期刊名称：JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Journal of Tropical Ecology publishes papers in the important and now established field of the ecology of tropical regions, either arising from original research (experimental or descriptive) or forming significant reviews. First published in 1985, Journal of Tropical Ecology has become a major international ecological journal. With clear, stimulating and readable reports of recent research findings, the journal provides a platform for the dissemination of information on all aspects of tropical communities and ecosystems |
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Instructions to Authors
Journal of Tropical Ecology
Potential contributors are advised that careful attention to the details below will greatly assist the Editor and thus speed the processing of their manuscripts. Poorly prepared manuscripts will be returned to authors.
Scope of the journal
Papers may deal with terrestrial, freshwater and strand/coastal tropical ecology, and both those devoted to the results or original research as well as those which form significant reviews will be considered. Papers normally should not exceed 6000 words of text. Short Communications are acceptable: they should not exceed four printed pages in total length.
Submission
All manuscripts must be submitted online via the website:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jte
Detailed instructions for submitting your manuscript online can be found at the submission website by clicking on the ¡®Instructions and Forms¡¯ link in the top right of the screen; and then clicking on the ¡®Author Submission Instructions¡¯ icon on the following page.
The Editor will acknowledge receipt of the manuscript, provide it with a manuscript reference number and assign it to reviewers. The reference number of the manuscript should be quoted in all correspondence with JTE Office and Publisher.
The submission of a manuscript will be taken to imply that the material is original, and that no similar paper has been published or is currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The original typescript and three complete copies must be submitted. Original figures should not be sent until they are requested; instead, submit four photocopies with the copies of your text and tables. In your covering letter please indicate the number of pages of text, references and appendices and the number of tables, figures and plates. Papers are first inspected for suitability by the Editor or a Board member. Those suitable papers are then critically reviewed by usually two or three expert persons. On their advice the Editor provisionally accepts, or rejects, the paper. If acceptance is indicated the manuscript is usually returned to the author for revision. In some cases a resubmission is invited and on receipt of the new version the paper will be sent to a third referee. If the author does not return the revised or resubmitted version within six months the paper will be classified as rejected. Final acceptance is made when the manuscript has been satisfactorily revised.
Language
All papers should be written in English, and spelling should generally follow The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English. Abstracts in other languages will be printed if the author so desires together with an abstract in English. All abstracts must be provided by the author.
Preparation of the manuscript
Authors are strongly advised to consult a recent issue of the JTE to acquaint themselves with the general layout of articles. Double spacing must be used throughout, allowing wide margins (about 3 cm) on all sides. Main text pages should be numbered.
A paper should be prepared using the following format:
Page 1.Title page. This should contain (a) the full title, preferably of less than 20 words and usually containing the geographical location of the study; (b) a running title of not more than 48 letters and spaces; (c) a list of up to 10 key words in alphabetical order suitable for international retrieval systems; (d) the full name of each author; (e) the name of the institution in which the work was carried out; and (f) the present postal address of the author to whom proofs should be sent.
Page 2. Abstract. This should be a single paragraph, in passive mode, no more than 200 words long, a concise summary of the paper intelligible on its own in conjunction with the title, without abbreviations or references.
Page 3 et seq. The main body of the text may contain the following sections in the sequence indicated: (a) Introduction, (b) Methods, (c) Results, (d) Discussion, (e) Acknowledgements, (f) Literature Cited, (g) Appendices, (h) Tables, (i) Legends to Figures. An extra section between (a) and (b) for Study Site or Study Species might be necessary.
Main headings should be in capital type and centred; sub-headings should be ranged left and italicised.
A Short Communication has a title and keywords but no abstract or section headings until Acknowledgements and item Literature Cited.
Acknowledgements should be brief. Notes should be avoided if at all possible; any notes will be printed at the end of the paper and not as footnotes.
Scientific names. The complete Latin name (genus, species and authority) must be given in full for every organism when first mentioned in the text unless a standard reference is available which can be cited. Authorities might alternatively appear in Tables where they are first used.
Underlining. The only underlining permitted is that of Latin names of genera and species; and subheadings.
Units of measurement. Measurements must be in metric units; if not, metric equivalents must also be given. The minus index (m -1, mm -3) should be used except where the unit is an object, e.g. 'per tree', not 'tree -1'). Use d -1, mo -1 and y-1 for per day, per month and per year.
Abbreviations. In general, abbreviations should be avoided. Numbers one to nine should be spelled out and number 10 onwards given in figures. Dates should follow the sequence day-month-year, e.g. 1 January 1997*. The 24-hour clock should be used, e.g. 1615 h.
Online supplementary material
Supplementary material is not copy edited or typeset but loaded onto CJO exactly as supplied. Supplementary material must be submitted at the same time as the article and must be clearly marked to distinguish it from the main article text. Authors should ensure that they mention within their article that supplementary material is available on CJO.
Literature cited
References to literature in the text should conform to the 'name-and-date' system: e.g. Fleming (1982); (Goh & Sasekumar 1980); Montgomery et al. (1981). If a number of references are cited at one place in the text, they should be arranged alphabetically and not chronologically. In the reference list citations should take the forms given below. References with two or more authors should be arranged first alphabetically then chronologically. The names of cited journals should be given in full. Certain foreign language citations may be translated into English, and this should always be done where the English alphabet is not used (e.g. Chinese, Russian, Thai).
FLEMING, T. H. 1982. Foraging strategies of plant-visiting bats. Pp. 287-325 in Kunz, T. H. (ed.). Ecology of bats. Plenum Press, New York. 425 pp.
GOH, A. H. & SASEKUMAR, A. 1980. The community structure of the fringing coral reef, Cape Rachado. Malayan Nature Journal 34:25-27.
MONTGOMERY, G. G., BEST, R. C. & YAMAKOSHI, M. 1981. A radio-tracking study of the American manatee Trichechus inunguis (Mammalia: Sirenia). Biotropica 13:81-85.
WHITMORE, T. C. 1984. Tropical rain forests of the Far East (2nd edition). Oxford University Press, Oxford. 352 pp.
Use the following as contractions in text: 'pers. obs.', 'pers. comm.'; but 'unpubl. data', 'in press'.
Authors should double-check that all references in the text correspond exactly to those in the Literature Cited section.
Tables and figures
Tables should be typed, together with their titles, on separate sheets. Column headings should be brief, with units of measurement in parenthesis. Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Avoid presenting tables that are too large to be printed across the page; table width must not exceed 80 characters, including spaces between words, figures and columns. Each table should be numbered consecutively with arabic numerals. The author should mark in the margin of the text where tables and figures are to be inserted; all tables and figures must be mentioned in the text.
Authors should ensure that all figures, whether line drawings or photographs, clarify or reduce the length of the text. Draw both diagrams and lettering in black ink on white drawing paper or tracing film, or on graph paper with faint blue ruling. Laser printer, or high quality ink-jet printer, output from computer graphics programs is preferable. Photographs should be provided as glossy black-and-white prints. If lettering or a scale is to be inserted on a print, this should be shown on a spare copy or an overlay, and an unmarked print should be provided for marking by the printer. Make sure that all figures are boldly drawn.
Figures need be no more than 50% larger than the final printed size (which is no more than 13 cm x 21 cm), great care being taken to make sure that all parts (e.g. lettering, scales, shading) will reduce satisfactorily. Especially ensure that histogram shading is simple and clear. Avoid solid black infills. Small illustrations should be grouped to occupy the least space consistent with good appearance. All unnecessary parts should be trimmed (e.g. borders of photographs). Allowing at least 3 cm margin on all sides, groups should be mounted on stout white paper using rubber cement. On the back of each figure the name of the author(s) and the figure number should appear. Send figures flat; do not fold or roll. All figures should be numbered consecutively with arabic numerals, using lower case letters for their subdivisions. Legends should be typed on a separate sheet. Where possible put keys to symbols and lines in Legends not on figures.
Proofs
When proofs are received they should be corrected carefully and returned to the Editor without delay, together with the final marked-up typescript. Authors should adhere to the colour codes (blue for authors new changes/errors, red only for typesetter's errors) and complete and sign the accompanying "notes to authors' Authors, when returning proofs, should indicate whether they want the originals of their figures returned to them; typescripts will not be returned. Errors remaining in these first proofs after the author has checked them are the authors responsibility. Any further editorial changes, apart from minor grammatical and syntactical improvements, will be communicated to the author before second proofs are prepared. Ensure that the editorial office knows of changes in your address.
Offprints
Twenty-five offprints of each paper will be provided free. Additional copies may be purchased from Cambridge University Press, and these should be ordered from the Press when the proofs are returned using the order form provided.
Copyright
Authors of articles published in the journal assign copyright to Cambridge University Press (with certain rights reserved) and you will receive a copyright assignment form for signature on acceptance of your paper. Authors receiving requests for permission to reproduce their work should contact Cambridge University Press for advice.
Business correspondence
Correspondence concerning offprints, copyright, back numbers, advertising and sales to libraries should be addressed to the publishers: Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK or Cambridge University Press, 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA.
(Revised 13/3/2009)
Instructions to Authors
TRO_ifc.pdf
j0266-4674.pdf
Editorial Board
Editor
Dr Ian Turner
Singapore Botanic Gardens
1 Cluny Road
Singapore 259569
Email jte@cambridge.org.sg
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