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.
The primary language of the journal is English. Use 12-point type in one of the standard fonts: Times, Helvetica, or Courier. Please double-line space your manuscript. We only review manuscripts that are below 2,000 words including tables, figures, and references. For specific length limits, see content category descriptions. Tables must be pasted on separate pages after the reference list, (i.e not in the main text). Figures should be uploaded as separate files. Footnotes and endnotes are strongly discouraged. All submissions must include two separate documents:
Please use whenever possible “the climate crisis” or “the climate emergency” instead of “climate change” and “global heating” instead of mildly-sounding “global warming.”
Write "picturebooks" as a single word (rather than "picture books").
All authors of a manuscript should include their full names and affiliations on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, include ORCiDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address displayed in the article PDF and online.
Enter an abstract of 100 to 150 words for all articles (excluding Climate Lit submissions). An abstract is a concise summary of the whole manuscript, not just the conclusions, and is understandable without reference to the rest of the manuscript. It should contain no citation to other published work. You may also choose to create a video abstract (up to 1 min) in which you introduce your article. The video abstract will be published alongside the text abstract.
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement (also known as disclosure statement) during the submission process. The goal is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. A conflict of interest can occur when you, or your employer, or sponsor have a financial, commercial, legal, or professional relationship with other organizations, or with the people working with them, that could influence your research. To maintain transparency, any associations which can be perceived by others as a conflict of interest must also be declared. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement. If there are no relevant competing interests to declare please state this explicitly, for example: The authors declare that there are no competing interests related to the work described in this article.
Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). They should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PGN, PDF, JPEG, or TIFF. Figures may be submitted in color (and will be reproduced in color), but we ask authors to consider that line figures (like graphs and charts) are best supplied in black and white so that they are legible if printed by a reader in black and white. Figure legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Keywords should match the keywords added into the submission system. They should help readers locate the article by theme(s).
References should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition (2020, APA-7). For more information about APA style, visit https://apastyle.apa.org/ and https://apastyle.apa.org/blog . Text citations should follow the author-date method whereby the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text. The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by name at the end of the manuscript. Please note that a DOI should be provided for all references where available. For more information about APA referencing style, please refer to the APA FAQ.
Supplementary material may include a video, dataset, fileset, sound file, appendix or anything which supports your article or provides it with greater depth and background. Yet, supplementary material is information that is not essential to the article. Supplementary material is hosted online and appears without editing or typesetting.
Tables should be editable files, not images. They should present new information rather than duplicate what is already in the text. They should also be self-contained: readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values.
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