Anthrozoös
Instructions for authors
This journal uses Editorial Manager to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for Editorial Manager authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.
Use these instructions if you are preparing a manuscript to submit to Anthrozoös. To explore our journals portfolio, visit http://www.tandfonline.com/, and for more author resources, visit our Author Services website.
Anthrozoös considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that
the manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.
the manuscript has been submitted only to Anthrozoös; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.
the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
Please note that Anthrozoös uses CrossCheck™ software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal material. By submitting your manuscript to Anthrozoös you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your manuscript may have to undergo during the peer-review and production processes.
Any author who fails to adhere to the above conditions will be charged with costs which Anthrozoös incurs for their manuscript at the discretion of Anthrozoös’s Editors and Taylor & Francis, and their manuscript will be rejected.
This journal is compliant with the Research Councils UK OA policy. Please see the licence options and embargo periods here.
Manuscript preparation
1. General guidelines
Please note: w e are not an animal behaviour or animal welfare journal, and we do not publish papers on the epidemiology of diseases, nor do we publish on zoonoses or on the housing of animals or non-human influences on animal behaviour. We also no longer publish clinical case studies or translations of existing psychometric scales. For intervention studies, we require that a control and/or comparison group was incorporated. Appropriate sample sizes are also required.
Anthrozoös is NOT an APA journal. We have our own style rules, although we do use APA guidelines for citations and references.
We are unable to accept unsolicited book reviews.
Formatting Requirements for Submissions
Abstracts of 250–300 words are required for all manuscripts submitted. Information on what is expected can be found in much more detail below.
A conflict of interest statement must appear below the title of the paper. Further information about what is required can be found at: http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/what-is-a-conflict-of-interest/
Each manuscript should have 3 to 5 keywords. Place these below the abstract.
A statement that the research was given ethical approval by the author’s institution must be provided in the methods section of the paper. If a code was given (e.g., IRB reference) this must be provided as well. If no ethical approval was required, this needs to be stated.
All papers must have line numbers and page numbers.
Text should be 12-point Times/Times New Roman.
Use double-line spacing throughout text and references.
Do not indent paragraphs or references. There should be a one-line gap between paragraphs and references.
Do not use footnotes. Instead, place notes at the end of the text before the references.
References should follow our guidelines: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/style/reference/tf_APA.pdf
Manuscripts are accepted in English. American English spelling and punctuation are preferred. Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”. Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented without quotation marks. Ensure your paper is relevant to the Journal - must focus on human-animal interaction/relationships. If in doubt, contact the editor. Inappropriate manuscripts will be declined and not reviewed.
Details of acceptable word counts for each type of article are listed below. Manuscripts that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length. Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page (please do not include author names, postal addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses or affiliations); conflicts of interest statement; abstract; keywords; main text; references; and as appropriate, table(s) with caption(s) (one per page); figure(s) with caption(s) (one per page); appendices.
Abstract guidelines
An abstract summarizes, in one paragraph, the major aspects of the entire paper in the following prescribed sequence:
1) T he question(s) you investigated (or purpose), (from your paper’s Introduction) – state the purpose very clearly in the first or second sentence.
2) The methods used, (from your paper’s Methods) – clearly express the basic design of the study, name or briefly describe the basic methodology used without going into excessive detail. Be sure to indicate the key techniques used.
3) the major findings including key quantitative/qualitative results, or trends (from your paper’s Results). R eport those results which answer the questions you were asking, identify trends, relative change or differences, etc..
4) a brief summary of your interpretations and conclusions. (from your paper’s Discussion) – clearly state the implications of the answers your results gave you.
Whereas the title can only make the simplest statement about the content of your article, the abstract allows you to elaborate more on each major aspect of the paper. The length of your abstract should be kept to about 250–300 words maximum. Limit your statements concerning each segment of the paper (i.e., purpose, methods, results, etc.) to two or three sentences, if possible. The abstract helps readers decide whether they want to read the rest of the paper, or it may be the only part they can obtain via electronic literature searches or in published abstracts. Therefore, enough key information (e.g., summary results, observations, trends, etc.) must be included to make the abstract useful to someone who may want to reference your work.
Use the active voice when possible, but much of it may require passive constructions. Use past tense.
The abstract should not contain:
lengthy background information
references to other literature
elliptical (i.e., ending with ...) or incomplete sentences
abbreviations or terms that may be confusing to readers
any sort of illustration, figure, or table, or references to them
How do you know when you have enough information in your abstract?
A simple rule-of-thumb is to imagine that you are another researcher doing a study similar to the one you are reporting. If your abstract was the only part of the paper you could access, would you be happy with the information presented there?
Check your work: once you have the completed abstract, check to make sure that the information in the abstract completely agrees with what is written in the paper. Confirm that all the information appearing in the abstract actually appears in the body of the paper.
General style notes
All papers must have line numbers and page numbers.
Text should be 12-point Times/Times New Roman.
Use double-line spacing throughout text and references.
There should be a one-line gap between paragraphs.
Do not use footnotes. Instead, place notes at the end of the text before the references.
Review Articles and Research Reports
Reviews—We accept critical reviews (systematic review or meta-analysis) of the literature on human-animal interaction. These should be no longer than 7,000 words in length (not including references or words in any tables or figures). Before submitting, authors must check with the editor that the review is needed/timely, as certain topics have already been extensively reviewed in the journal and elsewhere.
Research Reports—both quantitative and qualitative reports are encouraged. These should cover subjects falling within the scope of the Journal and can be up to 5,000 words in length.
Note: Word counts do not include tables, figures and references. Tables and figures must be kept to a minimum, though, and must not simply repeat what is written in the text. Appendices should only be included if absolutely necessary
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Section headings should be concise.
No authors should be listed in the article at first submission. When uploading your article into the submission system, please ensure all persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship are named as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.
Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms must not be used.
Authors must adhere to SI units . Units are not italicised.
When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
Authors must embed equations or image files within their manuscript at first submission.
2. Figures
For first submissions, images must be embedded in the Word document of your article. Images can be of low quality at this stage.
Once your article has been accepted, please provide the highest quality figure format possible. To improve the print and online display, please ensure that all figures and graphics are supplied at the appropriate resolutions listed below:
Minimum 1200 dpi for line art; Minimum 600 dpi for greyscale; Minimum 300 dpi for colour.
Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file.
Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly.
The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
3. Publication charges
Submission fee
There is no submission or publication fee for Anthrozoös.
Page charges
There are no page charges for Anthrozoös.
Colour charges
Colour figures will be reproduced in colour in the online edition of the journal free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in colour in the print version, a charge will apply. Charges for colour figures in print are £250 per figure ($395 US Dollars; $385 Australian Dollars; 315 Euros). For more than 4 colour figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($80 US Dollars; $75 Australian Dollars; 63 Euros).
Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to Value Added Tax.
4. Compliance with ethics of experimentation
Authors must ensure that research reported in submitted manuscripts has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner, in full compliance with all relevant codes of experimentation and legislation. All manuscripts which report in vivo experiments or clinical trials on humans or animals must include a written statement in the Methods section that such work was conducted with the formal approval of the local human subject or animal care committees, and that clinical trials have been registered as legislation requires.
Authors must confirm that any patient, service user, or participant (or that person’s parent or legal guardian) in any research, experiment or clinical trial who is described in the manuscript has given written consent to the inclusion of material pertaining to themselves, and that they acknowledge that they cannot be identified via the manuscript; and that authors have anonymised them and do not identify them in any way. Where such a person is deceased, authors must warrant they have obtained the written consent of the deceased person’s family or estate.
Authors must confirm that all mandatory laboratory health and safety procedures have been complied with in the course of conducting any experimental work reported in the manuscript; and that the manuscript contains all appropriate warnings concerning any specific and particular hazards that may be involved in carrying out experiments or procedures described in the manuscript or involved in instructions, materials, or formulae in the manuscript; and include explicitly relevant safety precautions; and cite, and if an accepted standard or code of practice is relevant, a reference to the relevant standard or code. Authors working in animal science may find it useful to consult the Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching
Conflicts of interest
Conflicts of Interest - Any personal, financial, or other potential or actual conflicts of interest relating to the study should be conveyed by the authors. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it .
5. Reproduction of copyright material
If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).
You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.
The reproduction of short extracts of text, excluding poetry and song lyrics, for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.
For further information and FAQs on the reproduction of copyright material, please consult our Guide.
Manuscript submission
Manuscripts for consideration should uploaded electronically to: http://www.edmgr.com/rfan/
Click here for information regarding anonymous peer review. Please note that it can take up to three months for articles to be reviewed.
Copyright and authors' rights
To assure the integrity, dissemination, and protection against copyright infringement of published articles, you will be asked to assign to International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ), via a Publishing Agreement, the copyright in your article. Your Article is defined as the final, definitive, and citable Version of Record, and includes:
the accepted manuscript in its final form, including the abstract, text, bibliography, and all accompanying tables, illustrations, data; and
any supplemental material hosted by Taylor & Francis. Our Publishing Agreement with you will constitute the entire agreement and the sole understanding between International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ) and you; no amendment, addendum, or other communication will be taken into account when interpreting your and International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ) rights and obligations under this Agreement.
Copyright policy is explained in detail here.
Free article access
As an author, you will receive free access to your article on Taylor & Francis Online. You will be given access to the My authored works section of Taylor & Francis Online, which shows you all your published articles. You can easily view, read, and download your published articles from there. In addition, if someone has cited your article, you will be able to see this information. We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article and have provided guidance on how you can help. Also within My authored works, author eprints allow you as an author to quickly and easily give anyone free access to the electronic version of your article so that your friends and contacts can read and download your published article for free. This applies to all authors (not just the corresponding author).
Reprints and journal copies
Corresponding authors can receive a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article.
Article reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when you receive your proofs. If you have any queries about reprints, please contact the Taylor & Francis Author Services team at reprints@tandf.co.uk . To order a copy of the issue containing your article, please contact our Customer Services team at OrderSupport@TandF.co.uk
6. Peer Review
Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.
Last updated 11/01/2019
