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Existing contributors can login at: https://anoleannals.org/admin

Anyone can leave a comment to an existing post, but anonymous comments are forbidden.  Please contact Jonathan Losos at losos@wustl.edu if you would like to become a contributor and post on Anole Annals.  

All Anole Annals users must provide their full real name and a few sentences of basic information about why you’re writing for Anole Annals in the “Biographical information” section. Occasionally, comments get put into spam; if you comment and it is not published within a day, please notify the editors at anoleannals@gmail.com.

Content:

Anole Annals is a place to post anything about anoles, from recent scientific research to anecdotes about anoles in popular culture.  Have fun and post any anole information that you’d like to share with other anole enthusiasts.  We have only a few relatively simple rules.  First, we do not permit posts or comments about collection, sale, trade, or donations of animals (alive or dead) that are not accompanied by appropriate legal documentation.  Second, avoid controversial remarks that you may end up regretting.  Once something is on the internet it will never go away.  If you are going to be critical of someone’s work, make sure that you are objective and prepared to personally defend your critique.  If you have any doubts about a post or comment, please consult with the editors.

How to Add a New Post

After you have registered for a WordPress account and contacted the Editorial team for contributor access (see above), you can log in to contribute a post to Anole Annals via Contributor Links -> Contributor Login on the homepage.

You will then be prompted to log in using your WordPress account details.
Which will take you to the Anole Annals posting dashboard. Here, you will need to navigate to the options bar on the left and hover over ‘Posts’; options will appear in a connected menu to the right. Select ‘Add New’.
After selecting ‘Add New’ you will be led to a page which looks like this. Here is where you will construct your Anole Annals post! Add a title and construct your post in the main text box below.

Important: Remember to Save and Preview.

To avoid losing all of your hard work in drafting your Anole Annals post, please remember to press ‘Save Draft’ frequently. This also means that your draft can be saved for you to return to at another time. To see how your post will look once published live on Anole Annals, press ‘Preview’. When you have finished drafting your post, please contact a member of the Editorial Board who can schedule the post to go live.

Formatting Guidelines for Anole Annals Posts:

Titles:  Capitalize all words in titles except for linking words, e.g. ‘for’ or ‘an’.

Use of links:  The best way to add links to a post is to select a word and make that word a hyperlink. Once you select the word by highlighting it, press the hyperlink button in the menu under the title (next to the ‘align right’ option) which will prompt you to paste in your link.

Avoid adding extra text to your post that simply sets up a link.  Whenever possible, this will involve avoiding use of “click here” links (i.e., using the phrase “click here” as a hyperlink, see examples below).  Research suggests that “click here” links are less effective than more informative hyperlinks (both in terms of drawing a reader’s interest and in attracting appropriate references from search engines like Google).

Some do/don’t examples, with the hyperlink indicated by < >:

DON’T: Thomas et al. (1992) suggest that A. sagrei is invading Georgia (click <here> for the original paper).
DO: <Thomas et al. (1992)> suggest that A. sagrei is invading Georgia.

DON’T: Bill has some great photos of A. carolinensis <here>.
DO: Bill has <some great photos of A. carolinensis>.

DON’T: Smith (1992) recently published a phylogeographic study of A. sagrei (<http://dx.doi/org/34323121>).
DO: <Smith (1992)> recently published a phylogeographic study of A. sagrei.

DON’T: Anole annals has had several posts with photos of Dominican anoles, they can be found <here>, <here>, <here>, and <here>.
DO: We’ve seen several posts with photos of A. sagrei (<1>, <2>, <3>, <4>).

Adding Images to a Post

Images:  People like pictures, so please try to include one with each post. 

On your ‘Add New Post’ draft page, navigate to the option of ‘Add Media’ below ‘Add title’ and click on it.
You will have the option of inserting an image that has already been used on Anole Annals (Media Library), or uploading your own image file (Upload Files). To do so, either draf your image files into this upload box or press ‘Select Files’. Choose your image and begin your upload.
Once your image has uploaded it will appear as the newest image in the top left of the library with a blue tick. If you’re happy with the upload, click on the blue ‘Insert into post’ button in the bottom right.

Please give credit wherever possible for any images used in your Anole Annals post.

Help topics

Pasting text into a new post: Generally, pasting from Microsoft Word or other word processors directly into your post is fine.

Inserting an image in a comment post:Post a comment, then upload your photo to media library on the blog and copy the generated URL. Then go to the comment and edit it. When you get to the edit bar, hit the “img” tab above it and it will let you enter a URL.

Inserting a YouTube or Vimeo Video Into a Post

To insert and embed a video into your post, select ‘Insert from URL’ on the left side of the ‘Add Media’ option box.

When prompted, insert your YouTube/Vimeo/other link, and press ‘Insert into Page’. Your video should automatically embed into your post.

When in doubt, look at a similar post: You can see how things were put together when you view in the editor.