期刊名称：ACTA BIOTHEORETICA
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Acta Biotheoretica is devoted to the promotion of theoretical biology, encompassing mathematical biology and the philosophy of biology, paying special attention to the methodology of formation of biological theory.
Papers on all kind of biological theories are welcome. Interesting subjects include philosophy of biology, biomathematics, computational biology, genetics, ecology and morphology. The process of theory formation can be presented in verbal or mathematical form. Moreover, purely methodological papers can be devoted to the historical origins of the philosophy underlying biological theories and concepts.
Papers should contain clear statements of biological assumptions, and where applicable, a justification of their translation into mathematical form and a detailed discussion of the mathematical treatment. The connection to empirical data should be clarified.
Acta Biotheoretica also welcomes critical book reviews, short comments on previous papers and short notes directing attention to interesting new theoretical ideas.
Indexing/Abstracting Services
Acta Biotheoretica is indexed/abstracted in Biological Abstracts; BIOSIS Previews; CAB Abstracts; Current Contents/Agricultural, Biology & Environmental Sciences; Ecological Abstracts; Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences; Geobase/Geo Abstracts; Index Medicus/MEDLINE; The ISI Alerting Services; PASCAL Database; Reference Update; Science Citation Index; Science Citation Index Expanded; Zoological Record |
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Instructions to Authors
Each year a volume will be published in four issues. Papers presented to Acta Biotheoretica must be written in English and should always be preceded by an abstract. This abstract must not exceed 200 words. It should give information on the scope of the paper, methods used, important findings and conclusions. It should stand on its own and not refer to the main text.
It is advisable to be as concise as possible and not to exceed 10,000 words. Original studies have preference, but review articles are certainly not excluded. Moreover, Acta Biotheoretica provides a section for original theoretical ideas. These ideas will be briefly refereed. The number of words should not exceed 1,000.
Manuscripts should be submitted in twofold, type-written, with double-spacing and ample margins. The original drawings of any illustrations, together with one set of photocopies must be included. Tables and explanations of figures should be given on separate sheets. For clarity, citations in the text and literature list are given in the examples below.
Complete manuscripts should be sent to: The editor, Acta Biotheoretica
P.O. Box 9516
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
It would be appreciated if authors could send an electronic copy of their manuscript on a disk, as it makes our work easier. Please, state which wordprocessing software (including version number) has been used; WordPerfect, MS-Word, Word or straight ASCII-files can be processed easily.
Reference style
In the text citations should be made in chronological order. Publications with three or more authors are referred to with the name of the first author followed by et al.. Where applicable, references to books should contain a page or chapter number. For example:
(1) Joshi (et al., 1992) claim that (2) Growth trajectories of Venturia canescens in the final four stadia (Harvey et al., 1994) show (3) This problem is attacked with the method of singular perturbation (Britton, 1987, Ch. 8) (4) as is well-known (Lack, 1947; Parker and Courtney, 1984; Skinner, 1985; Charnov and Skinner, 1984, 1985, 1988).
In the reference list, authors should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the paper. Names of journals must be given in full, without abbreviations. Please adhere to the following style:
Britton, N.F. (1987). Reaction-Diffusion Equations and Their Applications to Biology. Academic Press, London.
Charnov, E.L. and S.W. Skinner (1988). Clutch size in parasitoids: the egg production rates as a constraint. Evolutionary Ecology 2: 167-174.
Giddings, T.H. and J.L.A. Staehelin (1991). Microtubule-mediated control of microfibril deposition: a re-examintaion of the hypothesis. In: C.W. Lloyd (ed.), The Cytoskeletal Basis of Plant Growth and Form, pp. 85-89. San Diego, Academic Press.
Harvey, J.A., I.F. Harvey and D.J. Thompson (1994). Flexible larval growth allows use of a range of host sizes by a parasitoid wasp. Ecology 75: 1420-1428.
Joshi, H.C., M.J. Palacois, L. McNamara and D.W. Cleveland (1992). Tubulin in a centrosomal protein required for cell cycle dependent microtubule nucleation. Nature 356: 80-83.
Lack, D. (1947). The significance of clutch size. Parts I and II. Ibis 89: 302-352.
Editorial Board
Managing Editor:
T.A.C. Reydon
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Editor:
J. Demongeot
Université de Grenoble, France
U. an der Heiden
University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
A. Stevens
Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig, Germany
L. Hemerik
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Editorial Board:
W.J. Bock, New York, USA; D. von Engelhardt, Lübeck, Germany; A.C. Gittenberger-de Groot, Leiden, The Netherlands; A.I. Houston, Bristol, UK; D.L. Hull, Evanston, IL, USA; E. Kisdi, Turku, Finland; M.C. Mackey, Montreal, Canada; J.P. Mazat,Bordeaux, France; J.A.J. Metz, Leiden, The Netherlands; R. Nisbet, Santa Barbara, USA; I. Olivieri, Montpellier, France; P. Schuster, Vienna, Austria; P. Tracqui, La Tronche, France; W.J. van der Steen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; J. Viret, La Tronche, France
For questions related to any aspect of this journal, please contact:
Mr Charles Erkelens
Publishing Editor
Kluwer Academic Publishers
C.T. Erkelens
Van Godewijckstraat 30
P.O.Box 17
3300 AA Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 78 6576387
Fax: +31 78 6576254
E-mail: Charles.Erkelens@wkap.nl
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