Processing of Accepted Manuscripts
After your manuscript is accepted for publication, carefully review the information in your decision letter. Failure to follow the instructions to the letter will delay processing and ultimately publication of your manuscript.
A manuscript accepted for publication by a Subject-matter Editor will not be considered "in press" until a properly formatted final version of the manuscript (including text, figures, and digital appendices and supplements) has been received by the Publications Office. See Preparation of Manuscripts. A manuscript is queued for production at the same time.
A Publication Agreement will then be sent to the corresponding author. It needs to be signed by all the authors and returned to the Business Office. Author billing information will be sent at the same time. See Financial Arrangements.
Authors are encouraged to register their data at ESA's official Data Registry at data.esa.org. Data registry simply serves to announce the existence of data and to provide contact information. By registering data, one does not relinquish rights to research findings. In fact, the registry may serve to establish precedence for ecological studies. Our hope is that the Data Registry will eventually be linked to Data Archives containing the actual data referred to in the registry, and that all data underlying published papers in ESA journals will be readily available for purposes of verification, replication, and meta-analysis.
A copy editor will contact you if any questions arise during the preparation of your manuscript for typesetting.
Proofs and a reprint order form will be sent as soon as possible by email. Send the reprint order form to the printer. Proofs must be corrected upon receipt and immediately returned to the Publications Office. Late proofs may cause a paper to be delayed to a subsequent issue.
The Publications Office personnel reserve the right to modify manuscripts that do not conform to scientific, technical, stylistic or grammatical standards; minor alterations of this nature will normally be seen by authors only at the proof stage.
rev 2/12/07
