Willdenowia - Guidelines for authors

Guidelines for authors

Original papers written in English from the entire field of plant taxonomy, plant systematics, floristics and plant geography, fungi and algae included, are eligible for publication in “Willdenowia”. Preference is given to papers based on material deposited in the Berlin herbarium or cultivated in the Botanic Garden Berlin-Dahlem; authors are encouraged to deposit vouchers of their material, in particular nomenclatural types, at the Berlin herbarium (B).

Papers submitted for publication must be accompanied by a written statement confirming that neither the manuscript nor parts of it have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Material, e.g., illustrations, already published elsewhere is not normally accepted for publication; exceptions are subject to prior agreement and to written permission from the copyright holder, to be procured by the author.

Submission of the text on electronic support is mandatory. Electronic submission of papers by e-mail is recommended; illustrations are initially acceptable as low resolution image.

All papers offered for publication in “Willdenowia” are submitted to peer review by experts in the field. Acceptance or otherwise of the manuscripts is decided by the Editorial Council. Authors may be asked to modify or rewrite their manuscripts to accommodate suggestions of the reviewers and editor. Manuscripts must conform to the style and editorial standards of “Willdenowia”.

By submitting a paper for publication an author tacitly agrees to transfer full copyright to the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, such transfer to become effective upon written confirmation of acceptance of the manuscript for publication.

When preparing a manuscript, consult the last issues of “Willdenowia” and follow this format strictly. In particular, make sure to conform with the following standards.

An Abstract of up to 200 words and 5-7 Additional key words, supplementing (not repeating) the title, precede the text proper. The author’s address appears at the end of the paper.

Scientific plant names, irrespective of rank, are italicized in the manuscript. Personal names are not written in (small) capitals. Authors of scientific plant names are abbreviated in conformity with Brummitt & Powell, Authors of plant names, Kew, 1992, and its updates at http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do and http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/ databases/botanist_index.html, respectively.

Figures (Fig.), including drawings, photographs, graphs and maps, are numbered with a single run of Arabic numerals in each paper. The same applies to tables (Table).

Bibliographical references in the text are cited in the following form: Ehrendorfer & Guo (2006), or (Ehrendorfer & Guo 2006), or, if the page number is stated, Ehrendorfer & Guo (2006: 73); in case of more than two authors as, e.g., Anderberg & al. (2002).

All bibliographical references quoted in the text, and only those quoted, are listed at the end of the manuscript, under the heading “References”, in a format strictly analogous to that of the examples below.

Titles of serials are abbreviated in conformity with Bridson, G. D. R., Townsend, S. T., Polen, E. A.& Smith, E. R.: BPH-2. Periodicals with botanical content. Constituting a second edition of Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum 1-2. Pittsburgh, 2004 (online at http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/HIBD/Departments/Databases.shtml). Titles of serials not listed are abbreviated according to the abbreviation standards there defined.

All titles are cited, according to the following examples, in the original language and, in case of non-Latin script, transliterated; additional translations, if appropriate, are enclosed in square brackets.

Engler, A. 1911: Die Pflanzenwelt Afrikas. – In: Engler, A. & Drude, O. (ed.), Die Vegetation der Erde 9. – Leipzig.
Hackel, E. 1882: Monographia Festucarum europaearum. – Kassel & Berlin.
Webb, D. A. & Camarasa, J. M. 1972: Odontites Ludw. – Pp. 266-269 in: Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. (ed.), Flora europaea 3. – Cambridge, etc.
Smith, P. M. & Sales, F. 1993: Bromus L. sect. Bromus: Taxonomy and relationship of some species with small spikelets. – Edinburgh J. Bot. 50: 149-171.

Keys for identification conform to the following example (other formats, e.g. indented keys, are not accepted):
1. Petal limb with a dark spot at the base; capsule membranous; basal leaves fleshy or succulent, subglabrous . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . 1. S. sedoides
– Petal limb without a dark spot at the base; capsule relatively firm and opaque, rarely semimembranous; basal leaves fleshy, sparsely hairy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 2
2. Capsule 6 mm long or more, oblong; cauline leaves obovate to ovate; anthers lilac; hyaline margin of calyx teeth smooth or shortly and sparsely hairy. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 6. S. integripetala
– Capsule 6 mm long or less, ovoid or oblong; cauline leaves spatulate to obovate; anthers white or pale lilac; hyaline margin of calyx teeth ciliate-fringed and often glandular. . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . 3

Label data of herbarium specimens, when standardized rather than cited literally, are given in the following sequence (optional items in parentheses): Country, political subdivision or region, locality, (coordinates, altitude, habitat), date, collector(s) [and] collection number. They are followed by the standard herbarium abbreviation [according to Holmgren, P. K. & Holmgren, N. H. 1998- (con- tinuously updated): Index herbariorum.http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IndexHerbariorum.asp] (and the herbarium accession number, if any), in parantheses.

Submit illustrations in original, mounted on individual sheets, or as graphic files (preferably TIF format) with a resolution higher than 300 dpi corresponding to the final printing size. Illustrations and tables including the space needed for the caption will after reduction have to fit into the type area (12.8 × 19.5 cm). Print photographs in the correct size; the quality of drawings may be improved by reduction to one half of the original size. Illustrations in colour can be accepted only if the author bears the full extra cost of printing. Indicate the scale by drawn-in scale bars. Append the captions separate at the end of the manuscript.

A single set of proofs is sent once and, save upon contrary instructions, to the first or corresponding author. The authors are expected to correct them carefully and return them without delay.

The first or corresponding author receives 50 reprints free of charge as well as a pdf file of the paper. With the pdf file the author(s) get the permission to make the article freely available by selfarchiving, individually, institutionally, or in a subject-based open access repository.

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