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The history of DEMO: An experiment in regeneration harvest of northwestern forest ecosystems. Northwest Science 73:3-11.
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NORTHWEST SCIENCE
Information for Authors and Instructions for Formatting a Manuscript
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Purpose and Scope
The pages of Northwest Science are open to original and fundamental research in the basic and applied natural sciences, with a focus on the geographic area of the Pacific Northwest, including Alaska, western Canada, and the Northwestern United States (WA, OR, ID, MT, and northern CA). At least two reviewers and an associate editor referee all submissions, with the final decision regarding publication resting with the editor. Papers from authors outside of the Pacific Northwest are welcome if they pertain to resources or issues pertaining to the area and would engage a broad audience. The journal is published quarterly and sent to institutional and individual members of the Northwest Scientific Association. Papers are also indexed through a number of services, assigned digital object identifiers (DOI) and abstracts are freely available online here.
The journal considers both refereed (research articles and notes) and non-refereed (forum essays and book reviews) manuscripts. Research articles present the results of original research that has not been previously published. They are generally 8-20 journal pages long. Authors should contact the editor prior to submitting longer papers. Notes are typically less than 8 journal pages long and present a concise description of a limited investigation that focuses on, for example, new methods, significant range extensions, and perhaps taxonomic observations. Notes are not required to follow the same sectional format as research articles, but they should comply with the general textual style format. All submissions are peer reviewed and must be scientifically credible. Authors are encouraged to contact the editor about the suitability of manuscripts to be published as notes. Forum submissions and book-reviews, edited by the subject editor for clarity but not peer reviewed, are by invitation only. Unsolicited submissions will be returned by the editor.
Submission of Manuscripts
Submissions to Northwest Science are now made using Peer Track Essentials, an online manuscript submission and peer review tracking software system. To submit to the journal, follow the URL http://www.edmgr.com/nwscience using an Internet browser. New users will be required to register with the system to obtain a user name and password. Full instructions for submitting your manuscript and cover letter are provided on the site and authors will receive confirmation that a manuscript has successfully loaded into the system shortly after completion. The system requires you to paste the Title, Short Title, and abstract into the system software. The body of the manuscript and figures are uploaded as separate files (Microsoft word and JPEG file formats) into the system. The software then builds a PDF version of the manuscript, which will be viewable prior to submission. Author approval of this PDF file is required before final submission.
Manuscripts should contain the following sections in this order:
Footnotes should only be used in tables, sparingly and when necessary.
The first page should contain:
Sample Title Page layout:
Peter M. Brown1, Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research, Inc., 2901 Moore Lane., Ft. Collins, Colorado 80526 and Wililam T. Baxter2, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, 802 N. Main Street, Ft. Bragg, California 95437 Fire History in Coast Redwood Forests of the Mendocino Coast, California Running footer: Coast Redwood Fire History 3 tables, 4 figures 1 Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: pmb@rmtrr.org 2 Current address: … [include new address changed since time of submission] 3 Note: this information is NOT in a footnote, it is in the body of the document |
The abstract must include the following three parts:
Start the text on the third page and use continuous pagination; do not start new sections on new pages.
Each section should be labeled with a heading that is left justified and bold type (see example below).
Subheadings within each section must follow the following structure:
Section and subheading example:
Results Statistical Analysis We conducted statistical analysis of all variables sampled at the site… Temperature and Soil Moisture—We found that temperature and soil moisture… |
Literature citations within the text should contain the author’s last name and year of publication (examples provided below). Multiple citations provided parenthetically should be ordered chronologically (early to late), not alphabetically. If more than two authors, use “et al.” to shorten the citation.
Examples:
…studied by Jones (1998)…
…studied by Jones and Smith (1999)
…studied by Jones et al. (2000)
Use the following format for citing multiple authors parenthetically:
…was previously investigated (Smith 1991, Jones 1995, Harris 2000)
When the multiple citations contain one set of references from the same authors mixed with references by other authors, use a semicolon to separate citations by other authors. For example:
…results of other investigations (Smith 1991, 1995; Jones 1995; Brown 2002)
Note in this second case, a comma separates two citations by the same author and a semi- colon separates all other citations.
References in the body of the text must be capitalized and spelled out—e.g., Table 1, Figure 2. At first mention of a table or figure, change the font color to red. This will facilitate placement of the figure for typesetting if the manuscript is accepted for publication.
See additional guidelines, in sections 6 and 7, below.
All numbers in the text from one to nine will be spelled out, whereas Arabic numerals will be used for numbers 10 and larger. Exceptions include:
Northwest Science uses the Council of Science Editors’ Scientific Style and Format (CSE 2014) guidelines. Abbreviations are appropriate, but optional; e.g., author is permitted to use d instead of days, hr instead of hours, etc.
Note: DO use a hyphen to hyphenate words such as acre-feet, AND also the page ranges in the Literature Cited section.
Personal communications should be used sparingly.
There should be a space between all initials— e.g., Duda, J.•J., and R.•J. Camp. This is very time consuming to rectify and will be returned to the authors for revision. The “•” signifies a commonly overlooked space, n o t e that a comma that follows the senior author’s initials, and there are no spaces in the citation between the journal volume number:pages. Also note that you do not include an actual dot (“•”) or any bold font.
Citation example:
Duda, J. J., and R. J. Camp. 2008. Ecology in the information age: patterns of use and attrition rates of Internet-based citations in ESA journals, 1997–2005. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6:145-151. |
Make sure that all citations listed in the literature cited are found in the text and vice-versa. Also, please triple-check that each citation follows Northwest Science format; fixing incorrectly for- matted citations is one of the most time-consuming chores for the editorial staff and papers that include many deviations from this format will be returned to the authors for revision. Please turn on the show/hide formatting button in your word processor (it looks like this: ¶ and can be found on the standard toolbar).
Also, please check to make sure that online html citations are viable.
Examples of Northwest Science format conventions for Literature Cited
Journal articles
Broadbooks, H. E. 1970a. Home range and territorial behavior of the yellow pine chipmunk Eutamius amoenus. Journal of Mammalogy 51:310-326.
Broadbooks, H. E. 1970b. Populations of the yellow pine chipmunk, Eutamius amoenus. American Midland Naturalist 83:472-488.
Cêska, A., and H. Romer. 1971. A computer program for identifying species group. Vegetatio 20:48-73.
Grizze, J. E., C. F. Starmer, and G. G. Kuch. 1969. Analysis of categorical data by linear models. Biometrics
25:489-504.
Monographs or books
Edmonds, R. L., J. K. Agee, and R. I. Gara. 2000. Forest Health and Protection. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Nussbaum, R. A., E. D. Brodie, Jr., and R. M. Storm. 1983. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Pacific Northwest. University of Idaho Press, Moscow.
Franklin, J. F., and C. T. Dyrness. 1988. Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis.
Notes: number of pages unnecessary; abbrev. state name included only if not included as part of publishing entity
Papers in proceedings or symposia; also chapters in edited books
Ryland, J. S. 1975. Parameters of the lophophore in relation to population structure in a bryozoan community. In
H. Barnes (editor), Proceedings of the 9th European Marine Biology Symposium, Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, UK. Pp. 363-393.
Madany, M. H., and N. E. West. 1980. Fire history of two montane forest areas of Zion National Park. In M.
A. Stokes and J. H. Dieterich (technical coordinators), Proceedings—Fire History Workshop. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-81, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, CO. Pp. 50-56
Williamson, C. E. 1991. Copepoda. In J. H. Thorp and A. P. Covich (editors). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, Academic Press, San Diego, CA. Pp. 787-822.
Theses, dissertations, and articles in press
Donald, D. B. 1971. The limnology of the plankton of three temporary ponds in Alberta. M.S. Thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. Wiser, H. C. 1961. Decomposition and homogeneity of continua on 2- manifolds. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Dunwiddie, P. W. In Press. Dichotomous key to conifer foliage in the Pacific Northwest. Northwest Science. [if the publication date is unknown or uncertain]
Vierling, K. T.2000. Source and sink habitats of red-winged blackbirds in a rural/suburban landscape. Ecological Applications 10: (in press). [if the publication date is known and certain].
Technical bulletins
Daubenmire, R., and J. B. Daubenmire. 1968. Forest vegetation of eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Washington Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 60. Washington State University, Pullman.
Goodwin, J. G., Jr., and C. R. Hungerford. 1979. Rodent population densities in pine forests. USDA Forest Service Research Paper RM-214. Rocky Moun- tain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, CO.
Online (Web) references
USDA Forest Service. 1998. Fire Effects Information System. Prescribed Fire and Fire Effects Research Work Unit, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT. Available online at https://www.feis-crs.org/feis/ (accessed 7 October 2004).
Notes: Include a link to the specific page that you utilized for your paper—do NOT simply link to the site’s home page. Do NOT use this format for references that are available in hardcopy format. Include URLs for online references only.
Unpublished Reports
Unpublished reports often contain useful data that contribute to the development of the study being reported. Even though they do not meet the criteria for first disclosure, if they have a date, author, and a location where the report is on file, they may be listed in Literature Cited if it is an essential piece of information. Unpublished reports and grey literature should be used sparingly. If the date is unknown, treat the report as a personal communication and cite it in the text. Do not use the report if the location is unknown. Do not cite unpublished data (i.e., data not analyzed or contained in a report).
Kraft, G. F. 1967. Annual report on the status of Lake Whatcom. Unpublished report on file at Department of Biology, Western Washington University, Bellingham.
Personal Communications
These should be kept to an absolute minimum, because they do not meet the requirements for disclosure as defined by the Council of Science Editors. If used, the full name and affiliation of the person being quoted is required. Personal communications are cited in the text, not in Literature Cited. For example:
…(David L. Peterson, U.S. Forest Service, personal communication).
7. Tables (See example on following page)
All tables must be cited in the text, but typed and double-spaced on separate pages, following the Literature Cited, preceded by the table head.
Table layout example
The resolution of all files must be at least 350 dpi (dots per inch). Please note that generally speaking, figures exported from spreadsheet software will be of insufficient resolution for publication. Another separate concern is the size of the image, which should be a minimum of 5" x 7". However, if a figure can be clearly read in one-column width (2 5/8"), it does not need to be as large as the minimum size preferred. If you do not have the ability to adjust the resolution of a figure or graph, but can adjust the size, make low resolution figures very large (e.g., 20" x 30") and the editorial staff can convert them into high- resolution images. If an image size is under 2 megabytes (MB) in size (somewhat depending on content), its resolution is probably too low for reproducing clearly. Consult the editor if uncertain.
Figure Caption Example:
Figure 1. Map of western Washington displaying the six study sites. Sites in the circle were used as monthly sample sites, February to August 2012. The other three sites were supplemental sites and were only sampled once in June 2012. |