Cover suggestions are always welcome and should ideally be submitted as a supplementary data file(s) during manuscript submission. For manuscripts post-acceptance, cover suggestions can be emailed to the michaela{at}biologists.com.

Please note that the cover is portrait in orientation (~28 cm high x 21.5 cm wide), and images should be chosen for submission with this in mind. Also, the JEB logo appears at the top of the cover, and the volume and issue numbers appear at the bottom of the cover, so it is important that these components do not obscure vital parts of the image. If you wish to submit several images for use as a 'montage', please also supply a mock-up of how you envisage the individual images would be combined.

For previous examples of JEB covers, please refer to our cover image archive.

If your image(s) is chosen for the cover, you will be asked to supply a high-resolution file (300 dpi at final size), although a low-resolution version (72 dpi) can be submitted in the first instance.

Please supply a cover caption of less than 100 words; this should explain the image(s) and link it to your article and the field as a whole. It should also provide any picture credits, if necessary.

The cover for each issue is chosen by the Editor-in-Chief and/or Publishing Editor, whose decision is final.