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Author Guidelines
View the videos on the role of an author:  Submit your manuscript to the journal
To download, instructions to authors for structuring your article:
Please see the journal’s section policies for further details. Download, documentation to be completed and submitted in Step 4 of the submission process:
Review policy and timelines
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.
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.
The following contributions are accepted (word counts exclude abstracts, tables and references):
Please see the journal’s section policies for further details. |
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.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). - This work is original and all third party contributions (images, ideas and results) have been duly attributed to the originator(s).
Permission to publish licensed material (tables, figures, graphs) has been obtained and the letter of approval and proof of payment for royalties have been included in this submission. - 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.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which are found in About the Journal. - All co-authors have made significant contributions to the manuscript to qualify as co-authors.
All supplementary files such as survey instruments or scanned photographs are separated from the main text and will be uploaded as supplementary files. - Ethics committee approval has been obtained for original studies and is clearly stated in the methodology.
A conflict of interest statement has been included where appropriate. - If applicable, the submitting author is responsible for the payment of the Article Processing Fees. The submitting author confirms at this time of submission that they will organise payment should the article be accepted for publication. This responsibility may not be delegated to any third party. Peer review will not commence before this confirmation has been received. The article will not be published until full payment is received.
We ask that you please submit your article conservation application/implication section of 150 words as a supplementary file, in Step 4 of the submission process.
Copyright Notice
Copyright on published articles is reserved by the author. The exclusive responsibility in respect of the acknowledgment of author's rights and/or copyright rests in the responsible author(s). The Editor and reviewers of this journal cannot accept responsibility for the infringement of author's rights or copyright.
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered into this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Author Fees
This journal charges the following author fees.
Output Article Publication Author Page fee: 377.95 (ZAR)
Article Publication Fee Per Page, for online only supplementary Tables/Figures: 80.00 [ZAR]
OpenJournals Publishing is an author pays publisher, which supports our underlying ethos to make research freely available to the public to support a greater global exchange of knowledge.
| In an endeavour to enhance their support for conservation globally, SANParks have implemented a sponsorship system for all authors submitting to Koedoe. |
Authors can submit articles without incurring any cost towards publication if the article falls within the sponsorship policy.
| Policy SANParks sponsors articles under the following conditions: 1. Article falls within the journal’s focus area 2. Article conforms to the instructions to authors in terms of length and other requirements 3. The length of the article is less than or equal to 10 pages in its published format. [Note: SANParks will sponsor the first 10 output pages of the manuscript, and authors will be billed for each page thereafter.] |
The decision to hold back the SANParks sponsorship is at the discretion of the Editorial Board and can be acted upon if the submission does not fall within the conditions. Funding for these articles will be retrieved from the author.
Publishing with open access is not without costs. OpenJournals Publishing defrays those costs from Article Processing Fees, because we do not have subscription charges for our research content, believing instead that immediate, world-wide, barrier-free, open access to the full text of research articles is in the best interests of the scientific community and the public at large.
The submitting author is responsible for the payment of the Article Processing Fees. The submitting author must confirm at the time of submission that they will organise payment should the article be accepted for publication. This responsibility may not be delegated to any third party unless agreed to by the publisher.
Following peer review, once a manuscript has received editorial acceptance in principle, the Article Processing Fees become payable, and formatting checks (copyediting, layout editing and proofreading) on the manuscript will commence. Once these are completed, and full payment of the Article Processing Fees has been received, the article will be published.
The Article Processing Fees are due within a maximum of 30 days of the manuscript receiving editorial acceptance in principle. Payment can be made by credit card payment, electronic funds transfer or check.
Prompt payment is advised, as the article will not be published until full payment is received. If payment is made by electronic funds transfer from a non-South African bank account, the submitting author will be responsible for any bank transfer charges at the time of the transaction. In all cases a receipt will be sent by email once payment has been received.
Fees may be waived if authors have insufficient funds, as OJP does not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work. For further information contact info@openjournals.net
Note: Please ensure that the article ID [reference] number is included in the subject of your email correspondence.
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