Submissions

Author Guidelines

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
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GUIDE FOR AUTHORS

The journal Pirineos publishes works dealing with the dynamics of mountain ecosystems, that is, with processes and relationships established between living beings and their environment, in the highest regions on Earth. Therefore it tries to explain the global functioning of mountainous areas and the spatial organization of processes and resources, with an integrated perspective in which man performs an important role. The journal accepts original works with new and important scientific data on Mountain Ecology, especially those containing information about the extant fluxes between subsystems, the influence of man in the evolution and dynamics of mountain environment, the trophic relationships between living beings and the functioning of different features that constitute the basis of mountain ecosystems.

To be accepted, the paper will be sent at least to two referees.

Articles
Submitted articles should follow the format of the template provided by the journal, which can be downloaded HERE. Manuscripts may be submitted in Spanish, English or French and their length should not exceed 25 pages. Nevertheless, when a longer paper proves to be of extraordinary importance, the Direction of Pirineos may exceptionally accept it. All articles should include, after the title and the name(s) of the author(s), a summary (12 lines maximum) in Spanish and in two other international languages, preferably English, French or German. Should the author find any difficulties in the writing of the summary in Spanish, the Direction of Pirineos can undertake translation.

The complete address of the author(s) sould be clearly indicated at the foot of the first page.

Authors must include a valid ORCID identifier along with the authors’ filiation. Authors without this personal identifier can register free of charge in https://orcid.org to complete this data. When the article is signed by several authors, it is required to include the ORCID of all of them.

Figures will be submitted in TIFF, JPG, PDF (recommended for vector formats) files, with a minimum quality of 300dpi, all of them saved in a single compressed ZIP or RAR file. The figures captions shall be placed on a separate page, numbered and with text in the original language of the article and in English. If the article is written in English, the figures captions must be provided in Spanish. The same rules should be followed for photographs. Maps should always show its graphic scale and North.

References to publications in the text should be made by name of author, the year of publication and, when necessary, the page numbers, the last two should be in parentheses.

The list of references, alphabetically ordered should appear at the end of the paper. In this list the name of the author should be followed by the year of publication, the complete title of the work, the name of the journal in italics, and both volume and page numbers. For example:

Ackroyd, P. (1986). Debris transport by avalanche. Torlesse Range, New Zealand. Z. Geomorph., 30 (1): 1-14.

For books, titles should be in italics and should be followed by the name of the publisher, the number of pages and the place of publication. For example:

Creus, J. (1983). El clima del Alto Aragón Occidental. Instituto de Estudios Pirenaicos, 223 pp., Jaca.

If, in the references, there are two or more books or papers with the same author and the same year of publication, a lower case a, b, etc, should be added to the year of publication both in the reference list and in the references in the body of the text.

The references section will be followed by the following closing sections:

Data availability: Brief description of the type of data deposited in repositories, name or identification code of the files, licence for use and distribution and URL. Or any other way of accessing the data generated in the work.

Acknowledgements (optional): Section for the authors to express their acknowledgement to persons, institutions or entities that contributed significantly to the study. Do not mix with funding, which is a mandatory field.

Declaration of competing interest (mandatory): The CSIC Press Good Practices Guide specifies in point 2.6 that the authors declare all existing conflicts of interest. In NO conflicts of interest exist, the following text should be included in this section:

The authors of this article declare that they have no financial, professional or personal conflicts of interest that could have inappropriately influenced this work.

Funding (mandatory if present): Specify the project/grant/contract... code and title, and full name of the funding entity (optional acronym).

Authorship contribution statement (mandatory): This journal applies the CRediT taxonomy to identify authorship contributions based on the assignment of specific roles to research articles. See the ‘Submissions/Authorship identification’ section of the website.

This information should be included in the text, under the heading ‘Authorship contribution statement’, following this example:

Name and Surname author 01: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing.

Name and Surname author 02: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing - review & editing.

Etc., for each author, where applicable.

The author will receive the first printing proofs so that he/she can make the appropriate corrections, without being able to make substantial changes to the text without the permission of the Pirineos' Editor-in-Chief. The proofs must be submitted corrected by opening a discussion with the Editorial Team within the management platform of the journal's website. After an elapsed period of time without the journal receiving the corrected proofs, its Editorial Staff will make the corrections.

Notes
Pirineos also includes a section of Notes that will be subjected to the same rules as longer papers. They should not exceed 8 pages and should not be accompanied by a summary. Only a maximum of two drawings willbe accepted.

Reviews
Bibliographical reviews on very interesting topics will be accepted. Their length should not exceed 3 pages.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Below you will find instructions for the following procedures:

- How to register at Pirineos

- How to send an original manuscript to Pirineos

- How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

How to register at Pirineos

1.- On the journal's website, click on the link "Register":

2.- On the registration page you will have to fill in all the fields (the "Family name" field is optional, although highly recommended) using lower case only for your email, username and password. After reading the Privacy Statement you will need to consent to the collection and storage of your data and complete the Captcha. Receiving notifications of new publications and notices is optional.

3.- You will receive a message with a link to activate your account at the provided email address. Once activated, you will be able to log in to your account with the credentials you created.

How to send an original manuscript to Pirineos

1.- On the magazine's website, log in by clicking on "Login":

2.- Enter your username and password. Once you return to the magazine's homepage, click on the "Make a Submission" button:

Before submitting, please review the "Submission Preparation Checklist" and read the "Author Guidelines", the "Copyright Notice" and the "Privacy Statement". When you have all the required documents ready, click on the link "Make a new submission".

In subsequent logins, you will be taken to your user dashboard. There press the ‘New Submission’ button to submit a new article. You will be shown any articles received and in process under the ‘My Queue’ tab):

3.- As you will see on the new submissions page, submitting a manuscript is a four-stage process, in addition to a final section with information on follow-up:

3.1.- "1. Start"

At this stage you must select the language in which the article is written and the section of the journal in which you think it would fit, you must indicate that you have prepared all the items on the "Submission requirements" list and, optionally, you may send comments to the editor. You must comply with the terms of the Copyright Statement and the collection and storage of your data as the author of the article in accordance with the Privacy Statement of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Then press the "Save and continue" button.

3.2.- "2. Upload submission"

In this phase, the files that make up the article and its additional documentation will be uploaded to the management module.

There are three parts to upload each file. In the first one, we will select which component of the article we are going to contribute and we will upload the corresponding file. Once uploaded, click on the "Continue" button. In the second part we will see the file metadata, with the possibility to edit them, but we will click "Continue" without making this edition.

In the third part, select "Add Another File", going back to "1. Upload file" and, without modifying the default option "This is not a revision of an existing file", select the new "Article Component" identifying what it is and uploading the file. Click "Continue" until you reach, once again, step "3. Confirm". This process must be repeated until all the files have been sent, and only when all the material has been uploaded should the "Complete" button be selected.

If after "Completing" the submission we realise that we have forgotten to upload a file, we can do so by selecting the "Upload File" button located in the upper right-hand corner of the "2. Upload Submission" tab:

Once all the submission files have been uploaded, we will press the "Save and continue" button.

3.3.- "3. Enter Metadata"

In this phase the author will enter the metadata of the article according to the journal guidelines. These are:

- Title in Spanish and English. If the article is written in another language, it will be introduced first this language and then in English.

- Summary or abstract in the same languages as the previous item.

- List of contributors. Although it was not necessary when registering as a journal user, in this section it is compulsory for authors to have their ORCID identifier and affiliation correctly indicated. If necessary, the information of additional authors will be added using the link "Add contributor":

- Keywords. The article keywords will be inserted in both languages. The entire list cannot be copied, must be entered one term at a time pressing "Enter" after each one.

- Funding data. The entities that have supported the research published in the article must be indicated. After selecting "Add funder", the name of the funder should be inserted again, which will trigger an internal search that will return the institution standardised name and DOI. If the institution does not have a DOI, it will not be able to register in this field. After entering the grant numbers, click on "Save".

To finish this phase of entering metadata, click on the "Save and continue" button.

3.4.- "4. Confirmation" y "5. Next steps"

In this last phase we will confirm the submission metadata recording linked to the uploaded files. Before clicking on the "Finish Submission" button, we can go back to the previous phases and review the information and files provided to check that they are all correct.

Once we click on the "Finish Submission" button, the article will be sent to the journal and its staff will contact you to continue with the process, as indicated in the "5. Next Steps" section.

How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

Once your submission has been reviewed, the journal's staff will send you a review report. Once received, you must log in to the journal and, in the "Submissions" section of your dashboard, you will be able to check that your submission is in the Review phase and, if the editorial staff has requested, whether it is necessary to make any modifications or revisions to the manuscript:

By clicking on the title of your submission, you will be taken to the workflow of your submission and you will be able to check the information related to the its review. You will find the notifications that the editorial staff has sent you, the attachments that the reviewers may have attached and, if requested, the possibility to provide a new version of the manuscript with the requested modifications by clicking on the "Upload file" button:

Research data policy

We recommend authors depositing data obtained from the research developed for the preparation of their article in repositories of recognized prestige, specific to the discipline or of a generalist nature. In any case, it must be a FAIR repository (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), preferably in open access.

There are several repositories destined to conserve and disseminate concrete data such as results of surveys, observations, interviews, simulations, automatically collected data, samples, models ... If necessary, authors can consult the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data taking into account that each repository has its own deposit rules.

Those CSIC authors who would like to deposit their datasets in Digital.CSIC may do so by following these guidelines. They can use the Servicio de Archivo Delegado made available by the Technical Office of DIGITAL.CSIC and the Red de Bibliotecas CSIC.

DIGITAL.CSIC generates DOIs for datasets and associated software and is certified as data repository in re3data and Repository Finder. More information at Política de datos en Digital.CSIC.

If the author has deposited datasets in a repository, he should mention it in the article providing a brief description of the type of data deposited, the name and URL of the repository, the identification code and the data of the license for use and distribution. This information must be included at the end of the article, immediately before the bibliographic listing, under the heading "Data availability".

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF