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2021年4月19日星期一
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AUTHOR GUIDELINES
1. SUBMISSION
Authors should note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium. Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online via the ScholarOne online editorial system.
By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at https://authorservices.wiley.com/statements/data-protection-policy.html.
2. AIMS AND SCOPE
Invertebrate Biology invites papers describing original, significant research focused on understanding any aspect of the biology of invertebrate animals (metazoans), including morphology and ultrastructure; genetics, phylogenetics, and evolution; physiology and ecology; neurobiology and behavior; biomechanics; reproduction and development; and cell and molecular biology. Although the journal has a significant history of publishing articles on protozoans and other organisms (as Transactions of the American Microscopical Society), since 1995 the title and the taxonomic focus of the journal has shifted to invertebrate animals.
The journal focuses on studies of the biology of invertebrates in nature, or studies that use laboratory methods to understand invertebrate diversity and adaptations. Studies of invertebrates used in medicine, agriculture, or aquaculture (especially studies of species that are mainly associated with human industrial activity) should have a significant component that is related to the biology of the study organisms in nature (or their adaptations for life). Authors of studies that have a purely applied context (e.g., behavior or physiology of agricultural organisms in a purely agricultural setting) are encouraged to submit those manuscripts to a journal focused on applied research.
We encourage authors to support the society that publishes Invertebrate Biology, and receive the journal in which their manuscript appears, by becoming a member of the American Microscopical Society. (See also Wiley Online Library.)
3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES
Submissions to Invertebrate Biology fall into four main types: Research Article, Review Article, Book Review, and Description of a New Method.
Research Articles must be based on complete studies that represent a substantive advance in knowledge of the organisms.
Review Articles and Book Reviews are welcomed. Authors are encouraged to consult the editor-in-chief before submitting a manuscript in these categories.
Descriptions of a New Method may be considered for publication. Such manuscripts are expected to fulfill two criteria: first, the new method must be shown to work; second, the new method must either satisfy a problem of broad general application in research on invertebrates, or the new method must be applied to the study of some specific aspect of the biology of the study organism(s). Authors of manuscripts that describe a new method are encouraged to explain in a cover letter how the manuscript fulfills those criteria.
New species descriptions and taxonomic revisions may form a secondary component of a research article in which the primary focus of the study is some aspect of the biology (rather than the classification) of the organisms. Authors of alpha taxonomy studies are encouraged to submit instead to one of the appropriate journals focused on species descriptions and classification.
4. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION
A manuscript must adhere to Invertebrate Biology guidelines before it will be approved and sent out for review.
Parts of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: main text file; figures; tables; supporting information files.
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through ScholarOne at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/InvBio
Contact information, including working email addresses for all authors, must be provided as part of the ScholarOne manuscript submission process. Submitted manuscripts may be rejected by the editor-in-chief without this information. The corresponding author must provide an ORCID identifier; coauthors are encouraged to provide ORCID identifiers as well.
Main Text File
The text file should be uploaded and presented in the following order:
i. Cover Page and keywords;
ii. Abstract;
iii. A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
iv. A short running title of less than 40 characters;
v. The full names of the authors;
vi. The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
vii. Main text;
viii. Acknowledgements;
ix. References;
x. Illustrations (Table, each table complete with title and footnotes, Figures, etc.);
xi. Figure Legends;
xii. Supporting information files (if relevant).
Figures and supporting information must be supplied as separate files.
Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility.
Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Cover Page
The first manuscript page should be a cover page that includes the manuscript title; full names and institutional affiliations for each author; full contact information for the corresponding author.
Keywords
On the Cover Page, include five additional keywords not in the title.
Abstract
The second page should include an Abstract that summarizes the main findings, conclusions, and significance of the work in a concise and informative way.
Headings
Four main headings of the manuscript are numbered sequentially: 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. METHODS; 3. RESULTS; 4. DISCUSSION. Subheadings are numbered sequentially within each main heading (e.g., 2.1 Study location; 2.1.2 Sample sites). Subheadings should be no more than 40 characters.
Main Text
Manuscripts must be written in clear, concise English. Manuscript text files should be double-spaced, with margins of 2.5 cm. Please use SI and metric units throughout: hr, hour; min, minute; s, second; ms, millisecond; L, liter; ml, milliliter; °C, degrees Celsius (please use the degree symbol, not a superscript “o”). For ratio units use a slash (e.g., “mg/kg”), but for compound ratios use superscripts (e.g., “mg kg-1 hr-1”). Use the unit of measurement as the abbreviation, not the name of the variable (e.g., “hr” or “min” for time, not “t”). Authors are asked to avoid using slash phrases such as “and/or”. Latin abbreviations such as “e.g.,”, “i.e.,” and “etc.” should be used in parenthetical phrases only.
Acknowledgments
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
References
The references should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) (7th edition, 2020). This means in-text citations should follow the author-date style in which the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998). Articles with one or two authors include all names in every in-text citation; articles with three or more authors abbreviate to the first author name plus et al. Include the year in the indirect repeated citations, for example, Several studies (Smith & John, 2005a, 2005b; Smith 2003a, 2003b).
If two references with same year shorten to the same form, cite the surnames of the first authors and of as many of the subsequent authors as necessary to distinguish the two references, followed by a comma and et al., for example, Bradley, Ramirez, and Soo (1994) and Bradley, Soo, et al. (1994).
If two references with six or more authors shorten to the same form, cite the surnames of the first authors and of as many of the subsequent authors as necessary to distinguish the two references, followed by a comma and et al. For example if references ‘Barrett, Koenig, Cave, Tang, Lane, and Gabriel (1996)’ and ‘Barrett, Koenig, Wood, Kengman, Mosy, and Daly (1996)’ appears in list, then these can be cited, respectively, as follows: Barrett, Koenig, Cave, et al. (1996) and Barrett, Koenig, Wood, et al. (1996).
The complete reference list should be sorted alphabetically by name and appear at the end of the manuscript. Please note that for journal articles, issue numbers are not included unless each issue in the volume begins with page 1, and a DOI should be provided for all references where available. For more information about APA referencing style, please refer to the APA FAQ.
Reference examples follow:
Journal Article:
Audrain-McGovern, J., Lerman, C., Wileyto, E. P., Rodriguez, D., & Shields, P. G. (2004). Interacting effects of genetic predisposition: Depression on adolescent smoking progression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 1224–1230.
Note: delete issue numbers for journals with consecutive pagination within a volume.
Surnames and initials for up to 20 authors should be provided in the reference list. If there are more than 20 authors, then list 19 authors, with ellipses, followed by last author:
Pegion, K., Kirtman, B. P., Becker, E., Collins, D. C., LaJoie, E., Burgman, R., Bell, R., DelSole, R., Min, D., Zhu, Y., Li, W., Sinsky, E., Guan, H., Gottschalck, J., Metzger, E. J., Barton, N. P., Achuthavarier, D., Marshak, J., Koster, R., . . . Kim, H. (2019). The subseasonal experiment (SubX): A multimodel subseasonal prediction experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(10), 2043–2061.
Book:
The publisher location is no longer included in the reference.
Covey, S. R. (2013). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Powerful lessons in personal change. Simon & Schuster.
Book Chapter:
Harrison, P. L. (2011). Sexual reproduction of scleractinian corals. In Z. Dubinsky & N. Stambler (Eds.), Coral reefs: An ecosystem in transition (pp. 59–85). Springer.
Illustrations
Whenever practical, data should be presented in graphs rather than tables. Authors are encouraged to design tables and figures with the final journal page size in mind: each item should be formatted so that it is at least 85 mm wide (the width of a single column in the two-column journal layout); no more than 175 mm wide (the full-page width); and no more than 230 mm high (the full-page height). All elements of each table or figure (letters, structures, labels, symbols) must be large enough (at least 1.5 mm high) to be clear and readable at final size.
Tables must be submitted as text (not as an image, or a PDF). Authors are asked to use the Microsoft Word table formatting tools (or other similar format). Please do not make tables out of tab-delimited text. Each table should be numbered sequentially in the order in which it is referred to in the main text.
Tables should be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text.
Figures
Invertebrate Biology now accepts embedded rich media files (video, audio) as figures. Video/audio files should be submitted along with the article itself, the transcript, and any other files at point of submission. The maximum file size for submitting audio or video content is 300 MB with a maximum duration of 5 minutes (note: the combined manuscript files for a submission, including video, audio, tables, figures, and text must not exceed 350 MB). Please refer to the embedded rich media author submission guidelines here for the complete instructions.
See also the additional instructions at the File Upload step on ScholarOne during the manuscript submission process.
Although authors are encouraged to send the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes, a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions are acceptable. Click here for the basic figure requirements for figures submitted with manuscripts for initial peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements.
Figures must be submitted in publication-ready form. Each figure should be numbered sequentially in the order in which it is referred to in the main text. Each figure must be uploaded as an individual electronic file, one file per numbered figure. Additionally, figures may be inserted into the main text file if desired (reviewers often find it helpful to see the figure alongside the relevant text). Please use the RGB color palette for color figures; please save figures without color content as grayscale (to reduce file sizes and upload times).
Figures composed as pixel-based images (e.g., photographs, micrographs, drawings) can be submitted as bitmaps in Tagged Image File Format (.tif), PNG (.png), or JPEG (.jpeg).TIFF images should have dimensions of at least 85 mm wide, up to 175 mm wide and up to 230 mm high, with a resolution at those dimensions of at least 300 dpi (for RGB color) or 500 dpi (for grayscale images). Micrographs, maps, anatomical drawings, and similar images should each include a scale bar in the figure and its value in the figure or the legend; please do not use expressions of magnification. Please also refer to the figure preparation guidelines here for complete intstructions and submission checklist.
Maps or charts should not be based on Google Earth, Google Maps, or other copyright materials or data without express consent of the copyright holder. Authors are encouraged to draw maps or charts of study areas by using open-source tools and data, or using maps and charts that are in the public domain.
Figures composed as line art or data illustrations (e.g., scatterplots, bar graphs, box-and-whisker plots, regressions) should be submitted as vector graphics in Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) format or in PDF format. Data graphics with color content should use the RGB color palette. It is acceptable but less desirable to submit line art as TIFF images; for line art submitted in TIFF format, the minimum acceptable resolution is 1200 dpi at final published size (at least 85 mm wide, up to 175 mm wide, up to 230 mm high).
Figures composed from multiple parts or panels must be submitted as a single electronic file (not as separate panels or parts). Each panel should be sequentially labeled with an upper-case letter (“A”, “B”, etc.) without parentheses or other characters (e.g., not “(A)” or “B)”). Figures composed from both color and grayscale images should be submitted at the higher resolution (i.e., 500 dpi); figures composed from both line art and bitmaps (e.g., data graphics plus micrographs) should be submitted as a TIFF bitmap at the highest resolution (i.e., 1200 dpi). Authors are encouraged to avoid placing a frame or box around individual panels in multipart figures, except where the frame adds information (e.g., frames that show latitude and longitude on maps or charts, or gutters that separate histological images from each other).
Wherever possible, authors should adopt a uniform style for labeling panels in multipart figures, structures in micrographs or anatomical drawings, locations on maps, or differences among treatment groups in data graphics (e.g., upper-case letters for panels in the upper-right corner of each panel; scale bars for each panel in the lower left corner). To avoid confusion between labels for panels and labels for other elements, please use lower-case letters or abbreviated phrases for anatomical structures and other elements (e.g., “a” or “ant”), or to indicate differences among treatment groups (e.g., “a”, “b”, etc.); use upper-case letters (“A”, “B”, etc.) for panel labels only.
Full-page multipanel figures with high-resolution bitmap images may be large files. LZW compression (e.g., in Photoshop) can be used to reduce file size without affecting image quality. Further information on preparing electronic figures is available at Wiley Author Services. Authors can also consult the editor-in-chief for advice on preparing figures.
Authors are encouraged to submit additional, unlabeled photographs or drawings as possible cover illustrations.
For each species studied, the complete scientific name with taxonomic authority and date should be given; for example,Ostrea edulis LINNAEUS 1758 for a species and its original taxonomic description; or Pisaster brevispinus (STIMPSON 1857), for a species with a revised taxonomic description or genus assignment. Use SMALL CAPS for the taxonomic authority, and do not use a comma to separate the taxonomic authority from the year; this formatting helps to distinguish the taxonomic authority from the names of authors of cited reference works. For marine invertebrates, authors are encouraged to use the World Register of Marine Species as an authoritative source for up-to-date species names, taxonomic authorities, and classification.
The complete species name and taxonomic authority for the species studied should be given either at the first mention in the main text of the manuscript or in 2. METHODS, but not in the title or abstract. Use the full binomial (Ostrea edulis) at the first mention in each section of the paper, and then abbreviate (O. edulis, not Ostrea unless referring to the genus). The scientific name of any taxon is capitalized and treated as a singular noun, not a plural or an adjective (e.g., “Cancer productus is a wide-spread species”, not “Cancer productus are widespread.”). In particular, authors should avoid using taxon names as adjective phrases (e.g., “the chelae of C. productus”, not “C. productus chelae”).
Figure Legends
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define or explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Color figures
Figures submitted in colour may be reproduced in color online free of charge. Please note, however, that it is preferable that line figures (e.g. graphs and charts) are supplied in black and white so that they are legible if printed by a reader in black and white.
Additional Files
Supporting Information files
Supporting information files are not essential to the article, but provide greater depth and background. They are hosted online and appear without editing or typesetting. They may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc.
Files containing supporting information can be uploaded to a third-party repository (e.g., Dryad, FigShare, GitHub) or can be uploaded with the other manuscript files as Supporting Information files and hosted with the full-text article on Wiley Online Library. Please cite digital object identifiers (DOI) or accession numbers in 2. METHODS (or elsewhere as appropriate) for files uploaded to a third-party repository. Authors are encouraged to consult repository-vetting sites such as re3data.org or fairsharing.org for help in identifying registered and certified data repositories relevant to any specific discipline or subject area.
For files to be hosted on Wiley Online Library and accessed via the full-text article, please add an additional section following the References and before the Figure legends, using the formatting shown below. Please include the name of each supporting information item and a brief description or caption. Each item should be numbered sequentially in the order in which it is cited in the main text (e.g., Appendix S1, etc.). At the first mention in the main text of any supporting information file, please use the full name (e.g., “(see Supporting Information Figure S1)”, and for all subsequent instances use just the name of each item (e.g., “(see Figure S1)”). Links to each item in the list will be added to the full-text version of the article. No specific format is prescribed for supporting information files; authors are encouraged to adopt a clear and consistent style for the organization and presentation of data and other supplementary information.
Example:
Additional Supporting Information may be found online in the supporting tab for this article.
FIGURE S1 Brief text description of this figure
FIGURE S2 Brief text description of this figure
TABLE S1 Brief text description of this table
APPENDIX S1 Brief text description of this dataset or text file
VIDEO S1 Brief text description of this video
Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.
Note: if data, scripts, or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper.
General Style Points
The following points provide general advice on formatting and style.
Abbreviations: In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader. Initially, use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation only.
Units of measurement: Measurements should be given in SI or SI-derived units. Visit the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) website for more information about SI units.
Numbers: numbers under 10 are spelt out, except for: measurements with a unit (8 mmol/l); age (6 weeks old), or lists with other numbers (11 arthropods, 9 annelids, 4 molluscs).
Trade Names: Chemical substances should be referred to by the generic name only. Trade names should not be used. Drugs should be referred to by their generic names. If proprietary drugs have been used in the study, refer to these by their generic name, mentioning the proprietary name and the name and location of the manufacturer in parentheses.
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Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.
5. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Peer Review and Acceptance
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to journal readership. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.
Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.
Animal Studies
A statement indicating that the protocol and procedures employed were ethically reviewed and approved, as well as the name of the body giving approval, must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript. Authors are encouraged to adhere to animal research reporting standards, for example the ARRIVE guidelines for reporting study design and statistical analysis; experimental procedures; experimental animals and housing and husbandry. Authors should also state whether experiments were performed in accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals:
• US authors should cite compliance with the US National Research Council's Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, the US Public Health Service's Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
• UK authors should conform to UK legislation under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations (SI 2012/3039).
• European authors outside the UK should conform to Directive 2010/63/EU.
Species Names
Upon its first use in the title, abstract, and text, the common name of a species should be followed by the scientific name (genus, species, and authority) in parentheses. For well-known species, however, scientific names may be omitted from article titles. If no common name exists in English, only the scientific name should be used.
Genetic Nomenclature
Sequence variants should be described in the text and tables using both DNA and protein designations whenever appropriate; gene names should be italicized; protein names should be in plain type face. Sequence variant nomenclature must follow the current HGVS guidelines; see varnomen.hgvs.org, where examples of acceptable nomenclature are provided.
Sequence Data
Nucleotide sequence data can be submitted in electronic form to any of the three major collaborative databases (DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank). Genome or transcriptome sequences should be uploaded to a suitable data archive (e.g., Sequence Read Archive); assemblies may also be uploaded to an online repository (e.g., Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly Database). The suggested wording for referring to accession-number information is: “These sequence data have been submitted to the GenBank databases under accession number U12345”.
Structural Data
For papers describing structural data, atomic coordinates and the associated experimental data should be deposited in the appropriate databank (see below). Please note that the data in databanks must be released, at the latest, upon publication of the article. We trust in the cooperation of our authors to ensure that atomic coordinates and experimental data are released on time.
Organic and organometallic compounds: Crystallographic data should not be sent as Supporting Information, but should be deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) at ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure%5Fdeposit.
Inorganic compounds: Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ; fiz-karlsruhe.de).
Proteins and nucleic acids: Protein Data Bank (rcsb.org/pdb).
NMR spectroscopy data: BioMagResBank (bmrb.wisc.edu).
Conflict of Interest
The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to: patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.
Funding
Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature: https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/
Authorship
The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and how. Only individuals who meet all four of the criteria below qualify for authorship (and all individuals who fulfill the criteria should be included as authors). Each author should have:
Made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; and
Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
Given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and
Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section (for example, to recognize contributions from people who provided technical help, collation of data, writing assistance, acquisition of funding, or a department chairperson who provided general support). Prior to submitting the article all authors should agree on the order in which their names will be listed in the manuscript.
Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
Please review Wiley’s policy here. This journal encourages data sharing.
Authors are strongly encouraged to share the data, scripts, code, and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving them in an appropriate public repository. Authors may provide a data availability statement, including a link to the repository and persistent identifier(s), in order that this statement can appear in the published paper. Shared data should be cited.
Sample statements are available here. If published, statements will be placed in the heading of your manuscript.
Publication Ethics
This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices)”
Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.
ORCID
As part of the journal’s commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, the journal encourages the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. Find more information here.
6. AUTHOR LICENSING
Authors of accepted articles will be required to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) form. The CTA will allow the publisher to publish the article, to administer rights, and to follow up on any infringements of copyright.
After each article is accepted, the corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompt to login to Author Services and use the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors of the paper.
Authors may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or OnlineOpen under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
General information regarding licensing and copyright is available here. To review the Creative Commons License options offered under OnlineOpen, please click here. (Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used; to check this please click here.)
For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement:
If the OnlineOpen option is not selected, the corresponding author will be presented with the CTA to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs.
For authors choosing OnlineOpen:
OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With OnlineOpen, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive.
Authors are not asked or encouraged to indicate a preference for OnlineOpen before acceptance of the manuscript for publication. All manuscripts are peer reviewed in the same way and accepted or rejected based on the merits of the research, not based on the payment of the open-access fee.
If the OnlineOpen option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC-BY-NC) OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License (CC-BY-NC-ND) OAA
General information regarding licensing and copyright is available on the Wiley Author Services and the Wiley Open Access websites.
7. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE
Accepted Article Received in Production
When an accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. The author will be asked to sign a publication license at this point.
Accepted Articles
Accepted manuscripts go through two stages before publication: 1) final edit by journal staff and the EIC for content-related issues and general formatting; this stage uses the First Look function in ScholarOne to facilitate updating of manuscript files, figures, and tables; and 2) copyediting and typesetting by the publisher’s production staff. Authors have an opportunity to review, approve, and edit the accepted article at both stages. Authors will receive a content-edited version of their manuscript within approximately 1 month after acceptance. Authors will have 1 week to upload their final version of the manuscript based on changes directed by the content editor and the EIC. Manuscripts will not be assigned to an issue until the final version has been received. All correspondence is conducted via email, so authors should make sure their email address within the ScholarOne database is current at all times.
The journal offers Wiley’s Accepted Articles service for all manuscripts. This service ensures that accepted ‘in press’ manuscripts are published online shortly after acceptance, prior to copy-editing or typesetting. Accepted Articles are published online a few days after final acceptance, appear in PDF format only, and are given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows them to be cited and tracked. After publication of the final version article (the article of record), the DOI remains valid and can still be used to cite and access the article.
Proofs
Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors. Online guidelines are provided within the system. No special software is required, most common browsers are supported. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Review and correction of a PDF (rather than HTML) proof, and return of that proof via e-mail, is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.
ELocators
This journal now uses eLocators (not page numbers) for individual articles. eLocators are unique identifies for an article that serve the same function page numbers have traditionally served in the print world. When citing the published article, please insert the eLocator in place of the page number. For more information, please visit the Author Services eLocator page here.
8. POST-PUBLICATION
Access and Sharing
Please review Wiley’s guidelines on sharing your research here.
Invertebrate Biology is published in an online-only format. Print copies of single issues can be purchased from Wiley’s Print-on-Demand Partner. To order online, please visit Sheridan On Demand. Members of the American Microscopical Society are eligible for discounts on print orders.
When the article is published online:
The author receives an email alert (if requested).
The link to the published article can be shared through social media.
The author will have free access to the paper (after accepting the Terms & Conditions of use, they can view the article).
The corresponding author and co-authors can nominate up to ten colleagues to receivea publication alert and free online access to the article.
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Article Promotion Support
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