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Journal of Paleontology Instructions for Authors
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Short Description: Jun 5, 2008 ... 1. Journal of Paleontology. Instructions for Authors. The Journal of Paleontology accepts only online manuscript submissions through the ...
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The Journal of Paleontology accepts only online manuscript submissions through the website: http://journalofpaleontology.allentrack.net/ For questions regarding online submissions, please contact the editorial offices at: jpaleo@ou.edu As you assemble your manuscript, please read and refer to the following: EDITORIAL POLICY The Journal of Paleontology publishes manuscripts on all aspects of paleontology. The focus of the journal is on systematics, phylogeny, paleoecology, paleogeography, and evolution. It emphasizes specimen-based research and features illustrations of the highest feasible quality. All taxonomic groups are treated, including invertebrates, microfossils, plants, vertebrates, and ichnofossils. CONTRIBUTION TYPES Paleontological Notes Articles Taxonomic Notes Memoirs up to 7 printed pages (at the discretion of the editors) no abstract up to 40 printed pages with abstract. Authors must pay extra page charges for articles that run 26-40 pages in published length nomenclatural adjustments, normally to names previously published in JP over 40 pages. Authors must pay full page charges for entire Memoir.
Note: Color images are acceptable, but authors are responsible for all costs associated with production of color images. Manuscripts that will exceed 40 published pages must be submitted to the Memoir series. Note that the estimate of total number of published pages is drawn from the final, accepted version of the manuscript. Please allow approximately 3.5 manuscript pages for each published page. In recent years, JP has been oversubscribed with submissions, and a rejection rate of about 50% is required to prevent the buildup of a backlog of manuscripts awaiting publication. All manuscripts are competing for limited journal space. Those that demonstrate broad significance with applications to such areas as stratigraphy and biostratigraphy, paleoecology, biogeography, phylogeny reconstruction and evolutionary paleobiology will be high priorities for publication, as will be those that use modern phylogenetic or morphometric methods. Manuscripts that simply describe single new taxa (particularly single new species) are low priorities for acceptance--that a taxon is new to science is not in itself sufficient justification for inclusion in the Journal. JP reserves the right to edit manuscripts for style and format, and may suggest ways in which manuscripts should be shortened to conserve space. 1
