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-Manuscripts must be submitted in English
(for the time being).
-Manuscripts must be double
spaced throughout.
-Submission by email is preferred (with manuscripts
preferably in MS Word). Alternatively,
three hardcopies
can be submitted to the editor.
-Papers should follow the
traditional organization of abstract, introduction, methods, results,
discussion, acknowledgments, and literature cited. Some
papers
may deviate from this
format as appropriate
(e.g., nomenclatural notes).
-Please separate ranges of
numbers by single hyphens only (e.g., 112-124).
Place tables,
figure legends, foot notes, and appendices, on
separate pages and following the
references section at the end of the
manuscript. For keys, please follow a bracket format,
rather than
an indented format (example).
Abstract
-Every paper should include an English abstract and may include an
abstract in another
language as well.
Author
citations
-Follow author abbreviations as suggested by Brummitt & Powell
(1992). Use the ampersand
(&) between two authors. For
more than two authors, use only the first one followed by
et al.
Do not italicize or underline the following terms: et, et al.,
ex, or in.
Specimen
citations
-Cite the collector’s last name and number (or s.n.) and italicize.
The collector's first and
middle names may be omitted or provided in
abbreviation (initials only) as most useful to
the reader. Abbreviate the months of the year by the first three letters of
the month
without a period (e.g., North Carolina. Wake Co.: l mi W of
Raleigh, 8 Aug 1950, Fox 1234
(NCSC).
Abbreviations
-Omit the period when using the following abbreviations:
Directions
(in caps): N, S, E, W
Distance:
mm, dm, cm, m, km, ft, mi
Months:
Use first 3 letters only, Jan, Feb, Mar, etc.
Roads:
Hwy, Rte, St, Rd, Ave, Blvd
Literature cited
-Include all works cited in the text, citing as follows: ‘Wells and
Boyce (1954) suggested […]’
or ‘[…] the most recent treatment
(Liede & Täuber 1997).’
-When
there are three or more authors, use only the name of the first author
followed by et
al. (e.g., ‘Wentworth et al. (1992a) indicated
[…]’).
-Arrange
citations at the end of the article alphabetically and then
chronologically. For
multiple intra-annual publications by the same author(s), use a, b, c,
etc.
-Type author's names in
lower case, except for initial capitals.
Only initials are necessary for
author’s first and middle
names. Do not separate
author initials by a space.
-For titles, capitalize only the first letter of the initial
word, proper nouns, and proper
adjectives.
For journal abbreviations, follow Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum.
Sample literature citations
Correll,
D.S and M.C. Johnston. 1979.
Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
University of
Texas at Dallas Press,
Richardson, Texas.
Gentry, A.H.
1991. Breeding and
dispersal systems of lianas. In:
F.E. Putz and H.A.
Mooney, eds. The
Biology of Vines. Cambridge
University Press, New York, New York.
Pp.393-423.
Liede, S.
1996. Sarcostemma (Asclepiadaceae)-a controversial generic circumscription
reconsidered: Morphological evidence. Syst. Bot. 21:31-44.
Radford, A.E., H.E.
Ahles, and C.R. Bell. 1968.
Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
University of Chapel Hill Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Figures
-Please append all figures in a single sequence with internal scales as
appropriate. Images
should be submitted as tiff, jpeg, gif, or bmp files.
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