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 it has been sent before to another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). Note that PE-APA routinely checks the submitted manuscript for plagiarism issues.
• Follow the instructions (see below for detailed instructions and associated files)
  
• Be prepared to upload the following files:
  1. Text files (in DOC or DOCX):
  manuscript (including references and figure references),
  tables (as separate files),
  appendices (as separate files).
  
  2. Figure files (in TIFF format):
  the width of the figures should be 82 mm or 170 mm,
  the height of the figures cannot exceed 230 mm,
  the resolution must be 300 dpi.
  Manuscripts with figures that do not fit these requirements will not be processed.
  
  3. Integrated PDF file (including text, figures, tables and appendices).
  
  4. Letter to the Editor detailing:
  Length of the manuscript, number of figures, tables, appendices and supplementary information files.
  A justification of any exception to be considered, such as manuscript length
  A list of at least five (5) potential reviewers including name and e-mail.
  
  5. Optional: supplementary information (DOC, DOCX or TIFF).
  
  6. Starting from August 1st 2017, the Editorial Board will evaluate if an accepted manuscript requires an English grammar correction. This service will be performed during the copyediting process once the manuscript has been accepted.
  
  The Asociación Paleontológica Argentina will cover the costs of this service if the first author is a member of the Association. Otherwise, the Editorial Production Team will contact the authors to coordinate payment for this service.
• I declare that all authors have read the manuscript and agreed to the submission.
• The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
• The authors declare that they hold the copyright for all the submitted items (e.g., images, matrices, scans, videos, etc.), or that they have permission to reproduce them herein.
  (info) In that case, the authors should clearly state in the manuscript the original source of the copyrighted material and might be asked to provide evidence that the permission was obtained.