Article Submission Guidelines:

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 are classified as Full Paper, Rapid Report and Short Communication. A manuscript can be published as a Rapid Report if it presents novel and relevant findings in a concise form. The Editor will determine whether or not a submission can be classified as Rapid Report. A Rapid Report should take up no more than two printed pages of space. Review Articles will be published, but only upon invitation by the Editor. Manuscripts will be examined by two independent referees before any decision is taken regarding acceptance and changes required. Authors are kindly requested to read carefully the following instructions. Manuscripts will be considered for publication only if they are in accord with these instructions. The latest issues of the journal should be used as a guide to the formal layout. All articles will be published online at http://www.editaefa.com.

Manuscript Submission

All submissions should be made online at http://www.editaefa.com. New users should first create a username. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Options for Authors. This helps to keep the review time as short as possible and enables authors to track the progress of the review process in real time. The online submission system supports the following file formats for manuscripts:
Word Document (.doc or .docx) and Rich Text Format (.rtf). Electronic version of your figures must be supplied. The system supports TIFF, JPEG, EPS, and PS files, but the preferred formats are EPS (for vector graphics) and TIFF (for bitmapped graphics). Figures must be submitted compressed into a .zip or .rar file.

Manuscript Presentation

General format information
Please, note that:

• All taxonomic names subjected to 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 cited when first mentioned in the text or all included in a single list. The location of voucher specimens should be indicated.
• The International System of Units (SI System) should be used throughout.

Language
Please ensure your manuscript is written in excellent English. Authors whose native language is not English are encouraged to seek language editing services prior to submit their manuscript.

Structure
Manuscripts should be arranged in the following order:

• a) Cover page, containing the Running title and the name and address of the corresponding author, including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail address.
• b) Title page, containing the title of the article, the full name of the author(s), the abstract (no more than 200 words for a Full Paper, less than 50 words for a Short Communication), the key words (up to five, in alphabetical order), the list of abbreviations used (if applicable).
• c) Text, subdivided into the following sections: Introduction (without heading), Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion
• d) Acknowledgements.
• e) References.
• f) Tables.
• g) Legends to figures.
• h) Figures.
• i) Complete address of the author(s).

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

References

References should follow the Council of Biology Editors (CBE) style. Only works actually cited in the text should be included in the references. The name-year system should be used: place inside brackets the author's name and year of publication. Publications from the same author in a single year should use a, b, c, etc. Where there are three or more authors, the citation should give only the first author followed by "et al." (e.g., Herrero et al. 1978). Spelling in the reference list 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 can be cited as being "in press" in the list of references.

Book chapter:
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.

Journal article:
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.

Conference proceedings:
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 Thesis:
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.

Journal article on internet:
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.

Webpage:
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. Accesed 26 June 2007. Available from: http://dicc.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Tables and Figures

Tables and figures Present these, in this order, at the end of the article. Graphics files must always be provided separate from the main text file. Tables should be numbered consecutively with Roman numerals. Each table should be on a separate page. Each figure should be in a separate file and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Where several micrographs are grouped together these should be represented accurately. Figure captions should be written all together on a separate page. The online submission system supports TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS, and PS files, but the preferred formats are EPS (for vector graphics) and TIFF (for bitmapped graphics), The optimal resolution is 300 dpi (minimum) for line figures and 300 dpi for photographs. Enclose the tables and figures into a single .zip or .rar file. Please forward any general preparation and submission queries to admin@editaefa.com

Further Information

Typographical errors only can be corrected on the galley proofs. Changes in the manuscript will not be admitted at this stage. There are no page charges, although colour pages may incur a cost.

Copyright Permission

All authors of the submitted articles must accept our Copyright Transfer Agreement

Free article access

All authors will receive free access to three downloads of their finished work, which they will be able to distribute freely, as long as that does not breach the terms of the Copyright Transfer Agreement