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Author Guidelines

Registered authors must login to submit a paper REGISTER HERE if you do not have a username and password LOGIN HERE if you have already registered with Koedoe Select Author Click on CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW THE FIVE STEPS TO SUBMIT YOUR MANUSCRIPT Follow the five steps to submit your paper View the videos on the role of an author: Submit your manuscript to the journal Check the status of your submission Authors role in the Editing process, only after acceptance of article for publication To download, instructions to authors for structuring your article: Manuscript preparation guide Harvard reference style guide Please see the journal’s section policies for further details. Download, documentation to be completed and submitted in Step 4 of the submission process: Author Declaration and Publishing License Author Account form Third-party material release form, only if applicable Review policy and timelines Immediate notification if submitted successfully Notification within 3 weeks if not accepted for further review Notification within 3 months if accepted for publication, if revisions are required or if rejected by both reviewers Publication within 6 months after submission Note: Manuscripts are initially examined by editorial staff and are sent by the Editor to independent reviewers who are not informed of the identity of the author(s). When publication in the article's original form is not recommended, the reviewers' comments (without the identity of the reviewer being disclosed) may be passed to the corresponding author and may include suggested revisions. Manuscript not approved for publication will not be returned, in any format. Revisions required, after peer review: Following the invitation to submit a revised version of your manuscript, please provide the following information. Always include your manuscript reference number in all correspondence. Revised manuscript in final format Revised manuscript with changes indicated in some clear manner (using track changes or highlighting text) A detailed letter describing point by point how you have either modified the manuscript according to the reviewers comments, or how you refute the comments. All three documents needs to be uploaded in the author location under 'Editor Decision' before informing the Editor that corrections has been made. This will speed-up the peer-review process. Production policy and timelines After the Editor accepts the article for publication the editorial staff copyedits your manuscript, they will return it to you for review. This will be the final stage at which you may make content changes. Later the editorial staff will send you one set of galley proofs, at which time you will have 48 hours to mark any typographical errors. If you do not respond by fax, email, or telephone within 48 hours the editors will assume acceptance of the galley, on your part and proceed with the publication process. We may not be able to incorporate your corrections into the printed version of your manuscript after failure to respond to proofreading request, please ensure that you frequently visit your author home page to access the location of your manuscript, or contact the Title Operations Coordinator at submissions@koedoe.co.za

Aims, scope and review policy

Koedoe - African Protected Area Conservation and Science aims to publish original research of relevance and interest to the development of concepts pertaining to conservation science and management and is of pertinence to all individuals, researchers and scholars with an interest in conservation. All articles published in Koedoe are double-blind peer reviewed to ensure that the contents are understandable, valid, important, interesting and enjoyed. All manuscripts must be submitted online. All articles in Koedoe will be peer reviewed.

Operations coordinator contact: Title Operations Coordinator, email: submissions@koedoe.co.za; Tel: +27 (0)86 1000 381 Fax: (24 hours) +27 (0)86 5004 974.

Editor-in-chief contact: Dr Llewellyn Foxcroft, email: editor@koedoe.co.za

All submissions must be made online at www.koedoe.co.za

Note: Ensure that the article ID [reference] number is included in the subject of your email correspondence.

Format of compulsory cover page: Provide a short title of 50 characters or less and indicate briefly the significance of the work being reported. State the full name(s) and title(s) of the author(s) with the position, affiliation and contact details (postal address, email, telephone and cell number) of each author. Please identify the author to whom all correspondence should be addressed.

A student should normally be listed as the principal author on any multi-authored manuscripts derived from the student’s research, dissertation or thesis.

Include a paragraph briefly summarising the nature of the contribution made by each of the authors listed, along the lines of the following: Author contributions: J.K. was the project leader, L.M.N. and A.B. were responsible for experimental and project design. L.M.N. performed most of the experiments. P.R. made conceptual contributions and S.T., U.V. and C.D. performed some of the experiments. S.M. and V.C. prepared the samples and calculations were performed by C.S., J.K. and U.V. wrote the manuscript.

Authors are encouraged to provide the names and full contact details (including email) of two or three potential referees to evaluate the work (referees should not be people with whom the researcher has recently collaborated or published). Lastly, a list containing the number of pages of the manuscript and the number of tables, figures and/or other supplementary material should accompany the submission.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation will be provided below in “Comments to the Editor”).

2. This work is original and all third party contributions (images, ideas and results) have been duly attributed to the originator(s).

3. Permission to publish licensed material (e.g. tables, figures, graphs, measuring instruments) has been obtained and the letter of approval and proof of payment for royalties have been included in this submission.

4. The corresponding author is duly authorised to herewith grant the publisher unlimited rights to publish the work in any format and/or medium, whether for gain or any other purpose.

5. The text of the manuscript adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

6. All co-authors have made significant contributions to the manuscript to qualify as co-authors.
   

7. This manuscript reflects as a whole my/our own original work. All co-authors have made significant contributions to the manuscript to qualify as co-authors.

8. If the Editor-in-chief does not delegate the payment of the article processing fees to a third party the corresponding author, who submits the article, accepts responsibility for the payment once the manuscript has been accepted for publication. The corresponding author (or the Editor-in-chief where applicable) confirms that he/she will organize such payment should the article be accepted for publication. This responsibility may not be delegated to any other party without the written permission of either the publisher or the Editor-in-chief. The article will not be published until such full payment is received.

9. This manuscript contains only Unicode fonts. (Click here to read more on Unicode fonts, important to note that not using Unicode fonts will cause a delay in the processing of your article.)

10. The manuscript has been proofread by a linguistic expert in the applicable language.

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