杂志简称：ecol evol
中文译名：《生态学与进化》
收录属性：高质量科技期刊（t2）, scie（2024版）, 英文期刊,
自引率：5.30%
投稿方向：生物学、ecology 生态学、evolutionary biology 进化生物学
SCI/E期刊基本信息
出版周期：半月刊 地区：美国
中科院分区：2区
是否TOP：非TOP期刊
是否综述：非综述期刊
是否OA：OA期刊
国际标准刊号：ISSN2045-7758；EISSN2045-7758
杂志语言：英语
出版国家：美国
杂志官网 联系方式
出版地址：111 RIVER ST,HOBOKEN,USA,NJ,07030-5774
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杂志官方网址：https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20457758
出版商网址：http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/
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Editors-in-chief
Allen Moore, University of Georgia, USA
Andrew Beckerman, University of Sheffield, UK
Jennifer Firn, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Chris Foote, John Wiley & Sons, UK, cfoote@wiley.com
Gareth Jenkins, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, UK, gjenkins@wiley.com
Zhaoxue Ma (Zoe Ma), John Wiley & Sons, China, zoma@wiley.com
Address correspondence to the Editorial Office:
ecoevo@wiley.com
Production Contact Details
Brian Cariño
ECE@wiley.com
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Author Guidelines
Submit your manuscript at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ecologyandevolution
For more about Ecology and Evolution – our philosophy, scope, and consideration of papers transferred from other journals – see here.
Submitting a Registered Report? Detailed guidelines can be found here.
Ecology and Evolution publishes twice per month and operates a single-blind confidential peer-review process. Editors and reviewers are expected to handle the manuscripts confidentially and must not disclose any details to anyone outside of the review process.
Editors-in-chief
Allen Moore, University of Georgia, USA
Andrew Beckerman, University of Sheffield, UK
Jennifer Firn, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Chris Foote, John Wiley & Sons, UK, cfoote@wiley.com
Gareth Jenkins, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, UK, gjenkins@wiley.com
Zhaoxue Ma (Zoe Ma), John Wiley & Sons, China, zoma@wiley.com
Address correspondence to the Editorial Office:
ecoevo@wiley.com
Manuscript types
Original Research
Reviews
Hypotheses
Nature Notes
Academic Practice in Ecology and Evolution
Registered Reports
Letter to the Editor (Invitation only)
Reply to Letter to the Editor (Invitation only)
Commentary (Invitation only)
General Instructions
Policy on data archiving
Ecology and Evolution requires, as a condition for publication, that data supporting the results in the paper should be archived in an appropriate public archive, such as GenBank, TreeBASE, Dryad, the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity or other suitable long-term and stable public repositories. Data are important products of the scientific enterprise, and they should be preserved and usable for decades in the future. Authors may elect to have the data publicly available at time of publication, or, if the technology of the archive allows, may opt to embargo access to the data for a period of up to a year after publication. Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the editor, especially for sensitive information such as a human subject data or the location of endangered species.
Data Accessibility Statement
Authors are required to archive their data in a publicly accessible repository such as Dryad, FigShare, GenBank, etc. (not a laboratory homepage) and clearly state in their manuscript where their data will be deposited.
• Upon submission, this statement must be included, but we are happy for authors to wait until acceptance of their paper to actually archive their data (although note that many repositories will enable authors to embargo publication of their data during the review process).
• Upon acceptance, data must be archived and the Data Accessibility statement completed including database and information such as accession numbers or DOI (as available) for all data from the manuscript.
• Note: if data, scripts, or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper.
Example:
"Data Accessibility:
– DNA sequences: Genbank accessions F234391-F234402; NCBI SRA: SRX0110215
– Final DNA sequence assembly uploaded as online
– Climate data and MaxEnt input files: Dryad doi:10.5521/dryad.12311
– Sampling locations, morphological data and microsatellite genotypes: Dryad doi:10.5521/dryad.12311”
Manuscripts lacking a Data Accessibility section will not be passed through to an editor.
Dryad: Note that if authors choose to use the Dryad data repository, Ecology and Evolution will pay the archiving charges on their behalf if their paper is published in the journal.
GitHub: While GitHub is a very useful resource, and we are certainly happy for authors to post underlying data or code there, its lack of permanence (i.e. data/code in GitHub can be deleted or modified at a later date) means it does not strictly meet our criteria for data availability; as such we would ask authors placing data in GitHub to additionally deposit this data in a permanent repository (like Dryad) which will assign a DOI.
Manuscript preparation
We place very few restrictions on the way in which you prepare your article for submission (beyond the requirement of a Data Accessibility Statement) and it is not necessary to try to replicate the layout of the journal. We don't think it a good use of your time to play around with reference formatting, page margins, etc. in order to submit to our journal; if we accept your paper our production process will take care of all aspects of formatting and style.
We ask only that you consider your reviewers by supplying your manuscript in a clear, generic and readable layout (e.g. page and continuous line numbers are always appreciated), and ensuring that all relevant sections are included. The list below can be used as a checklist to ensure that the manuscript has all the information necessary for successful publication:
Title page, including title, authors’ names, authors’ affiliations, and contact information*
Abstract (formatted however you think best) and 4–6 keywords
Concise cover letter focused on the question the manuscript attempts to address
Text (introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion)
Literature cited (see below for tips on references)
Tables (may be sent as a separate file if necessary)
Figure legends
Data Accessibilty Statement
Competing Interests Statement
Author Contributions section
Acknowledgements, including details of funding bodies with grant numbers
*You will be asked to provide the full address information for the corresponding author. Please be sure to do this, as the processing of your manuscript may be delayed without complete address information for the corresponding author.
A manuscript is considered for review and possible publication on the condition that it is submitted solely to Ecology and Evolution, and that the manuscript or a substantial portion of it is not under consideration elsewhere.
Transferred Manuscripts
If you are transferring your manuscript and associated reviews from another journal, you do not need to reformat your manuscript. If you chose to do so, please upload a clean version of the revised manuscript, a version with the changes tracked or otherwise highlighted, and a point-by-point response to reviews.
Supplementary Material and Appendices
At Ecology and Evolution, we discourage the use of supplementary material. It’s traditional purpose is to save space; however as an online-only journal we have no word limits or page charges. Moreover, supplementary material housed separately from the paper are often lost (at worst) and rarely accessed (at best).
If you have tables, figures, or analyses that improve the understanding of your work but including them in the main text interrupts the flow, we think such information is better placed in an appendix that forms part of the paper. Note also that any information included in an appendix will be copy-edited and typeset by our production team, while supplementary files will be published ‘as is’. For a more informal take on our thinking, you might enjoy our blog on why supplementary data are evil.
However, if you do have a strong preference for including supplementary materials then we will of course respect this. Click here to access the Wiley guidelines for the submission of Supporting Information.
If you do supply supporting information (whether as an appendix or supplementary material), it should be numbered in order, but independently of figures in the main article. To ensure that others will be able to view your supplementary material, it is best to supply the files in a popular format that most readers have the software to access.
Methods papers
We are happy to consider (as 'original research articles') articles describing the development of new methods, or articles that showcase databases and the questions they can help answer.
Software notes
We are happy to consider (as 'original research articles') descriptions of new software that are intended to describe and promote the software as well as act as a citeable resource for developers. Such articles will be considered under the general Ecology and Evolution philosophy of 'if its useful to the field, we are happy to publish it'. Note that uploading a package to a site such as CRAN or sourceforge in advance is not considered prior publication and will not prevent consideration of an article for publication in Ecology and Evolution.
Microsatellite descriptions/primer notes
We no longer accept primer notes, including those on the isolation and characterisation of microsatelllites. While the journal has accepted these in the past, we now feel that the field has moved on to a point where such data should form part of the methods of a broader manuscript aimed at addressing a specific scientific question.
Preprint servers
Ecology and Evolution is happy to consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Authors may also post the final published version of the article immediately after publication.
Use of inclusive language
Inclusive language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Content should make no assumptions about the beliefs of any reader; contain nothing that might imply one individual is superior to another on the grounds of age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition; and use inclusive language throughout. Authors should ensure that writing is free from bias, stereotypes, colloquialism, reference to dominant culture and/or cultural assumptions. We advise to seek gender neutrality by using plural nouns ("clinicians, patients/clients") as default/wherever possible to avoid using "he, she," or "he/she". We recommend avoiding the use of descriptors that refer to personal attributes such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health conditions unless they are relevant and valid. These guidelines are meant as a point of reference to help identify appropriate language but are by no means exhaustive or definitive.
The under review service
Beginning in early 2020, Ecology and Evolution is participating in a pilot of the under review service, Wiley’s new initiative to streamline the early sharing of research and open up the peer review process. Authors can now opt to preprint their manuscript during the submission process and showcase their work to the global research community as a preprint, before it is accepted or published.
The under review service is powered by Authorea, an open research platform for all your research outputs, including data, figures, and preprints. By opting-in authors can:
Seamlessly preprint at the same time you submit your research for publication
Share your work early, while indicating it is being considered at a specific journal
Track the peer review process openly in real time
Immediately make their work citable, discoverable, and easily shareable
Get additional community feedback that can be used to improve your manuscript
Learn more about the benefits of the under review service.
Article Preparation Support
Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence. Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.
Replication experiments
Applying an experiment that was informative for another species to a new species results in great science, as it allows us to compare the results of the new study to previous iterations of the experiment—one study acts as context for the other. This approach often results in a series of papers from a research group. At Ecology and Evolution, we wish to foster reproducibility by asking authors of replicated experiments to fully reference the original iteration of their experiment. We also strongly suggest that authors number such papers (e.g. “The Effects of Climate Change on Food Production: study 1, Tomatoes,” and “The Effects of Climate Change on Food Production: study 2, Potatoes”) to help highlight the similarities and differences discovered during series work.
Authorship
Ecology and Evolution adopts the authorship and contributorship criteria provided by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The ICMJE authorship criteria state 'authorship credit' should be based on:
substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
final approval of the version to be published.
Authors must meet all 3 conditions. All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section.
Author Contributions
For all articles, the journal mandates the CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy), for more information please see Author Services.
References
As with the main body of text, the completeness and content of your reference list is more important than the format chosen. A clear and consistent, generic style will assist the accuracy of our production processes and produce the highest quality published work, but it is not necessary to try to replicate the journal’s own style, which is applied during the production process. If you use bibliographic software to generate your reference list, select a standard output style, and check that it produces full and comprehensive reference listings. A guide to the minimum elements required for successful reference linking appears below. The final journal output will use the ‘Harvard’ style of reference citation. If your manuscript has already been prepared using the ‘Vancouver’ system, we are quite happy to receive it in this form. We will perform the conversion from one system to the other during the production process.
Minimum reference information
Journal Article
Author(s) in full
Year of publication
Article title
Journal title (preferably not abbreviated)
Volume number
Issue number
Page range
Book
Author(s) in full
Year of publication
Book title
Place of publication
Publisher
No. Pages
Book Chapter
Author(s) in full
Year of publication
Chapter title
Book Author/Editor
Book title
Place of publication
Publisher
Page range
Online resources
References to online research articles should always include a DOI, where available. When referring to other Web pages, it is useful to include a date on which the resource was accessed.
File Types and Submission
Preferred editable file formats for the text and tables of your manuscripts are .doc, .docx, .rtf, .ppt, .xlss, .xlsx. Any tables must be on separate pages after the reference list and not incorporated into the main body of text. All figures should be separated from the main document and uploaded as separate files designated as “Figures”, preferably as .eps and/or .tiff file formats.
LATEX files may be submitted. For reviewing purposes you should upload a single .pdf or word document that you have generated from your source files. Please designate this file from the dropdown box as “Main Document”. All source files should then be uploaded as well under the file designation “Supplemental Material not for Review”. All previous file versions must be deleted.
Tables
All tables must be cited in the text in the order that they should appear.
Figures
All figures must be cited in the text in the order that they should appear. Illustrations are an important medium through which to convey the meaning in your article, and there is no substitute for preparing these to the highest possible standard. Therefore, please create your illustrations carefully with reference to our graphics guidelines (see http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp). It is very difficult to improve an image that has been saved or created in an inappropriate format. We realize that not everyone has access to high-end graphics software, so the following information may help if you are having difficulty in deciding how to get the best out of the tools at your disposal.
Cover Images
Ecology and Evolution encourages you to submit a picture of your study organism(s) as part of your paper; such images will be considered for our online journal cover and other promotional avenues. Please designate this image as Figure 1 (if appropriate). If the picture was not taken by an author of your paper, please credit the photographer in the figure legend; please also ensure that the photo was not originally published under copyright that would prevent it being re-published in Ecology and Evolution. Please contact ecoevo@wiley.com if you have any questions regarding this.
1. Check your software options to see if you can ‘save as’ or ‘export’ using one of the robust, industry-standard formats. These are:
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
2. As a general rule of thumb, images that contain text and line art (graphs, charts, maps, etc.) will reproduce best if saved as EPS or PDF. If you choose this option, it is important to remember to embed fonts. This ensures that any text reproduces exactly as you intend.
3. Images that contain photographic information are best saved as TIFF or PNG, as this ensures that all data are included in the file. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) should be avoided if possible, as information is lost during compression; however, it is acceptable for purely photographic subjects if the image was generated as a JPEG from the outset (many digital cameras, for example, output only in JPEG format).
4. If you are not sure which format would be the best option, it is always best to default to EPS or PDF as these are more likely to preserve the high-quality characteristics of the original.
5. Microsoft Office. If you have generated your images in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), or similar, it is often best simply to send us the files in their native file formats.
6. Please ensure all images are a minimum of 600 dpi.
Metric system
The metric system should be used for all measurements, weights, etc. Temperatures should be expressed in degrees Celsius (centigrade).
CrossCheck
CrossCheck is a multi-publisher initiative to screen published and submitted content for originality. Ecology and Evolution uses iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. To find out more about CrossCheck visit http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html.
Proofs
Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors. Online guidelines are provided within the system. No special software is required, all common browsers are supported. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Return of proofs via e-mail is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.
Reprints
As this is an open access journal, you have free, unlimited access to your article online. However, if you wish to obtain printed reprints, these may be ordered online (Email: www.sheridan.com/wiley/eoc)
Production Questions
Please direct any questions regarding the production of your article to the Production Editor at ECE@wiley.com