期刊名称：NOVON
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
NOVON
Novon publishes short articles whose primary purpose is the establishment of new nomenclature in vascular plants and bryophytes.
Novon is abstracted and/or indexed in:
APT Online, Current Contents?Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences, the ISI?Database, Research Alert? and SciSearch?
Instructions to Authors
Authors are urged to contact the managing editor prior to submitting manuscripts. Because the diskette will be used for typesetting, it is important to adhere to the items listed in the format section of the checklist. Authors are not producing a camera-ready copy. Authors' disks are formatted by the editors and are sent to the printer in disk form (not as camera-ready pages).
Manuscripts that have been reviewed before submission will be subject to Novon's normal review process. Submissions will be reviewed for nomenclatural correctness under the current edition of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature for the preexistence of any proposed new nomenclature and for scientific merit. It is the author's responsibility to supply missing bibliographic information; Novon does not perform library research except by prior arrangement with authors not having access to crucial references.
Isotypes of entities described in Novon are to be deposited at MO whenever sufficient material is available.
Manuscripts not properly prepared may be returned for revision prior to review. Communication with Novon at all points of the publication process is encouraged.
Follow the checklist below. Check off the boxes and send this checklist with the manuscript submission.
PAGE CHARGES
Page costs are $60 per page, although charges may sometimes be reduced. Changes in proof made by authors will be billed non-negotiably to the author at $3.50 per line changed.
CORRESPONDENCE
Street address:
Missouri Botanical Garden Press
Monsanto Center
4500 Shaw Blvd
St. Louis MO 63110-2291
Amy McPherson, Managing Editor
Missouri Botanical Garden Press
Department 11
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
Tel: (314) 577-5112; Fax: (314) 577-9594
Email: novon@mobot.org
1. General
- Manuscript is submitted on MS-DOS/WINDOWS 3 1/2-in. diskette.
- Microsoft Word (preferable) or other popular word-processing program is used.
- Three copies of double-spaced manuscript, with numbered pages, including the title, figure legends, Literature Cited, tables, and lists of specimens are enclosed. The printed manuscript is the same as the document on the diskette.
- Photocopies of figures are included with each copy of the manuscript.
- Letter is enclosed containing the author's full mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and electronic mail address.
- When new names and new combinations are proposed, photographic copies of the page on which the basionyms and replaced names were published and the title page of the work in which they were published are enclosed.
- Where applicable, original figures or photostats of original figures are enclosed.
2. Format of Text
- Right-hand margin is not justified; words are not hyphenated there.
- One space is inserted after periods, colons, question marks, and all other punctuation marks.
- First sentences of paragraphs are indented with a tab, but no special formatting is used. "Styles" have been avoided if possible.
- Two hyphens with no space between them are used to indicate ranges of numbers, for example, page numbers, 20--23; measurements, 5--7 mm; altitudes, 1500--2500 m.
- A single hyphen is used in hyphenated words, for example, 9-nerved, oval-triangular.
- Only names at the rank of genus and below are italicized.
- Common Latin words or phrases are not italicized (e.g., et al., i.e., sensu, etc.).
- Correct accents, umlauts, and other diacritical marks are included.
- All figures and tables are cited in the text.
- No footnotes are included.
3. Style
- A recent issue of Novon is used as a model for organization of text (as opposed to formatting).
- Chicago Manual of Style, latest edition, is used as a reference.
4. Title
- The title is informative. It includes the name of the taxon under discussion [usually genus] and the major taxon [usually family] to which it belongs; a vernacular name for one of these, when commonly used and known; and the geographical area concerned.
- The authors' names and addresses appear just below the title.
5. Abstract
- A one-paragraph abstract of no more than 75 words precedes the text. Papers in Spanish have an English abstract in addition to a Spanish resumen.
- The abstract includes a list of the nova and succinctly summarizes the basis for creating the new species rather than repeating the information contained in the title or simply listing the nova.
6. Taxonomic Presentation
- New taxa, for which Latin is required, are validated with a short diagnosis followed by a full description in the language of the paper.
- New taxa take the form: Taxon name Author(s). Type. Reference to figure(s). Latin diagnosis. Full description. Discussion. Paratypes.
- New combinations take the form: New combination (Basionym author(s)) Author(s). Basionym: citation. Other earlier combinations based on the same basionym. Type of the basionym.
- Synonyms based on different types are placed in separate paragraphs, each beginning with the basionym, followed by other combinations (if appropriate), and citation of the type.
- If the synonymy being listed is thought to be new, the words "Syn. nov." are placed after the basionym.
- New names take the form: New name Author(s). Replaced name: citation. Other earlier combinations based on the same type. Type of the replaced name.
7. Citation of Types
- If specimens in addition to the holotype are listed, their location is specified. For example, "holotype, MO; isotypes, F, NY, and to be distributed" is not acceptable.
- For type collections, initials of collectors are included.
- If types have been distributed under other, previously published, names, those names are indicated, but herbarium names are not indicated.
- Lectotype designations are included together with an indication of where they were designated, the year, and the author. This reference is listed in the Literature Cited. If the author of the article submitted is making the lectotypfication, the phrase "selected here" is used.
- Exclamation points are not used for specimens examined. Types not seen are indicated as such (e.g., MO, US not seen).
- When relevant, nomina nuda, misapplied names, and superfluous names are included in the discussion following the description, but are not part of the formal synonymy.
8. Tables
- Tables are clearly presented and separate from the text. [In most cases, they will be typeset by the printer.] Each Table starts on a separate page.
9. Abbreviations
- Periods are used after all abbreviations (which are minimized) except metric measures, compass directions, and herbarium designations.
- When dates are given as part of collection information, three-letter month abbreviations are used, except for months with four letters, which are spelled out in full.
- States are not abbreviated, and cities are spelled out. [St. is acceptable.]
- Periodicals are abbreviated according to B-P-H (Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum) and to B-P-H/S (Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum/Supplementum).
- Authors' names are spelled out in full, with initials added according to Authors of Plant Names.
- Book titles are abbreviated according to Taxonomic Literature, ed. 2, but with initial letters capitalized. Book titles are spelled out in the Literature Cited.
- If an item does not appear in B-P-H or TL-2, or if these references are not available, its title is fully spelled out.
- Herbaria are abbreviated according to Index Herbariorum, ed. 8.
- Abbreviated forms are not used for references in the text, except when citing the names of plants. If it is necessary to cite a particular page in the text, the form Smith (1991: 12) is used.
10. Authors' Names
- The names of authors of plants' names are spelled out rather than being abbreviated, except for L. (Linnaeus), DC. (de Candolle), and HBK (Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth). When two or more authors with the same family name have published names of plants, initials are added to avoid ambiguity. Authors of Plant Names (1992) has been used as a guide for initials.
- Cited names of authors usually written in non-Roman characters, for example Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, are spelled as they were transliterated in the original publication. If they were not transliterated there, pin-yin is used for Chinese and The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. (1993), is followed for Cyrillic and others. Chinese names are given in the traditional Chinese order, family name followed by given names(s), rather than in the western form.
11. Specimens Examined
- Specimens cited for new taxa, other than the holo- and isotype(s), are designated paratypes, not additional specimens studied, unless doubt of their identity is specifically mentioned in the protologue.
- Specimens cited take this form: COUNTRY. Major political division: specific locality, Collector number (or year if no number; use s.n. if no number and no year), (herbarium acronym(s)).
- When available, an isotype of a taxonomic novelty described in Novon has been deposited in the MO herbarium.
12. Specimen Vouchers and Genetic Sequences
- If paper presents original data, associated herbarium vouchers are cited. [Vouchers for seed and/or other collections should be included where pertinent. Dependent on the paper, reference to the original wild source may be required.] Vouchers are also cited from common names and uses taken from specimen labels.
- Herbarium vouchers state the collector and number, herbarium in which the voucher is located, and a clear annotation that the material represents the voucher for the study in question.
- Nucleic acid or protein sequences corresponding to equal or greater than 50 nucleotides are entered into an appropriate data bank, e.g., GenBank/EMBL. The accession numbers are provided before publication. [Long sequences (exceeding two pages) will not be routinely published.].
- Author accepts responsibility for establishing the accuracy of information provided.
13. Keys
- Keys are dichotomous, indented, and have been checked carefully for consistency with the descriptions.
- Couplets are numbered as 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, and so forth.
14. Acknowledgments
- These are the last paragraph of the paper, just before the Literature Cited.
- They include information on granting agencies, herbaria that loaned specimens, and the name of the artist, where appropriate.
15. Literature Cited
- The Literature Cited contains full citations of all references cited in the text.
- All entries in the Literature Cited are cited in the text.
- Spelling of author(s) name(s) and years of publication have been double-checked.
- All entries have been verified against original sources, especially journal titles, accents, diacritical marks, and spelling in languages other than English.
- Periodicals are listed as follows: author's last name, initial(s). Year. Full title of article. Journal abbreviated as in B-P-H/S Volume: pages. No parenthetical part numbers after volume numbers are given unless each part is paginated separately.
- For more than one author, this style is followed: author's last name, initial(s), second author's initial(s), last name & third author's initial(s), last name, etc.
- Books appear as follows: author's last name, initial(s). Year. Full Unabbreviated Title (edited by Editor), 3rd ed., Vol. 2. Publisher, City of Publication.
- For an article within a larger work, this style is followed: Author(s). Year. Name of the article. Pp. 00--00 in Name of the editor(s), Full Title of Larger Work. Publisher, City of Publication.
- Citations of work "in prep.," unpublished theses and dissertations, and references to similarly inaccessible sources have been eliminated or kept to a minimum. They are not included in the Literature Cited.
16. Illustrations
- Author(s) name(s) and figure number(s) are written in pencil on the back of each figure or plate, on both originals and review copies.
- Scale bars appear on illustrations, photographs, and maps.
- Magnifications/reductions are not indicated in captions.
- High-quality photocopies of the figures are included with each copy of the manuscript.
- Illustrations are presized to fit either column width (2 5/8 in. or ca. 68 mm) or full page width (5 1/2 in. or ca. 140 mm), or illustrations no larger than 11 x 16 in. (= 29 x 40 cm). [Maximum size for printed illustrations is 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.] Oversized or delicate figures are submitted as photostats or high-quality photocopies.
- Figures are numbered in Arabic numerals in the order of their citation in the text. Parts of figures are labeled with capital letters.
- Photographs are crisp black-and-white prints.
- Figures are grouped into composite plates when possible; edges of photographs are abutted.
- Edges of figures are squared.
- Maps include reference to latitude and longitude and are bounded by a fine border.
- Scanning electron micrographs are free of conspicuous charging.
- Axes on graphs are all labeled.
- Captions provide all explanatory text. Captions are separate from other text, one paragraph for each group of figures, and following the style in current issues of Novon.
Electronic Artwork - Printer's Specifications
1. We accept line art, halftones and color figures on disk or via electronic delivery. Please include a printout or email of the file directory that includes the file name(s), size and kind of file.
2. You should discuss figure sizing specifications with the journal prior to disk submission, and the figures on disk should be the final size desired.
3. Graphic files should be submitted in TIFF, EPS, or PDF file format. Applications that are acceptable are Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Freehand, but please, if possible, "Save As" a tif, eps, or pdf file.
4. All line art should be scanned at 1200 d.p.i. All grayscale and color images should be scanned at 350 d.p.i. Color images should be submitted in CMYK mode, not RGB or Indexed Color mode.
5. Include the screen and printer fonts used within the graphic file. Use only Adobe Type 1 postscript fonts. True Type fonts and System "bitmap" fonts should not be used.
6. If the files have been compressed, please indicate what compression program has been used.
7. The disk submission should be accompanied by a hard copy of the figure that exactly matches what is on the disk in the event that the disk is unuseable.
Acceptable Electronic Artwork Media
3 1/2" floppy disks; Syquest cartridges; EZ Flyer; ZIP disks; JAZ disks; Magneto Optical disks; CD ROM; Artwork may also be submitted via email attachment or FTP. --- Karen Ridgway, kridgway@allenpress.com.
Editorial Board
Victoria C. Hollowell
Editor
Amy Scheuler McPherson
Managing Editor
Diana R. Gunter
Associate Editor
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
Consulting Editor
Roy E. Gereau
Consulting Editor
John Pruski
Consulting Editor
George Yatskievych
Consulting Editor
Kanchi N. Gandhi
Nomenclature Consultant
Kevin Brown
MBG Press Assistant
Barbara Mack
Administrative Assistant
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