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A journal to expedite plant systematic, phytogeographical and ecological publication.
Phytologia Instructions for Journal Authors
General Instructions
Phytologia is a rapid publication journal, dually published as a hard copy and digitally available on our website, www.phytologia.org as free downloads. All manuscripts should be accompanied with two (2) reviews. Please incorporate the suggestions of the reviewers or comment on why the suggestions are not incorporated.
Page charges are $15 per final page, payable when the article is accepted.
Due to the nature of rapid publication, the major portion of editing your manuscript rests on the author. The role of the managing editor is to convert your manuscript and figures to the digital publication specifications used by Phytologia. At least one member of the Phytologia Editorial Board will read your manuscript and suggest corrections of minor errors to the managing editor. However, that does not absolve the author from rigorous spell checking their manuscript before submission and checking the most recent issue of Phytologia for page formatting, topic headings, the literature citation format, etc.
Submit your manuscript with two (2) reviews by e-mail (as attachments), on CD or 3.5" floppy (e-mail is preferred).
Text Portion
Label your file as: AuthorNameKeywordsdate
(ex. AdamsJuniperusScopulorum6-11-06.doc). Only the lead author's name is needed. The text portion should be in MS Word (if possible) and sent as a .doc file. If you are unsure if your Word processor is compatible with MS Word (MS WinXP), send the text as both .doc and .rtf files (For Mac users, .rtf seems more reliable to convert to MS Word). NOTE: If you are not using MS WORD, then please set your margins so that the text (when printed) is 4 1/8" wide, using Times Roman, single spacing, 10 pt. Set your top and bottom margins so the text is 6 1/8" (when printed).
Please Format your text in the Phytologia page size:
Set your Font to Times New Roman, 10 pt.
Set line spacing to: single.
A major problem in rapid publication is in re-formatting your text to the size used in Phytologia. This is especially critical in re-formatting keys! Go to Page Setup and set the following:
Paper (tab):
Paper Size: A5
Margins(tab):
Orientation: click Portrait
Pages
Multiple pages click Mirror margins
Margins
Top 1" Bottom 1"
Inside 1" Outside 0.8"
Gutter 0"
Figures
Label your figures as: AuthorNameKeywordsdateFigx
(ex. AdamsJuniperusScopulorum6-11-06Fig1.jpg; AdamsJuniperusScopulorum6-11-06Fig2.jpg; AdamsJuniperusScopulorum6-11-06Fig3.jpg, etc.)
Scan your figures at 600 dpi. 300 dpi can be too grainy. Because Phytologia is printed at 600 dpi, scanning images at a higher resolution merely results in larger files to transfer.
Figures are easily converted from the .jpg format, but we can convert most graphic formats. .tif format seems to have the same resolution (600dpi) as .jpg, but the files are much larger.
Some authors find it easier to embed their figures in the text and this seems to be acceptable, particularly from authors using a PC with MS Word and WinXP. This does not seem to work well on manuscripts from Mac users (MS and Mac are still not quite compatible!), so sending the figures as .jpg files as attachments is preferable.
Size of attachments: Baylor current limit is 8mB. If needed, send multiple emails, but please clearly identify the emails.
ex. AdamsJunipersfig1of3, AdamsJuniperusfig2of3, AdamsJuniperusfig3of3.
Paper Layout
Experimental papers should have the following sectional headings:
Title (boldface, 10pt, All Caps, Times Roman, Latin names in italics):
POST-PLEISTOCENE GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS IN NORTH AMERICA
Author(s) name(s), address(s) and email address for lead author:
Robert P. Adams
Biology Department, Baylor University, Waco, TX 79040, USA
Robert_Adams@baylor.edu
ABSTRACT (caps, bold, centered)
A new variety of ....
KEY WORDS: Juniperus, Cupressaceae.....
____________________________________
The genus Juniperus .......
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Samples were collected.....
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Figure 1 shows the.....
CONCLUSIONS
It is clear that .....
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research was support with funds .....
LITERATURE CITED
Please single space and use tab for indentation. Note that an author's name is repeated in the next publication. Order references alphabetically by author, then by date.
Journal article:
Adams, R. P. 1975. Statistical character weighting and similarity
stability. Brittonia 27: 305-316.
Adams, R. P. 1977. Chemosystematics - Analyses of populational
differentiation and variability of ancestral and recent populations of
Juniperus ashei. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 64: 184-209.
Adams, R. P. 1999. Systematics of multi-seeded eastern hemisphere
Juniperus based on leaf essential oils and RAPD DNA
fingerprinting. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 27: 709-725.
Book:
Adams, R. P. 2004. The junipers of the world: The genus Juniperus.
Trafford Publ., Victoria, BC.
Chapter in a book:
Adams, R. P., L. E. Flournoy and R. N. Pandey. 1998. Obtaining
reproducible patterns from random polymorphic DNA amplification
(RAPDs). in Conservation of Plant Genes III: Conservation and
Utilization of African Plants. R. P. and J. E. Adams, eds., Missouri
Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
Papers dealing purely with taxonomic revisions and keys may not have the section headings: MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, and CONCLUSIONS.
Submission:
All manuscripts should be submitted to:
Robert_Adams@baylor.edu
or, if mailed:
Phytologia
Dr. Robert Adams
P. O. Box 727
Gruver, TX 79040
USA