By submitting manuscript, author(s) confirm(s) that the work have not been published anywhere, and is not under consideration for publication anywhere. The journal publishes three types of articles plus book review, letter to editor and essay.
The submitted papers will be subjected to pre-review by editors. The papers deemed to be appropriate will be sent to reviewers. The submitted paper is expected to get first decision within a month of submission.
The structure of journal will be as of following:
Authors are required to submit their manuscripts either through the Manuscript Central on the journal's own website or, in case of problems Manuscript Central, authors can also send manuscript by email to the Managing Editor (journal@thenaturefounation.org or conserv.sci@gmail.com).
Original articles should be based on the original work reporting interdisciplinary investigation of conservation problem. It should not be more than 8000 words. The word count includes all parts of paper except figures and tables. It should be organized as Summary, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conservation Implications and Conclusion, References, Biography. Section should not be numbered. Summary of the manuscript should be no more than 300 words and should be organized in following subheadings: Scope, Location, Material and Methods, Key findings, Conservation implications, and ending with a list of 4-8 keywords arranged in alphabetical order.
Reviews provide a detail account of conservation issues. The journal welcomes review articles on topical themes of conservation and/or status of nature conservation (e.g. state of environment) in particular regions/countries. Reviews should be structured as original articles and should not exceed 9000 words.
Short communication provides a short but insightful glimpse of conservation issues. It should not exceed 3500 words and should be organized as Summary, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conservation Implications and Conclusion, References, Biography.
Book reviews should be of relevant titles of conservation science. Authors are strongly advised to make enquiry with managing editor (journal@thenaturefoundation.org) about the submission articles for book review. Book reviews should be less than 1500 words.
Letters to the editor are written to draw attention of scientific community about conservation issues. Letters should be less than 1000 words.
Essay is a long paper that provides an insight on new or emerging topics of conservation. It is like opinion but should be presented with valid arguments. It should not be more than 8000 words.
Copyright and Permissions
Authors retain the copyright to their articles.
All articles in the Conservation Science are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Submission and Processing Fees
Conservation Science charges neither publication fee nor subscription fee. It is free !
Manuscript preparation
Manuscripts should be meticulously prepared, and submitted in final form. They should be typed in one and half spacing. A single file (in .doc format) of manuscript is preferable to multiple files. Pages and lines must be numbered continuously throughout the manuscript including those containing references, tables and figures. The title page should be submitted separately with following information: title of article (less than 25 words), the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s) and address (es) of the author(s), e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author, acknowledgments. Because of double blind peer review process, it is responsibility of authors not to put any information that could reveal author(s) identity and affiliation in the manuscript file.
Both American and British English are accepted but not of combination of these. Please use Times New Roman font (12-point) for text. Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be given in title page, which will be placed in a separate section before the reference list during proof correction stage.
Tables Table should be cited in text as Table 1, Table 2 whereas appropriate. Each table should be plain format (without any effects and vertical lines). A detail caption of each table should be given in bold type (e.g. Table 1: Comparisons of key habitat properties and descriptors of megafauna assemblages). Any additional information of table should be indicated by superscript upper-case letters and provided beneath the table body.
Figures All except table (e.g map, drawing, and artwork) should be named as Figure 1, Figure 2. Figure caption should be clear enough to understand without refereeing text. Multiple part of figures should be numbered by lowercase letter (e.g., Figure 1a, 1b etc). Figure caption should be in bold type (e.g., Figure 1: Comparisons of key habitat properties and descriptors of megafauna assemblages).
Literatures citation
Citation to work by three or more authors should be abbreviated with et al. (e.g. Grau et al. 2007). Citations should be listed in chronological order in the text and be separated by a comma (e.g., Grau et al. 2007, Pillay et al. 2011). The references should be organized at end of paper under heading “References” in alphabetical order with the journal name unabbreviated. The format for papers, theses, entire books and chapters in books is as follows:
Research paper
Grau O, Grytnes JA, Birks HJB (2007) A comparison of altitudinal species richness patterns of bryophytes with other plant groups in Nepal, Central Himalaya. Journal of Biogeography 34, 1907–1915
Online only artices with doi
Pillay R, Johnsingh AJT, Raghunath R, Madhusudan MD (2011) Patterns of spatiotemporal change in large mammal distribution and abundance in the southernWestern Ghats, India. Biological Conservation doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.01.026
Book
Begon M, Harper JL, Townsend CR (1996) Ecology: Individuals, Populations and Communities. Blackwell Science, Oxford
Theses and dissertations
Shrestha MK (2004) Relative ungulate abundance in fragmented landscape: Implications for tiger conservation. PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota
Book Chapter
Williams BH (2006) Red panda in Eastern Nepal: how do they fit into ecoregional conservation of the eastern Himalaya? In: McNeely JA, McCarthy TM, Smith A, Olsvig- Whittaker L, Sheikh KM, Smith AT (eds), Conservation Biology in Asia. Society for Conservation Biology Asia Section and Resources Himalaya, Kathmandu
Report
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) (1996) Second assessment report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Works that are not accepted for publication should not be cited as ‘in press’. It should be cited as
‘unpublished data’ with author surname and initial. Such works must be uploaded as a part of the manuscript as file in order to facilitate reviewer for reviewing process.
Citations from the world wide web
Information cited from the world wide web should be from authentic source.
IUCN (2010) IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed 10 March 2011)
Original articles should be based on the original work reporting interdisciplinary investigation of conservation problem. It should not be more than 8000 words. The word count includes all parts of paper except figures and tables. It should be organized as Summary, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conservation Implications and Conclusion, References, Biography. Section should not be numbered. Summary of the manuscript should be no more than 300 words and should be organized in following subheadings: Scope, Location, Material and Methods, Key findings, Conservation implications, and ending with a list of 4-8 keywords arranged in alphabetical order.
Short communication provides a short but insightful glimpse of conservation issues. It should not exceed 3500 words and should be organized as Summary, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conservation Implications and Conclusion, References, Biography.
Reviews provide a detail account of conservation issues. The journal welcomes review articles on topical themes of conservation and/or status of nature conservation (e.g. state of environment) in particular regions/countries. Reviews should be structured as original articles and should not exceed 9000 words.
Book reviews should be of relevant titles of conservation science. Authors are strongly advised to make enquiry with managing editor (journal@thenaturefoundation.org) about the submission articles for book review. Book reviews should be less than 1500 words.
Letters to the editor are written to draw attention of scientific community about conservation issues. Letters should be less than 1000 words.
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