Information for Authors

OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS

Manuscripts must be submitted online - for instructions on how to submit your manuscript online please click here. Once you have prepared your manuscript according to the instructions below please visit the online submission web site.

No article should be submitted which is being offered to any other Journal for prior or simultaneous publication. Authors should examine a recent issue of Forestry and follow the advice on presentation and submission given below to save time and avoid unnecessary correspondence. Authors will be asked to grant the Institute of Chartered Foresters a sole and exclusive licence to publish the paper for the full period of copyright throughout the world.

Three types of article will be considered for publication:

• Original articles describe advances in knowledge and understanding based on analysis of data.
• Review articles are a critical synthesis of an important topic.
• Book reviews may be invited or submitted without invitation.

Original and review articles will normally have a maximum length of 12 printed pages, including tables, illustrations and references (650 words per full page). Longer papers will only be accepted in exceptional circumstances. Manuscripts will be published in the 'Advance Access' area of our website six weeks after acceptance and will be printed at a later date, normally within six months.

Policy on refereeing

All articles and research notes published in Forestry are peer-reviewed by at least two people and, at the discretion of the Editors, may also be subject to independent statistical review. A condition of submission is that the author nominates four people who are qualified to act as referees and who have not previously been involved with the paper in any way. Two of the nominated referees must be working in a different country to the first named author. Referees are given the option of making comments anonymously but the Editors actively encourage openness in order to ensure logical improvement of manuscripts and to avoid bias and prejudice. In recognition of their work, all referees are given the opportunity to have their name published in the last issue of Forestry per year.

Editors may request that authors submit a revised version of their paper before it can be accepted for publication. Revised versions of papers submitted more than six months after such a request will be treated as new submissions. The Editor's decision on all submissions is final.

Instructions for submission to Forestry

1. Submission of a paper implies that it reports unpublished work and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If previously published tables, illustrations or more than 200 words of text are to be included, then the copyright holder's written permission must be obtained. Copies of any such permission letters should be scanned and attached with the paper.
   1. If the paper is accepted for publication the final version can be submitted in WORD or LaTeX format. Figures must be saved in separate files and be prepared to the standards described in paragraph 5 below. Files should be named according to DOS conventions, e.g. 'figure1.tif'.
      
      Please note: This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents at this time. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.
2. Accompanying information must confirm that all authors have read and approved the manuscript and give the names, addresses, telephone/fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of four potential referees. Two of the referees must be working in a different country to the first named author.
3. Submissions should be double-spaced throughout (including references), leaving a 2.5 cm margin at the left, top and bottom. Pages should be numbered and lines also numbered consecutively from the start. A4-size paper is preferred, and a font size no smaller than 11 should be used for word-processed manuscripts.
4. Tables: These should be numbered in arabic numerals, typed on separate pages and collected at the end of the text. Their approximate position in the text should be indicated in the page margin.
5. Illustrations: Illustrations for all accepted papers must be electronic. Illustrations should be numbered (in arabic numerals) in a single list in the order in which they will appear in the text. Captions must be provided as a single list on a separate sheet in the text. For vector graphics, EPS is the preferred format. Lines should not be thinner than 0.25 pts and in-fill patterns and screens should have a density of at least 10%. Font-related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman and Helvetica. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is the preferred format but EPS and PDF are also acceptable. All figures must be prepared at publication quality resolution, e.g., 1200 d.p.i. for line drawings and 500 d.p.i. for colour and half-tone artwork. For useful information on preparing your figures for publication, go to http://cpc.cadmus.com/da
6. Abbreviations: Abbreviations, especially those formed from initial letters, should be used sparingly and should always be given in full at the first occurrence. (Authors should remember that abbreviations with which they are familiar may be unknown to other readers.) Abbreviations and other conventions (e.g. capitals, italics, symbols) should be used consistently throughout a paper.
7. Units of measurement: Metric units are strongly preferred and must be given as equivalents if other units are used. The form m³ ha^-1 is preferred, though spelling out in full, 'cubic metres per hectare', will be accepted. S.I. units should be used wherever they are appropriate to the scale of the work reported.
8. Summary: Each article should be preceded by a summary, which should not normally exceed 3 per cent of the length of the text. The summary should give the main results and conclusions in simple, factual statements; it should be self-contained without reference to the main text.
9. References: The name of the author(s) of the work referred to and the year of publication should be cited in the text [e.g. Jones (1945); Smith and Jones (1975)]. For three or more authors use the first author's name followed by et al. throughout. List all references cited at the end of the paper in alphabetical order of authors. For books the title should be in italic; for papers in journals or other periodicals the name of the journal or periodical should be italicized. [The guiding principle in determining which part of the reference to italicize is that it is that part which, after the author's name, is likely to be most useful for finding the work in a library.] Both first and last page numbers should be given. If a work (e.g. a thesis) is unpublished, the fact should be stated. Abbreviations of titles of periodicals should conform with those in the BIOSIS Previews Database but, if in doubt, do not abbreviate. Errors or omissions in the references will normally result in delay in publication.
10. Endnote: You can download the current style for Forestry at EndNote's website
11. Proofs: Page proofs will be sent to the author responsible for checking them as a PDF file. Corrected proofs should be returned within three days of receipt. All misprints should be corrected, but the author is asked to refrain from making any other alterations. Such alterations may be disallowed and where they are allowed the author may be held responsible for the cost of making them.
12. Licence to Publish: It is a condition of publication in Forestry that authors assign copyright to the Institute of Chartered Foresters, a Licence can be obtained by clicking here. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In assigning copyright, Authors may use their own material in other publications provided that Forestry is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance.
13. Offprints: An URL is sent to all authors linking them directly to their paper when it is published online. Authors can claim 25 free printed offprints of their paper (but not of reviews, letters, etc.) provided they complete the offprint form and send this to OUP. Additional offprints may be purchased at standard rates if ordered at the time when proofs are returned.
    
    Orders from UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from the rest of the EU, we will assume that the service is provided for business purposes, please provide a VAT number for yourself or your institution and ensure you account for your own local VAT correctly.
14. OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS
    Forestry authors have the option, at an additional charge, to make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication, under the Oxford Open initiative. After your manuscript is accepted, as part of the mandatory licence form required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available immediately. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.
    
    For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for Forestry vary depending on the institution at which the Corresponding author is based.
    
15. Optional Oxford Open charges:
    For a Corresponding author based at an institution with an online subscription to Forestry:
    Regular charge per paper – £800 / $1500
    List B developing country charge* – £400 / $750
    List A developing country charge* – £0 / $0
    
    For a Corresponding author based at an institution that does not subscribe to the online journal:
    Regular charge per paper – £1500 / $2800
    List B developing country charge* – £750 / $1400
    List A developing country charge* – £0 / $0
    
    *Visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/ for list of qualifying countries.
    
    The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and colour charges that might apply.
    
    If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete an Open Access charge form online. You will be automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription to Forestry. Therefore please make sure that you are using an institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are based at a subscribing institution please use the Subscriber Test link for Forestry.
    
16. Creative Commons information.
17. Supplementary Data:
    Colour figures will be charged at £350/figure, in order to cover the printing cost incured with colour figures. However, we can upload colour figures as supplementary data for free.
18. Conflict of Interest (1)
    At the point of submission, Forestry's policy requires that each author reveal any financial interests or connections, direct or indirect, or other situations that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated - including pertinent commercial or other sources of funding for the individual author(s) or for the associated department(s) or organization(s), personal relationships, or direct academic competition. When considering whether you should declare a conflicting interest or connection please consider the conflict of interest test: Is there any arrangement that would embarrass you or any of your co-authors if it was to emerge after publication and you had not declared it?
    
19. Conflict of Interest (2)
    As an integral part of the online submission process, Corresponding authors are required to confirm whether they or their co-authors have any conflicts of interest to declare, and to provide details of these. If the Corresponding author is unable to confirm this information on behalf of all co-authors, the authors in question will then be required to submit a completed Conflict of Interest form to the Editorial Office. It is the Corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that all authors adhere to this policy.
    
    If the manuscript is published, Conflict of Interest information will be communicated in a statement in the published paper.
20. Funding:
    Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the references. The following rules should be followed: the full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’; grant numbers should be given in brackets; multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma; agencies should be separated by a semi-colon; no extra wording like 'Funding for this work was provided by ...' should be used; where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'. An example is given here: ‘National Institutes of Health (CB5453961 to C.S., DB645473 to M.H.); Funding Agency (hfygr667789).’

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