PLOS Currents: Disasters will consider any content relevant to disasters—natural or manmade, local, regional or global. Possible topics include: description of disasters; effects of disasters on the environment or on human populations; immediate management of disasters, both environmental and clinical; disaster risk management; disaster risk reduction; follow up of disasters, short and long term; implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015. The submissions do not have to be full-length articles and emphasis should be placed on the results and data, rather than on the potential impacts. The commenting feature in Google Knol is useful for discussions about the interpretations and significance of the findings.

General Guidelines

Submission of a manuscript to PLOS Currents: Disasters implies that all listed authors contributed substantially to the work, and that the work is an original contribution.

In cases when it is not immediately clear whether a contributor should be an author or simply acknowledged, please follow the policies used by the PLOS Journals.

If a manuscript constitutes primary publication of results from a study involving human subjects, authors must affirm that it was done in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.

In general, for studies involving human or animal research, authors should follow the policies established for the PLOS Journals (see for example the relevant policies in PLOS Medicine).

Authors may use any common citation style (e.g., AMA style, APA style, the Chicago Manual of Style, etc.) in the Reference section, as long as it is used consistently and authorship of cited works is adequately attributed, with all information necessary to locate cited material included.

 

Instructions for Writing and Submitting Knols to PLOS Currents

Once you have created a PLOS Currents account and logged in, you will be able to create a new article via the WordPress Dashboard, which is accessible from the top of any PLOS Currents page. Before creating a new submission, please make sure of the following:

A) Please ensure that you are logged in to the correct PLOS Currents section – the name of the section will appear in the Dashboard bar at the top of the page. Unfortunately, we are not able to transfer articles between PLOS Currents sections at the moment.

B) Please ensure that you are creating a new Article, rather than a new ‘Post.’ Posts cannot be published in PLOS Currents, and will need to be re-submitted as articles.

From the Annotum Dashboard page, select the ‘Articles’ button on the left-hand sidebar, followed by the ‘Add New’ button.

Enter the paper’s Title, Abstract, Funding Statement, and Acknowledgments into the appropriate text fields on the submission page.

Inviting co-authors

A) If your co-authors have not already created PLOS Currents profiles, invite them to do so via the ‘invite a new user’ link, found in the ‘Co-Authors’ box on the right-hand sidebar.

B) If your co-authors already have Annotum profiles, enter their names into the search field in the ‘Co-Authors’ box on the right-hand sidebar, select the correct name, and click the ‘Add’ button.

Important – the order in which you add authors will be the order in which they appear in the author list.

Creating Article Text

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