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Our Policies

Authors, Reviewers, and Editors are required to follow these policies put in place by the Ecological Society of America.

ESA Code of Ethics

Before submitting your manuscript, you should review and ensure you adhere to the ESA Code of Ethics with regards to publishing.

Open Research

Before submitting your manuscript, you should ensure your underlying data and code meet ESA’s open research requirements.

Preprint Policy

Review our preprint policy for guidelines on sharing your manuscript on a preprint server.

Permissions

Information is provided here for reusing materials published in ESA Journals and for including previously published material in a submission to ESA Journals.

Licensing and Publication Fees

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COPE Guidelines

ESA publications staff and Editors refer to COPE guidelines when applicable to resolve any issues that may arise during the peer review or publication process.

Promoting Your Paper

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Plagiarism

Ithenticate’s CrossCheck software is available to editorial staff to use to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

Review our policy on using artificial intelligence (AI) in publishing.