The Ecological Society of Nigeria [ECOSON] publishes Nigerian Journal of Ecology which covers researches in all aspects of both plants and animals, in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Descriptive, experimental, theoretical and in-depth review articles and position papers are acceptable.
Manuscript should be typed in double spacing with at least 2.54 cm margins on all sides. The pages should be numbered consecutively including those containing acknowledgement, references, tables and figure legends. Manuscript must be in English and spelling should conform to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English. Text should be typed in Microsoft Word. Editors reserve the right to modify manuscripts that do not conform to scientific, technical, stylistic or grammatical standards and minor modifications of this nature will normally be seen by authors only at the proof stage. The manuscript should be emailed to the Editor-in-Chief at njeeditor@gmail.com. Manuscript, whether accepted or refused by the editors may be returned to the authors. Receipt of manuscript will be notified within one week. Further enquires may be made at the Journal Secretariat: Department of Crop Protection and Environmental Biology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
All manuscripts are subjected to peer refereeing. If a manuscript is returned for revision, the correspondence author should return the revised manuscript within one month. Otherwise, revisions may be treated as new submissions and sent for further evaluation. Galley proofs will be sent to the corresponding author’s email address as given on the title page. Alteration in the text other than typographic errors may be charged to the author. The editors reserve the right to correct proofs themselves, in minor cases using accepted version of the manuscript if the authors’ corrections are overdue or the journal will be otherwise delayed.
There is a page charge of N20,000.00 for publishable paper after acceptance. A Handling/Referring fee of N5,000.00 must, however accompany the manuscript on submission, with proof of payment emailed to njeeditor@gmail.com. However, if the paper is recommended for further review, it will be re-submitted with N3,500.00. The charges are subject to review. All papers accepted for publication become the copyright of the Ecological Society of Nigeria.
A copy of the Journal will be given to the corresponding author of each paper and additional copies may be purchased at current rates.
A standard paper should not exceed 10 printed pages and should be divided into Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion (or merging Results and Discussion), acknowledgements (very brief if necessary) and References.
Articles cited in the text are referred to by author’s name and year of publication e.g. Sanford (1987). Articles by up to three authors should be abbreviated e.g. Sola et al., (1987) or (Sola et al., 1987).
Title page must contain a concise and informative title (as short as possible), a list of authors names and addresses of institutions and a running title of not more than 45 characters. The abstract (not exceeding 350 words) must be followed by key words (not exceeding five words), arranged alphabetically and excluding words used in the title. The references should be in alphabetical order with the Journal names unabbreviated. The format for papers, entire books and chapters in books, is as follows:
Barber, N. and Harrod, J. O. (1997). Strategies for assessing animal population dynamics. Journal of Animal Biology 79:56-64.
Gates, D. R. (1980). Bio physical Ecology. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
Susan, R. M. (1985). Population dynamics of five species of Vernonia in natural habitats. Physiological Ecology (eds. C. R. Townsend and Pcarlow) pp. 109-139.
References should only be cited (in press) if the paper has been accepted for publication. Other references should be cited as “unpublished” and not included in the list. One copy of any paper cited “in press” must be included with the manuscript so that it can be seen by the editors. Work not yet submitted for publication may be cited in the text and attributed to its authors as “full author’s name, unpublished data”.
Do not present the same data in both figure and table form. Table must be presented in Microsoft word using appropriate number of columns and rows. Figures in the form of line diagrams should be drawn or laser printed in black and white on white paper or on good quality tracing paper. Where possible, they should not be bigger than A4 and designed appropriately if they are to be reduced in size for publication. Photographs should be black and white in glossy prints of good contrast. Four copies should be submitted with the manuscript. Colour photographs may be allowed where the author is prepared to contribute to the cost of inclusion.
Authors are requested to use the International System of Units (SI) for all measurement. Note that mathematical expressions should contain symbols not abbreviations. If the paper contains many symbols, it is recommended that they should be defined in the materials and methods section.
Give Latin names of each species in full together with the authority for the name at first mention in the main text. If there are many species, cite a Flora or Checklist which may be consulted for authorities instead of listing them in the text. Do not give authorities for species cited from published references. Give priority to scientific names in the text (with colloquial name in parentheses if desired).
Numbers from one to nine should be spelt out except when used with units e.g. two eyes; 10 stomata; 5 oC.
