期刊名称：MICROPALEONTOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
micropaleontology
International peer-reviewed journal. Six issues per year, including two monographic special issues (also available separately; see below). Zoological, botanical and protist micropaleontology; systematics, biostratigraphy, paleo- and neo-microbiology of fossilizing forms; evolutionary studies. Professional notes, book reviews, biographies, and letters. Also available online through BioOne.
Instructions to Authors
This journal accepts papers on all aspects of micropaleontology. Articles are peer-reviewed reports on research of regional or international significance. Supplementary issues are monographic or edited treatments of a single subject. Short Notes are unreviewed reports dealing with preparation techniques, taxonomic notes and other professional information. In addition, the journal accepts book reviews, memorials, and announcements of professional interest. If there are questions, contact the Editor before submitting a manuscript.
Brief instructions:
(1) Prepare manuscript in English, double-space, plain text, unjustified right margin. Do NOT use publication type formatting (single space, justified right margin, etc.). Carefully observe punctuation and reference style (see below).
(2) Obtain pre-review comments from two colleagues BEFORE sending mss to us. The PRE-REVIEW FORM (click on this link for a printable page) should be sent with the mss. Please obtain assistance with English if this is not your native language.
(3) Send three complete copies, with good illustrations, and a cover letter with complete name and adddress for all authors. Each author, but particularly the corresponding author, should include e-mail address.
DO NOT SEND: computer disks, image files, original drawings and plates, photographs, or specimens.
(4) After receiving reviewer and editor comments, prepare a single copy of final draft. We also require a full copy of all text in digital form (pref. MS Word), which may be sent on disk, or (by arrangement with the Editor) as an email attachment.
(5) After receiving notification of acceptance, send original art and photos, together with cheque, money order or VISA/Mastercard payment for any invoiced charges.
(6) Review and return page proofs within 5 days.
COSTS AND TERMS: There are no page charges, but photo plates will be charged at $55 each. Each author receives 10 offprints free. Additional offprints, and separates with covers, may be ordered later when the proofs are returned..
PREPARATION AND SUBMITTAL OF MANUSCRIPT
Original manuscript. Use white letter size paper, and prepare your manuscript in Courier or Times Roman 11 or 12 point type. Italics and bold face should be the only formatting. Mathematical notations can be entered by hand. Clear Xerox copies of all text and illustrations are acceptable. Do not justify right margins or make any other "published-quality" format choices.
Electronic documents. Although manuscript must be originally submitted as hard copy (see above), corrected text and graphic files may be transmitted as data files (e-mail attachments, FTP). High-resolution digital images of specimens will be accepted for publication in place of photographs - CAUTION: please label any digital prints intended as original plates with the words "Original prints".
An identifying header and a page number must be on every sheet of text. Each graphic, table or illustration must be clearly identified on the back side with a (shortened, if need be) manuscript name and the illustration number.
Cover Page The manuscript cover page should have the following information:
- Title of the submitted work should be as brief as possible. However, for the benefit of bibliographic indexers, always include in the title an adjective (foraminiferal), name (foraminifers), or taxonomic title (Foraminifera) of the group or groups in which the research takes place, as well as other key words..
- Author's names. The name of each author should be written out in full. Corresponding author (if not first listed author) should be indicated, as well as a special correspondent address if necessary.
- Institutional address of each author (as it should be shown in publication), including postal codes. Note: an e-mail address for the corresponding author is required, and where possible for each co-author. The e-mail address(es) will normally be included in the address as published.
- Description of package: count of pages, appendices, figures, tables, and plates. Note: do not send original plates with first submittal; these will be requested later, as needed. No computer diskette is necessary with the submitted first draft.
- Comments, requests, suggestions, and other communication to the Editor.
Resubmittal may be required if the manuscript is not ready for review. The Editor will return manuscripts that are inadequately prepared (e. g., not double spaced, poorly reproduced illustration) or that are not in good, clear English. Authors whose English is not completely fluent are strongly advised to ask for assistance from a professional colleague who is a native English speaker.
Reviewers are anonymous, unless they wish otherwise. The author(s) should make note of particularly appropriate and/or potentially hostile reviewers in the cover letter, although the Editor is in no way bound to act according to this information. Normally, colleagues who have already seen the manuscript, as advisors or pre-reviewers, will not be selected as reviewers. Reviewers who identify themselves should be acknowledged by the authors in the final draft.
Final draft incorporates suggestions and criticisms from the reviewers and editors. Authors are free to decide what should go into the final draft, but the Editor's judgment on the adequacy of response to major criticisms is final. Unsolicited manuscripts become the property of Micropaleontology Press, according to normal practice for peer-reviewed scientific journals, but the author(s) have the right to withdraw their work at any time prior to final acceptance..
There is no time limit for returning a final draft. Authors may not, at this stage, introduce significant new data, or substantially change the scope or purpose of the work, without consulting with the Editor. Re-reviewing, in the case of substantial modifications, may be called for.
The final draft should be submitted in a single copy, with all pages identified, numbered and dated. The same text must also be delivered in digital form, in any common wordprocessing format or in open ASCII text, for Mac or Windows. (The preferred format is Word for Windows.) Note: Manuscript may not be submitted by e-mail or fax, except by arrangement.
Size specifications. A full page of text in Micropaleontology will contain approximately 1,000 words, or 5,200 characters including spaces. The captions to plates and figures take up more area, equivalent to 600 words per full page. Full-page plates and figures should be prepared with an aspect ratio of 0.74 width to height, for a final size to fit inside an area of 7 x 9.5 in (177 x 235 mm). Half-column graphics will fit a width of 3.25 in (85 mm).
Photo plates will be either original photo prints mounted on black or (preferably) white board with photographic drymount tissue, or original high-resolution digital printout. Halftones, xeroxes or other secondary replications of photographs are never acceptable. Figure numbers and superimposed arrows, labels, and other emphasis should be inserted by the author, either carefully lettered in ink, or transferred from typeset sans-serif font, at a size that will be no smaller than 8 point when reduced to published scale. No caption should appear on the plate. Each plate must be clearly identified on the back side, with author name and plate number. If there can be any doubt of its orientation, indicate "TOP" on the back side of the plate.
The individual photofigures attached to the plate may be either rectangular clips that include the specimen, or carefully trimmed cut-outs of the specimen alone. In the latter case, if the cut-outs are mounted on black background, the author should touch up the white edges of the trimmed print with India ink, with careful attention to peripheral details (spines, setae, lips, fissures). This will save having it done by the printer, who may have less appreciation of the delicate features.
Figures (maps, sections, drawings, drafted tables) should be made with black ink on drafting film (mylar, preferably). Plotter output must be distinct and legible without distracting background or automatic titles. All maps, sections, and drawings must show scale (and orientation, as need be) on the face of the drawing, with the units of measurement indicated. Graphs and tables should be prepared so that column titles are at the top and row legends are on the left. The only acceptable rotation of column titles, row legends or data anywhere on the figure is 90 degrees to the left, or anti-clockwise. The authors should take care that their graphics will be legible at the published size; preparation for a final reduction of more than 2X is not advised. In the case of folded charts and tables, and color images, authors will be responsible for the added expense. Note that oversized data sets can often be prepared for printing on two opposing pages. The print area must not contain any figure title or caption; a key to symbols or patterns may be included on the figure if these would be difficult to include in the printed caption. Each figure must be clearly identified on the back side, with author name and figure or table number.
Computer-generated graphics must be submitted as printouts, for the reviewers' use, and to demonstrate the authors' intention as to the final appearance. The graphics files may also be delivered on diskette, CD or 100-Mb ZIP disks, or via FTP - but (because of their size) preferably not as email attachments.
Corrections will be made on full-page mockups (not galley proofs), in which text, illustrations and all other material will be shown exactly as in the final printed page. The author(s) are expected to review and approve not only spelling, but also the other aspects of presentation of their work. Corrections may be made within days of going to press. Corrected pages should be faxed to the Editor (212 769 5653), or sent by expedited mail. Corrections to text alone may be made to the ms. datafile and emailed to micro@amnh.org.
STYLE
Authors should consult recent issues of the journal, as well as other publications of the American Museum of Natural History, for examples of our house style. Points to keep in mind are as follows:
- The title should be concise rather than complete. Geographic terms, in particular, need not be detailed in the title unless this information itself is significant. The studied taxonomic group(s) must be indicated.
- The abstract must summarize the problem and conclusions. A mere list of the contents is not acceptable.
- All taxonomic names, on first citation in the body of the text, must be given in full, with author and date. (Names used solely as descriptors, as in biozones or biofacies, are exempt). In papers that do not have a systematics section or list, it is desirable that this first citation should include the original combination for a reassigned taxon, as follows: Aus Cus (Jones) (=Aus Bus, 1900).
- A list of all described taxa, or a comprehensive table showing the described taxa and their occurrence, is appropriate in systematic papers. The taxa should be listed or tabulated in the same order as in the text.
Synonymies need not be complete, but should cover the significant citations in which material ascribed to the taxon has been described under a different name, or where name revisions are proposed or sustained. In submitted text, genus and species-level names may be underlined in the manuscript to indicate italics, but the final draft wordprocessor text on diskette should use formatted fonts (e.g., with superscript, italics and bold face), preferably in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect. The example below is adapted from W. Kiessling's (1999) Late Jurassic radiolarians from the Antarctic Peninsula, Micropaleontology, v. 45, supplement 1, p. 15 (note that the last synyonymic entry is fictitious, and is added only as an example of how to indicate a misidentification).
Class ACTINOPODA Calkins 1909
Order POLYCYSTIDA Ehrenberg 1838, emend. Reidel 1967
Suborder SPUMELLARIINA Ehrenberg 1838
Superfamily ACTINOMMACEA Haeckel 1862
Remarks: The Actinommacea are synonymous with the Liosphaeracea Haeckel defined by Pessagno and Blome 1980 (See also Dumitrica 1995)
Family ACTINOMMIDAE Haeckel 1862; emend. Riedel 1967, Kozur and Mostler 1979
Subfamily ACTINOMMINAE Haeckel 1862
Genus Actinomma Haeckel 1862; emend. Kozur and Mostler 1979
Actinomma frigida Kiessling, n. sp.
Plate 2, figures 4, 11, 16-18; plate 3, figure 1
Heliosoma sp. A - KIESSLING and SCASSO 1996, pl. 1, fig. 16.
Actinomma antarctica Larsen and Schmidt - ROGERS 1996, p. 155, pl. 12, fig. 6a-c.
Curatorial information. The field location of type material, and preferably that of all described specimens, must be given as exactly as possible. A good rule of thumb is to describe a locality well enough for later workers to be able to duplicate the sample. Wherever possible, specimens should be tied to individual sample localities on a map, or to individual sample levels in sections and cores. The depository and catalogue identification of all described material is required.
Taxonomic rules apply to Protista as follows: ICZN is used for protozoans such as foraminifera, radiolaria, and tintinnids; ICBN applies to the "algal" (organic-walled, with chloroplasts) protists including diatoms, calcareous nannoplankton, silicoflagellates, ebridians, prasinophytes, acritarchs, and dinoflagellates. Botanical rules of taxonomy also apply to Bacteria.
Citations in the text refer to author and date of the reference in question, with page or plate number added for specific location as necessary. Author names are NOT capitalized in the text. The date is always in parentheses, and name and date are never separated by a comma, as follows: Author (1999) or (Author 1999). The term "et al.", following the first author's name, should be used in place of co-author names where there are four or more authors, and (if desired) for three or more authors. Where several "et al." papers with the same first author are referred to, they cannot be cited together unless all co-authors are the same. Assuming co-authors are not the same in the following, we would have (Author et al. 1996, Author et al. 1997, Author et al. 1998), not (Author et al. 1996, 1997, 1998).
Footnotes are not permitted.
Abbreviations of units of measurement are considered to be symbols, not words, and do not use periods (km, cm, mm, 祄, nm, mi, ft, in, kg, g, lb, oz, myr, kyr, yr, mo, hr, sec). These symbols are not separated by a space from the numerical values (e.g., 753km; 25祄). Periods are omitted as well from abbreviations of the more common titles (Dr, Mr, Mrs, Ms, Sr, Jr, PhD) and the letters in acronyms, but these are spaced as separate words. All acronyms except the most common (USA, UK, USGS, NY, MA, CA, DSDP, RAM, DOS) should be followed by an explanation in parenthesis when introduced, e.g., UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). The geochronometric abbreviations Ma (mega-annum) and Ka (kilo-annum) are also separate words, standing for phrases that refer to time measured from the present. They are not interchangeable with the symbols representing simple quantities of time (myr, my, kyr, and so on). The commonly abbreviated latinisms (etc., et al., viz., e.g., s.s.) use periods, but are not italicized. The exceptions are "ex" and "et", which are not abbreviations, and vs, which by convention is italicized without a period.
References are listed alphabetically by author name (in CAPITALS) and then chronologically. Note that "Mc" comes in order, and not before "Ma". Honorifics are detached (for example, write ORBIGNY, A. D', and G躆BEL, C. W. VON).
Examples of reference format are as follows:
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AUTHOR, A. A. and AUTHOR, B. B., 1999. Article title. Serial Name Spelled Out in Full, 1:23-45, pls. 6, 7.
_____________, 1999. Chapter title. In: Editor, C. C., Ed. Book title spelled out in full, volume. Series or sponsor. City, Publisher: 12-34, pls. 5, 6.
Note that author names that are exactly repeated in successive references are replaced by a dash, and that book and serial titles are always written out in full.
- In book, chapter, and article titles, only proper nouns are capitalized, and all genus and species names are italicized. All words (except articles and prepositions) are capitalized in serial names and organization names (compare "A manual of planktonic foraminifera" and "Journal of Sedimentary Petrology".)
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- A work in preparation, as well as unpublished reports, correspondence, internal documents, e-mail, and Internet postings (except for formal electronic publications) should be cited "Author (written communication, Date)". These are not listed in References.
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- A work may be listed in the references if it is actually "in press", i.e., formally accepted for publication. Due to the uncertainties of publishing, however, no year or volume number should be indicated. As follows:
- AUTHOR, A. B. (In press). Article title. Serial Name Spelled Out in Full.
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- AUTHOR, A. B. (In press) Chapter title. In: Editor, E. (ed.), Book title spelled out in full. City, Publisher.
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- Dissertations that are available from department or institutional libraries may be treated as published books.
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Plate captions and captions to drawings that illustrate individual specimens must cite the taxonomic title of the specimen in full, followed by other defining characters such as its gender, orientation, condition, and so on. The size of the specimen, the size of the relevant scale bar on the plate, or the magnification of the view at published size (NOT the original ocular or instrument magnification) must be indicated, either in the individual description, or in the caption heading if it applies to all specimens. The repository and catalogue number of each specimen is required, unless a covering statement is included in the text. Descriptions of specimens in the text should include reference all illustrations of the specimen.
Figure and table captions should begin with a brief descriptive title, e.g., "Index map of sample sites." The abbreviations and graphic symbols used in the figure or table should be explained. When the same symbols are used in a series of figures, it is only necessary to explain them completely in the first caption and then to point to that caption in the others. A long caption, bringing out the point of the figure or table, is preferable to a cursory statement that merely identifies the content, even if the caption repeats discussion that is also found in the text.
Grammatical usage is left, as far as possible, to the taste of the author(s). We do not dictate planktic vs planktonic, benthic vs benthonic, stratigraphic vs stratigraphical, or in other such controversies where both sides can quote good precedent; the author's usage should, however, be consistent. The use of conjunctions (and, but, then, however, therefore, nonetheless) to begin sentences is deplorable. Periods and commas must not be placed inside a quotation or parenthesis, if they are not an original part of the phrase being quoted or expressed. Fowler's English Usage is a good general source for word usage, punctuation and other such matters. For scientific writing questions, we recommend Suggestions to authors of the United States Geological Survey.
Send manuscripts and correspondence to the Editor, Micropaleontology Press, AMNH at 79th and Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA, with a cover letter identifying the corresponding author, address of record, and current address if different.
Send E-mail to the Editor with questions, corrections, and comments.
Editorial Board
Editor, Micropaleontology Press, AMNH at 79th and Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA
E-mail: vanc@amnh.org
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