Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

Research Articles

Instructions for authors

Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to Global Change. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal's requirements.

About the Journal

Global Change is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Authors should refer to the Journal’s Aims and Scope on the journal homepage prior to making a submission.

The journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

Global Change accepts the following types of article:

• Research Articles
• Opinion and Analysis: research reports, news commentaries and replies to research articles

Use these instructions if you are preparing a manuscript to submit to Global Change.

Global Change considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that
• the manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.
• the manuscript has been submitted only to Global Change; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.
• the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.

Open Access

All manuscripts published in Global Change are available to the public free of charge. Your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership and impact of your research.

Peer Review and Ethics

Global Change is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double anonymous peer reviewed by two independent, anonymous experts.

Preparing Your Paper

Article Types

Research Articles

• Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list)
• Should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words, inclusive of:
• Endnotes
• Should contain a structured abstract of 150 words.
• Should contain between 4 and 6 keywords. Editors may at their discretion suggest article titles and keywords to make articles more discoverable and for search engine optimization.

Opinion and Analysis: research reports, news commentaries and replies to research articles

• Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page with author contact details; main text; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list)
• Should be between 700 and 1,500 words.
• The editorial team reserves the right to edit headings and standfirsts of submitted opinion and analysis articles to increase discoverability and to edit body text of articles for clarity, accuracy and to comply with legal requirements.

Format

Authors may submit their paper in any scholarly format or layout. Manuscripts may be supplied as single or multiple files. These can be Word, rich text format (rtf), or open document format (odt). Figures and tables can be placed within the text or submitted as separate documents. Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable refereeing.

• There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to evaluate a manuscript: abstract, author affiliation, figures, tables, funder information, and references. Further details may be requested upon acceptance.
• References must be submitted as endnotes. Author name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title, year of publication, volume and issue (where appropriate) and page numbers are essential. All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
• All manuscripts should be submitted using Chicago-Style Endnotes.  No separate bibliography is required. A reference style guide is available here: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html.
• Spelling can be US or UK English so long as usage is consistent.

Regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the point of submission.

Checklist: What to Include

1. Author details. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address displayed in the article PDF and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.
2. Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
   For single agency grants
   This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
   For multiple agency grants
   This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
3. Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. If there are no relevant competing interests to declare please state this within the article, for example: The authors report there are no competing interests to declare.
4. Biographical note. Please supply a short biographical note for each author. (No more than 200 words).
5. Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
6. Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
7. Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
8. Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable.

Using Third-Party Material

You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Disclosure Statement

Please include a disclosure statement, using the subheading “Disclosure of interest.” If you have no interests to declare, please state this (suggested wording: The authors report there are no competing interests to declare).

Submitting Your Paper

All submissions to Global Change should be made via the journal’s online submission portal.

On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript.  Global Change encourages authors to host copies of articles on their personal websites.

Publication Charges

There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for Global Change.