Submissions

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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 Microsoft Word 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).   All illustrations, figures, and tables ARE placed within the text according to proper placement for the reader.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined here: https://www.swst.org/wp/publications/wood-fiber-science/about-wfs/
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, ensure that you remove personal information from the file. Directions for doing so can easily be found via a web search.

Author Guidelines

If this paper is accepted for publication, an open access fee will be charged. The fee is $1800 for SWST members and $2000 for nom-members. Color photos/graphics have no added cost.

When submitting a manuscript, please refer to the guidelines found here, under "Submission Essentials" and use the Manuscript Body Template

Copyright Notice

Open Access

Manuscripts published in the journal are open access and copyrighted according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) which requires attribution to the author, but can be readily shared and adapted. The journal allows the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions.

Open access publishing is not without costs. These costs are defrayed through a one-time article processing fee of $1800 for SWST members and $2000 for non-members. Color photos/graphics have no added cost. This provides for immediate, global access to each article and covers all layout and web hosting costs. Any changes in this value are made by the SWST Board of Directors.

All W&FS articles are archived through the Public Knowledge Project platform (articles).   All of their servers are located in Canada (Vancouver and Toronto). Their main data center is located in Vancouver, BC and their offsite disaster recovery servers are located in Toronto, ON.  They provide onsite, versioned backups for all hosted clients with 4-hour, daily, weekly, and monthly data restore points. The servers are also mirrored offsite in Toronto, ON for emergency disaster recovery.

If due to unforeseen circumstances we are forced to stop publishing W&FS, existing manuscripts will be perpetually kept online and accessible to the readers.

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