Author Guidelines

Submission [full instructions: PDF | Word]

Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript online (.pdf) or Word (.doc, .docx, .rtf).

Only online submissions are accepted to facilitate rapid publication and minimize administrative costs. Submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be accepted. The submitting author takes responsibility for the paper during submission and peer review.

All submission and questions concerning the publication of accepted papers should be addressed to TCS at the following addresses:

Types of papers

Tropical Conservation Science will publish three types of papers:

Research Articles
Conservation Letters
Short communications

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 would 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.

Length of papers: variable length, but maximum should be about 30-35 pp double spaced pages, including tables, figures and references.

Languages

TCS will consider mansuscripts in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Chinese. Authors submitting a paper in a language other than English are required to deliver a version of their abstract in English. Papers in English are required to also submit an abstract in one of the other four languages.

Terms of Submission

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.

Peer Review

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.

Accessibility of published articles

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.

Formatting of manuscript

For detailed instructions for preparation of manuscripts, please download the TCS submission guidelines: PDF | Word

Tropical Conservation Science is an open-access e-journal that publishes research relating to conservation of tropical forests and other tropical ecosystems.

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