Extinction Accounts aims to synthesise and consolidate authoritative, knowledge on extinction, to engage and inform wider society. Namely, these articles will be literature reviews aimed at providing a deeper understanding of specific extinction events, particularly those that may offer insights into contemporary extinction risk and inform lessons for the future.

We welcome contributions ranging from accounts of individual species extinctions, to broader analyses at the family level, as well as studies of extinction histories within specific geographic contexts (e.g. specific island, lake, mountain systems).

This series is led by a Senior Editor of the journal, Dr David Roberts, The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, UK, and the Editors-in-Chief Professor Barry Brook, University of Tasmania, Australia, and Associate Professor John Alroy, University of Tasmania and Macquarie University, Australia.

Articles submitted to Extinction Accounts must focus mainly on the process of extinction (circa, 75%) of the article, whilst other information for example the biology of the extinct species just circa. 25% of the article wordcount. For further guidance, please see our  author instructions.

Please contact extinction@cambridge.org and Jessica.jones@cambridge.org if you wish to author an extinction accounts paper so we can ensure the species extinction is not already covered or in progress.

Extinction Accounts has no submission deadline or closure date; we will continue to build a database.

Extinction accounts articles published/in progress (please note we will only publish a single extinctions account article per species extinction, but will discuss the value in repeated geographic contexts if novel coverage is proposed).

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