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| Instructions
for reviewers |
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Conservation
and Society is an interdisciplinary journal that aims to
receive contributions from conservation professionals from
a variety of disciplines. Quality peer reviews are therefore
critical for maintaining the high standard of the journal.
We appreciate the considerable time and effort that our
reviewers put in, at the same time we request you to be
fair and prompt and to evaluate the manuscripts carefully. |
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As
the manuscript is a privileged communication, we request
our reviewers to maintain confidentiality. However, you
can solicit help to clarify a technical point. If you feel
that a colleague is more qualified to carry out the review,
please inform the Editor and seek permission to transfer
the manuscript. If there is a conflict of interest or if
you feel that you may not be able to give an unbiased review,
please contact the Editor. We expect our reviewers to review
manuscripts within three weeks. If you cannot review a manuscript
within the given time period, please inform the Editor. |
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Apart
from filling in the rating form, reviewers are encouraged
to give general as well as specific comments to the author(s)
in order to help improve the quality of the manuscript.
General comments should address the overall merit of the
manuscript, the relevance of the article to the readership
of the journal, originality, organisation and clarity, and
length. In addition, reviewers are encouraged to give specific
comments on statistical methods, design and analysis, interpretation
of results, citations, errors and overlap with previously
published papers. A very important criterion that should
be evaluated for all submissions is whether the article
will be comprehensible to its interdisciplinary readership
(and if not, comments to improve this aspect). |
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Reviewers
are given the option to remain anonymous. If you wish to
do so, make sure that you remove any clues to your identity
such as marked stationary, comment boxes in electronic files
that contain a user id, and of course signing your name
by mistake. While using a track changes option or using
comment boxes, please make sure that you reset the user
information using the ‘tools’ and ‘options’
menu. While we place a great deal of trust in out reviewers,
we request you once again to give a fair and objective review
of each manuscript (and not the author). |
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