Publishing with Evolution Letters during the coronavirus pandemic

Here at Evol­u­tion Let­ters, we are com­mit­ted to pub­lish­ing the best new evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy research in a timely fash­ion, and will con­tin­ue to do so as best we can through­out the coronavir­us pan­dem­ic. We strongly encour­age the evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy com­munity to con­tin­ue sub­mit­ting manu­scripts and writ­ing reviews dur­ing this time.

We know that our authors, review­ers, and edit­ors (and indeed, people involved in the pro­duc­tion of accep­ted manu­scripts) will have new and diverse demands on their time over the com­ing months. Our pub­lic­a­tion pro­cess may there­fore become slower than usu­al. We ask our con­trib­ut­ors to bear with us, and we will do our best to deal with your sub­mis­sions effi­ciently and to keep you informed through­out. The likely impact of the pan­dem­ic on every­body involved in the review and pub­lic­a­tion pro­cess has been beau­ti­fully artic­u­lated by Dan Bol­nick and his team at the Amer­ic­an Nat­ur­al­ist, and we share all of the views out­lined in his blo­g­post (https://comments.amnat.org/2020/03/publishing-in-time-of-coronavirus-open.html).

Please note that we will con­tin­ue to send remind­ers to review­ers and edit­ors regard­ing recom­mend­a­tions and decisions on papers, and to authors regard­ing revi­sion dead­lines. How­ever, if extra time is required or a task can­not be com­pleted, please do not hes­it­ate to let us know. We will provide exten­ded flex­ib­il­ity and sup­port to our con­trib­ut­ors and review­ers dur­ing this time.

Thank you for your con­tin­ued sup­port of Evol­u­tion Let­ters – we look for­ward to con­tinu­ing to pub­lish your excel­lent work

Best wishes and stay safe,

The Evol­u­tion Let­ters Edit­or­i­al Team

Jon Slate (j.slate@sheffield.ac.uk)

Nic­ola Hemmings

Abder­rah­man Khila

Andy Gard­ner

Anne Char­manti­er

Cor­rie Moreau

Judith Mank

Kat­rina Lythgoe

Lindell Brom­ham

Max Reu­ter

Rhonda Snook

Steph­en Wright

Zach Gom­pert