期刊名称：EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims and scope
The overall aim, scope, and format of Evolutionary Biology will be based on the following principles:
- Evolutionary Biology will publish articles that address issues and subjects of core concern in evolutionary biology. All papers must make original contributions to our understanding of the evolutionary process or to evolutionary questions of general interest within evolutionary biology. Studies dealing with evolutionary questions that are in themselves not of general biological interest will only be accepted if they answer a question of more general relevance significant to evolutionary process.
- The journal will remain true to the original intent of the original series to provide a place for broad syntheses in evolutionary biology. Articles will contribute to this goal by defining the direction of current and future research and by building conceptual links between disciplines. In articles presenting an empirical analysis, the results of these analyses must be integrated within a broader evolutionary framework.
- Authors are encouraged to submit papers presenting novel conceptual frameworks or major challenges to accepted ideas.
- While brevity is encouraged, there will be no formal restriction on length for major articles. Longer papers will be accepted if required to adequately present an argument or explore a novel subject that is of general interest to evolutionary biology.
- The journal will dedicate space and effort to public outreach. Public understanding of the scientific underpinnings of evolutionary biology remains poor as evidenced by the ability of the intelligent design movement to convince the media and the public that a legitimate scientific debate exists over the question that life originated and evolved entirely through natural processes. Part of the responsibility for the success of the intelligent design movement lies with the scientific community which can do a better job of engaging the public through the public school system.
- Publication will be timely and competitive. Peer reviews will aim for a one month turn-around with six weeks being the maximum acceptable period between submission and returned reviews and decision. The journal will aim to keep the lag time between original submission and appearance in print to within 6 months and will encourage authors to revise rapidly once a paper has been submitted and deemed acceptable.
- Peer review will consist of three reviews by peers and a short summary and decision by a receiving editor.
Instructions to Authors
Instructions for Authors
Evolutionary Biology publishes the following types of papers: Research Articles, Invited Syntheses, Essays, General Interest Essays, and Commentaries.
Manuscript submission
Authors should submit their articles to “Evolutionary Biology?online via the link below. Submissions by normal email will be accepted through direct contact with the Editor-in-Chief. Such submissions will also be processed through the online system and can be tracked there.Please log directly onto the link below and upload your manuscript following the on-screen instructions. Note that it is not possible to submit manuscripts as pdf documents, because all submitted original files will automatically be converted into pdf documents. SUBMIT ONLINE
Legal requirements
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract, or as part of a published lecture, or thesis); that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities - tacitly or explicitly - at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation. The "Copyright Transfer Statement" has to be signed and faxed to the publisher together with the corrected proofs (see below) with which it will be provided by the publisher shortly after the manuscript has been accepted for publication.
Open choice
Springer operates a program called Springer Open Choice. It offers authors to have their journal articles made available with full open access in exchange for payment of a basic fee ('article processing charge'). With Springer Open Choice the authors decide how their articles are published in the leading and well respected journals that Springer publishes. Springer continues to offer the traditional publishing model, but for the growing number of researchers who want open access, Springer journals offer the option to have articles made available with open access, free to anyone, any time, and anywhere in the world. If authors choose open access in the Springer Open Choice program, they will not be required to transfer their copyright to Springer, either.Whatever the decision, an author’s work will always benefit from all Springer has to offer. There is no difference in the way that they are treated between Springer Open Choice articles and other articles among the well over 100,000 that Springer publishes annually. All articles will be peer-reviewed, professionally produced, and available both in print and in electronic versions on SpringerLink. In addition, every article will be registered in CrossRef and included in the appropriate Abstracting and Indexing services. Springer Open Choice articles will have the possibility of incorporating additional non-text files such as sound or video in the electronic edition.
Manuscript preparation
All manuscripts are subject to peer review and copy editing."Evolutionary Biology" accepts the following types of papers:1. Research Article: The journal will accept submissions of research articles of general interest in evolutionary biology. Research articles will present new empirical results which are relevant to a broad evolutionary question. While the writing should be concise, there is no restriction on length and the contextualization of the research within a broader evolutionary context is encouraged.2. Synthesis: Each issue will have one or two reviews by leading researchers. These reviews will define the direction of a field, build conceptual links between disciplines, or present novel conceptual frameworks within fields. They are not simple reviews in that a central argument or novel idea is essential in each paper. These papers may be submitted directly to the journal or may be solicited by the editorial board or editor-in-chief.3. Focal Reviews: Syntheses dealing with controversial topics of general interest may be selected by the editorial board to be profiled as Focal Reviews. Like Synthesis Papers, Focal Reviews go through an initial stage of peer review after which the author(s) may make revisions. They are then sent to a list of experts in the field who will write short comments offering alternative views on central issues raised in the paper. These comments are not intended as critiques of the paper but rather as opportunities to engage substantively with the argument that it makes. The authors are then given the opportunity to respond to the short commentaries. 4. Essay: The journal will accept submissions of short articles (? pages) making a specific argument about evolutionary theory, process, or philosophy. 5. General Interest Essay: The journal will publish in each issue a single short (2-3 page) piece by a leading biologist intended for a general readership. These articles will be suitable for use in entry level undergraduate classes and will be backed by a lesson plan suitable for use in high school classes as well.6. Commentary: These are short (?00 word) comments on a focal review. Commentators are selected by the editorial board. This format can also be used by the journal to highlight a paper in an issue that is deemed to be of high significance or of very general interest.7. Tools and Techniques: The journal will publish papers presenting new techniques or revisions to existing techniques that are of interest to a wide community of evolutionary biologists. These papers should be concise although there is no formal restriction on length. 8. Book and Media Reviews: The journal will publish reviews of important books, software, websites, and films that are of relevance to evolutionary biology. Rather than presenting a single opinion, reviews will be solicited from 2 or 3 reviewers and these will be published together.Formats for PapersResearch Articles can be organized as appropriate for the subject. They must, however, have an abstract of 300 words or less which contains a summary of the major findings of the study. The author(s) should provide 4-6 keywords. A traditional research paper format of introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion is acceptable. However, authors need not feel bound to this format. The first section of the body of the paper should be an introduction but can be titled as the author sees fit. The paper must provide the appropriate level of detail for readers to understand fully the methods used. Information about materials and methods should appear in the text of the paper rather than in figure legends. Past issues of Evolutionary Biology contain many examples of ways in which authors have intertwined original research and broader discussions of the issues that their findings relate to. Authors are encouraged to contextualize their findings in relation to broader questions. References should be formatted as indicated below Syntheses can be organized as appropriate for the subject. They must, however, have an abstract of 300 words or less which contains a concise summary of the paper. The author(s) should provide 4-6 keywords. The first section of the body of the paper should be an introduction but can be titled as the author sees fit. There is no formal restriction on the length of these papers and the length should be appropriate for the subject. Acknowledgements should go before the references cited. References should be formatted as indicated below.Focal Reviews follow the same format as Syntheses.Essays are short focused papers that develop a single coherent thesis. They should be 5 journal pages or less in length or ?000 words (including references). This word limit is flexible, but authors are encouraged to stay under rather than go over. An abstract is not required for papers of this type and keywords are optional. Normally, the essay should not contain subheadings but those can be included if stylistically warranted. Essays can include figures and illustrations. References should be formatted as indicated below.General Interest Essays should follow the same format and length restriction as essays (above). However, they should be written in language that is understandable to a senior high school or 1st year University student. A short glossary of technical terms is useful for many such papers. Figures and illustrations are encouraged. Citations should follow academic norms and the format of the journal, but the text should not be heavily cited.Commentaries will be solicited directly by an Associate Editor or the Editor-in-Chief. These will usually refer to a Synthesis article that appears in the same issue. They are not summaries of the paper or critiques of minor methodological concerns. Rather, the comments are meant to engage substantively with issues of controversy in the area of the paper. Commentaries should be ?00 words in length and should refer to no more than 15 references.Tools and Techniques: Tools and techniques articles can be organized as appropriate for the subject. Each article will have an abstract of less than 300 words that outlines the major aims and findings of the paper or describes the method that is being proposed. The author (s) should provide a list of 4-5 keywords. While there is no formal restriction on length or numbers of figures, the expectation is that these papers will not have lengthy discussions.Book and Media Reviews: Book and media reviews are solicited from two or three reviewers. These reviews should be short (?000 words). Reviews are published once all reviews for the item reviewed are received so that readers can benefit from multiple perspectives on the same work.Authors are encouraged to contact the Editor-in-Chief to discuss ideas for Research Articles, Syntheses or Essays but are also welcome to submit such papers without prior contact. Invitations or consultation about ideas does not guarantee acceptance of the paper as all papers must pass through the peer review process.Please arrange your manuscript as follows: The title page should contain:Title of the PaperThe names and affiliations of the author(s) The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author The total number of words (including references and figure legends) of the paper.CitationsLiterature citations in which the reference is directly referred to in the text should indicate the author's surname with the year of publication in parentheses, e.g. Rothschild (1998); Frump and Snoring (1972). If there are more than two authors, only the first should be named, followed by "et al." Citations in which the reference is indirectly referred to should have the following format:Mammals show a deviant pattern of jaw adductor differentiation (Edgeworth, 1935)Many studies of population substructure have used methods other than spatial autocorrelation (Allard, 1974, Sakai 1985; Merzeau et al., 1989; Campbell and Dooley, 1992;)Note that et al. is italicized. Mutliple citations are presented in chronological (rather than alphabetical) order.An Endnote Style file can be downloaded from our website at:
References Cited
References at the end of the paper should be listed in alphabetical order by the first author's name. References should follow CBE style. Examples are provided as follows. Journal Articles:Van Valen LM. 1973. Body size and numbers of plants and animals. Evolution 27(1):27-35.Marino L, McShea DW, Uhen MD. 2004. Origin and evolution of large brains in toothed whales. Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 281(2):1247-55.BookHall BK. 1999. Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Dordrecht: Kluwer.Edited VolumeHallgrimsson B, Hall BK, editors. 2005. Variation: A Central Concept in Biology. New York: Elsevier Academic Press.Book Section:Hallgrimsson B, Brown J, Hall BK. 2005. The Study of Phenotypic Variability: An emerging research agenda for understanding the developmental-genetic architecture underlying phenotypic variation. In: Hallgrimsson B, Hall, BK, editors. Variation: A Central Concept in Biology. New York: Elsevier Academic Press. p 525-551.*Papers in pressInclude DOI number with citations to papers available online but not (yet) in print.Online document: Doe J (1999) Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and their effects. Royal Society of Chemistry.Available via DIALOG. http://www.rsc.org/dose/title of subordinate document. Cited 15 Jan 1999 Online database: Healthwise Knowledgebase (1998) US Pharmacopeia, Rockville. http://www.healthwise.org. Cited 21 Sept 19986. Supplementary material/private homepage: Doe J (2000) Title of supplementary material. http://www.privatehomepage.com. Cited 22 Feb 20007. University site: Doe J (1999) Title of preprint. http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/mydata.html. Cited 25 Dec 19998. FTP site Doe J (1999) Trivial HTTP, RFC2169. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2169.txt. Cited 12 Nov 19999. Organization site: ISSN International Centre (1999) Global ISSN database. http://www.issn.org. Cited 20 Feb 2000
Tables and figures
Tables must be numbered consecutively with arabic numerals and submitted separately from the text. They should have a title explaining any abbreviation used in that table. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters. Figures (photographs, graphs or diagrams) should be referred to in the text, and numbered consecutively throughout. Figure parts should be identified by upper-case roman letters (A, B, etc.). Figure legends must be brief but self-sufficient explanations of the illustrations. The legends should be placed at the end of the text. Figure legends should not contain details about materials and methods.
Guidelines for Electronically Produced Illustrations for Print
It is not necessary for figures to be formatted to the below specifications for the initial review stage. Once the paper is accepted, authors will have the opportunity to provide versions of their graphics that are suitable for production. Send illustrations separately from the text (i.e. files should not be integrated with the text files). Always send printouts of all illustrations.VECTOR (LINE) GRAPHICSVector graphics exported from a drawing program should be stored in EPS format.Suitable drawing program: Adobe Illustrator. For simple line art the following drawing programs are also acceptable: Corel Draw, Freehand, Canvas.No rules narrower than .25 pt.No gray screens paler than 15% or darker than 60%.Screens meant to be differentiated from one another must differ by at least 15%.SPREADSHEET/PRESENTATION GRAPHICSMost presentation programs (Excel, PowerPoint, Freelance) produce data that cannot be stored in an EPS format. Therefore graphics produced by these programs cannot be used for print.HALFTONE ILLUSTRATIONSBlack & white and color illustrations should be saved in TIFF format.Scanned reproductions of black and white photographs should be provided as 300 ppi TIFF files.Scanned color illustrations should be provided as TIFF files scanned at a minimum of 300 ppi with a 24-bit color depthLine art should be provided as TIFF files at 600 ppi.* We do prefer having the original art as our printers have drum scanners which allow for better reproduction of critical medical halftones.Illustrations should be created using Adobe Photoshop whenever possible.SCANS*Scanned reproductions of black and white photographs should be provided as 300 ppi TIFF files.Scanned color illustrations should be provided as TIFF files scanned at a minimum of 300 ppi with a 24-bit color depthLine art should be provided as TIFF files at 600 ppi.* We do prefer having the original art as our printers have drum scanners which allow for better reproduction of critical medical halftones.
GRAPHICS FROM VIDEOS
Separate files should be prepared for frames from a video that are to be printed in the journal. When preparing these files you should follow the same rules as listed under Halftone Illustrations.Guidelines for Electronically Produced Illustrations for ONLINEVIDEOQuicktime (.mov) is the preferred format, but .rm, .avi, .mpg, etc. are acceptable.No video file should be larger than 2MB. To decrease the size of your file, consider changing one or more of the following variables: frame speed, number of colors/greys, viewing size (in pixels), or compression. Video is subject to Editorial review and approval.Manuscripts must be written in English and should be typed in double-line spacing throughout with at least 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins. Use a normal, plain font (e.g., Times New Roman) for text.Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.For indents use tab stops or other commands, not the space bar.Use the equation editor of your word processing program or MathType for equations.Abbreviations should be defined at first mention in the abstract and again in the main body of the text and used consistently thereafter.Essential footnotes to the text should be numbered consecutively and placed at the bottom of the page to which they refer.DNA sequences must be submitted to GenBank (NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA) or to the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Data Base (EBI - European Institute of Bioinformatics, Cambridge, UK) and accession numbers must be provided when the paper is accepted.Authors are encouraged to submit other data types to online data sharing resources if such resources are available.Genus and species names should be in italics. The common names of animals should not be capitalized.
Electronic Supplementary Material
Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM) for a paper will be published in the electronic edition of this journal provided the material is: submitted in electronic form together with the manuscriptaccepted after peer reviewESM may consist of: information that cannot be printed: animations, video clips, sound recordings (use QuickTime, .avi, .mpeg, animated GIFs, or any other common file format)information that is more convenient in electronic form: sequences, spectral data, etc.large quantities of original data that relate to the paper, e.g. additional tables, large numbers of illustrations (color and black & white), etc.Legends must be brief, self-sufficient explanations of the ESM. ESM is to be numbered and referred to as S1, S2, etc. After acceptance for publication, ESM will be published as received from the author in the online version only. Reference will be given in the printed version.
Proofreading
Authors are informed by e-mail that a temporary URL has been created from which they can obtain their proofs. Proofreading is the responsibility of the author. Authors should make their proof corrections (formal corrections only) on a printout of the pdf file supplied, checking that the text is complete and that all figures and tables are included. Substantial changes in content, e.g. new results, corrected values, title and authorship are not allowed without the approval of the responsible editor. In such a case please contact the Editorial Office before returning the proofs to the publisher. After online publication, corrections can only be made in exceptional cases and in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the paper.
When to cite a paper as “In Press?/SPAN>
Papers can be cited as “In Press?once the final revision is accepted and the manuscript to be forwarded for production has been received by the editorial office. Papers that have been deemed acceptable with either major or minor revisions and that have not been finally accepted should not be cited as In Press.
Editorial Board
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
Faculty of Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta Canada
Editorial Board:
James Cheverud, Washington University, USA
Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History, USA
Rebecca German, Johns Hopkins University, USA
James Griesemer, University of California, Davis, USA
Mark Johnston, Dalhousie University, Canada
Aris Katzourakis, University of Oxford, UK
Ellen Larsen, University of Toronto, Canada
Richard Lewontin, Harvard University, USA
Daniel Lieberman, Harvard University, USA
Richard Palmer, University of Alberta, Canada
Telmo Pievani, University of Milan, Italy
Oliver Pybus, University of Oxford, UK
V. Louise Roth, Duke University, USA
Gerhard Scholtz, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
Kathleen Smith, Duke University, USA
Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Russell Tuttle, University of Chicago, USA
Gunter P. Wagner, Yale University, USA
David Wake, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Kenneth Weiss, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Miriam Zelditch, University of Michigan, USA
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