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Author Guidelines

Submissions

The online submission mentioned above is not yet implemented in Rangifer. We expect to implement online submission later on and until then, manuscripts should be sent as e-mail attachments to the editor.

Online publishing and quality

From Vol. 28 (2008), Rangifer will primarily be an online journal (ISSN: 1890-6729). This change does not alter the journal's demand for high quality publishing.

Language and proofs

Manuscripts will be in English. When submitting all authors shall accept the manuscript by signing. It is the authors' responsibility to submit manuscripts in as complete and perfect condition as possible. Use linguistic consultant(s). Authors are fully responsible for checking all material for accuracy. The authors also have to be much careful in preparing manuscripts, there should be "none" corrections after the manuscripts have been submitted. Only mistakes done by the printers are to be corrected in the proof reading.

Set up

* The manuscript shall include title, authors, their addresses and the email address of the corresponding author. On separate sheet, state name and complete address, fax number, telephone number and email address of the person who is to receive editorial correspondence.

* The frame of a manuscript will depend on field and subject and not all contributions will follow the manuscript format. The usual format consists of the following main chapters: introduction, material and methods, results, discussion and references.

* Abstract and relevant key words are placed before the main chapters. Key words in alphabetical order will include words that occur in the title of the paper. Nordic authors should also prepare an abstract and title in their own language.

* References given in the text shall be written: Smith (1994), (Smith, 1994), (Smith & Jones, 1994) or (Smith et al., 1994). Use a semicolon between references: (Smith, 1994; Smith & Jones, 1995; Smith et al., 1996) and put references in chronological order.

* The reference chapter shall be listed alphabetically according to the author: Holleman, D. F., Luick, J. R. & White, R. G. 1979. Lichen estimates for reindeer and caribou during winter. – J. Wildl. Manage. 43 (1): 192-201. (43 volume number, (1) number in volume series (can be omitted) and: 192-201 page numbers). You can also provide full journal names (NB: – dash before the journal name).

* Use metric units. Follow the accepted nomenclature of the International Symbol of Units. Numbers shall be written as: 739 847.34. Numbers 10 000 or greater shall be typed with spaces to group the digits. Use the CBE Manual for Authors, Editors and Publishers.

* Italics shall be typed. Taxonomic names in Latin (genus and species; e.g. Rangifer tarandus tarandus), book titles and journal names shall be written in italics.

Typing

* Use body text in 12 point size and double spacing with 4 cm margins on both left and right sides. Do not hyphenate at the right margin.

* Submit manuscript in email attachment (use ordinary programs and versions) and forward also one good quality hardcopy. When accepted, the author submits the final manuscript as email attachment.

Illustrations, graphs and tables

These shall be numbered with Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3 etc.) and accompanied by a short text, so they can be understood independently of the article text. Indicate in the manuscript where tables and illustrations will be placed in the text. The illustrations must be ready for printing and each figure must be submitted in a separate file. Save figures as ai-files (Adobe Illustrator), eps-files (Encapsulated PostScript) or pdf-files (Portable Document Format). Graphs should be made from Adobe Illustrator or Excel. Tables should be made in Excel. Photos/pictures in raster need a width of minimum 1750 pixles to cover two columns and 850 pixles for one column. (Photos/pictures should be made with 300 dpi resolution). (Rangifer format: 174x244).

Referees

Rangifer covers many different scientific research fields, and although the board and the co-authors cover many of them, the author is expected to submit suggestions on actual referees in their special field (name, address, email).

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published nor is it before another journal for consideration; or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor.
2. Use body text in 12 point size and double spacing with 4 cm margins on both left and right sides. Do not hyphenate at the right margin.
3. The text meets this journal's formatting requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines (above).

Copyright Notice

The Publisher of Rangifer Nordic Council for Reindeer Husbandry Research (NOR) requires that the author(s) automatically transfer copy rights to NOR for the sole reason of streamlining the granting of an open access attribution licence.

Rangifer licenses all content of Rangifer under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence. This means, among other things, that anyone is free to copy and distribute the content, as long as they give proper credit to the author(s) and the journal. For further information, see Creative Commons website for human readable or lawyer readable versions. The CC-BY license does not apply to (partial)content where a third party holds the copyright.

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