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Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
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Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research is a leading international research journal with a focus on forests and forestry in boreal and temperate regions worldwide. The journal welcomes original papers and review articles of high scientific quality and international interest in the entire field of forest research. See Aims and scope for examples of topics.
BEFORE SUBMISSION
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Does the manuscript harmonize with the Aims and scope of the journal?
- Has the article been adapted to the journal standards, as described in Instruction to authors?
- Is the research of relevance to an international audience? Regional profiled topics or results repeating previous studies may be disseminated in other channels.
- Has the manuscript been carefully edited and proofread to avoid mistakes such as grammar, missing references or typing errors? Such mistakes must be amended before submission.
- Is the language of adequate quality? Non-English authors are strongly encouraged to use a professional language consultant or a native English-speaking colleague to check the readability.
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Conflict of interest and funding : Authors are responsible for recognising and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work. They should acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work.
TYPES OF CONTRIBUTION
Contributions shall be of high scientific quality and international interest. The form of the manuscripts may be original research articles (important findings of original research), review articles (critical synthesis of an important topic) or short communications (findings from a smaller project or preliminary results of larger projects, these may not exceed four-six printed pages).
SUBMISSION
This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer-review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.
Upon receipt of submission, the manuscript will be sent to at least two referees for review. You must suggest 4-6 independent and qualified reviewers. At least 2 of these must be from outside the country of the first or corresponding author.
Authors are requested to restrict the length of the manuscript as much as possible. Please note: if an article exceeds 8 printed pages (about 15 typewritten pages including tables and figures, 20 lines at 15 cm per page) the cost of the excess pages will be charged to the author at a rate of USD 190 per printed page. A full printed textpage is about 5 000 characters including blanks. Reduce for first page, headings, tables and figures when estimating the final size of the printed manuscript.
THE MANUSCRIPT
Manuscripts should be double-spaced with a left-hand margin, including reference list, tables and figure legends. Lines and pages must be numbered to help the reviewers. The SI system which includes the metric system, should be used throughout. Footnotes and letter-spacing are not allowed in the main text. Scientific genera and taxa of lower rank should be marked with italics. Scientific names of species should be presented with taxonomic authority (e.g. Pinus sylvestris L.) the first time they are mentioned in the text or the abstract, thereafter without authority.
The manuscript components should appear in this sequence:
Title page, Abstract and Keywords, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References, Tables, Figure legends, Figures.
The IMRAD-sequence (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion) may be exempted from in certain types of articles such as reviews or modeling articles.
General advice
Statements should be supported by references. Spelled-out names are preferred to acronyms. Approximate position of figures and tables shall be indicated on separate lines (e.g. “<Table 1 here>”). All sections should be concisely written. “Wordy” manuscripts tend to be less read and more often delayed in the reviewing process.
Title page
The title page should contain; title of paper, running headline (max 40 characters, this is the title appearing in top of each printed page), all author's first and last names (full names, not only initials), addresses, and the telephone and e-mail of the corresponding author. The address should refer to the affiliation where the work was done. If the address has changed, add information on current address additionally. The main title should be as descriptive as possible, and contain the words necessary for correct indexing with species names in Latin, without taxonomic authority. Titles should be as brief as clarity permits.
Abstract and Keywords
The manuscript should open with an abstract which preferably does not exceed 200 words. The abstract of a research article or short communication should describe the problem, methods, main results and conclusions. A review article abstract usually describes the overall aim of the review rather than summarizing its content. The abstract should be followed by 3 to 7 keywords, in alphabetic order.
Remember that the abstract is the window display of the article for most readers. The abstract should give as much concrete information as possible, mention what is unique with the study, be result- and conclusion-oriented, and motivate readers to proceed to the full article.
Introduction
The Introduction should clearly state the problem, give a short overview of the subject and point at knowledge gaps. The overview should be used as a justification for the aims of the study, which should be described in the end of Introduction. Hypotheses should preferably be mentioned along with the aims. The motivation of the study is particularly important both as an argument for readers to continue reading this article, and for reviewers and editors why this study should be published. This refers particularly to studies which could at a first glance be regarded as repetitions of other studies. The unique approaches must be highlighted.
Materials and Methods
This section must provide information enough to permit exact replication of the experimental work. For field-work, places of investigation should be presented as detailed as possible, with geographic coordinates or on maps. The models underlying any statistical analysis must be clearly stated. Statistical models and methods can be presented in mathematical notations or in words, as long as they are possible to interpret exactly by the reader.
Readers are helped by a short overview of the methods, before going into details.
Results
Results should be clear, concise and as objective as possible. No discussion of the results is permitted in this section. The results should preferably be presented in the same order as in Materials and methods, and/or in the same order as the tested hypotheses. Detailed results are preferably presented in figures and tables, and shall not be repeated in the text. The text should instead be used as a handrail for readers to interpret the results. Restrict the text to highlighting the most important findings.
Discussion
Discussion should not repeat results, but in a logical way interpret and put in perspective the main results with reference to relevant figures, tables and references. The discussion should be concisely written and end with conclusions. A good Discussion usually contains the main findings, what they mean in a scientific context, the practical implications, how they relate to consisting knowledge, and a section of constraints and weaknesses. Speculative discussion beyond what is covered by the study should be avoided. It is recommended that the Discussion ends with a short paragraph “In conclusion…”, helping readers to quickly grasp the main message.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements must mention financial support, and can also be used to list others who contributed to the research and the manuscript. Acknowledgements shall be simply phrased.
References
All publications cited in the text must be presented in the reference list and vice versa. Authors are responsible for crosschecking citations and reference list. References should only be made to published, available material. Reference citations in the text should be written: Lyly and Saksa (1992), Wasserstein et al. (1994) (if more than two authors). Two or more references in parentheses should appear in chronological order (Lyly & Saksa, 1992; Wassterstein et al., 1994). Personal communications should not be included in the reference list but in text only: T. K. Lutes (personal communication, April 18, 2001).
The format of the reference list follows the APA Style guide.
Examples:
Lyly, O. & Saksa, T. (1992). The effect of stand density on moose damage in young Pinus sylvestris stands. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 7, 393-403.
Kroppenstedt, R. M. (1985). Fatty acid and menaquinone analysis of actinomycetes and related organisms. In M. Goodfellow & D.E. Minnikin (Eds.), Chemical methods in bacterial systematics (pp. 173-199). London, United Kingdom: Academic Press.
Spell out journal and organization names.
Publications in any language other than English, but with an English abstract, should be presented with their English title. Publications without an English abstract or English title should keep the original title, but be given a translated title in English in square brackets. Titles and author names in non-Latin alphabets should be translated. A notation such as "(In Russian.)" or "(In Swedish with English abstract.)" should be added to the reference.
Each table should be numbered with an explanatory heading. The tables must be planned to fit to a final width of 8 or 16 cm.
Figures
All electronically submitted illustrations shall be in its final size, planned to fit a width of 8 or 16 cm. Numerical and alphabetical notations must be large enough to be fully legible (1.5 – 2 mm). One uniform final size of letters is generally recommended.
Foldouts and colour illustrations are permitted, provided the author bears the cost. The cost to the author is USD 750 per printed page.
Keep illustrations as separate files, e.g. EPS, TIFF, JPEG. The colour must be CMYK, not RGB; all fonts must be embedded, and the resolution of images should be of a quality suitable for printing; i.e. files downloaded from web pages are not suitable, they will look acceptable on screen but not when printed. Do not use colour files if black and white only output is required.
1. Please be consistent. The same elements should be keyed in exactly the same way throughout the manuscript.
2. Do not break words at the end of lines. Use a hyphen only to hyphenate compound words
3. Enter only one space after the full-stop at the end of a sentence.
4. When emphasising words, please use the italic feature of your word processor software.
5. Do not justify your text; use a ragged right-hand margin.
6. Do not use the lowercase l for 1 (one) or the uppercase O for 0 (zero).
The space bar should only be used as a word separator. Use TAB when indenting paragraphs or separating columns in tables.
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Journal with continuous pagination
Herman, L. M., Kuczaj, S. A., III & Holder, M. D. (1993). Responses to anomalous gestural sequences by a language-trained dolphin: Evidence for processing of semantic relations and syntactic information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 122 , 184–194.
Journal paginated by issue
Klimoski, R. & Palmer, S. (1993). The ADA and the hiring process in organizations. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 45 (2), 10–36.
Journal article with more than six authors
Wolchik, S. A., West, S. G., Sandler, I. N., Tein, J., Coatsworth, D., Lengua, L., et al. (2000). An experimental evaluation of theory-based and mother–child programs for children of divorce. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68 , 843–856.
Journal article in press
Zuckerman, M. & Kieffer, S. C. (in press). Race differences in face-ism: Does facial prominence imply dominance? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology .
Magazine article
Kandel, E. R. & Squire, L. R. (2000, November 10). Neuroscience: Breaking down scientific barriers to the study of brain and mind. Science , 290, 1113–1120.
Newspaper article
New drug appears to sharply cut risk of death from heart failure. (1993, July 15). The Washington Post , p. A12. Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4, A6–A9.
Special issue
Barlow, D. H. (Ed.). (1991). Diagnoses, dimensions, and DSM-IV: The science of classification [Special issue]. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100 (3).
Monograph
Harris, P. L. & Kavanaugh, R. D. (1993). Young children's understanding of pretense. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 58 (1, Serial No. 231).
Abstracts
Woolf, N. J., Young, S. L., Faneslow, M. S. & Butcher, L. L. (1991). MAP-2 expression in cholinoceptive pyramidal cells of rodent cortex and hippocampus is altered by Pavlovian conditioning [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 17 , 480.
Nakazato, K., Shimonaka, Y. & Homma, A. (1992). Cognitive functions of centenarians: The Tokyo Metropolitan Centenarian Study. Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology, 3 , 9–16. Abstract obtained from PsycSCAN: Neuropsychology , 1993, 2 , Abstract No. 604.
Journal supplement
Regier, A. A., Narrow, W. E. & Rae, D. S. (1990). The epidemiology of anxiety disorders: The epidemiologic catchment area (ECA) experience. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 24 (Suppl. 2), 3–14.
Non-English journal, title translated into English
Ising, M. (2000) Intensitätsabhängigkeit evorzierter Potenzial im EEG: Sind impulsive Personen Augmenter oder Reducer? [Intensity dependence in event-related EEG potentials: Are impulsive individuals augmenters or reducers?]. Zeitschrift für Differentielle und Diagnostische Psychologie, 21 , 208–217. (In German.)
Books
If a book has more than six authors follow the same rule as given above for journal articles with more than six authors.
Book
Mitchell, T. R. & Larson, J. R., Jr. (1987). People in organizations: An introduction to organizational behavior (3 rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Group author as publisher
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (1991). Estimated resident population by age and sex in statistical local areas, New South Wales, June 1990 (No. 3209.1). Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Author.
Edited book
Gibbs, J. T. & Huang, L. N. (Eds.). (1991). Children of color: Psychological interventions with minority youth (Rev. ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Book with no author
Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (10 th ed.). (1993). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.
Multivolume edited work
Koch, S. (Ed.). (1959–1963). Psychology: A study of science (Vols. 1–6). New York: McGraw-Hill.
English translation of a book
For books where the original version of a non-English book is used as the source, cite the original version with an English translation of the title in brackets, as in the journal example given earlier.
Laplace, P.-S. (1951). A philosophical essay on probabilities (F. W. Truscott & F. L. Emory, Trans.). New York: Dover. (Original work published 1814)
Article or chapter in book
Bjork, R. A. (1989). Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive mechanism in human memory. In H. L. Roediger III & F. I. M. Craik (Eds.), Varieties of memory & consciousness (pp. 309–330). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Auerbach, J. S. (in press). The origins of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder: A theoretical and empirical reformulation. In J. M. Masling & R. F. Bornstein (Eds.), Empirical studies of psychoanalytic theories: Vol. 4. Psychoanalytic perspectives on psychopathology . Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Chapter in a volume in a series
Maccoby, E. E. & Martin, J. (1983). Socialization in the context of the family: Parent–child interaction. In P. H. Mussen (Series Ed.) & E. M. Hetherington (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 4. Socialization, personality, and social development (4 th ed., pp. 1–101). New York: Wiley.
English translation of article in an edited book, reprint from another source
Piaget, J. (1988). Extracts from Piaget's theory (G. Gellerier & J. Langer, Trans.). In K. Richardson & S. Sheldon (Eds.), Cognitive development to adolescence: A reader (pp. 3–18). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (Reprinted from Manual of child psychology , pp. 703–732, by P. H. Mussen, Ed., 1970, New York: Wiley)
Technical/Research Reports
Government institute as group author
National Institute of Mental Health. (1990). Clinical training in serious mental illness (DHHS Publication No. ADM 90-1679). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Put NTIS/ERIC numbers in parentheses at end if required.
Report from university
Broadhurst, R. G. & Maller, R. A. (1991). Sex offending and recidivism (Tech. Rep. No. 3). Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia, Crime Research Centre.
Proceedings
Published proceedings
Deci, E. L. & Ryan, R. M. (1991). A motivational approach to self: Integration in personality. In R. Dienstbier (Ed.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Vol. 38. Perspectives on motivation (pp. 237–288). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Unpublished contribution to proceedings
Lichstein, K. L., Johnson, R. S., Womack, T. D., Dean, J. E., & Childers, C. K. (1990, June). Relaxation therapy for poly-pharmacy use in elderly insomniacs and noninsomniacs. In T. L. Rosenthal (Chair), Reducing medication in geriatric populations . Symposium conducted at the meeting of the First International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Uppsala, Sweden.
Unpublished paper presented at meeting
Lanktree, C. & Briere, J. (1991, January). Early data on the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSC-C) . Paper presented at the meeting of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, San Diego, CA.
Dissertations
Abstracted in DAI
From UMI
Bower, D. L. (1993). Employee assistant programs supervisory referrals: Characteristics of referring and nonreferring supervisors. Dissertation Abstracts International, 54 (01), 534B. (UMI No, 9315947)
From university
Bower, D. L. (1990). Employee assistant programs supervisory referrals: Characteristics of referring and nonreferring supervisors (Doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, 1990). Dissertation Abstracts International, 51 , 534.
Unpublished dissertation
Wilfley, D. E. (1989). Interpersonal analyses of bulimia: Normal-weight and obese . Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Reviews
Review of a book
Schatz, B. R. (2000). Learning by text or context? [Review of the book The social life of information ]. Science , 290, 1304.
Electronic media
Journal
Frederickson, B. L. (2000, March 7). Cultivating positive emotions to optimise health and well-being. Prevention & Treatment, 3 , Article 0001a. Retrieved November 20, 2000, from http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/pre0030001a.html
Section in an Internet document
Benton Foundation. (1998, July 7). Barriers to closing the gap. In Losing ground bit by bit: Low-income communities in the information age (chap. 2). Retrieved August 18, 2001, from http://www.benton.org/Library/Low-Income/two.html
Document available on university website
Chou, L., McClintock, R., Moretti, F. & Nix, D. H. (1993). Technology and education: New wine in new bottles: Choosing pasts and imagining educational futures . Retrieved August 24, 2000, from Columbia University, Institute for Learning Technologies website: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/papers/newwine1.html
Government report no date indicated
United States Sentencing Commission. (n.d.). 1997 sourcebook of federal sentencing statistics . Retrieved December 8, 1999, from http://www.ussc.gov/annrpt/1997/sbtoc97.htm
Newsgroup message
Chalmers, D. (2000, November 17). Seeing with sound [Msg 1]. Message posted to news://sci.psychology.consciousness
Computer software
Miller, M. E. (1993). The Interactive Tester (Version 4.0) [Computer software]. Westminster, CA: Psytek Services.
Schwarzer, R. (1989). Statistics software for meta-analysis [Computer software and manual]. Retrieved March 23, 2001, from http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/schwarze/meta_e.htm
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