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Please see the dropdown below for our guidelines.

As you prepare your manuscript for submission to an ESA publication, you should review our “Manuscript Preparation Guide” for formatting requirements and make sure you fulfill all the requirements of our Open Research policy.

Authors submitting a manuscript to Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment should review the guidelines specific to that journal.

Authors may be contacted at any point during the submission process to correct any errors in their submission, at the discretion of the journal’s editorial staff.

Please review the submission types by publication for additional information on specific requirements. In addition, you should review the various ESA policies regarding publishing.

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Manuscript Preparation Guide

You should review our complete guide to formatting your manuscript (PDF) as you prepare your manuscript. Pay particular attention to formatting rules that affect the length of your manuscript. Several manuscript types have length restrictions, and improperly formatting your manuscript will delay the peer review process. Other common issues include failure to provide line numbering, author role errors, and the metadata (title, figure count, table count, etc.) not matching between the manuscript and the online submission form. You should also review our guidelines for statistical analysis and data presentation (PDF).

ESA Open Research Policy

Beginning February 2021, the Ecological Society of America adopted a unified Open Research policy for all publications. You should review the requirements and make sure you have followed our guidelines before submitting your manuscript.

Submission Types: Ecology

Please see our overview of the submission types and their requirements for Ecology (PDF). Authors should pay special attention to the length restrictions for several manuscript types in Ecology.

Submission Types: Ecological Applications

Please see our overview of the submission types and their requirements for Ecological Applications (PDF). Authors should pay special attention to the length requirements in place for “Communications” in Ecological Applications.

Submission Types: Ecological Monographs

Please see our overview of the submission types and their requirements for Ecological Monographs (PDF).

Submission Types and Subject Tracks: Ecosphere

In addition to general ecology articles from all sub-disciplines of ecological science and interdisciplinary studies relating to ecology, Ecosphere also welcomes papers with distinctive Subject Tracks (i.e., Freshwater Ecology, Disease Ecology, etc.). Each track has its own Associate Editor-in-Chief and editorial team. Please see our overview of submission types and subject tracks, and their requirements, for Ecosphere (PDF).

Submission Types & Deadlines: The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

Please see our overview of the submission types, their requirements, & the deadlines for submissions for The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (PDF).

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Guidelines

Author guidelines for Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment manuscripts can be found on the journal's Wiley Online Library site.