About the Journal

Mammalia aequatorialis is a scholarly peer-reviewed Open Access Journal.  It publishes studies on neotropical mammals including the ones from Ecuador. The term Mammalia aequatorialis means «Ecuadorian mammals». Mammalia aequatorialis doesn't have any article processing charges. The journal is published annualy by Asociación Ecuatoriana de Mastozoología (Ecuadorian Association of Mammalogy).

All its content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

The studies and opinions published in this journal are solely responsibility from the authors and they don't reflect the ones from the Ecuadorian Association of Mammalogy.

Aims

The objectives pursued by Mammalia aequatorialis are:

  • Promote the dissemination and knowledge of the diversity of Neotropical mammalogy, including the ones from Ecuador.
  • Invite cooperation between researchers and technicians who contribute to the knowledge of neotropical mammalogy.
  • Promote scientific research that tends to the conservation and management of neotropical mammals and their environment.
  • Document activities that promote the development of mammalogy in Latin America and, especially, in Ecuador.
  • Serve as a disseminating agency for knowledge, management and conservation of the Neotropical and Ecuadorian mammals in particular.
  • To be the official organ of diffusion of the Ecuadorian Association of Mammalogy.

Scope

Mammalia aequatorialis publishes only original works on Neotropical mammals, with special attention to Ecuador. Studies can be carried out in any country, whether in native, introduced, feral, vagrant or fossil mammal species present in any part of the Neotropical region. The journal also accepts reviews or articles on broader topics, but they must include, mention, or use Neotropical specimens in their analyses.

Mammalia aequatorialis is aimed at professionals, researchers and university students with an interest in neotropical fauna, with particular emphasis on Ecuador.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Therefore, all the contents of the Journal are freely accessible and are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (between 2019 and 2022) and Creative Commons Atributtion 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (from 2023 onwards).

License and Copyright

Articles and notes published by Mammalia aequatorialis are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (between 2019 and 2022) and Creative Commons Atributtion 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (from 2023 onwards).

The CC BY 4.0 license implies that all readers may share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt the document (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, including commercial purposes, as long as credit is properly given.

The authors retain the copyright. However, authors transfer the economical rights for the first publication and dissemination of the work. Afterwards, the economical rights return to the author.

Publication Frequency

Mammalia aequatorialis is published annualy, during the first two weeks of December every year.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

Mammalia aequatorialis does not have any fees on the submission, peer-review process neither publication of works.

Plagiarism and Originality Report

All submissions are assessed on Turnitin in order to detect plagiarism. The journal accepts submissions with a similarity index no more than 25%. If the submission has a similarity index higher than 25%, the authors will have the opportunity to justify this percentage or reduce it and resubmit the work to the journal.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

The publication of an article in the peer-reviewed scholarly journal Mammalia aequatorialis is a process of permanent knowledge improvement.  The journal encourages open publishing digital articles. Additionally, it considers its duty to promote the transmission of scientific knowledge, ensuring its rigor and quality, under the ethical commitment of the scientific and academic communities. The protocols and guidelines described make reference to the Code of Conduct for editors of scientific journals that established the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Duties and responsibilities:
Mammalia aequatorialis is committed to:
• Assuring the quality of the scientific material published
• Guaranteeing freedom of expression
• Maintaining the academic integrity of the content, ensuring that the published material follows internationally accepted ethical norms
• Publishing corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Obligations of authors:
Authors must guarantee the authorship of the documents presented. Authorship corresponds to those who have made a significant contribution to the work. If the work has significant contributions from more than one author, these contributors should appear as co-authors.

Authors must provide contact information in order to facilitate communication with other researchers in relation to their published work. This contact information will appear with the published work.

Originality and plagiarism:
Authors must ensure that they have obtained permission to publish any materials presented in their work, as well as having exercised the right to quote other author´s work.

Those manuscripts in which plagiarism is detected will be rejected. Likewise, an author should not submit originals to describe essentially the same work as previously published.

Peer review process:
The decisions of the members of the Editorial Committee to accept or reject a manuscript for publication are based solely on the relevance of the work, its originality and expository clarity, as well as on the relevance of the study in relation to the editorial line.

It is guaranteed that the material submitted for publication will be considered as reserved and confidential material while it is being evaluated and, in the case of rejection, no reviewer will be able to make the original public.

The identity of the reviewers is protected at all times, which guarantees their anonymity.

Protecting individual data:
Mammalia aequatorialis guarantees the confidentiality of individual information. It is the authors’ responsibility to obtain authorizations to publish images and trademarks used in their work, and any other personal data (e.g. age, sex, social status of study participants).

Monitoring malpractice:
Mammalia aequatorialis accepts the obligation to act accordingly in cases of suspected malpractice or misconduct. Any manuscripts that raise questions about possible misconduct will be rejected.

Mammalia aequatorialis will make every reasonable effort to ensure that the manuscripts submitted for evaluation are rigorous and ethically appropriate.

Integrity and academic rigor:
Any time a published article is suspected of containing major misstatements or misleading or distorted information, it must be corrected immediately.

Any manuscript whose content is found to be fraudulent will be removed immediately from the indexing systems and it will not be available for reading.

Complaints

Any author, reader or reviewer may send complaints by email to Mammalia aequatorialis: [email protected]. Mammalia aequatorialis should respond promptly to complaints.

In any case, if the individuals involved are unable to satisfy their claims, they have the right to raise their protests to higher authorities.

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Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy

Mammalia aequatorialis allows self-archiving of accepted and published manuscripts. Authors retain copyright ownership and may archive pre-published or post-published versions or publisher's pdf versions in personal or institutional repositories or libraries at any time without the express permission of the journal or publisher.

Authors of articles published in Mammalia aequatorialis have the right to deposit accepted or published versions of manuscripts in institutional repositories. Authors may make them publicly and immediately available upon citation as the site where they were originally published.

Authors are invited to deposit their articles published in Mammalia aequatorialis in personal repositories, institutional repositories, public libraries or Internet dissemination pages to ensure better dissemination of their contributions. You can deposit submitted version, accepted version or published version.

Mammalia aequatorialis participates in the Public Knowledge Project Private LOCKSS Network (PKP PLN) digital preservation that allows for long-term digital preservation should the journal go offline. The LOCKSS programme allows for decentralised and distributed preservation of long-term access to manuscripts. It also allows for the digital preservation of authentic versions of manuscripts.

Interoperability Protocols

All Mammalia aequatorialis published works incorporate interoperability protocols that allow their contents to be collected by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters.

Journals that are published using OJS (Open Journals System 3.1.2.4) incorporate the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol, which allows different metadata formats to be obtained.

Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0
Metadata formats: Dublin Core; MARC; MARC21; RFC1807
Path for harvesters: https://mammalia-aequatorialis.org/index.php/boletin/oai