Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science
Southern Forests :a Journal of Forest Science (SF-JFS), being the scientific publication of the SAIF and published in collaboration with NISC, is one of the leading forestry journals in the southern hemisphere.
This journal publishes scientific papers in forest science and management of planted or natural forests in the southern hemisphere and the tropics.
Papers are also welcome of related disciplines, such as wood-processing, forest engineering, environmental aspects of forestry, social forestry, agro-forestry, socio-economic science, plant science, non-wood forest products and other goods and services derived from forests in the broadest sense.
Contributions are encouraged from authors in South America, Africa, tropical/sub-tropical Australasia and Asia.
The SAIF published 208 Southern African Forestry Journal (SAFJ) up to November 2006. As from 1 January 2007, the journal was replaced with the Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science, commencing with issue 69(1) in July 2007.
Contents and Abstracts can be viewed on this website (see three links below).
- Southern African Forestry Journal on SAIF
Issue No. 1 to No. 189 - Southern African Forestry Journal + Southern Forest on Ajol
Click here to search issue No.190 to No. 208 + SF 69 and 70 onwards - Southern African Forestry Journal on Ingenta
Click here to search issue 203 to 208 - Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal on Ingenta
Click here to search issue No. 69(1) to 69(3) - Southern Forestry on Ingenta
Click here to search issue No. 70(1) onwards
Subscriptions for SAIF members
SAIF members pay an annually negotiated SF-JFS subscription fee. Particulares are available on request from the Secretariat
Corine Viljoen
Tel: 012 348 1745
Cell: 082 523 8733
Email: saif@mweb.co.za
Members interested in securing their SF-JFS must ensure that their SAIF subscription is paid up before 31 October annually, whereafter they will receive a NISC invoice, payable by 31 December of that year. No journal will be received in the subsequent year, unless the last mentioned subscription fee is paid in advance.
Subscriptions for non-SAIF members 2010
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Individuals |
Institutional |
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South Africa |
Print +Online |
R567 |
R945 |
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SA + SADC |
Print +Online |
R567 |
R945 |
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International |
Print +Online |
US$273 |
US$462 |
Interested parties must direct subscription enquiries to:
NISC (Pty) Ltd
PO Box 377
Grahamstown
6140
Fax (046) 622 9550
Email : journals@nisc.co.za
Invitation to Interested Contributors
An invitation is extended to any interested party to submit contributions to the Southern Forests : a Journal of Forest Science, for consideration by the Editorial Advisory Board. Contributions must be in MS Word, with the one exception that tables may be in MS Excel.
Contributions on any forest, plantation, wood, conservation or allied science will be considered.
No page charges are payable for publication in the SF-JFS.
Full details of format appear inside the back cover of any latest edition of the Journal. This can also be viewed by clicking on the Instructions to Authors see link below.
Initial submission of an electronic copy of the draft manuscript will get matters rolling. Editor may request submission of two hard-copies
The Editor: SF-JFS
c/o SAIF
Postnet Suite 329
Private Bag X4
Menlo Park
0102
RSAEmail: saif@mweb.co.za
On receipt, draft manuscripts will be subjected to initial review to establish 'significance' and 'basic format', carried out by three Associate Editors (AE). Should you be in any doubt about the format of your manuscript, please first email a copy to the Editor, Dr Andrew Morris andrew.morris@sappi.com for scanning and comment, before incurring the expense of postage and hard-copies.
Once cleared at initial review the manuscript is then sent for critical in-depth review by a 'Champion AE', an Editorial Advisory Board member and then for peer review by at least two, but generally three, recognised scientists. Any comments made are returned to the author(s) to revise and re-submit the manuscript. On publication no hard-copy reprints are provided to author(s) but they receive free access to the NISC website for three months to download pdf reprints themselves.
Any queries can be directed to the Editor:
SF-JFS- Dr Andrew Morris on
E-mail saif@mweb.co.za or fax +27(0)12-3481745.
Please read these carefully before commencing your draft paper
Please read carefully before commencing with your draft paper.
Sample Manuscript
The sample manuscript has been selected to assist authors as it meets all the requirements for the final revised manuscript text as published by Editor. [All draft manuscripts must be double spaced single lined (not double columns), with Tables and Figures each on a separate page at end of text, after ‘Acknowledgements’]
List of Standard Symbols
These should be used in preparation of manuscripts.
Language Editing Service at NISC'
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