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Interested in publishing in Wildlife Biology?

Please read this page carefully. Does your manuscript fit within our aims and scope? Are you familiar with the types of articles we publish? Have you seen our Open Access policies and waiver opportunities? Have you checked out our current calls for papers?

Please also read the Nordic Society Oikos Publishing Policies and NSO Journals Author Guidelines.

Aims and Scope

Wildlife Biology is a high-quality scientific forum directing concise and up-to-date knowledge to scientists, administrators, wildlife managers and conservationists. The journal encourages and welcomes original papers, short communications and review papers written in English from throughout the world. The journal accepts theoretical, empirical, and practical manuscripts of high standard from all areas of wildlife science, including human dimensions of wildlife, with the primary task of creating the scientific basis for the enhancement of wildlife management and conservation.

Wildlife Biology adopts a broad concept of wildlife management, including all policies and actions with the purpose of conservation, sustainable use, or control of wildlife and its habitats, in order to safeguard sustainable relationships between wildlife and other human interests. We have a broad concept of “wildlife” and studies of mammals, birds, and other taxa or phenomena relevant to wildlife issues are all of great interest.

Calls for Papers

Wildlife Biology periodically publishes special issues focusing on particular topics within our aims and scope. See the latest calls for papers!

Types of Articles

Articles published in Wildlife Biology comprise research papers (reporting the results of original research), reviews, and management papers. Research articles must have a theoretical-conceptual basis as well as clearly stated objectives and research questions and/or hypotheses. They must provide insights with relevance for the understanding of wildlife ecology or the improvement of wildlife management and conservation, reaching beyond the study area and study system. Reviews can either be narrative or quantitative and must include a methods section explaining the rationale and process of literature selection and analysis used; systematic reviews are preferred. Management papers promote the dissemination of information about management problems or systems, and scientific evaluations of the effects of management actions; they can have the structure of a research paper or of a review paper.

Communications are a forum for short scientific entities dealing with e.g. methodological problems or by-products of larger research projects and for promoting discussions among and between scientists and other professionals based on existing information. Thus new ideas, comments and criticism on earlier papers are welcome. Structure and style should be the same as in articles. Analyses are included either of the literature or of the evidence reported within studies. Novelty, future research, and analysis of gaps are strongly encouraged versus summary. Transparent reporting of the synthesis process is required.

Preparing your submission

See the NSO Author Guidelines for detailed instructions on preparing and formatting all of your materials.

Prepare your title file, main text file, and data and/or code files (or links to archived data and/or code) for upload through the ScholarOne submission system. Be ready to also provide statements on data availability, significance of the research, conflict of interest, ethics, funding, and acknowledgments. See the NSO Author Guidelines for full details.

Before submitting, check the PDF generated by the ScholarOne system to make sure that equations, text, and all files are complete and displayed correctly. If you are not proficient in English, you might consider having your manuscript checked by a proficient writer in English before you submit it. (Wiley also offers professional pre-submission editing services. Have a look here.)

Submit your paper to Wildlife Biology

After submitting, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a manuscript ID. Please refer to this ID in all correspondence with the Editorial Office.

Licensing & Open Access

All authors are required to grant the NSO a license to publish. All articles in Wildlife Biology are published Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License, and are subject to an Article Publication Charge (APC) to cover the costs involved in the publication process, from administrating peer-review to copy editing and hosting the final article on dedicated servers. Current APCs for Wildlife Biology can be found here. Some authors are eligible for discounts or full waivers of the APC, as explained below.

Please read the NSO Publishing Policies before submission to understand copyright and license policies and publishing fees. General information from Wiley regarding licensing and copyright is available here.

Waivers and Discounts

Wildlife Biology’s mission is to be an outlet for wildlife-related research from all parts of the globe. An increasing proportion of our authors are covered by agreements with our publisher Wiley, allowing them to publish in our journal with no direct cost. In addition to this, authors from low- and lower middle-income countries can be covered through the partnership between Wiley and Research4Life, allowing them to publish for free or with a discount. However, we realise that there still is a segment of authors who are not covered by any agreements and who have no possibility to pay the Article Processing Charges (APC). To counter this, at least in part, we are offering NSO-funded waivers to authors from middle-income countries with limited funding. Learn more about our Waivers and Discounts.