Notes for Contributors - Journal of Bryology

*NEW*

Managing Editor: Howard Matcham, Chichester, UK (email: hwlgmatch@yahoo.co.uk)

Contributions to the journal should now be submitted online at http://jbr.edmgr.com

Articles submitted to Journal of Bryology should comprise original, unpublished material and should not currently be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Stage 1:INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SUBMISSION OF AN ARTICLE TO JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY

Articles must be submitted online at http://jbr.edmgr.com

If you have not already done so, you will need to register to obtain a username and password. (Select the 'REGISTER' option from the main navigation bar at the top of the homepage.)

Information on the submission procedure is provided online, but you will be asked to provide the information and files listed below.

Failure to conform to these requirements may delay typesetting and publication of your paper. Authors will be asked to submit their work according to the requirements of the journal.

For an initial submission you must upload:

Ÿ A Word file containing the complete paper

Ÿ OR a Word file containing the text, references, tables and figure captions plus an individual file 

      of each figure, prepared to the specification laid out below.

Ÿ OR a PDF file of the complete paper

You will be asked to input separately the title, abstract and keywords for the article and contact details for all authors. This information may be cut and pasted.

You must also download, complete and return the author agreement.

Supplementary information such as datasets, animations, models or videos must be submitted offline, but you will need to indicate that an item of this type is being included in the submission.

When submitting a revised article you must upload:

Ÿ A text file containing the revised text, references, tables and figure captions, prepared to the  

      specification described below. This file must not include graphics. The preferred file format is  

      Word (.doc) or rich text format (.rtf), but Word-compatible word processor files (e.g. .wpd) and  

      LaTeX2e files will also usually be acceptable

Ÿ A separate image file of each figure. Ensure that figures will be legible and comprehensible at 

      final size and are of sufficiently high resolution (see guidelines below). Permitted file formats 

      are TIFF (.tif), JPEG (.jpg) and EPS (.eps).

Ÿ A response to the referees' comments, as a Word or PDF file. It is not necessary to upload for 

      a second time files that were uploaded with the initial submission and have not been altered.

COPYRIGHT

Authors will be required, before publication, to transfer copyright of their article to the British Bryological Society (this condition may be waived if Crown (or equivalent) copyright is involved and a licence to publish given). The standard copyright form may be viewed here. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material or illustrations for which they do not hold the copyright.

There will be no limitation on an author's freedom to use subsequently material contained in the paper, provided acknowledgement is made to the Journal as the original source of publication and a link to  www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/jbr included with any listing.

Main requirements for presentation

The text should be double-spaced.The title should be fully informative. Subheadings should be organised as follows: PRIMARY, use capitals and centre;Secondary, use lower case italics except for the first letter, and left-justify;Tertiary, use bold type and a full stop, and commence text on the same line after two spaces. Figures and photographs must be cited in the text as 'Fig. 1', etc., and tables as 'Table 1', etc. Dates should be in the form 1 June 2005 with the month written in full. Generic and specific names, formally recognised plant associations and other words which are to be printed in italics (such asca, in litt., leg., c.fr., et al.), should be typed in italics or underlined. In abbreviations use a full stop if the word is truncated (e.g. Prof., Fig.) but not if it is a contraction (e.g. Dr, Figs) or an S.I. unit (e.g. m, kg). Use negative powers (g m-2 year-1) not the solidus (g/m2/year) in derived units of measurement. The authors for scientific names of bryophytes and other organisms should be included at their first mention in the main text except for species studied by cited authors. Abbreviations for authors should follow the recommendations in R. K. Brummitt & C. E. Powell, 1992, Authors of Plant Names, published by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (note that spaces after full stops should be suppressed within author abbreviations, e.g. H.Whitehouse, P.de la Varde). Where the number of species is large (e.g. in a check-list) an appropriate nomenclatural work should be cited and authorities omitted. Taxonomic novelties should be given once in bold type in the formal treatment.

When it is necessary to name the herbarium in which a specimen is to be found the abbreviations should be those of P.K. Holmgren, N.H. Holmgren & L.C. Barnett (eds), 1990, Index Herbariorum edn 8. published for the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, New York Botanical Garden, New York. It is highly recommended that authors reporting chromosome counts, chemical analyses, DNA sequences and SEM photomicrographs etc., deposit voucher specimens in a reputable herbarium for future reference.

S.I. units and their normal abbreviations and conventions should be employed (see L.D. Incoll, S.P. Long and M.R. Ashmore, 1977,Current Advances in Plant Science,3, 331-343, for details). For example, energy contents (calorific values), radiation fluxes over bryophytes (radiant flux density) and photosynthetic light measurements (photon flux density) would be described using kJ g-1, W m-2 and µmol PAR m-2s-1, respectively.

For papers likely to exceed two printed pages, the title page should include a running heading of not more than 50 characters. Also, a Summary describing the aims, methods, results and conclusions, and a list of up to sixKeywords(or short phrases), should precede the Introduction. TheSummaryshould be informative, intelligible without reference to the main text, and of proportionate length.Papers which do not exceed around two printed pages will be published asBryological Notes. They should not include a Summary or Keywords and would normally lack subheadings. Authors should indicate the approximate position for each figure and table by a pencil comment in the text margin in the accepted version.

An edited column, New national and regional records, exists to publicize small numbers of new country records of bryophytes from countries other than Britain and Ireland. Entries appear under the authorship of the column editor and of all contributors. For each record the following information should be submitted to the column editor: name of taxon; name of locality with UTM grid reference or latitude and longitude; brief details of habitat and ecology; name of collector and date of collection; name of referee (voucher specimens from Europe and the wider Mediterranean region may be submitted); herbarium in which the voucher specimen is deposited; a brief paragraph (up to 250 words) may also be added to document other points of interest and to refer to the relevant literature (full citations must be supplied in the normal style for the Journal). Send entries in duplicate to: T. L. Blockeel, 9 Ashfurlong Close, Dore, Sheffield S17 3NN, UK 

References

References should be listed at the end of the article, arranged alphabetically according to authors' names and then by date.Journal names should be given in full. Use the following style in the reference section, which is one agreed among several U.K. botanical journals:

Gagnon ZE, Karnosky DF. 1992.Physiological response of three species of Sphagnum to ozone 

exposure.Journal of Bryology 17: 81-91.

Smith AJE. 1978. The moss flora of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rudolph H, Kirchoff M, Gliesmann S. 1988. Sphagnum culture techniques. In: Glime JM, ed.Methods in bryology. Nichinan: Hattori Botanical Laboratory, 25-34.

Glime JM, ed. 1988. Methods in bryology. Nichinan: Hattori Botanical Laboratory.

For separate monographs in numbered series use the book form. Text citations should be as follows: Smith (1978), Gagnon & Karnosky (1992), or, (Smith, 1978; Gagnon & Karnosky, 1992). Where there are three authors, refer to all three at the first mention (Rudolph, Kirchoff & Gliesmann, 1988) and in abbreviated form (Rudolphet al., 1988) in subsequent citations. Always use the abbreviated form where there are four or more authors.

Figures and Tables

A scale should be included where appropriate. Trim portions of electron micrographs with distracting information about machine settings, and place any relevant data in the legend. Colour images can only be reproduced if the full cost is met by the author.(An Agreement to Pay for Colour Figures Form is available to download from http://jbr.edmgr.com to fill our and return to the Editorial Office.) Drawings, graphs and photographs should not be more than twice the required size for publication except by special arrangement with the Editor. Figures are normally sized to fit in a single column or across the full width of the text. Original files which require reduction should be supplied with correspondingly thicker lines. Authors must apply their own symbols, numbers and lettering to figures, including photographs, and should pay special attention to point size. For same-size reproduction useLetraset 10 pt (2.4 mm) Univers 45 (IL2734), or, Letraset 20 pt (4.9 mm) Univers 45 (IL2731) for 50% reduction. Accuracy is essential as changes to figures are costly. Filenames should clearly correspond to the number (and part) of figure(s) enclosed in each file. The legends should be composed with care and understandable to someone who has not read the text.

Number tables separately from figures and submit either as separate files or included with the main text file. Study the format used for tables in recent issues of the journal. Do not use vertical lines. Table legends are printed in italics. Follow the guide-lines for figure legends. Ensure that all tables are cited within the text.

Proofs

Authors will receive page proofs in PDF form shortly before publication. Please print out and check these carefully. Pay particular attention to numerical data, tables, and to lists of names, to punctuation, and to seeing that abbreviations, capital letters, italics, and other special forms of type have been used correctly and consistently. Alterations other than the correction of printer's errors are permissible only at the discretion of the editors. If the number of alterations is excessive authors will be charged for them.

Where papers are submitted in the joint names of two or more authors, one author should make themself responsible for all communications with the Editor. Proofs should be returned to the Editor within 7 working days, by airmail if overseas.

Eprints

From Volume 28 2006, authors will receive a screen-resolution PDF of their published paper. Orders for hardcopy digital reprints may be made at proof stage.

Bryophyte Profiles

Each article will be a detailed study of the biology of a single bryophyte species from any part of the world. Papers should be organized under the following headings:Recognition, Distribution, Life Cycle, Ecology, Physiology, Applied Biology. Illustrations of the major life cycle phases should be included and each paper should contain substantive new information as well as review existing knowledge. Prospective authors are advised to contact the Editor (address above) for further details and to register their interest.

Bryological Monographs

Very long papers (longer than 16 printed pages) can only be considered for publication if the author contributes to the cost of publication. Such papers will be published in the Bryological Monographs series. These papers are accepted subject to the normal refereeing system. Normally the first 16 printed pages will be published free of charge. The remainder are charged to the author at a rate of approximately £48 per printed page.