Before submitting a manuscript for consideration for the BLS8 Special Issue jointly hosted by Animal Biotelemetry and Movement Ecology, please indicate your intent to submit in an email to bls8.special.issue@gmail.com, as follows:
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Send to: bls8.special.issue@gmail.com
Subject: BLS8 Special Issue notice of intent to submit
Email text:
Please provide the following information:
Journal you would like to submit to (Movement Ecology or Animal Biotelemetry) and a short statement explaining the choice.
Article type (e.g. Research, Methodology, etc. - as appropriate for the specific journal)
Title
All authors
Abstract
Please include a statement that this manuscript will be based on a poster or oral presentation at BLS8, by the same title and the same authors as the presentation.
If the authors, title or content differ from the BLS8 presentation please explain why they differ.
When choosing between Animal Biotelemetry and Movement Ecology, please ensure that your manuscript aligns with the scope and all requirements of the journal and explain your choice in the e-mail as well as the cover letter.
Please indicate whether you will request a discount on the publication fees (APC) - note that fees for some organizations may be covered by memberships/transformative agreements with Springer/Nature or BMC.
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This email will then be evaluated by the Guest Editors for the Special Issue (they will consider the appropriateness of journal and article type, and whether the manuscript is based on a conference presentation). If appropriate, you will receive an invitation to submit your manuscript through the regular submission portal. The manuscript will then have to be submitted by December 31st, 2024, to be considered for inclusion in the special issue.
If you have any questions about this process, please email to bls8.special.issue@gmail.com
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This Collection welcomes submission of research, methodology, review and case report articles, . Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read the submission guidelines of Animal Biotelemetry or Movement Ecology to confirm that type is accepted by the journal you are submitting to.
Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. If you would like to submit to Animal Biotelemetry, please use the following link. For submitting to Movement Ecology follow this link. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Selected research from the 8th Bio-Logging Science Symposium" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.
Articles will undergo the standard peer-review process of the journal they are considered in (Animal Biotelemetry, Movement Ecology) and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.
