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7、出刊日期：季刊，一年出版四期。
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2025年9月25日星期四
Instructions for Authors
【官网信息】
1. General Information
1.1 Authorship
The authors who meet the following four conditions could be added as co-authors. Please refer to ICMJE for details.
Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and
Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
Final approval of the version to be published; and
Agreement 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.
Authors are encouraged to utilize CRediT to delineate the contributions of each author.
1.2 Types of Journal Articles
Article: Articles are definitive accounts of significant and original studies. They present important new data or provide a fresh approach to an established subject.
Letter: Letters are usually preliminary reports of special significance and urgency that are given expedited publication. They are accepted if the editor believes that their rapid publication will be a service to the scientific community.
Review: Reviews integrate, correlate, and evaluate results from published literature on a particular subject.
Survey: A survey paper summarizes and organizes recent research results in a novel way that integrates and adds understanding to work in the field. It emphasizes the classification of the existing literature, developing a perspective on the area, and evaluating trends.
Commentary: Commentaries are short, narrowly focused articles that are responses to recently published articles that are interesting enough to warrant further comment or explanation. This type of commentary discusses specific issues within a subject area and the previously published article rather than the whole field.
Perspective: Perspectives discuss one or a cluster of recently published papers or a current research topic of high interest in which an author's perspective sheds an incisive light on key findings in research.
Note: Continent and Life Evolution accepts extended versions of conference papers. However authors should ensure that (1) the extension should be more than 1/3, (2) copyright permission should have been obtained from the conference holder, and (3) the original publication should be cited and the difference from the previous conference publication should be stated in the cover letter.
1.3 Copyright Permission
Note that it is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission from the copyright holder for any figures reused from elsewhere. Please add references to the figure caption and put appropriate credit lines, for example: Reprinted with permission [2]. Copyright 2021 Elsevier.
1.4 Publication Ethics
Continent and Life Evolution maintains a high standard of publishing ethics. All authors are expected to follow the guidelines of COPE.
1.5 Research Data
ELSP is determined to improve knowledge exchange among scientists and facilitate open science. We encourage authors to share the research data to the open repository, such as general data, Figshare, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, Zenodo; computer software or code, GitHub.
The research data could be published as Supporting Information together with the paper if there are limited research data.
1.6 Figures
It is author’s responsibility to ensure that the figures are legible and technically correct. Therefore you must ensure that the resolution of figures should be at least 300 ppi. Figures must have captions that include figure number and a brief, informative description preferably in a non-sentence format. Text in the figure legend must have the same font style (Times News Roman) and size (16px). Figures must be numbered sequentially using Arabic numerals in order of discussion in the document (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.) and parts of a figure are typically indicated with a number and letter (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b), etc.). The accepted formats are JPEG, TIFF, EPS, PDF, and Graphical source files.
1.7 Tables
All tables must be numbered and cited consecutively using Arabic numerals. Every table should have a brief and informative title. Detailed information should be provided in the table footnotes. Table footnotes should be given as superscript letters such as a, b, etc. Cite the original source as references at the end of a caption if the data were previously published.
2. Manuscript Submission
Please use ELSP Journal Manuscript Platform to submit your paper. You are recommended to provide a cover letter during submission and the cover letter should include: (1) the novelty and significance of your manuscript, (2) an explanation of how it fits well into the journal’s scope, and (3) the manuscript should not be submitted to any other journal for publication.
Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files for every submission.
2.1 Reviewers Recommendation
Please recommend three reviewers who are experts in the relevant topic and do not have a conflict of interest.
2.2 Graphical Abstract
You are recommended to supply a graphical abstract to represent the paper. It is a descriptive and concise interpretation of the research work presented. The file type name should be named as Graphical Abstract. The Graphical Abstract should be at least 300 ppi. The accepted formats are JPEG, TIFF, and EPS.
3. Manuscript Writing
3.1 Manuscript Templates
We recommend you use Word template or Latex template to prepare your manuscript.
3.2 Reference Citations
The citation should be put in square brackets, e.g. [1], [2-5], etc. The references should be listed in numerical order. All references should be cited in the text and all citations must have a corresponding reference. References such as [1] a) ...., b) are not allowed. You are recommended to use bibliography software such as EndNote, Mendeley Reference Manager or Zotero to prepare references. This journal encourages you to cite datasets, computer code, and other citable research materials. Please download the ELSP_Endnote / ELSP_Mendeley / ELSP_Zotero files if you are using EndNote / Mendeley / Zotero to manage the references.
3.3 Manuscript Structure
For an original research paper, normally, the manuscript should be presented in the sequence: title, authors, abstract, keywords, introduction, method, results, conclusion, and acknowledgements. For other types of papers, the author decides the sections and subsections.
Please find the detailed guidelines for manuscript structure in the Word template and Latex template mentioned above.
3.4 Reference Preparation
Direct quotations from another author's work should be cited. For publications that are Accepted or Submitted or In preparation, please just add a note at the end of the corresponding reference.
References should be indicated in square brackets in line with the text. Author names can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be provided. Furthermore, references (numbers in square brackets) should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text.
Please find the detailed reference formatting guidelines in the Word template and Latex template mentioned above.
