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.

ESA Code of Ethics

Open Research

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

Open Research

Preprint Policy

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

Preprint Policy

Permissions

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

Guidelines for Submissions to ESA Journals Reusing material published in ESA Journals

Licensing and Publication Fees

For information on the requirements and available options, please check our Licensing and Publication Fee overviews.

Licensing Publication Fees

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.

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Promoting Your Paper

For information on promoting your paper, please visit the Public Affairs Office guide.

Promoting Your Paper

Plagiarism

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