期刊名称：INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Invertebrate Systematics (formerly Invertebrate Taxonomy) publishes original and significant contributions on the systematics and phylogeny of invertebrates worldwide. Papers provide comprehensive or revisionary treatments of clearly defined taxonomic groups and contain information on the phylogeny, biogeography and/or other aspects of biodiversity and general biology of the group. Contributions on the systematics of selected species that are of conservation, economic, medical or veterinary importance may also be considered, if these aspects are substantially highlighted in the work. Short, general papers, pertinent to invertebrate systematic biology are encouraged on: methodology, theoretical systematics, cladistics, phylogeny, molecular biology and biogeography. Pivotal reviews of general invertebrate systematics, containing innovative data or overviews of current theories, are also actively sought.
Instructions to Authors
Assignment of copyright
When submitting your manuscript, please enclose a completed Copyright Assignment Form. This form is also available from the Editorial Office or the form printed in the journal may be photocopied. For further details, please see Assignment of Copyright.
Scope
Invertebrate Systematics publishes original and significant contributions on the systematics and phylogeny of invertebrates worldwide. Papers should provide comprehensive or revisionary treatments of clearly defined taxonomic groups, and contain information on the phylogeny, biogeography and/or other aspects of biodiversity and general biology of the group. Papers should also include a discussion indicating the aims and significance of the work and its broader implications. Contributions on the systematics of selected species that are of economic, medical or veterinary importance may also be considered if these aspects are substantially highlighted in the work. Short, general papers, pertinent to invertebrate systematic biology are encouraged on: methodology, theoretical systematics, cladistics, phylogeny, molecular biology and biogeography. Pivotal reviews of general invertebrate systematics, containing innovative data or overviews of current theories, are also actively sought. (Authors contemplating such reviews should first discuss the intended topic with the Managing Editor or a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee.)
Submission of manuscripts
Papers may be submitted by email to the Managing Editor as a single file (including figures collected in order at the end of the file) in Word or PDF format (no other formats will be accepted). The file must be of manageable size (i.e. <2 Mb) so that it can be emailed to referees. A single hard copy of the paper and covering letter should be mailed to the Managing Editor in case of errors occurring in the electronic file. To aid in file management, please identify the first author and month and year of submission in the filename, e.g. 碕onesetal_Apr03.doc?
For those authors unable to submit an electronic version of the paper, three clearly legible hard copies must be submitted to: the Managing Editor, Invertebrate Systematics, CSIRO PUBLISHING, PO Box 1139, Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia.
A covering message or letter should indicate that the paper is a submission for Invertebrate Systematics and should include the name, address, fax and telephone numbers and email address of the corresponding author. The letter should also contain a statement that the manuscript has not been published or simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. A completed Copyright Assignment Form should accompany the manuscript.
For manuscripts involving phylogenetic analyses, electronic copies of the data sets in Nexus format should be supplied (e.g. morphological data sets, aligned nucleotide sequence data).
Format of manuscripts
Papers must be typed with double- or 1.5-line spacing throughout and with a margin of at least 3 cm on the left-hand side. All pages of the manuscript must be numbered consecutively, including those carrying references, tables and figure captions, all of which are to be placed after the text. Illustrations, both line drawings and photographs, are to be numbered as figures in a common sequence, and each must be referred to in the text. Figures that are of the same quality as those to be reproduced in the published paper must be included at the end of the electronic file or hard copies of the manuscript and must be clearly numbered. Original artwork must not be submitted prior to acceptance of the manuscript. (Note that artwork will be returned, if this is requested at the time of acceptance.)
Authors are advised to note the layout of headings, tables and illustrations exemplified in the latest issues of the Journal. Strict observance of these and the requirements listed under 碢reparation of manuscripts?/FONT> will shorten the interval between submission and publication.
Large manuscripts
A page charge applies for papers exceeding 30 printed pages, and the Managing Editor should be consulted prior to submission of papers likely to be over this length. The charge is AU$40 per page over 30 pages. Page charges are not levied for papers 30 printed pages or less.
Rapid communications
The Journal publishes preliminary communications of results that are of special significance or of current and extreme interest. Such papers should yield no more than ten pages when printed, including illustrations, tables and references, and should conform with every aspect of the Notice to Authors. Illustrations must be submitted in a camera-ready or electronic form consistent with the format of the Journal. An article submitted as a 碦apid Communication?will be subject to accelerated, but very strict, refereeing and assessment by the Editorial Advisory Committee. The article should be accompanied by a statement explaining why it merits urgent publication. The paper may be submitted electronically by email (see submission details) or four hard copies of the manuscript, illustrations and statement should be mailed to the Managing Editor. Envelopes and correspondence should be clearly marked 碪rgent. Rapid Communication?
Review articles
The Journal welcomes review articles and they should be submitted in the same way as research papers. They should be formatted as simply as possible, using no more than three levels of heading and normal or body text style for the main text. Summary diagrams should be used where possible to reduce the amount of description required to introduce a topic. Authors should remember the wide readership of the Journal when preparing their article, and are advised to discuss the review with the Managing Editor or a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee before submission.
Front cover image
The Journal welcomes submission of suitably eye-catching, high-quality images for consideration for the cover after the paper has been accepted. The image will reflect the content of one of the papers in the issue and must be suitable for reproduction at very high resolution as the final image will be large (approx. 180 ?165 mm). The image will be reproduced in one colour and thus only greyscale photographs or line drawings can be considered. Submission of an image does not guarantee publication. The choice will be based on several factors, including image quality, interest and appeal, suitability for the Journal, and relevance to the content of the issue.
Preparation of manuscripts
General presentation. The work should be presented clearly and concisely in English. The title should reflect the key points of interest in the paper, and should include the order and family (or higher categories if necessary). The names and addresses of all authors should be presented on the first page, together with the full postal address and email address (or facsimile number) of the corresponding author. The introduction should indicate the reason for the work and include essential background references. Authors must observe the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and decisions of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. All nucleotide sequence data (aligned and unaligned) should be submitted to Genbank or EMBL.
Title. This should be concise and interesting, include higher classification categories, and should contain all keywords to facilitate retrieval by modern searching techniques. An abridged title suitable for use as a running head at the top of the printed page and not exceeding 50 letter spaces should also be supplied.
Abstract. The abstract should be fewer than 200 words and should state concisely the scope of the work and give the principal findings. It should be complete enough for direct use by abstracting services.
Headings. Headings for all taxonomic categories from subspecies upwards should be centred. The name of a genus should be preceded by the word 碐enus?and followed by the unabbreviated name of the author. Similarly the author of a species should follow the species name. The date should not be given in headings. The abbreviations 磄en. nov.? 磗p. nov.? 磗ubsp. nov.?must be used for indicating a new genus, species, or subspecies and should be separated from the new name by a comma. Genera and species should be treated in alphabetical order, unless another logical order is preferred, in which case the reason for the order should be given in the Methods section, so that a species of interest can be found easily.
Synonymies. If adequate synonymies and references are reasonably accessible in the literature, these need not be repeated in full, but a reference to that source must be given. The reference to the original description should always appear immediately below the centred headings. References given, whether to the accepted name or synonyms, should include the author, date, page number and any figure numbers, but should exclude the name of the publication, as this is given under author and date in a list of references at the end of the paper. Synonymies should not be further annotated. Multiple synonyms should be arranged in order of date of first application to the unit in question, and, under each name the separate references (if more than one is given) should be in chronological order.
Citation of type species of genera and location of primary types of known species. The type species, with author and date, should be cited immediately beneath the synonymy for each genus treated. The author and date of publication of a taxonomic name should be separated by a comma. The names of two or more authors should be linked with an ampersand (&). For each known species treated, the museum in which the primary type (holotype, lectotype or neotype) is preserved should be similarly stated, or an account given of the steps taken to ascertain the whereabouts of the type in the event that it could not be located.
Type designation and lodgment. Authors are required to follow the requirements of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Fourth Edition, effective from 1 January 2000) with respect to designation of types and their lodgment. Unless such specimens were representatives of exotic species or subspecies, or were the property of an overseas institution, the museum selected should be located in Australia.
It is expected that all material has been collected under appropriate collection permits and approved ethics guidelines. Authors should be aware of the provisions of the Australian Wildlife Protection (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1982 and associated Regulations 1984, which govern the import and export of all specimens of Australian wildlife. Among other things the Act requires that any specimen exported from Australia after 1 May 1984 and that is subsequently designated a primary type of an Australian native animal must be lodged in an Australian institution. Further details may be obtained from the Director, Environment Australia, GPO Box 636, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
Material examined. Concise lists of specimens examined should be presented for each species.
Type specimens: full details should be provided for type material and information on specimen labels should be replicated with supplementary details (e.g. current country names, altitudes, etc.) provided in square brackets. If the day of the month is included, the month is to be given in lower-case roman numerals. The year is never abbreviated. Authors should consult recent issues of the journal to ensure lists are consistent with journal style with respect to punctuation, use of bold headings for country and state names, etc. Non-type specimens: lists should be reduced to a bare minimum, and at most confined to the number and sex of specimens, locality name and repository (with the registration or accession number of specimens). Lists should be arranged in alphabetical or other appropriate order of localities within States or similar major regions. Where the sex of specimens is given, the symbol ??should be used for males, and 碄?for females to enable easy replacement during typesetting. Significant information regarding distribution, habitat, host association, seasonality, behaviour, or biology should be summarized in the body of the paper, e.g. in the Remarks section. Authors are encouraged to provide distribution maps where appropriate. If authors request, a full list of all material examined, including complete specimen information, can be submitted as an additional file to be placed on the journal磗 website as an accessory publication.
Descriptions. The 磘elegraphic?style is required for descriptions and diagnoses. Diagnoses should contain only the distinguishing characters or combination of characters for that taxon. Comparative comments are to be placed under 碦emarks? The use of figures to illustrate descriptions is encouraged and should permit some reduction in the length of the verbal description of the parts figured. Authors should subdivide long descriptions by using appropriate subordinate headings.
Keys. Keys should use clear-cut characters that can be interpreted unambiguously. The judicious use of triplets, instead of couplets, is permissible to improve the efficiency of the key. Headings to keys should be self-explanatory. Tabular (i.e. synoptic or special purpose) keys are permitted where appropriate.
Footnotes. Footnotes are discouraged and should be used only when essential. They should be placed within horizontal rules immediately under the lines to which they refer.
References. In the text, references are cited chronologically by the author and date and are not numbered. Names of two coauthors are linked by 碼nd? for three or more, the first author磗 name is followed by ?I>et al.? Citation of authorities (name and date) should be given when a taxon name is first mentioned. Two or more coauthors of a name are linked by ?amp;? All references cited must be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper; all entries in this list must correspond to references in the text. No editorial responsibility can be taken for the accuracy of the references and authors are requested to check these with special care. Titles must be included for all references. Papers that have not been accepted for publication may not be included in the list of references and must be cited either as 磚npublished data?or as 磒ersonal communication? the use of such citations is discouraged. Authors are referred to the latest issues of the Journal for the style to be used in citing references to books and other literature. Titles of periodicals must not be abbreviated. References should be in the following format.
Haswell, W. A. (1882). 碈atalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea.?(Australian Museum: Sydney.)
Sluys, R., and Ball, I. R. (1988). A synopsis of the marine triclads of Australia and New Zealand (Platyhelminthes : Tricladida : Maricola). Invertebrate Taxonomy 2, 915-959.
Voss, G. L. (1988). Evolution and phylogenetic relationships of deep-sea octopods (Cirrata and Incirrata). In 碩he Mollusca. Vol. 12. Palaeontology and Neontology of Cephalopods? (Eds M. R. Clarke and E. R. Trueman.) pp. 253-276. (Academic Press: London.)
Erzin鏻ioglu, Y. Z. (1984). Studies on the morphology and taxonomy of the immature stages of Calliphoridae, with analysis of phylogenetic relationships within the family, and between it and other groups in the Cyclorrhapha (Diptera). PhD thesis, University of Durham, UK.
Units. Authors are requested to use the International System of Units (Syst鑝e International d碪nit閟) for exact measurements of physical quantities and as far as practicable elsewhere.
Statistical evaluation of results. The tests should be described briefly and, if necessary, supported by references. Numbers of individuals, mean values, ranges and measures of variability should be stated. It should be made clear whether the standard deviation or the standard error of the mean has been given.
Tables
Each table must be numbered with arabic numerals and must be accompanied by a title. A headnote containing material relevant to the whole table should start on a new line, as it will be set in a different font. Tables should be arranged with regard to the dimensions of the printed page (17.5 by 22.5 cm in two 8.5-cm columns) and the number of table columns kept to a minimum. Excessive subdivision of column headings is undesirable and long headings should be avoided by the use of explanatory notes, which should be incorporated into the headnote. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and reserved for specific items in columns. Horizontal rules should be inserted only above and below the column headings and at the foot of the table. Vertical rules must not be used. Each table must be referred to in the text. Only in exceptional circumstances will the presentation of essentially the same data in both tabular and graphical form be permitted; where adequate, the graphical form should be used. Short tables can frequently be incorporated into the text as a sentence or as a brief untitled tabulation.
Illustrations
Authors are encouraged to submit their illustrations in electronic format (see 碋lectronic files?/FONT>). However, all illustrations should conform to the general instructions for layout as follows.
Line drawings. Original line drawings must be drawn with black ink on flexible white board or on drawing or tracing paper. Scale bars should be included in all taxonomic drawings. Figures should not normally exceed 8.5 cm wide (single column) or 17.5 cm by 22.5 cm (double column) when printed. The dimensions of figures submitted for scanning must not exceed 21 by 30 cm; high-quality bromide prints are acceptable. Lettering should be in 磗ans-serif?type (Helvetica is ideal) with only the first letter of the first word and of any proper names capitalized. The x-height after reduction should be 1.3-1.7 mm (or 8-10 point in Helvetica). Thus for the reduction of graphs to 30, 40 or 50% of original linear dimensions, the initial x-height of lettering would be 5, 4 or 3 mm (c. 30, 22 and 18 pt) respectively. Proportionately smaller sizes of type, symbols, grid marks and curve thickness should be used for lesser reductions. Symbols and grid marks should be the same respective sizes and, after reduction, curves and axes should not exceed 1.5 point in thickness unless required for clarity. Lines should not be thinner than 0.5 pt, or they may drop out during printing. The following symbols are readily available and should be used: . The symbols + or ?should be avoided in figures. Explanations of symbols should be given in the caption to the figure. Lettering of graphs should be kept to a minimum as excessive lettering within the frame of a graph makes the lines difficult to decipher. Grid marks should point inwards; legends to axes should state the quantity being measured and be followed by the appropriate units in parentheses. Unsatisfactory artwork will be returned for correction. The Editor may be consulted for further guidance.
Photographs. Photographs must be of the highest quality. They should be mounted if they are to form multiple panels on the journal page. Before being mounted, they must be trimmed squarely to exclude features not relevant to the paper and be separated from adjacent photographs by uniform spaces that will be 1 mm wide after reduction. Photographs should be mounted on light-weight bendable card or bond paper, not on heavy card. They should be so mounted that their dimensions do not exceed 8.5 cm wide (single column) or 17.5 by 22.5 cm (double column) when printed. A scale bar must be included on all micrographs except scanning electron micrographs where the magnification can be given in the caption. Lettering should be in 磗ans-serif?type (e.g. Helvetica) that contrasts with its background and should be 1.5 to 2 mm high when printed. Important features to which attention has been drawn in the text should be indicated.
Electronic files
Electronic files of the final versions of both the text and illustrations (in the formats described below) should be sent when the paper has been accepted for publication. They may be sent on CD-ROM, PC disk or by email attachment. The electronic file should match exactly the hard copy of the final manuscript, which should accompany the disk (or be mailed when files are emailed).
The text, figure captions and tables should be sent as a single Word file, with the tables printed one per page at the end of the manuscript. If you are unable to supply a Word file, please contact the Managing Editor for acceptable alternatives.
We prefer to receive illustrations electronically (both line diagrams and photographs) and electronic files are recommended for best quality reproduction. However, scans should only be prepared if they can be produced at high resolution in the required formats (see photograph scanning details). Electronic figures should be supplied on PC disk or CD-ROM as separate files together with top quality hard copies (which can be scanned in the event of the disk files being corrupted, thereby avoiding unnecessary delay in the typesetting of your manuscript). Illustrations should be presented in black and white (or greyscale) unless colour is required. Adobe Photoshop is the preferred program for submitting figure scans.
Line drawings should be scanned at high resolution, at least 800 dpi at final (printed) size, and saved in black and white bitmap format as TIFF files. Fine line drawings with a lot of variable grey shading should be saved in greyscale format as TIFF files. Photographs should be scanned at a resolution of at least 300 dpi at final size and saved in greyscale format as TIFF or Photoshop files. It is preferable for labels to be applied electronically to the scanned images, rather than scanning manually labeled figures. Electronic files of colour figures or photographs should be saved in CMYK colour not in RGB colour, because the CMYK format is required for printing. Authors should note that colours change when converted to CMYK from RGB and when printed from different types of printer; hence it is important to check that the hard copy you provide is correct and matches the CMYK file version.
Computer-generated figures prepared using either a draw or chart/graph program are also acceptable if saved in the following formats: Adobe Illustrator (.ai) (preferred format); encapsulated postscript (.eps); Excel; illustrations created using Powerpoint should be saved in PowerPoint and also as Windows metafiles (.wmf); CorelDraw files should be saved as .eps or .ai files; charts created on a Macintosh computer should be saved as .eps, .ps or PICT files. In all cases they should be editable vector graphic files. Avoid using 3D surface area charts because print quality is often poor. Remove colours from all charts and graphs. Figures embedded in Word are often difficult to import successfully into typesetting programs; thus, if you can only provide Word files for your figures, please also make sure that you give us high-quality, hardcopy originals, not larger than A4 size, for scanning if necessary.
Authors unable to prepare electronic artwork should submit lettered line drawings and lettered and mounted photographs that are suitable for direct reproduction and which comply with the instructions above. Unsatisfactory figures will be returned for correction. The Managing Editor may be consulted for further guidance.
Page proofs and corrections
Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author for checking prior to publication. At this stage only essential alterations and correction of printer errors may be undertaken. Excessive author alterations may be charged back to the author at $5 per item.
Reprints
Reprints may only be ordered before publication. An order form is sent to the corresponding author with the final page proofs.
Editorial Board
Chair
- M. S. Harvey, Western Australian Museum
Members
- J. S. Ashe, University of Kansas Natural History Museum
- A. D. Austin, University of Adelaide
- G. Boxhall, The Natural History Museum, London
- M. Dowton, University of Wollongong
- M. D. Norman, James Cook University
- H. Proctor, University of Alberta, Canada
- G. Rouse, South Australian Museum
- P. S. Ward, University of California, Davis
- M. F. Whiting, Brigham Young University
- D. K. Yeates, CSIRO Entomology
Managing Editor
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