Rules for Authors
Arctoa is publishing papers on mosses,
liverworts and hornworts. Printed and electronic versions at
http://www.arctoa.ru are issued.
The submitted information should be significant
and novel, not published earlier and not submitted or considered
for publications elsewhere.
Papers must be in English, except the
sections of “New Records” and “Regional Floras”, where both English and Russian
are acceptable. Further instruction for “New Bryophyte Records” and “Regional Floras” sections
is given below.
Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted into
two addresses: misha_ignatov@list.ru è fedosov_v@mail.ru
Optimally to name files with the
surname of the first author (e.g., ivanov-text.rtf, ivanov-fig1.tif, etc.)
written by letters of the Latin alphabet.
Manuscripts must be fully prepared
for publication, checked for language and the following rules. Numerous
technical and orthographic errors preclude sending paper to reviewers, authors
will be requested to improve and resubmit their papers. English editing is a
responsibility of author(s).
Titles, author names and abstracts
will be published in both English and Russian. Authors can provide their own
Russian version; however, if this information will not be supplied, then it
will be completed by the editor.
1. Text of the manuscript includes:
Title, Author(s), Author’ address and e-mail,
Abstract, Text of paper, Literature Cited, Figure explanations, Table
explanations, Tables. Files in *.doc and *.rtf are acceptable. In titles and
authors do not use heading letters (except the first letter, as in usual text).
Please suggest running head if the paper title is long; in the absence of
suggestion, the editor can use his own version of the running head.
File with manuscript text must not
include Figures. Each figure must be submitted as a separate file with
indication in file name “fig-1”, “fig-2”, etc. Files in *.tif, *.jpg, and *.eps
are acceptable and authors are requested to convert other files to these
formats. DO NOT send figures embedded in files of text editors, e.g. MSWord. In
case of difficulties, please, consult the editor for the possible exceptions.
Line drawings should be preferably in black and white bitmap mode (no less 600
dpi, 1200 dpi recommended) or in grayscale mode (no less 200 dpi, 300-600 dpi
recommended). Avoid figures in indexed colors. Figures must be of good quality
and should have scale bars. In case of photographs, author can suggest the bar
of certain length (preferably) rather than insert the bar himself. They can be
arranged in plates or given separately.
4. Color photographs may be printed
at author expense. However, color image files (RGB mode) that can be printed
clearly in grayscale mode can be submitted as well, with indication that they
are to be printed in grayscale mode; those figures will be in color in pdf file. In these cases authors should submit two files:
color of grayscale ones, with the same beginning of name, e.g. ivanov-fig1-rgb.tif
(or ivanov-fig1-color.tif) AND ivanov-fig1-black-white.tif.
Previously published figures will be
accepted only with the writing permission of the copyright holder; author are requested to obtain these permissions and submit
to Arctoa along with the manuscript.
Footnotes should be avoided as much
as possible; each footnote has to be submitted as a separate file (and text
should have reference to this file in appropriate place, FOOTNOTE1, etc.). This
does not concern author addresses that are given immediately after authors of
the paper.
After paper acceptance for
publications, author must sign copyright agreement, transferring copyright to Arctoa. At the same time, authors will have all the rights
for the subsequent use of their data, referring to the original publication.
Copyright agreement can be taken from
http://www.arctoa.ru/copyright-agreement.rtf
Abbreviations
1. Only SI units must be used.
2. The Latin names of species and infraspecific taxa should include
author(s) at first mention. However, if the paper has a list or catalogue of all
species, then authors should be mentioned in that list and not in the text. If
species concepts follow one of checklists and all the species names would have
the species authors as in that checklist, then please give reference to this
checklist and do not provide any authors of species and infraspecific
taxa. Author abbreviations should follow
http://www.ipni.org/index.html.
3. Herbarium acronyms must follow
Index Herbariorum,
http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IndexHerbariorum.asp.
Formatting
1. The Latin names of plants and
animals must be in italics for taxa of rank of genera
and below (e.g. genera, species, infraspecific taxa), but in normal font for taxa
above genera (e.g. families, classes, etc.); rank of taxa
(e.g. var., subsp.) in normal font), No other formatting (font, paragraph,
style) in text is needed, except letters absent in English alphabet (see below)
and literature references (as explained below).
2. Microns should be given as mkm. Letters ä ü ö should be given as ae, ue, oe respectively and underlined. Other specific
letters should be underlined, but their correct printing is not guaranteed.
3. Dates should be given as follow:
day (in Arabic numerals).month (in Roman numerals).year (in Arabic, in four
numerals), e.g. 25.VII.1998
4. Decimal fraction should be written
with point (0.1), not comma (0,1).
5. Variation in dimensional
characters should be given with hyphen, (20-)25-30,
not with dash; note that no space should be near hyphen in this case.
6. Dash can be given as hyphen or
dash, but always with space before and after it.
7. Space must be always put after numerals,
point (except in decimal and dates), comma, colon, semicolon. Never put two
spaces together.
8. Reference to figures should be
numbered. If the paper has only one figure it must be Fig. 1. All figures has to be discussed in the text.
9. References in text must be as
follow: Ivanov (2000), or (Ivanov,
2000); Ivanov & Sidorov
(2000), or (Ivanov & Sidorov,
2000); Ivanov et al. (2000), or (Ivanov
et al., 2000).
10. Literature citation must include authors names written in ordinary way, with the only first
heading letter; All-caps style will be given in the course of the final
technical preparation:
POTEMKIN, A.D. 2001. Three new species of Scapania (Hepaticae) from India and China. – Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 1-7.
[BARDUNOV, L.V.] ÁÀÐÄÓÍÎÂ, Ë.Â. 1999. Î ðåäêèõ âèäàõ âî ôëîðå ëèñòîñòåáåëüíûõ ìõîâ Öåíòðàëüíîé Ñèáèðè. – [On the rare species in the moss flora of Central
Siberia] Áîò. Æóðí. [Bot. Zhurn.] 84(2): 73-78.
[BELKINA,
O.A. & A.Yu. LIKHACHEV] ÁÅËÊÈÍÀ, Î.À., À.Þ. ËÈÕÀ×Å 1999. Ñêàëüíàÿ áðèîôëîðà ãîð Ìóðìàíñêîé îáëàñòè. – [To cliff moss flora of Murmansk Region mountains
(North-West Russia)]  êí: Ôëîðà è ðàñòèòåëüíîñòü Ìóðìàíñêîé îáëàñòè (ðåä. Êîíñòàíòèíîâà, Í.À.) Àïàòèòû, Êîëüñêèé íàó÷íûé öåíòð ÐÀÍ [In: Konstantinova, N.A. Flora i rastitel’nost’
Murmanskoj oblasti. Apatity, Kol’skij nauchnyj zentr Ross. Akad. Nauk]: 31-54.
Smith, A. J. E. 1978. The moss flora of
Britain and Ireland. – Cambridge & al., Cambridge Univ. Press. 706 pp.
[SAVICZ-LYUBITSKAYA, L.I.
& Z.N. SMIRNOVA] ÑÀÂÈ×-ËÞÁÈÖÊÀß, Ë.È., Ç.Í. ÑÌÈÐÍÎÂÀ 1970. Îïðåäåëèòåëü ëèñòîñòåáåëüíûõ ìõîâ ÑÑÑÐ. Âåðõîïëîäíûå ìõè. – [The handbook of mosses of the
USSR. The acrocarpous mosses] Ë., Íàóêà [Leningrad, Nauka],
826 pp.
[BARDUNOV, L.V. & A.N.
VASILYEV] ÁÀÐÄÓÍÎÂ, Ë.Â., À.Í. ÂÀÑÈËÜÅÂ 1998. Áðèîôëîðà ëåñîâ Ñèáèðè. –
[The bryoflora of forests of
Siberia] Â
êí.: Ïðîáëåìû áîòàíèêè íà ðóáåæå XX-XXI âåêîâ. Òåç. äîê., ïðåäñòàâëåííûõ
II(X) ñúåçäó Ðóññêîãî áîòàíè÷åñêîãî îáùåñòâà (26-29 ìàÿ 1998, Ñàíêò-Ïåòåðáóðã).
Ò. 2. ÑÏá: ÁÈÍ ÐÀÍ [In: Problemy botaniki na rubezhe
XX-XXI vekov. Abstr. II(X) Congr.
Russ. Bot. Soc. (26-29
May, 1998, St.Petersburg). Vol.
2. St.-Petersburg, Komarov' Bot. Inst.]: 127-128.
Latin names are given in normal font,
not italics, in Literature Cited.
Journal, book, pages must be in
italics. Volume must be boldfaced.
Order of literature references is alphabetical,
following Latin transliteration of Cyrillic alphabet.
Reviewing
Manuscripts will be reviewed and
authors will be informed of the overall evaluation of the submitted paper, and
may be requested to complete, delete or amend part of paper. In case of
disagreement with reviewer’ opinion, the author should provide explanation of
his position to the editor. In case of major revision, the manuscript may be
send to the additional review.
Proof reading copy
After paper acceptance, the proof
reading copy will be send to author with request to check the paper and return corrected
copy as soon as possible. The non-receipt of proof reading copy within ten days
does not guaranteed that corrections will be included in publication. If paper
has more than one author, then proof reading copy will be send to the first author
unless otherwise is indicated. Numerous mistakes of original manuscript will be
corrected in proof reading file only at author expense.
Reprints
Printed version in *.pdf file will be
provided to authors free of charge. No separate reprints will be provided.
“New Bryophyte
Records” section
“New Bryophyte
Records” section presents short notes about interesting records, as well as
information about species missing for certain provinces and countries. Each
record must have longitude and latitude data (if this is not indicated in
label, please give this approximately [with ~] according to map). Name of
collector should be in both Latin and Cyrillic alphabet. Collection date (prior
the collector) and collector number (after collector name) should be also
given, as well as herbarium where the specimen is deposited.
Since
21 volume, the format of New Bryophyte Records in Arctoa will be slightly changes. It will appear as one article
of many authors, and (1) will have one bibliography for all contributions; (2) list
of authors wih address will be after bibliography (as
well as in earlier volumes); (3) ackowledgements will
be restricted by abbreviation of foundation and and
grant number, written after author address.
Citation
of New Bryophyte Record’ material may be in two ways:
Ivanov I.I. 2020. New moss records from Ivanono Province. 1. – In: Sofronova E.V. (ed.) New bryophyte records. 10. Arctoa 30:
300-350.
Sofronova E.V.,
Aleksandrov A.A., Ivanov A.I., Ivanov I.A., Ivanov I.I., Volkov V.V. 2020. New bryophyte records. 10. – Arctoa
30: 300-350.
The series
of New Bryophyte Records will start in vol. 21 since the first number: «Íîâûå áðèîëîãè÷åñêèå íàõîäêè. 1 -- New bryophyte records. 1», however, the previous
numbering from vols. 15-20 for separate regions will remain.
Example:
New moss records from Ivanono Province. 5. – Íîâûå íàõîäêè ìõîâ â Èâàíîâñêîé îáëàñòè. 5. I.I. Ivanov – È.È. Èâàíîâ
New for Russia – Íîâûå äëÿ Ðîññèè
Ivanovia
ivanovii Ivanov – Ivanovo
Distr., Ivanovka, (93°93'N – 189°93'E), 14000 m alt., on limestone with Cephalozia
bicuspidata, 32.V.2020 Ivanov # 666666 [Èâàíîâ] {IVAN}.
«Regional
Floras» section
Section
will publish papers with complete lists of moss/ hepatic floras from poorly
known regions that have sufficient novelty for this region. Papers in Russian
and English are accepted, in the former case a reader have to be able
understand the study area and species frequency. Captions for tables and illustrations
and abstract must be in two languages. Welcomed are the overviews of habitat
types, including characteristic bryophytes.
New
Publication
New
Publication sections is publishing bibliography on bryological
literature concerning East Europe and North Asia, and represented in at least
one of the following libraries: of Komarov’ Botanical
Institute in St.-Petersburg, Main Botanical Garden in Moscow, and Institute of
Biology in Ufa, or pdf-file (if not from Journal,
then with the title page), sent to three addresses: Irina Czernyadjeva
<irinamosses@gmail.com>, Elena Sofronova
<e.v.sofronova@ibpc.ysn.ru>, misha_ignatov@list.ru.