Before your manuscript is submitted:
____ Keywords include “Nutrient Network (NutNet)”
____ The acknowledgments section contains the standard text: https://nutnet.org/fundingandsupport
____ Authorship contributions table has been included as supplementary material (headers should be those in the rubric here: http://www.nutnet.org/authorship). Googledoc instructions for opening template here: http://www.nutnet.org/files/nutnet/NutNet-Authorship-googledoc.pdf
____ Cite Borer et al. 2014 as standard methods. Be sure your paper’s methods section is reasonably consistent with this.
After your manuscript is submitted:
____ Find your manuscript online at http://www.nutnet.org/ms_search and change the status indicator to ‘Submitted.'
____ E-mail the authorship committee chairs (2013: Carly Stevens c.stevens@lancaster.ac.uk and Andrew MacDougall amacdo02@uoguelph.ca) to notify them of the submission.
Once your manuscript has been accepted:
____ Notify the NutNet coordinator. Your paper abstract will be moved to the publications page, and a news item posted on nutnet.org. The entire network would love to hear of your success as well, don’t be afraid to brag to nutnet [at] googlegroups.com!