期刊名称：EVOLUTION 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
Aims and Scope
Evolution Letters publishes cutting-edge new research in all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Papers should demand rapid publication because they substantially advance the field, are of outstanding clarity and originality, or are of broad interest. Papers that introduce new analytical or methodological frameworks that are likely to be highly influential will also be considered. Opinion and commentary articles on new developments or emerging themes are also encouraged. Traditional reviews will not be considered, as plenty of appropriate forums for these already exist. The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board welcome enquiries about other forms of article. Evolution Letters is jointly owned by the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) and the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). Profits from the journal are invested back into the two societies. The journal is online only and entirely open access. The journal has a flexible approach to the format of manuscripts on submission, and will only ask authors to adhere to a house style (see Instructions for Authors) once the manuscript is accepted for publication.
1. Types of Articles
Letters
These form the bulk of papers in the journal. Letters should be original pieces of research that have the potential to substantially move the field forwards. We welcome both empirical and theoretical studies, and we cover all areas of evolutionary biology, including those that use genomics and related technologies to address evolutionary questions. Letters should be succinct: no longer than is needed for the clear presentation and interpretation of the work reported. As a guide, we expect a typical paper to be approximately 5000 words, excluding references and display items. They generally contain brief Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion sections. Authors may merge the Results and Discussion section, so long as a clear distinction is maintained between observations and interpretations. We encourage authors to use subheadings within these sections if it will make the paper more readable. At the end of the paper there should be Author Contributions and Acknowledgements sections, and information on Data Deposition. We require all authors to include an Impact Summary statement, which will be used to solicit media and public interest in the research.
Comments and Opinion
Evolutionary Biology is a rapidly moving field, and new ideas, tools or arguments frequently appear. Comments and Opinion articles are a forum for highlighting very timely new research ideas and bringing them to the attention of the evolutionary community. Examples include: (i) a comment on a recent new piece of research, published in this journal or elsewhere, that is likely to have a wide impact in how researchers conduct their research; (ii) a critical reasoning that an idea, technique or tool that has become widely adopted by researchers in the field is flawed or problematic; (iii) an argument that evolutionary biologists are ignoring an opportunity provided by approaches that are either routine or have been developed recently by researchers in other disciplines. Comments and Opinion articles should be no more than 2500 words long, excluding references. Authors should first consult with the Editor-in-Chief if they think their piece will be substantially longer.
2. Submission of Manuscripts
Manuscripts must be submitted via the Evolution Letters ScholarOne Manuscripts site. Figures and tables may be submitted in a single file with the main text, or as separate files. Submissions should include a separate Impact Summary paragraph, written in accessible language, explaining the work and why it makes an important contribution to the understanding of Evolutionary Biology. Submissions can be made as Word (.doc, .docx) or as PDF files. On submission, a PDF proof containing the text, tables and figures will be generated automatically; this file will be available to reviewers and Associate Editors.
Authors are encouraged to provide a list of recommended Associate Editors and reviewers. While we cannot promise that their preferred Associate Editor will handle the manuscript (we have to balance workloads), we will do our best to accommodate author requests. Authors may also suggest non-preferred reviewers, although it will be helpful if they outline in a cover letter why they have asked us to exclude particular individuals. We reserve the right to seek that person’s opinion if we are confident that they can provide unbiased advice and are the most appropriately qualified person to review the work.
3. Policy on cascading manuscripts from other journals
Manuscripts previously submitted elsewhere
We appreciate that authors can spend a lot of time and effort getting their work published once it is completed. In particular, it can be greatly frustrating to: (i) go through the time-consuming peer review process at multiple journals, and (ii) spend time reformatting the manuscript every time the work is submitted to a new journal. In recognition of this, we are happy to accommodate authors who wish to have previous editorial reviews included in the review process for Evolution Letters. Manuscripts that have been submitted and reviewed but not accepted for publication elsewhere can be submitted in the format that was required by the previous destination journal. In order to make decision making on these cascaded articles easier, we ask the authors to provide a cover letter which contains:
- The previous destination journal,
- The manuscript number/ID,
- The complete correspondence with the journal, including all decision letters and reviewer comments in their entirety. The cover letter must include a statement to the effect that all correspondence is included,
- Details on what the authors have done in response to comments made by editors and reviewers.
We reserve the right to correspond with the earlier journal about the article, and we may also solicit the opinion of further reviewers. On acceptance of cascaded manuscripts, we require that authors format the work in Evolution Letters style.
Manuscripts received from preprint servers
Evolution Letters welcomes manuscripts that have already been uploaded to bioRxiv or other preprint servers.
There is usually no need to reformat the article on submission to Evolution Letters, although reformatting may be required on acceptance of the manuscript.
Manuscripts received from review services
Evolution Letters is also happy to receive referred articles from independent review services. In this scenario, we receive the manuscript, the reviews and an editorial recommendation, and make a decision based on that information. We may seek further reviews, although this will not usually be necessary. If the manuscript is potentially acceptable, we will ask the authors to revise it. If it is rejected, then the review service may transfer the paper and reviews to another journal. The process reduces workloads for authors and for the wider community (as reviews are transferred between journals when manuscripts are cascaded).
4. Manuscript Handling Process
Received manuscripts will initially be handled by the Editor-in-Chief, who will assign them to an Associate Editor within 2 days of receipt. Some submissions will be rejected at this stage if the EiC feels the manuscript does not fit the scope of the journal or if the work is considered to be of insufficient novelty or impact for publication in Evolution Letters.
Associate Editors will seek reviewers’ comments and once we receive a sufficient number of reviews (usually 2-3) the AE will make an initial decision. Final decisions are made by the EiC, in consultation with the AE handling the manuscript.
5. Author Contributions
All Letters should contain an Author Contributions paragraph explaining what role each author performed in the work. This section should come immediately before the Acknowledgements section (if present). Comments and Opinions articles need not contain an Author Contribution paragraph, unless the work contains some form of analysis.
6. Data Deposition
As with all other journals owned by SSE and ESEB, we require our authors to make all of their data publically available at or before the time of publication. Data should be deposited in an appropriate archive such as Dryad, GenBank, TreeBASE or other appropriate long-term storage option. At the very least, it should be possible for other researchers to reproduce all of the findings in the paper. We also encourage authors to make their code available. Authors may choose to embargo their data for up to one year after the paper first appears online, if the chosen archive has the technology to facilitate delayed access to the data. Under rare circumstances it may be possible to grant a longer embargo; for example if human subject data have been utilised. Authors should contact the Editor-in- Chief to discuss how to proceed.
All Letters should contain a Data Accessibility section, after the Author Contributions section.
Occasionally, we may receive manuscripts that re-analyse deposited data from earlier Evolution Letterspapers. Under such scenarios we encourage authors to engage with the original authors before submitting a manuscript to us.
7. Cover Letter
All submissions should include a Cover Letter explaining why the authors think their work is at the cutting-edge of Evolutionary research and why it warrants rapid publication in Evolution Letters. We are looking for manuscripts that make the most important contributions to the field and that lend themselves to a succinct style. The Cover Letter should also include suggested Associate Editors and Reviewers and any possible conflicts of interest. If the submitted work is a manuscript that has been reviewed elsewhere, and the authors are including the reviews and editorial decision letter from the earlier journal, then the Cover Letter should include a statement that all correspondence from the earlier journal have been submitted as supplementary files. We require all authors to include a declaration in their Cover Letter that the manuscript is their own original work and that it has not been published, nor is under consideration to be published, elsewhere.
8. Supplementary Information
Because our articles are typically short (5000 words), we encourage authors to provide additional details about their work as Supplementary Information. The main text must be able to stand alone as a complete piece of work. All material in Supplementary Information should be referred to in the main text, and it will be reviewed. Supplementary Information material should expand upon, rather than be an essential part of, the work presented in the main text. Authors may upload Supplementary Information as a separate file or appended to the end of the main file when they submit their work. As well as text, figures or tables, Supplementary Information can include datasets (although not as an alternative to a public archive), video or audio files, or any contribution that enhances the main text.
Full instructions on the preparation of supporting information is available at: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/suppmat.asp.< /p>
9. Impact Summary
Evolution Letters is keen to promote its articles to as wide an audience as possible. Therefore, we ask all authors to provide an ‘Impact Summary’ of their work. This should be an approximately 300 word summary, explaining why the article makes an important contribution to Evolutionary Biology. It should be accessible to a wide audience, e.g. journalists, non-expert public interested in evolution, school science teachers. The Impact Statement will be published alongside the main paper, and will be directly accessible from Tables of Contents.
10. Front Cover Images
On acceptance of their manuscript, we encourage authors to submit suitable images for the Evolution Letters cover. These may be photographs of study organisms or sites, or other types of figure/diagram that capture an important feature of the research. Composite images are also an option. An informative legend (max 75 words) should be included along with appropriate photo credits. Permission for use must be obtained if the image was not created by one of the authors. Resolution should be 300 dpi.
11. Society Information
Evolution Letters is jointly owned by the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) and the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). Members of either Society receive a substantial discount on Evolution Letters article processing charges. A further, more modest, discount is available to members of both societies. Members of one society will still save money by joining the second society prior to publication of their article.
ESEB
The ESEB is an academic society that brings together evolutionary biologists from Europe and the rest of the world - researchers, academic teachers, students, as well as journalists and other persons interested in evolution. By joining, you become part of this academic community. Endorsement and logistic support of the ESEB is particularly important for local evolutionary biologists in countries with little tradition and few researchers in evolution.
Benefits of membership include:
- A personal subscription the Society's journal, the Journal of Evolutionary Biology
- A discount on processing fees if publishing Open Access in JEB
- 25 % discount on all books published by Wiley-Blackwell and other promotional offers
- Substantially reduced registration fees to the biennial ESEB Congress
- Travel grants to support congress participation of student members from economically disadvantaged countries
- Support for young researchers, e.g. by sponsoring the annual meeting of PhD students in evolutionary biology
- Awards: the John Maynard Smith Prize to outstanding young evolutionary biologists
- Support for outreach initiatives aiming at popularizing evolutionary biology to general public and countering creationism
SSE
The Society for the Study of EvolutionTM was founded in March, 1946.The objectives of the Society for the Study of EvolutionTM are the promotion of the study of organic evolution and the integration of the various fields of science concerned with evolution.
Benefits of membership include:
- 12 issues of Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution
- Free print and online access, including online access to all available back volumes for as long as membership is maintained
- Awards: Each year the SSE grants prestigious awards to students and scientists, including numerous travel awards to its annual meetings
- Affordable Membership: Among the most affordable of all scientific societies, with major discounts for students and educators
- Email notification as each issue of Evolution publishes
- Discounted Open Access publication rate
- 25% Discount on Wiley-Blackwell publications
To join, click here.
Abstracting and Indexing Information
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Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
Distinction between submitted and accepted manuscripts
Evolution Letters aims not to be too prescriptive about the style of manuscripts when they are first submitted to the journal. This is because we recognise that authors may have already submitted their work elsewhere and they wish to publish their work as promptly as possible. However, we do have a recognised format for accepted articles. Authors may choose to format their work in that style before submission or post acceptance.
General guidelines
Manuscripts must be written in clear, concise and grammatically correct English. We encourage authors to submit succinct manuscripts. It is recommended that if English is a second language, the authors have their manuscript corrected by a native English speaker and/or a professional copy-editing service. Manuscripts that are of insufficient written quality will be returned to the authors without review; corrected and resubmitted manuscripts will be treated as a new submission.
Manuscripts should be written in size-12 font, double-spaced and with page and line numbers. Margins should be 3.0 cm (top and bottom) and 2.5cm (sides). Authors may find the Wiley House Style Guide useful. Authors may choose to write in the active or passive voice.
Title Page
The Title page should contain the following information:
- Article Type: Letter or Comment and Opinion
- Article Title: 30 word limit
- Author full names, affiliations and email addresses. Full contact information should be provided for the corresponding author(s)
- Short Running Title: 50 characters
- Keywords: Up to 10
- Abstract Word Count: Should be below 300 words
- Total Word Count: Authors should aim to keep the word count below 5000 words. The Abstract, Impact statement, Acknowledgements, Author Contributions and Data Accessibility sections do not contribute towards the word count.
Abstract
The abstract should not exceed 300 words. The main goals, outcomes and conclusions of the work should be summarised. The abstracts should not contain citations.
Impact Summary
Authors should provide an approximately 300 word summary, explaining why the article makes an important contribution to Evolutionary Biology. It should be accessible to a wide audience, e.g. journalists, non-expert public interested in evolution, school science teachers.
Main text
Letters contain the following sections:
Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, Author Contributions, Data Accessibility, and References.
The Results and Discussion sections can be merged into one section if the authors think that will improve the brevity or clarity of the manuscript. We encourage authors to use sub-headings within these sections. Sub-headings are not numbered.
Comments and Opinion articles are less rigid in style, although authors should aim for maximum clarity and brevity. The Editor is happy to discuss specific stylistic or formatting points with prospective authors.
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Introduction. The introduction should summarize briefly the background and aims, and end with a very brief statement of what has been achieved by the work.
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Methods. This section should contain sufficient detail so that all procedures and protocols can be repeated. Where specific equipment and materials are named, the manufacturer's name, city and country should be given (generally in parentheses after first mention). To ensure manuscript brevity, authors may keep the Methods section relatively brief and give more detail in a Supplementary Methods section.
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Results. This section should report on the experiments that support the conclusions to be drawn later in Discussion. Appropriate statistical reporting should be included, although detailed Tables or model summaries can be provided as Supplementary material. Extended lines of inference, arguments or speculations should not be placed in the Results.
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Discussion. The Discussion section should be separate from the Results section. It allows authors to interpret their results, and to place them into a wider evolutionary context. Discussion should end with a clear statement of the main conclusions of the research, and a clear explanation of their importance and relevance.
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Acknowledgments. The acknowledgments (e.g. of funding bodies or other financial support; colleagues that provided advice) should be brief. Grant funding numbers, etc., can be provided. A brief statement on any conflicts of interest should also be included in this section. If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should still make this statement e.g. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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Author Contributions. Authors are required to provide a summary of their role in the different parts of the work. For example: AB and CD conceived and designed the study, EF collected and analysed the data, AB, EF & GH drafted the initial version of the manuscript and all authors contributed to later versions of the manuscript. An author may have made multiple contributions, and multiple authors may have contributed to the same component of the study. The cover letter should make it clear that all authors agree to the submission of the manuscript.
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Data Accessibility. Data supporting the results should be deposited in an appropriate public archive, such as: GenBank, Dryad or TreeBase. The database name and accession numbers should be included in the Data Accessibility section. Authors may elect to make the data publicly available at the time of publication, or, if the technology of the archive allows, to embargo access to the data for a period of up to one year after publication. Publication may be withheld until the data are archived. Manuscripts that rely extensively or exclusively on data from a single previous publication should communicate with the original authors, to ensure that the data are represented accurately and fairly. In such cases authors may wish to consider offering co-authorship to the data generators.
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References (See below for detailed information on in-text citations and Reference lists). References should not be numbered in the text. Within the text references should be presented in chronological order (e.g. Smith and Jones 1997; Sanchez 2001; Muller et al. 2007). If there are more than two authors, the first name plus et al. should be used. Use a, b,c, etc. if multiple papers share a first author and year published (e.g. Wang et al. 2007a,b).
At the end of the paper references should be provided in alphabetical order. Names and initials of authors (up to six), year of publication, the full titles of papers, chapters and books, the abbreviated titles of journals, volumes and page numbers should he provided. Multi-authored works should list the first six authors followed by et al.. Do not include the doi (digital object identifier) if the journal article is already published within an issue. Do not include the total number of pages of single volume works (e.g. entire books or reports).
- Journal articles
- Last name, Initials. et al. (Year). Full title of article. Abbreviated journal title (standard abbreviations) Volume number: page range.
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- Books
- Last name, Initials. et al. (Year). Full title of book. Edition (only include this if not the first edition). Publisher, place (cities only except for USA and UK).
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- Chapters in books
- Last name, Initials. et al. (Year). Full title of chapter. In: (Full title of book), Edition (only include this if not the first edition) { [ed(s).] [Editors(s) last name, initials] }. Publisher, City (Include state and country for USA and UK), pp. (page range).
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- Data
- Last name, Initials. et al. (Year). Data from: (Title of article). Dryad Digital Repository. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.585t4.
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- Websites
- Authorship or Source. (Year). Title of web document or web page. Available at: [URL].
Examples of reference style are given below:
Kupper, C., Stocks, M., Risse, J.E., Dos Remedios, N., Farrell, L.L., McRae, S.B. et al. (2015). A supergene determines highly divergent male reproductive morphs in the ruff. Nat Genet. DOI: 10.1038/ng.3443.
Linnen, C.R., Kingsley, E.P., Jensen, J.D. & Hoekstra, H.E. (2009). On the Origin and Spread of an Adaptive Allele in Deer Mice. Science 325:1095-1098.
Lynch, M. & Walsh, B. (1998). Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits. Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
Meuwissen, T.H.E., Hayes, B.J. & Goddard, M.E. (2001). Prediction of total genetic value using genome-wide dense marker maps. Genetics 157:1819-1829.
Stern, D.L. & Orgogozo, V. (2008). The loci of evolution: How predictable is genetic evolution? Evolution 62:2155-2177.
References to a paper 'in press' are permissible provided that it has been accepted for publication (documentary evidence of acceptance must be provided). ‘In Press’ citations are permitted in the text only, not in the list of references. The use of 'in preparation' or 'submitted for publication' is not permitted.
Informed consent
Evolution Letters requires that all appropriate steps be taken in obtaining informed consent of any and all human and/or experimental animal subjects participating in the research comprising the manuscript submitted for review and possible publication, and a statement to this effect must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript. Identifying information should not be included in the manuscript unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the study participants or patients (or parents or guardians) give written informed consent for publication.
Protection of human subjects and animals in research
A statement indicating that the protocol and procedures employed were reviewed and approved by the appropriate institutional review committee must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript. When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed. For research involving recombinant DNA, containment facilities and guidelines should conform to those of the National Institutes of Health or corresponding institutions. For those investigators who do not have formal ethics review committees, the principles outlined in the Helsinki Declaration should be followed. If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study.
Publication Ethics
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read the Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found at authorservices.wiley.com/ethics-guidelines/index.html.
CrossCheck
CrossCheck is a multi-publisher initiative to screen published and submitted content for originality. Evolution Letters 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.
Tables and Figures
Tables and figures should be grouped together (Tables first) and appear after the main text. Captions should appear with their respective table or figure.
Tables
Tables should be submitted as MS Excel or MS Word documents (or equivalent). Tables should be numbered and cited consecutively in the text. 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.
Figures
Figures should be cited consecutively in the text (e.g. Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.). Graphs should always be saved as .eps or .pdf files from a professional graphics program (e.g. R) and not as .jpg, .tif or any other pixel-based format.If this is not possible, they should be saved separately as pixel-based graphics at 600 d.p.i. at the required print size, and they should be saved in .tif (not .jpg) format or embedded as such in Word. Note that vector graphics is the preferred format for line and combination figures because figure quality can then be maximized in the online PDF publication. Photographic figures should be saved at 300 d.p.i. in .tif format, or .jpg format with low compression. Detailed information on the submission of electronic artwork can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp.
Editorial Board
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EDITOR IN CHIEF
Jon Slate
University of Sheffield, UK
j.slate@sheffield.ac.uk
MANAGING EDITOR
Steven Perez
sperez@wiley.com |
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SOCIAL MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS EDITOR
Nicola Hemmings
University of Sheffield, UK
n.hemmings@sheffield.ac.uk |
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PREPRINT EDITOR
Max Reuter
University College London, UK
m.reuter@ucl.ac.uk |
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS |
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Lindell Bromham
Australian National University, Australia
lindell.bromham@anu.edu.au
Anne Charmantier
CNRS, Montpellier, France
anne.charmantier@cefe.cnrs.fr
Andy Gardner
University of St. Andrews, UK
andy.gardner@st-andrews.ac.uk
Zach Gompert
Utah State University, USA
zach.gompert@usu.edu
Abderrahman Khila
IGFL, Lyon, France
abderrahman.khila@ens-lyon.fr |
Katrina Lythgoe
University of Oxford, UK
katrina.lythgoe@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Judith Mank
University of British Columbia, Canada
mank@zoology.ubc.ca
Corrie Moreau
Cornell University, USA
corrie.moreau@cornell.edu
Rhonda Snook
Stockholm University, Sweden
rhonda.snook@zoologi.su.se
Stephen Wright
University of Toronto, Canada
stephen.wright@utoronto.ca | |
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