Article submission instructions:

General information

An international journal. Manuscripts that contain new and significant findings are welcome with the understanding that the contents have not been published in or submitted to any other journal. Manuscripts will be monographic. Manuscripts will be reviewed by two independent referees before any decision is taken regarding acceptance or the possibility of requesting changes. Authors are kindly requested to read the following instructions carefully. Manuscripts will be considered for publication only if they comply with these instructions. All articles will be published on-line at http://www.editaefa.com .

Submitting manuscripts

All papers will be submitted on-line at http://www.editaefa.com . New users must first create a user name. Once a user has logged-in to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Options area. This helps to keep review times as short as possible and enables authors to track the progress of a review process in real time. The on-line article submission system allows the following file formats for manuscripts:
Word Documents (.doc or .docx) and Rich Text Format (.rtf). Electronic versions of your images must be provided. The system supports TIFF, JPEG, EPS and PS files, but the preferred formats are EPS (for vector graphics) and TIFF (for bitmap graphics). Images must be submitted in compressed .zip or .rar files.

Manuscript presentation

General format information
Please note that:

• All taxonomic names that are part of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature should be written in italics. Latin names of plant communities should also be written in italics.
• Herbaria should be quoted using the abbreviations published in the Index Herbariorum.
• Details should be given on the origin and the identification of every organism quoted. Scientific names should conform to the international rules of nomenclature. Authors of the genera, species and infraspecific taxa must be either quoted when first mentioned in the text or included in a single list. The location of a species from a specific herbarium mentioned in the text should also be indicated.
• The International System of Units (SI System) should be used throughout the article.

language
Please ensure that your manuscript is written in excellent English. Authors whose mother tongue is not English are encouraged to seek language editing services prior to submitting their manuscripts.

Structure
Manuscripts should be structured in the following order:

• a) Cover page, containing the title of the article and the name and address of the relevant user, including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address.
• b) Title page, containing the title of the article, the full name of the author or authors, the abstract (no more than 300 words), key words (up to five, in alphabetical order and separated by commas), a list of abbreviations used (if applicable).
• c) Text, subdivided into the relevant sections
• d) Acknowledgements.
• e) References.
• f) Tables.
• g) Legends of tables (if applicable).
• h) Figures.
• i) Legends of figures (if applicable).
• j) Maps.
• k) Legend of maps.
• l) Full address of the author or authors.

The approximate desired position of all figures and tables should be indicated in the text.

References

References should follow the style of the Council of Biology Editors (CBE). Only works quoted verbatim in the text should be included in the references. The name-year system should be used: place the name of the author and the year of publication in brackets. Publications of an author within a single year should use a, b, c... Where there are three or more authors, the citation should only give the first author followed by "et al." (e.g., Herrero et al. 1978). Spelling in the reference section should follow the original. References should then be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the article. Articles that have been accepted for publication may be cited as being "in press" in the reference section.

Journal articles:
Jury MR, Parker BA, Raholijao N, Nassor A. 1995. Variability of summer rainfall over Madagascar: Climatic determinants at interannual scales. Int. J. Climatol. 15: 1323–1332.

Book chapters: Mettam GR, Adams LB. 1999. How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In: Jones BS, Smiith RZ, editors. Introduction to the Electronic Age.. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281-304.

Conference events:
Irvin AD, Cunningham MP, Young AS, editors. 1981. Advances in the control of Theileriosis. International Conference held at the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases; 1981 Feb 9-13; Nairobi. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 427 p.

Dissertations or Theses:
Guo Q. 1994. Dynamic desert Puccinellia maritima plant community ecology: changes in space and time. PhD Thesis. University of New Mexico, Alburquerque. Tren JW. 1975. Experimental acute failure (dissertation). University of California.

Article in Internet Journal:
Loker WM. 1996. "Campesinos" and the crisis of modernization in Latin America. Jour of Pol Ecol [serial online]; 3(1). Available: http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_3/ascii-lokeriso.txt via the INTERNET. Accessed 1996 Aug 11.

Website:
British Medical Journal [Internet]. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ; 2000 July 10 - [cited 2001 Apr 12]; Available from: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/.

Software:
StatSoft Inc. 2003 STATISTICA (data analysis software system), version 6.1. StatSoft,Inc. Tulsa,OK.

Internet databases:
Goddard Earth Sciences (GES). Data and Information Services Center (DISC). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Accessed 26 June 2007. Available from: http://dicc.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Tables, figures and maps

Tables and figures These should be presented in the following order, at the end of the article. Image files should always be presented separately from the main text of the article. Tables should be numbered consecutively using Roman numerals. Each table should be on a separate page. Each figure should be in a separate file and numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals. If several micrographs are grouped together, they must be identified accurately. All captions should be submitted together on a separate page. The on-line article submission system supports TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS and PS graphic files, but the preferred formats are EPS (for vector graphics) and TIFF (for bitmap graphics). The optimal resolution is 300 dpi (minimum) for line figures and 300 dpi in the case of photographs. Attach all tables and figures in a single compressed .zip or .rar file. Files must not be larger than 10 megabytes. Please forward any queries on the preparation and submission of articles to admin@editaefa.com.

Further information

Typographical errors only can be corrected during editing. Changes to the manuscript will not be admitted at this stage. There is no charge for the number of pages, although colour pages may incur in costs.

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