Different Academic Publishing Channels

Different Academic Publishing Channels

Beyond Journal Articles: Special Issues, Preprints, and Conference Papers

Animal Reports Journal welcomes special issues, preprints, and conference papers as additional academic publishing channels, provided that they adhere to the journal's guidelines.

Special Issues

Special issue is a dedicated section or entire volume of a journal that concentrates on a specific subject or research area. It is often guest edited by experts in the field to highlight cutting-edge research, address emerging trends, or explore interdisciplinary connections within a focused topic.

The peer review process for special issues follows the same process as outlined in the author’s guidelines for regular submissions, except that a guest editor may send the submissions to the reviewers and may recommend a decision to the journal editor. The journal editor oversees the peer review process of all special issues and article collections to ensure that the high standards of publishing ethics and responsiveness are respected and is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles.

Preprints

          A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. Animal Reports accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review at the submission time. Note that Preprints operates independently of the journal, and posting a preprint does not affect the peer review process. Check the Preprints instructions for authors for further information. The preprint publication process at Animal Reports showed follow the following criteria

  • The submitting author of a paper that was previously deposited to a preprint server should provide a disclosure in the cover letter that includes the name and website of the server and the DOI of the preprint.
  • The preprint must follow Animal Reports author’s guidelines.
  • All submissions are subject to peer-review (reviewing guidelines), and allowing the submission of preprint manuscripts does not guarantee acceptance
  • If the paper is accepted for publication, authors must update any preprint versions with a link to the final published article in Animal Reports.
  • Preprints are considered informally published works, and their use as references is generally discouraged. However, if such a reference is necessary, authors must follow the specifications of most current edition of the Publication Manual.

 

Conference Papers

The Journal of Animal Reports accepts conference papers to be published as journal articles by adapting and expanding the content to meet the standards and requirements of a peer-reviewed journal. Expanded and high-quality conference papers can be considered articles if they meet the following requirements:

  • The paper should be expanded to the size of a research article, where the new submission contains at least 30-40% new content (e.g., expanded analysis, additional data, or updated literature).
  • The article was published in conference proceedings as an abstract or presented as oral/poster only.
  • The conference paper should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
  • Acknowledge the conference paper as the foundation of your work and cite it appropriately in the first page of the journal article.
  • If the conference proceedings are copyrighted, you may need permission from the publisher to reuse the content.
  • The article should follow the Animal Reports journal guidelines, including ethical approval.
  • The peer review process for conference papers follows the same process as outlined in the author’s guidelines for regular submissions to Animal Reports,
  • Authors are asked to disclose that it is a conference paper in their cover letter and include a statement on what has been changed compared to the original conference paper.