Journal Policies
About the journal
Arthropod Management Tests (formerly Insecticide and Acaricide Tests) is an editor-reviewed publication that publishes short reports from a single year on a routine screening test for management of arthropods that may be harmful (e.g., pests and disease vectors of plants, animals, and humans) or beneficial (e.g., parasitoids, predators and diseases of pests, honey bees, silkworm). Pest management methods reported in this publication may be those using chemical pesticides as well as other materials such as insect growth regulators, semiochemicals (e.g., pheromones, kairomones), traps, biocontrol agents, pest-resistant plants and animals.
The publication is divided into the following sections:
Section A: Pome Fruits
Section B: Stone Fruits
Section C: Small Fruits
Section D: Citrus, Nuts, and Other Tree Fruits
Section E: Vegetable Crops
Section F: Field & Cereal Crops
Section G: Ornamentals & Turf
Section H: Forest & Shade Trees
Section I: Postharvest Products
Section J: Urban, Industrial, and Structural
Section K: Medical and Veterinary
Section L: Laboratory Bioassays
Section M: Plant & Animal Resistance
Journal submissions
Please carefully read and follow the instructions below. Failure to do so could result in delaying your report's time to publication.
Prepare the manuscript according to the guidelines contained in the Manuscript Preparation Section. When ready for submission, files should be submitted via the Arthropod Management Tests online submission site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amt. Each report should be submitted as a separate manuscript.
As of 2016, AMT will move to a system of continuous publication, where papers will be accepted at any time throughout the year. Under this new system, papers will be sent into production and published individually after acceptance rather than being published all at once.
Corresponding author
ESA journals allow for multiple people to be designated as a corresponding author on a published article. Authors should mark the co-corresponding authors in the main document. Note that only one person can be selected as the corresponding author in the submission system; that person will be responsible for communications during the review and production process. Authors are encouraged to include a statement of author contribution and are required to use the CRediT taxonomy of roles, which will be published on accepted manuscripts.
Manuscript review and editing
Manuscripts received are assigned by the Editor-in-Chief of Arthropod Management Tests to appropriate Sections. Requests, if any, from the authors for assignment of their manuscripts to specific Sections will be honored if appropriate. The manuscripts are not> subjected to formal peer review but they will be reviewed and edited by Section Editors and by the Editor-in-Chief. The editors reserve the right to reject any manuscript that does not fulfill the requirements stated in these guidelines or that has other deficiencies such as incomplete data, lack of replication, lack of appropriate checks, lack of statistical analysis or information, inconsistency, discrepancy, ambiguity, or other errors and flaws. Because of a tight production schedule, such manuscripts will be returned to the authors after the final editing of all manuscripts is complete. The returned manuscripts may be revised and submitted by the authors for the next volume. The manuscripts that are accepted and finally edited will not be referred to the authors for changes, if any, that are made therein.
The review process also is handled online using the ScholarOne system.
Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest
Authors must include, when applicable, the statement, “This research was supported by industry gift(s) of [pesticide and/or research funding].” This statement should be placed at the end of the narrative section of the report.
Open Access and republication of data from Arthropod Management Tests
As of Jan. 1, 2015, Arthropod Management Tests became a fully open access journal. Authors should note that this does not prevent them from reusing data published in AMT in a future paper in a peer-reviewed journal. Because AMT is published open access, no permission is required to republish data or reuse tables previously published in AMT in a peer-reviewed journal article; the author must simply cite the original AMT paper as the source of the data or table.
If an author wishes to reuse tables from AMT in a commercially published book, he or she should contact the Oxford University Press Permissions team at [email protected].
Ethics
Authors should observe high standards with respect to publication ethics as set out by ESA and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) . Any cases of ethical misconduct are treated very seriously and will be dealt with in accordance with ESA's author misconduct policy and the COPE guidelines. Further information about OUP's ethical policies is available.
