Letters and 200 words for Mini-Reviews and Policy Perspectives.
Main text
(1) Introduction. The Introduction should summarize briefly the background and aims, and end with a brief statement of what has been achieved by the work.
(2) Methods. This section should contain sufficient detail so that all procedures can be repeated (in conjunction with cited references). Where specific equipment and materials are named, the manufacturer’s name, city and country should be given (generally in parentheses after first mention).
(3) Results. The Results section should present the experiments that support the conclusions to be drawn later in the Discussion. The Results section should conform to a high standard of rigour. Extended lines of inference, arguments or speculations should not be placed in the Results.
(4) Discussion. The Discussion section should be separate from the Results section. It allows authors to propose their interpretation of the results, and to suggest what they mean in a wider context. It should end with a clear statement of the main conclusions of the research, and a clear explanation of their importance and relevance to applied conservation and/or policy.
(5) Acknowledgements. Acknowledgements of financial or institutional support should be brief (100 words maximum). Authors are expected to disclose any potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, that a reasonable person could construe as possibly influencing the objectivity of the report. Please include this statement in the Acknowledgement section. The absence of any statement is presumed to mean that there is nothing to disclose.
(6) References in articles. We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.
EndNote reference styles can be searched for here: http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp
Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp
References to papers by one or two authors in the text should be in full, e.g. (Able & Charles 1986). If the number of authors exceeds two, they should always be abbreviated thus: (Frank et al. 1986). When different groups of authors with the same first author and date occur, they should be cited thus: (James et al. 1986a, b). References should be listed in chronological order in the text, e.g. (Lowe et al. 1986; Able et al. 1997). At the end of the paper, references should be listed in alphabetical order by the first author or editor (for edited books). Names and initials of all authors, year of publication, the full titles of papers, chapters and books, the abbreviated journal titles (standard abbreviations please see http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WoS/help/A abrvjt.html), volumes and inclusive pagination should be provided. Examples of reference style are given below:
Ferris, C., King, R.A. & Gray, A.J. (1997). Molecular evidence for the maternal parentage in the hybrid origin of Spartina anglica C.E. Hubbard. Mol. Ecol., 6, 185-187.
Begon, M., Harper, J. & Townsend, C. (1996). Ecology: individuals, populations and communities. 3rd edn. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
Milligan, B. (1992). Plant DNA isolation. In: Molecular genetic analysis of populations: a practical approach (ed. Hoelzel, A.R.). IRL Press, Oxford, pp. 59-88.
References to a paper ’in press’ are permissible provided that it has been accepted for publication (acceptance date and documentary evidence must be provided) and should appear as follows:
V´azquez, D.P. & Simberloff, D. (2003). Changes in interaction biodiversity induced by an introduced ungulate. Ecol. Lett., in press.
If a paper ’in press’ has been allocated a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), then cite this with the paper as follows:
V´azquez, D.P. & Simberloff, D. (2003). Changes in interaction biodiversity induced by an introduced ungulate. Ecol. Lett., doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00534.x
A reference to ’unpublished work’ should be accompanied by the names of all persons concerned; any person cited as the source of a ’personal communication’ must have approved the reference; both of these types of citation are permitted in the text only, not in the list of references. However, the number of incidences of this sort of referencing should be kept to an absolute minimum. The use of ’in preparation’ or ’submitted for publication’ is not permitted. Please double-space references.
References to material available on the World Wide Web are acceptable, but only if the information is available on an official site and without charge to readers. Authors may provide electronic copies of the cited material for inclusion on the Conservation Letters homepage at the discretion of the Editors. The format for citations is as follows:
Beckleheimer, J. (1994) How do you cite URL’s in a bibliography? Available from http://www.nrlssc.navy.mil/meta/bibliography.html/. Accessed 10 October 2007.
Specifications
Text
Files should be double-spaced with no hyphenation or automatic wordwrap (and no hard returns within paragraphs). Please type your text consistently, e.g. take care to distinguish between “1” (one) and “l” (lowercase L), and “0” (zero) and “O” (uppercase o), etc.
Tables
Tables should be cited consecutively in the text and numbered with Arabic numerals (Table 1, Table 2, etc.). Each table should be titled and typed double-spaced on a separate sheet. Units must be clearly indicated for each of the entries in the table. Footnotes to tables should be identified by the symbols * † ‡ § ¶(in that order) and placed at the bottom of the table. No vertical rules should be used. Please double-space tables.
Figures
Figures should be cited consecutively in the text by Arabic numerals (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.) and should be in a separate file(s). Legends should be typed double-spaced and grouped at the end of the paper. Line and combination figures should preferably be submitted in vector graphics format (e.g., either embedded as vector graphics in a Word document or saved separately in PDF or EPS format). If this is not possible, they should be saved separately as pixel-based graphics at 600 DPI at the required print size, and they should be saved in TIF (not JPG) format or embedded as such in Word. Photographic figures should be saved at 300 DPI in TIF format, or JPG format with low compression. Figures should be drawn/submitted at their smallest practicable size (to fit a single column (82 mm), two-thirds page width (110 mm) or full page width (173 mm)). Over-sized figures will be reduced by the Production Editor. If figures are drawn larger than reproduction size, component parts such as symbols and text must be large enough to allow for the necessary reduction. For full instructions on preparing your figures, see our Electronic Artwork Information for Authors page.
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).
Units and symbols
Authors are requested to use the International System of Units (S.I.) 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.
Cover photos
Authors are encouraged to submit cover photos when their paper is accepted for publication. Initially, these can be sent to the Editorial Office as low to medium resolution JPG files, but if selected a high resolution file (300 d.p.i. at reproduction size) is required by the Production Editor for printing. Only images in landscape orientation can be accommodated (c. 12 x 17 cm). Conservation Letters is particularly interested in images that depict human interactions with the environment. Submitted photographs should exhibit good contrast and color balance, and with the main subject matter in sharp focus. Images will be printed using the CMYK color palette, and if possible RGB color images should be converted and color balanced before submission.
Page charges and color figures
There are no page or color charges for publication in Conservation Letters.
Proofs and offprints
Proofs will be sent as PDF files to the corresponding author. Only corrections and essential changes may be made at this stage. Authors may be charged for more extensive alterations. To avoid delay in publication, corrected proofs must be returned to the publisher within 48 hours of receipt. The Editors reserve the right to make minor modifications to manuscripts that do not conform to accepted standards. Such alterations will always be submitted to the authors for approval at the proof stage. A PDF file of the published article will be provided free of charge to the corresponding author. Paper offprints may be purchased if ordered on the form sent with the proofs.
Early View publication
Articles in Conservation Letters will be published individually online ahead of issue compilation. Early View articles consist of full text that has been reviewed, revised and edited for publication, with the author’s final corrections incorporated. Because articles are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. Early View articles are citable by a Digital Object Identifier (DOI); following the articles incorporation into an issue, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.
More information about DOIs can be found at http://www.doi.org/faq.html. To register to receive an e-mail alert when your Early View article is published please go to http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/email alert.pdf.
Copyright
Conservation Letters is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Authors will be required to assign copyright in their paper to the Publisher. Copyright assignment is a condition of publication and papers will not be moved into production unless a signed copyright assignment form has been received. (Papers subject to government or Crown copyright are exempt from this requirement). Download the Copyright Assignment Form at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/societyimages/conl/CONL CAF.pdf. The publishers will not refuse any reasonable request by authors for permission to reproduce their contributions to the journal.
Registration of sequences
DNA sequences published in Conservation Letters should be deposited in the EMBL/GenBank/DDJB Nucleotide Sequence Databases. An accession number for each sequence must be included in the manuscript before publication.
Additional material
Submission of a research article to Conservation Letters implies that the authors are prepared to distribute freely (or at a nominal price) to academic researchers for their own use any materials (e.g. strains, clones, antibodies, etc.) used in the experiments described. An investigator who thinks that reasonable requests have not been met by the authors should correspond with one of the Editors-in-Chief. Authors must use the appropriate database to deposit detailed information supplementing submitted papers, and quote the accession number in their manuscripts.
In addition to article content, Conservation Letters offers the opportunity to publish supplementary material such as video, extra color figures, and large data sets. Please note however that only relevant material of particular interest will be affiliated with the article online. Supplementary material cannot be used as sole evidence for the published article.
Please find full instructions on the preparation of supplementary material for Conservation Letters at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/suppmat.asp. Please be sure to appropriately entitle your supplementary material file and provide an appropriate legend or title within the file. Supplementary material is published online as provided by authors.
Archive policy
Unless specifically requested, the Publisher will dispose of all hardcopy or electronic material submitted 2 months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the editorial office or the production editor as soon as possible.
Editorial Board
Editors in Chief
Richard M. Cowling
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
rmc@kingsley.co.za
Michael B. Mascia
World Wildlife Fund
Washington D.C.
USA
michael.mascia@wwfus.org
Hugh Possingham
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
h.possingham@uq.edu.au
William J. Sutherland
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
w.sutherland@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Senior Editors
Corey Bradshaw
University of Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia
and
South Australian Research & Development Institute
Henley Beach, Australia
corey.bradshaw@adelaide.edu.au
Ashwini Chhatre
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Urbana, IL
USA
achhatre@uiuc.edu
Managing Editor
Jennifer Mahar
Wiley-Blackwell
Boston, MA
USA
jmahar@wiley.com
Editorial Advisor
Michael Hochberg, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Board of Editors
Miguel Araújo, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC
Bill Adams, human geography, University of Cambridge
Arun Agrawal, environmental politics and policy, University of Michigan
Paul Armsworth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
James Aronson, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CNRS)
Andras Baldi, Hungarian Natural History Museum
Jos Barlow, University of East Anglia
James Blignaut, University of Pretoria
Justin Brashares, University of California, Berkeley
Amara T. Brook, conservation psychology, Santa Clara University
Patrick Christie, marine affairs, University of Washington
Rudolf S. de Groot, University of Waganingen
Tom Dietz, environmental sociology, Michigan State University
Nick Dulvy, Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
Leah Gerber, Arizona State University
Sandra Jonker, human dimensions of wildlife, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Andrew Knight, Stellenbosch University
Richard Krannich, environmental sociology, Utah State University
Claire Kremen, University of California-Berkeley
David Lindenmayer, The Australian National University
Wayne Linklater, Victoria University of Wellington
A.T. (Mandy) Lombard, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Pablo A. Marquet, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Laurence McCook, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Kendra McSweeney, human geography, Ohio State University
Atte Moilanen, University of Helsinki
Olin Eugene (Gene) Myers Jr., conservation psychology, Western Washington University
Robin Naidoo, ecological economics, World Wildlife Fund-US
Maile C. Neel, University of Maryland
Reed Noss, University of Central Florida
Subhredu Pattanayak, environmental economics, Duke University
David N. Pellow, environmental sociology, University of Minnesota
Stephen Polasky, environmental economics, University of Minnesota
Sarah Pralle, environmental politics and policy, Syracuse University
Bob Pressey, James Cook University
Andrew Pullin, Bangor University
Belinda Reyers, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Ana Rodrigues, University of Cambridge
Mathieu Rouget, South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)
Dirk Roux, Monash, South Africa
Diane Russell, environmental anthropology, US Agency for International Development
Javier Simonetti, Univeridad de Chile
David Strayer, Cornell University
Chris D. Thomas, University of York
Paige West, environmental anthropology, American Museum of Natural History
Kerrie Wilson, University of Queensland
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