Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Full Article
Full articles should include new findings or methods based on empirical research, experimentation, observations, or newly generated dataset that is relevant for a broad readership in areas of natural and applied sciences.
Reviews and Synthesis
The purpose of a review paper is to succinctly review recent progress in a particular topic in areas of natural and applied sciences. Overall, the review paper summarizes the current state of knowledge of the topic. It creates an understanding of the topic for the reader by discussing the findings presented in recent research papers. A review should draw together information from various sources in the public domain or source (e.g., journal papers, theses, reports, data archives, gene bank sequences, websites) for a new synthesis or analysis within the journal scope, should contain no new data derived from the author's own new empirical research or experimentation. Manuscripts using single datasets or source are not considered as Reviews.
Rapid Communication
Rapid communications are relatively shorter that may be based on preliminary findings or short investigations that are intended to be continued or findings based on ongoing studies. Rapid communications must provide new insights and be likely to attract wide readerships.
Reports and Notes
Reports and Notes are papers presenting short observations, unexpected findings, negative results, results based on testing new methods or techniques. Dataset descriptions already deposited in an appropriate repository (e.g., Figshare, Dryad) are also welcome in the journal.
Forum and Discussion
Under this publication type authors should present an original point of view on any aspect within the journal scope including discussions, critical point of view, applications of new technology, societal forum, advancements, policy-related issues, evidence-recommendations but should not contain an analysis of data from a new empirical study or investigation. This publication format should contain only Title, Authors, and no other subheadings.
Emerging Minds
Every year SNAPS will publish a special issue (SNAPS Scientific Minds) composed of student research (MSc and Undergraduate). Papers published in this issue will follow the same formats as the journal’s regular issue, except, it should include a high-quality ‘graphical abstract’ (see examples), 2-minute lightning talk introducing the highlights of the research (web-link only), and student profile (150 words max.) will be included in the publication. Papers that will be included in this issue should be an output of the student’s/students’ research in the past two-years from either lab of field experiments or observations, or undergraduate or graduate thesis. Every-year the editors will select (1) best paper, (3) best graphical abstract, and (1) best lightning talks. Winners will be highlighted in the next issue of the SNAPS.
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