Allen Press Collaborates with Ecological Society to Develop Online Publication Workflow

To expedite publication, ESA has made authors responsible for copyediting before submission. After acceptance and receipt of payment, manuscripts are converted to XML and formatted according to the Ecosphere style sheet using sophisticated rules-driven automation developed by Allen Press. After the XML is typeset, author or editor revisions are made by proofreaders using XML Author for Microsoft Word and the corrected article is posted to the ESA Publications website, which is hosted and managed by Allen Press. The file goes from raw manuscript to published article in just a few days. The online article includes a fully typeset, printer-friendly PDF file and the same level of quality and color figures, graphs, charts, and photographs found in other ESA publications.