Flugsaurier 2015 Volume of Papers announced

I’m putting this up here as I do still get a fair number of visitors and obviously this site is still very pterosaur centric. Pterosaur enthusiasts will know there have been a series of volumes of pterosaur reseach stemming from the various conferences in the last decade or so. First and foremost among them has been the Geological Society’s special volume from 2003 that came from the meeting in France. Happily the same venue have agreed to publish the next in the series which is based on the the recent conference in Portsmouth. Potential authors should read on!

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Dear Authors,

We have now had confirmation that the Geological Society will be publishing a special volume of papers centred around the 2015 Flugsaurier conference that was recently held in Portsmouth, UK. This volume will be edited by Dave Hone, David Martill and Mark Witton.

The Society have set a deadline of the 31^st of January 2016 (a Sunday) for the first submission of manuscripts. This is relatively short notice, but includes the Christmas and New Year periods when traditionally teaching commitments are relatively low. At nearly 3 months away, hopefully this not too onerous a deadline. Formatting and submission instructions can be found here: www.geolsoc.org.uk/sp_authorinfo

Manuscripts will be taken through a full editorial process and subjected to peer review. Manuscripts may be rejected or subjected to multiple rounds of review if their content is not endorsed by referees. Unlike the very successful 2003 Geological Society pterosaur volume, accepted manuscripts will be published online immediately after review and corrections. Volume contents will therefore not be held up by any delays surrounding single manuscripts. A hard copy volume will be printed once all manuscripts are accepted, the deadline for which is 2017.

The volume has capacity for a large number of manuscripts and we encourage submissions. If space does become an issue, we will prioritise content related to material presented at Flugsaurier 2015, and authors who have already announced an intention to submit to the collection.

Please do contact us if you have any questions or queries. We look forwards to reading you research.

Yours,

Dave, David and Mark