Author Guidelines for Tropical Conservation Science the mongabay.com e-journal

Research Articles should be regular research papers and/or synopsis/reviews of particular topics.

Conservation Letters should be non-traditional and have as a central theme something like "critical thinking," whether it is a taxonomic, conservation policy, ecological, physiological or historical article . Letters aim to be a bit edgy and promote thinking by moving into the next paradigm even when traditional journals refuse to move there. Such approach could promote discussions, disagreements and advances in thinking.

Short communications may report results of brief studies and/or assessments related to conservation issues.

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Papers must be submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by another journal or any other publisher. The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that the article's publication has been approved by all the other coauthors. It is also the authors' responsibility to ensure that the articles emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution. Only an acknowledgment from the editorial office officially establishes the date of receipt. Further correspondence and proofs will be sent to the author(s) before publication unless otherwise indicated. It is a condition of submission of a paper that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability.

All manuscripts are subject to peer review and are expected to meet standards of academic excellence. Submissions will be considered by an associate editor and—if not rejected right away—by peer-reviewers.

The submitting author will be asked during the submission process to provide the names of 3 proposed reviewers accompanied with their email addresses. These reviewers should not be affiliated to the same institution of the submitting author(s). In addition, these proposed reviewers should be acting within the research field of interest and should not have had any input into the manuscript submitted.

Tropical Conservation Science is an open access journal. Published articles are available free of charge to anyone as PDF and html files from the journal's web site.

Submitted manuscripts should be typed in clear, grammatical, idiomatic English, Spanish, Portuguese, French or Chinese. Abbreviations should be spelled out at their first occurrence. Units of measurement should be presented simply and concisely using System International (SI) units.

Submitted and accepted manuscripts must be supplied in Microsoft Word formats and must include the following sections:

The following information should be included

Each article/letter should have an abstract. The abstract should be self-contained and citation-free and should not exceed 150 words. 3-5 key words should follow the abstract. The Sections for articles and Letters are listed below.

Running title

Author should provided a running title for their contribution, no longer than 35 characters

• Implications for conservation
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Tables
• Figures

• Introduction
• Overview of conservation issue
• Discussion
• Implications for conservation
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Tables
• Figures

Authors are responsible for ensuring that the information in each reference is complete and accurate. All references must be numbered consecutively and citations of references in text should be identified using numbers in square brackets ( e.g., "as discussed by Smith [9]"; "as discussed elsewhere [9, 10]" or [1,2,4-6, 12]). All references should be cited within the text; otherwise, these references will be automatically removed.

Each figure should be supplied in a separate electronic file. All figures should be cited in the paper in a consecutive order (1, 2, 3, …). Each figure is subject to resizing to fit into the column's width for consistency and clarity. Figure legends should accompany each figure. Approximate insertion place for each figure should be indicated in the text.

Authors are encouraged to include electronically supplied figures/photos (b/w and color) are acceptable in the following formats: Bitmap images: TIFF, GIF, and JPEG. Bitmap images should be of 300 dpi resolution at least.

Tables should be cited consecutively in the text (1, 2, 3 …). Every table must have a descriptive title and bief explanation, and if numerical measurements are given, the units should be included in the column heading. Vertical rules should not be used. Approximate placing of each table should be indicated in the text.

Corrected proofs must be returned to the TCS editors within 2-3 days of receipt. The editors will do everything possible to ensure prompt publication. It will therefore be appreciated if the manuscripts and figures conform from the outset to the style of the journal.

Upon submitting an article, authors are asked to indicate their agreement to abide by an open-access license. Please read about the   Creative Common Attribution License (CCAL) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ - before sending your paper The license permits any user to download, print out, extract, archive, and distribute the article, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and source of the work. The license ensures that your article will be as widely available as possible and that your article can be included in any scientific archive. Open Access authors retain the copyrights of their papers. Open access is a property of individual works, not necessarily journals or publishers.

Permission request to use trade names, trademarks, and published data, graphs, photographs, etc., protected by the relevant laws and regulations will be the responsibility of the authors.

While the advice and information in this journal are believed to be true and accurate on the date of its going to press, neither the authors, the editors, nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.