Manuscript Submission

Herpetological Conservation and Biology strives to make the editorial process run smoothly. Thus, submission of a manuscript requires that the author(s) attest that the manuscript:

  1. (1) is original and that no portion of it has been published elsewhere, in any language 

  2. (2)     is not under consideration for publication in another journal

 

Moreover, the authors must submit the AuthorSubmissionForm to verify that their manuscript is in strict compliance with all Herpetological Conservation and Biology formatting rules.  We check...

Documents For Authors

  • Instructions For Authors

    Complete guide to submitting a manuscript.

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  • Author Submission Form

    Editors will verify that the form was submitted and that the manuscript is compliant.

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Herpetological Conservation and Biology does not subscribe to, participate in, or issue DOI numbers for published manuscripts.  The reasons are three-fold:

    1. (1) To issue DOI numbers, a journal is required to pay a per-manuscript fee to a system put in place by large academic publishers.  As a non-profit publisher, we do not charge any fees whatsoever to authors or readers.

 

  1. (2) The DOI system is administered in part by CrossRef.  CrossRef requires that member publishers process each manuscript through their software, which creates hyperlinks for cited manuscripts that were published previously in CrossRef member journals.  This adds a publishing step with little benefit because most of the hyperlinks created by CrossRef direct readers to webpages that require payment to view the actual PDF (i.e., a ‘paywall’).  The CrossRef hyperlink is only beneficial in cases where articles are open access. 
  3. (3) The academic publishers that devised and manage the DOI system are for-profit businesses. Herpetological Conservation and Biology has chosen a model that is truly open access, yet with no fees to publish or read articles.

 

Peer Review

How will your manuscript be judged?

Anonymous peer reviewers will read your manuscript and use this confidential form to report their findings to the assigned editors.

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Confidentiality

Your manuscript is confidential

Peer reviewers must attest that they will treat your manuscript as a confidential document and that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Manuscript Metadata

Once your manuscript has been accepted and formatted, please insert your metadata into the PDF using document properties

This ensures that your paper will be properly indexed by search engines like Google.

How to Enter Metadata