Journal of Mammalian Evolution - Journal of Mammalian Evolution introduces Continuous Article Publishing

Beginning with Volume 31 in 2024, Journal of Mammalian Evolution will start using a new publication model called “Continuous Article Publishing.”

All accepted articles will immediately be published in an issue. Springer’s “Online First” mode, which uses the online publication of unpaginated articles, will become obsolete.

Instead of consecutive pagination of articles throughout a volume, each article will have a pagination beginning with page 1. In addition, every article will have an Article Citation ID number. This unique article identifier will replace the page numbers in the citation line.

Example:
Bell, Rachel B.; Bradley, Brenda J.; Kamilar, Jason M. et al. Title of the first article. J Mammal Evol 31, 1 (2024).

As a result, all articles will have their full and final citation information available as soon as the production process is complete. This change will not affect the production time from acceptance to online publication of an article, but since the articles will be published online immediately in their final form, the overall publication time for articles will become shorter.