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Prepare your manuscript for The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.

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Article types

Review
Perspective
Book Review
Review Article
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Letter
Lectio

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 350 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 350 words.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 250 words.
  • There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to evaluate a manuscript: abstract, author affiliation, figures, tables, funder information, and references.
  • If you or your co-authors cannot provide a second language abstract, please indicate your choice of Spanish, Portuguese, or French and the Wilson Ornithological Society will provide a translation (default is Spanish if no preference is given).
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page, abstract, translated abstract (optional), text, acknowledgments, research ethics declarations, literature cited, tables, figure captions, and figures.

Keywords

  • Provide 5-7 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Should contain between 5 and 7 keywords.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • For manuscripts submitted in LaTeX format a.bib reference file must be included.
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  • All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
  • Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • Each reference cited in the text must be listed in the Literature cited section and vice versa.
  • Conditions: Authors must carefully line-edit translations, critically assess AI-generated feedback on grammar, and read and engage with all references, such that the authors are responsible for every part of the submitted manuscript.
  • Authors must include the following declarations in a cover letter: Ideas and expressions of others are correctly identified with citations and in-text quotes.
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: Standard Time zone (e.g., EST for Eastern Standard Time) should be specified at first reference to time of day.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
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  • Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable refereeing.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Each table and figure must have a title or caption that is self-explanatory without recourse to the text.
  • Cite each figure and table in the text in numerical order.
  • Do not use a tab-delimited format or insert tables as Excel objects.
  • Do not include symbols (lines, dots, triangles, etc.) in figure captions.
  • All illustrations should be possible to interpret in grayscale.
  • Do not use boldface font for figure keys or axis labels.
  • You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files." Figures and tables can be placed within the text or submitted as separate documents.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Include or confirm the data availability statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Authors must confirm in Methods that they obtained free, prior, and informed consent from participants.
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  • Authors must follow an established ethics protocol, for example: the Latin American Society of Ethnobiology’s Code of Ethics.

Cover letter

  • Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
  • Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
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  • The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.
  • Authors must include the following declarations in a cover letter: All coauthors approved the manuscript (or a machine-translated version) prior to submission.
  • Authors must include the following declarations in a cover letter: All data presented in the manuscript belong to the authors, or are used with the explicit permission and attribution of the owners.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Should be no more than 20 pages.
  • It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
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  • These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: 12-point Times New Roman font (for text).
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: no “naked” decimals (use 0.01 not.01).
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: Use continental dating (e.g., 29 May 2004).
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: Use the 24 h clock without a colon (e.g., 0800 h, 2315 h).
  • Cite an established taxonomic authority if there is systematic or nomenclatural ambiguity; otherwise, do not list taxonomic authorities.
  • Do not list professional titles (Dr., etc.) for individuals.
  • You must confirm that all people named in the acknowledgments have agreed to be mentioned.
  • They should include scale bar, North arrow, coordinates, country names, and location of study area.
  • For revised manuscripts, you must include a point-by-point response to each comment made by the reviewers and editor(s).
  • Include the new line numbers so that editors can easily find the changes.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Use lower case for the common names of other organisms (e.g., mole crab, ponderosa pine) unless they are proper names (e.g., Douglas-fir, Couch’s spadefoot, Argentinean wedge clam).
  • Maps must be interpretable in greyscale.
  • However, the Wilson Ornithological Society and The W ilson J ournal of O rnithology also appreciate that authors may need to maintain proprietary access to the data underlying their current and future studies, so we do not require authors to publicly archive their data and we leave the decision to the authors’ professional discretion.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: None.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Essay format.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: double-spaced.
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: left-justified.
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: continuous line numbering.
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: page numbering.
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: provide coordinates for your study area (latitude and longitude or UTM).
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: all measurements in International System of Units (SI).
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: Use the term "sex" rather than "gender" for non-human organisms.
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: In text, do not abbreviate day of the week or month.
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: write in active voice whenever possible (“We inspected nests…” not “Nests were inspected…”).
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: If a specific piece of equipment is important for replicability of your study, include the model and website.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Statistical reporting

  • Include or confirm the statistical reporting required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • All manuscripts should follow the Wilson Ornithological Society's policy on the use of generative AI.
  • All uses of generative AI must be disclosed, in detail, in the Generative AI Statement (see below section) when the paper is submitted.
  • These uses must be disclosed in the Generative AI statement (see below section for details).
  • If replication of your study requires a detailed description of generative AI use, include this description in the Methods section.
  • We allow the use of generative AI in coding, under the following conditions: The author understands what they want to achieve and knows the workflow required to accomplish it.
  • We allow the use of generative AI in coding, under the following conditions: The author must disclose the use of generative AI in the Methods section (model, version, how it was used), and explain how they verified the code and its output to ensure accuracy.

Language and text style

  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: Define and write out acronyms and abbreviations the first time they appear in text; abbreviate thereafter: “Second-year (SY) birds.
  • We do not accept or reject manuscripts based on the quality of English narrative.

Manuscript structure

  • Major Articles should have all first-level headings listed here: Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, and Literature cited; no heading for Introduction.
  • All gene or amino acid sequences must be deposited in GenBank or an equivalent repository and the accession number(s) reported in the Methods.

Blinded manuscript

  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.

Article type and manuscript length

  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: abstract text length appropriate to the manuscript type and includes justification, objectives, methods, sample size, country of study (or region if >1 country), results, and implications.
  • For a first submission, the manuscript must meet the following technical standards: section headings and length appropriate to the manuscript type.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 350 words
Keywords: 5-7 keywords
Cover letter: requested
Declarations: Ethics, Artificial intelligence
Format: 12 pt, Times New Roman, double spacing

Source transparency

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