{"id":49,"date":"2021-09-22T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications-preprod\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-09-22T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:16:16","slug":"prepare-paper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/be-an-author\/prepare-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare a Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading prepare-a-paper\">Prepare a Paper<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you prepare your manuscript for submission to an ESA publication, you should review our formatting requirements and make sure you fulfill all the requirements of our <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/data-policy\/\">Open Research policy<\/a>. In addition, you should review the various other <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/our-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESA policies regarding publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authors submitting a manuscript should review the guidelines specific to the journal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/hub\/journal\/19399170\/author-guidelines\">Ecology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/hub\/journal\/19395582\/author-guidelines\">Ecological Applications<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/hub\/journal\/15577015\/author-guidelines\">Ecological Monographs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/hub\/journal\/21508925\/author-guidelines\">Ecosphere<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/hub\/journal\/15409309\/resources\/author-guidelines-FEE\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/hub\/journal\/15409309\/resources\/author-guidelines-FEE\">Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/hub\/journal\/28353617\/author-guidelines\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/hub\/journal\/28353617\/author-guidelines\">Earth Stewardship<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/hub\/journal\/23276096\/author-guidelines\">The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authors may be contacted at any point during the submission process to correct any errors in their submission, at the discretion of the journal\u2019s editorial staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepare a Paper As you prepare your manuscript for submission to an ESA publication, you should review our formatting requirements and make sure you fulfill all the requirements of our Open Research policy. In addition, you should review the various other ESA policies regarding publishing. Authors submitting a manuscript should review the guidelines specific to the journal. Ecology Ecological Applications&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45676,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/45676"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}