Author Guidelines

Sections

  1. Submission
  2. Aims and Scope
  3. Manuscript Categories and Requirements
  4. Preparing the 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.
Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eva

Explicit instructions can be found on the Manuscript Central site. Please contact the journal office (evolappl@wiley.com) or use the Manuscript Central online ‘help’ function if you encounter any difficulties with the online submission process.

You will be asked to input all authors’ names and contact information, information about the manuscript (e.g. number of words, figures, tables), and you will be asked to paste the abstract into a separate window. Please note that the input box for the abstract only allows for 300 words.

Click here for more details on how to use ScholarOne.
For help with submissions, please contact: Shayna Holmes - evolappl@wiley.com

Article Publication Charge
Evolutionary Applications is an open access journal, and you or your funder will be required to pay an article publication charge on acceptance.
Invited Reviews and Meeting Conference reports are published free of charge.

Society Partners and Discounts
Authors who are individual members of a listed society are eligible for the noted discount when they submit and publish an article in Evolutionary Applications. To qualify for the society member discount the corresponding author must be a member in good standing and must obtain further discount information through the relevant society website.

**Authors are NOT asked to reformat their papers for submission**

2. AIMS AND SCOPE


Evolutionary Applications publishes papers of interest to a diverse audience including evolutionary biologists, ecologists, biomedical researchers, environmental consultants and biologists within industry, government and health care. Papers published in Evolutionary Applicationsshould be accessible to this broad readership, both in terms of the types questions being asked, and in the interpretation of the results. We receive many papers that are scientifically sound but that do not sufficiently integrate the applied or practical aspects of the study throughout the paper. At minimum, authors are required to include explicit statements or paragraphs in the introduction and discussion documenting how the study informs practical questions from an evolutionary standpoint, and how the results are broadly applicable.

The journal is especially interested in papers that make contributions to fundamental questions in evolutionary biology using study systems that are of practical or applied importance. In general, papers published in Evolutionary Applications use evolutionary concepts, theories, and methods (field, experimental, laboratory, genomics, mathematical modelling, computer simulations) to address topics including, but not limited to: agriculture, aquaculture, biomedicine, biotechnology, climate change, conservation biology, disease biology, forestry, invasion biology, and fisheries and wildlife management. In order to better serve the community, we also now strongly encourage submissions of papers making use of modern molecular and genetic methods (population and functional genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenetics, quantitative genetics, association and linkage mapping) to address important questions in any of these disciplines and in an applied evolutionary framework. Theoretical, empirical, synthesis or perspective papers are welcome.

Evolutionary Applications is part of the program of fully open access journals published by Wiley. For further information visit the Wiley Open Access website.

3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS


The journal publishes three main types of articles: Original Research, Reviews and Syntheses, and Perspectives.

Original Research articles - these papers report novel research projects that yield valuable insights into topics within our coverage.

Reviews and Syntheses - This manuscript category replaces the former "Synthesis" category. Manuscripts for this category are normally commissioned by our Review & Syntheses Editor, Nicolas Bierne, however, authors interested in proposing a paper in this category are welcome to contact us directly to discuss its relevance and suitability. All manuscripts (included invited ones) submitted in this category will underdo the standard peer-review process. For Reviews, we are mainly interested in publishing timely and objective chronicles or methodological issues on recent and important developments in any of the research areas covered by the journal. Synthesis papers should merge and analyze recent findings or perform meta-analyses in one of these research areas and should present a new and synthetic perspective of those results. Guidelines for these papers are the same as those for regular papers but in addition, authors are encouraged to make use of boxes to provide specific information separate from the main text. As with regular articles, emphasis should be placed on ensuring that the applied or practical aspects of the topic are sufficiently integrated throughout the review/synthesis.

Perspectives - these manuscripts express new points of view or set out speculations based on a scholarly review of recently published works. Such manuscripts can be speculative and provocative, as a means of encouraging debate. They must go beyond the works being reviewed and include discussions of new directions, and/or resolutions to old questions.

Evolutionary Applications also welcomes Comments on recently published articles in the journal, and brief News articles (non peer-reviewed) reviewing or previewing symposia, conferences or workshops relevant to the scope of the journal. The journal is also interested in receiving proposals for relevantly-themed special issues.

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/statements/data-protection-policy.html

Important: Evolutionary Applications uses double blind reviewing.
To try to minimize bias in the peer-review process, Evolutionary Applications typically does not give reviewers access to the authors’ names. To facilitate double blind reviewing, you will be asked to upload your title page separately from the main text. (Please see the Manuscript Presentation section below for further details on the title page and text.) Cut the title page from your manuscript and paste it into a new document. Also, cut the acknowledgments paste them onto the title page. Thus, you will have to upload at least two files: 1) title page, 2) main document (minus the title page and acknowledgements). Upload any tables, figures, or supplementary files as necessary. You will also have the option of suggesting preferred and non-preferred referees and editors.

4. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION


Parts of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: title page; main text file; figures.

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.

Title Page
The title page should contain:

  • Title: A short informative containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips). To facilitate double blind reviewing, you will be asked to upload your title page separately from the main text. (Please see the Main Text File section below for further details on the title page and text.) Cut the title page from your manuscript, and paste it into a new document. Also, cut the acknowledgments paste them onto the title page. Thus, you will have to upload at least two files: 1) title page, 2) main document (minus the title page and acknowledgements). Upload any tables, figures, or supplementary files as necessary. You will also have the option of suggesting preferred and non-preferred referees and editors.
  • Running Title:A short running title of less than 40 characters;
  • Authors:The full names of the authors;
  • Contact Information: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;
  • Abstract: should be divided into the following sections: 'Introduction', 'Methods and Results', and 'Discussion'; Limited to 200 words. References must be cited in full.
  • Keywords:Please provide 5-10 keywords. Keywords should be taken from those recommended by the US National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list at www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
  • Acknowledgments

Cover letter: The cover letter should state:

  • why the manuscript is appropriate for Evolutionary Applications
  • where the authors plan to archive the raw data underlying the main results of the study. (See Data Archiving Statement)
  • that the enclosed work is not under consideration for publication in another journal or book,
  • that the submission of the manuscript for publication has been approved by all relevant authors and institutions.
  • Submitting authors should also assert that all authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript.

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 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.
  5. Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments 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.’

Acknowledgments
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.

Ethics
Authors will be asked to confirm that the manuscript has not been submitted elsewhere, and that all research meets the ethical guidelines of the study country. Evolutionary Applications will only consider manuscripts in which there is evidence of the ethical use of animals. All reasonable steps must be taken to ensure the humane treatment of animals, so as to minimize discomfort, distress and pain. The care and use of experimental animals must comply with all relevant local animal welfare laws, guidelines and policies, and where appropriate a statement of such compliance should be provided to the Editor.

Informed Consent
Evolutionary Applications requires that all appropriate steps be taken in obtaining informed consent of any and all human subjects participating in the research comprising the manuscript submitted for review and possible publication, and a statement to this effect must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript. Identifying information should not be included in the manuscript unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the study participants or patients (or parents or guardians) give written informed consent for publication.

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.

Main Text File
As papers are double-blind peer reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors.

Manuscripts should not typically exceed 10 pages (including figures and tables). In general, allow 900 words per page and subtract 160 words for each figure and table.
Manuscripts should be written in clear, concise, and grammatically correct English. Authors may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.

Manuscripts should be double-spaced and all pages should be numbered consecutively, with line numbers printed on each page to facilitate ease of reference for reviewers.

The main text file should be presented in the following order:
Following the title page, the main document should include the following sections (in order): abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, literature cited, tables, figure legends, figures, appendices, and supplementary materials. Details for specific sections are listed below.

      1. Title: (For purposes of Double Blinding, please upload this as a separate document) This includes the title, the names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of all authors, acknowledgments, and article type. E-mail addresses for every author are required.
      2. Abstract: includes a one-paragraph abstract, and up to eight key words/phrases. Abstracts should not contain citations or abbreviations and should be 300 words or less.
      3. Keywords: Please provide up to eight keywords. Keywords should be taken from those recommended by the US National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list at www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh.
      4. Statistical results: in-line statistical results should be presented as test-statistics, and degrees of freedom as subscript(s) to test-statistics, e.g. F1,12 = ... or t8 = ..., P
      5. Acknowledgements: For the review process, the acknowledgments need to be placed on the title page, and the title page is uploaded separately. Funding sources must be included in the acknowledgements. All sources of institutional, private and corporate financial support for the work within the manuscript must be fully acknowledged, and any potential conflicts of interest noted.
      6. Data Archiving Statement: After the Acknowledgements and before the Literature Cited, include one sentence stating where the raw data underlying the main results of the study will be archived (see Data Sharing/Archiving section below for more information).e.g.: Data for this study are available at the Dryad Digital Repository: http://dx.doi.org/... or, if you want to wait until a decision has been made on the manuscript: e.g.: Data for this study are available at: to be completed after manuscript is accepted for publication.
      7. Literature cited: List all sources in the literature cited 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 literature citation should appear in the literature cited section at the end of the paper. Literature cited are styled according to the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. A sample of the most common entries in reference lists appears below (see Reference Styles). Please note that for journal articles, issue numbers are not included unless each issue in the volume begins with page one.
      8. Tables: tables can be embedded in the main text file or uploaded separately. Do not present the same information in both a table and a figure. Table titles should be short, concise, and descriptive. All other information should be placed in a table note. Table notes should appear after the table. Tables are numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text. All tables must be referred to in the text. There are no vertical or horizontal lines in the body of an Evolutionary Applications table. There are no panels. Please do not include any graphical representations of any kind. If a table must have a graphical aspect, then it should be renamed a figure. A table has the same column headings throughout. If the column headings change, it should be treated as a new table with a new table number and a new title.
      9. Figures and figure legends: all figures must be referred to in the text. Number all figures cited in the text consecutively using Arabic numerals (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.). If a figure is cited only in an appendix, then the figure is labeled accordingly (e.g., a figure cited only in appendix B would be labeled 'Fig. B1'). Figure legends should be double-spaced on a separate sheet. Line drawings should be professionally drawn, or generated by high-quality computer software capable of producing print-quality images. Images should fit on paper no larger than that used for typing the text. Do not use boldface lettering. The final size (after reduction or enlargement) of lettering on figures should be no less than 1.5 mm. Use capital letters to label figure parts. There are no charges for colour figures. Line art, charts, cladograms, and annotated photographs, are best supplied as Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) or PDF format. Photographs and other continuous tone images should be in TIFF format, saved at the intended final size, and with a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Excessively high resolutions will not improve the output quality, but may produce an unnecessarily large file. For more detailed guidelines on preparing artwork, please see: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp
      10. Appendix: provide a title for each appendix in addition to the label (e.g., 'Appendix A: Model of Sexual Selection in Bald Eagles')
      11. Supporting Information: supporting information can be published as electronic appendices to the article at the Editors' discretion. These may include, for example, information on sampling locations, data underlying analyses or figures, additional analyses not presented in the manuscript, or relevant multimedia files (e.g. mating song audio clips). Supporting information guidelines for authors are available at: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/suppmat.asp
      12. Scientific names: give the Latin names of each species in full, together with the authority for its name, at first mention in the main text. If there are many species, cite a flora or checklist that may be consulted for authorities instead of listing them in the text. Do not give authorities for species cited from published references. Give priority to scientific names in the text (with colloquial names in parentheses if desired).
      13. Mathematics: use either italics or underlining throughout equations and text. Do not use both in the same file. Do not use italics or bold for emphasis. Introduce every variable and label used at its first occurrence. A table of definitions can also be helpful.
      14. Abbreviations and units: use The International System of Units (SI) for all measurements.

Reference Styles
Citing a Journal Article
1. Mackova, L., Vit, P., Urfus, T. (2018). Crop to wild hybridization in cherries- Empirical evidence fromPrunus fruticose. Evolutionary Applications, 11(9), 1748-1759.

Citing a Journal Article by DOI
2. Summers, S.L., Bernik, B., Saunders, C.J., McLachlan, J.S., Blum, M.J. (2018). A century of genetic variation inferred from a persistent soil‐stored seed bank. Evolutionary Applications doi: 10.1111/eva.1267

Citing a Chapter in a Book
3. Nelson, J.R., Craig, E. (1994). SSA hsp70 subfamily. In: J. Rothblatt & T.Stevens (Eds.), Guidebook to the Secretory Pathway (pp. 27–29). New York: Oxford University Press.

Citing a Complete Book
4. Segel, I.H. (1968). Biochemical Calculations. USA: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

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.

Resource Identification Initiative
The journal supports the Resource Identification Initiative, which aims to promote research resource identification, discovery, and reuse. This initiative, led by the Neuroscience Information Framework and the Oregon Health & Science University Library, provides unique identifiers for antibodies, model organisms, cell lines, and tools including software and databases. These IDs, called Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs), are machine-readable and can be used to search for all papers where a particular resource was used and to increase access to critical data to help researchers identify suitable reagents and tools.
Authors are asked to use RRIDs to cite the resources used in their research where applicable in the text, similar to a regular citation or Genbank Accession number. For antibodies, authors should include in the citation the vendor, catalogue number, and RRID both in the text upon first mention in the Methods section. For software tools and databases, please provide the name of the resource followed by the resource website, if available, and the RRID. For model organisms, the RRID alone is sufficient.
Additionally, authors must include the RIIDs in the list of keywords associated with the manuscript.

To Obtain Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs):

      1. Use the Resource Identification Portal, created by the Resource Identification Initiative Working Group.
      2. Search for the research resource (please see the section titled “Search Features and Tips” for more information).
      3. Click on the “Cite This” button to obtain the citation and insert the citation into the manuscript text.

If there is a resource that is not found within the Portal, authors are asked to register the resource with the appropriate resource authority. Information on how to do this is provided in the “Resource Citation Guidelines” section of the Portal.
If any difficulties in obtaining identifiers arise, please contact rii-help@scicrunch.org for assistance.

Example Citations:
Antibodies: "Wnt3 was localized using a rabbit polyclonal antibody C64F2 against Wnt3 (Cell Signaling Technology, Cat# 2721S, RRID: AB_2215411)"

Model Organisms: "Experiments were conducted in c. elegans strain SP304 (RRID:CGC_SP304)"

Cell lines: "Experiments were conducted in PC12 CLS cells (CLS Cat# 500311/p701_PC-12, RRID:CVCL_0481)" Tools, Software, and Databases: "Image analysis was conducted with CellProfiler Image Analysis Software, V2.0 (http://www.cellprofiler.org, RRID:nif-0000-00280)"

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. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are double-blind peer reviewed. 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 the confidentiality of the review process is available here.

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 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.

Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
The journal expects authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.

Once papers are accepted, authors will be asked to provide evidence that the relevant data have been or will be archived before publication (if such information has not already been provided). Any impediments to data sharing should be brought to the attention of the editors at the time of submission. Exemptions from data archiving will be made at the Editors discretion, and applies particularly to sensitive data types such as human subject data or the geographical location of endangered species.

To reiterate, only data underlying the main results in the paper need to be made available. In addition, sufficient information must be provided such that data can be readily suitable for re-analyses, meta-analyses, etc. Authors will be required to include a short statement in their paper (see Data Archiving Statement above) indicating where the data for the paper can be obtained.

The preferred way to archive data is using public repositories. For types of data for which there is no public repository, authors can upload the relevant data as Supplementary Materials on the journal’s website. Sufficient information must be provided such that data can be readily suitable for re-analyses, meta-analyses, etc.

Examples of public data repositories:
DNA/RNA/Protein sequences/mircroarray data:
Genbank/European Nucleotide Archive(ENA)/DDBJ, Protein DataBank, UniProt, NCBI trace and short-read archive, ENA's Sequence Read Archive, GEO or ArrayExpress. Other NCBI databases: e.g. Nucleotide, Protein, PopSet, SNP, dbSNP (accepts microsattelite data)

Morphological data, phylogenetic trees, taxonomy, etc.:
The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity, TreeBASE, Dryad, Integrated Taxonomic Information System, Species 2000, and institutional databases.

Many institutions also have data/information repositories, e.g. Circle (University of British Columbia), SMD (Stanford Microarray Database).

Animal Studies
A statement indicating that the protocol and procedures employed were ethically reviewed and approved, as well as the name of the body giving approval, must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript. Authors are encouraged to adhere to animal research reporting standards, for example the ARRIVE guidelinesfor reporting study design and statistical analysis; experimental procedures; experimental animals and housing and husbandry. Authors should also state whether experiments were performed in accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals:

Research Reporting Guidelines
Accurate and complete reporting enables readers to fully appraise research, replicate it, and use it. Authors are encouraged to adhere to recognised research reporting standards. The EQUATOR Network collects more than 370 reporting guidelines for many study types, including for:

We also encourage authors to refer to and follow guidelines from:

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/

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 Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.

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.

6. AUTHOR LICENSING


Evolutionary Applicationsis an Open Access journal: authors of accepted papers pay an Article Publication Charge and their papers are published under a Creative Commons license. 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: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/17524571/homepage/article_publication_charges.htm

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


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.

Accepted Articles
The journal offers Wiley’s Accepted Articles service for all manuscripts. This service ensures that accepted ‘in press’ manuscripts are published online shortly after acceptance, prior to copy-editing or typesetting. Accepted Articles are published online a few days after final acceptance and appear in PDF format only. They are given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows them to be cited and tracked and are indexed by PubMed. After the final version article is published (the article of record), the DOI remains valid and can still be used to cite and access the article.
Accepted Articles will be indexed by PubMed; submitting authors should therefore carefully check the names and affiliations of all authors provided in the cover page of the manuscript so it is accurate for indexing. Subsequently, the final copyedited and proofed articles will appear in an issue on Wiley Online Library; the link to the article in PubMed will update automatically.

Proofs
Once the paper is typeset, the author will receive an email notification with full instructions on how to provide proof corrections.

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.

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.

8. POST PUBLICATION


Access and Sharing
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.

Online Production Tracking
This enables authors to track their article - once it has been accepted - through the production process to publication online and in print. Upon receipt of an article at the publisher, you will be invited to register at the Author Services Web site, where you can pay your publication fee, check the status of your articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production so that you do not need to contact the Production Editor to check on progress. Visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.

Promoting the Article
To find out how to best promote your 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.

Referrals to the Open Access Journal "Ecology and Evolution"
This journal works together with Wiley’s Open Access journal, Ecology and Evolution, to enable rapid publication of good quality research that is unable to be accepted for publication by Evolutionary Applications. Authors will be offered the option of having the paper, along with any related reviews, automatically transferred for consideration for publication by the Editor of Ecology and Evolution. 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 Editor of Ecology and Evolution will accept submissions that report well-conducted research which reaches the standard acceptable for publication. Accepted papers can be published rapidly: typically within 15 days of acceptance. Ecology and Evolution is a Wiley Open Access journal and article publication fees apply. More information can be found here.

9. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS


Shayna Holmes
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
111 River Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030
United States
Email: evolappl@wiley.com

Author Guidelines updated 27th August 2019