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Author Guidelines

General Comments

Manuscript Format

Manuscript should be submitted for review in any computer readable and editable form in a "Camera Ready" format with all figures and tables placed within the text near their first reference. The lines and pages should be numbered and the margins wide enough to accommodate review comments; although, the reviewers are expected to review the manuscript in a format that resembles the final appearance of the published manuscript. 

Submission of figures and tables in MS Word format

Tables

All tables in MS Word documents must be compiled in MS Word Table Objects.  To create a table in Word type Alt-t and then select "Insert" or click on the "Insert Table" icon on the top banner of MS Word.

Figures

All figures need to be submitted as individual files in the EPS format.  The figures can be converted from MS Word to the EPS format by using free software such as GIMP.  For example, copy the figure from any MS Office program by clicking on it and typing CTR-C.  Then paste it into the Microsoft Paint program by pressing CTR-V.  Edit the white space about the figure and select Save As to save it as JPG file.  The jpg file can then be easily loaded into the free GIMP software and exported as EPS file.  To confirm that the created EPS file contains the intended graph open it in Adoby Acrobat, which should convert it automatically (using Adoby Distiller) into a PDF format and display the content of the file.

Examples of Literature Cited Style

Book

Shiver, B.D., and B.E. Borders. 1995. Sampling techniques for forest resource inventory. Wiley. 356 p.

Chapter in book

Woolsey, R.E.D. 2003. Marketing the OR profession. P. 39-59 in The Woolsey Papers, R. L. Hewitt (Ed.). Lionheart Publishing.

Article in journal

Hall, D.B. and R.L. Bailey. 2001. Modeling and prediction of forest growth variables based on multilevel mixed models. For. Sci. 47(3): 311-321.

Proceedings

Finley, A.O., A.R. Ek, Y. Bai, and M.E. Bauer. 2005. K-Nearest Neighbor estimation of forest attributes. P. 61-68 in Proc. of the Fifth Annual Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium, McRoberts, R.E., G.A. Reams, P.C. Van Deusen, W.H. McWilliams (eds.). USDAFS, Gen. Tech. Report WO-69.

Technical report

Shiver, B.D. and W.M. Harrison. 2000. Slash pine site preparation study: age 20 results. PMRC Tech. Rep. 2000-4. 17 p.

Thesis/dissertation

Akay, A.E. 2003. Minimizing total cost of construction, maintenance, and transportation costs with computer-aided forest road design. PhD thesis, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA. 67 p.

Web publication

USDA Forest Service. 2009. USDA announces $477 million in funding for schools, roads. Available online at http://www.fs.fed.us/news/2009/releases/01/srs.shtml; last accessed Feb. 13, 2009.

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.

1. 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).
    
   
2. The manuscript is submitted camera-ready, single-spaced, in 10 or 11-point font; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points.
    
   
3. The submission file is in LaTeX, or .DOC, or RTF, or .ODT file format, with numbered lines, and figures additionally provided individually in .eps format with minimal white space.
    
   
4. If the manuscript is in Microsoft Word format all tables are prepared using the Microsoft Word Table Objects rather that text line and tab controls formatting. 
    
   
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, and the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
    
   
6. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided and checked to be active and accurate, and the date of accessing the URLs is provided in the manuscript.
    
   

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.


2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.


3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) following the publication by the journal, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy Statement

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Optional MCFNS Fast-Track Review fees: 350.00 (USD)
You can expedite the review processing of your article with the optional payment for the Fast-Track Review option. With the payment of this fee, the review, editorial decision, and author notification on this manuscript is guaranteed to take place within 4 weeks.
Dependable reviewers and editorial board members processing repeatedly the Fast-Track Reviews are given 50% discount of these fees.

Article Publication fees: 400.00 (USD)
If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs.

The fee is waived for invited publications, authors from economically disadvantaged countries, and any individuals not currently employed by an institution that can pay the publication fees. The members of the MCFNS Editorial Board get fee waiver for one publication per year and 50% discount for any additional publication fees.

Furthermore, if you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to have the publication fee waived. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.