Instructions to authors wishing to publish in SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología

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Instructions to authors wishing to publish in
©SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
01. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología is an international journal which has been published by the Sociedad Hispano-Luso-Americana de
Lepidopterología since 1973. It includes empirical and theoretical research on all aspects of Lepidopterology (Systematics, Taxonomy,
Phylogeny, Morphology, Bionomics, Ecology, Faunistics and Zoogeography, as well as bibliographical papers, those on the history of
Lepidopterology, or book reviews on the topics mentioned) from all over the world with special emphasis on the study of Conservation Biology.
Each volume consists of four issues a year (one volume per annum) in March, June, September and December.
02. Contributions may be written in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian or Portuguese, the official languages of the journal.
03. Manuscripts report on original research not published elsewhere and are submitted exclusively for consideration by SHILAP Revista de
lepidopterología. If this is not the case, please tell us as soon as possible. Electronic submission of papers is encouraged. The preferred format
is a document in Rich Text Format (RTF). Required mode and minimum resolution for bitmap graphic file: Colour in 24-bit RGB mode, 300 dpi
at print size; halftones in 8-bit greyscale mode, 300 dpi at print size; line art in 1-bit black and white mode, 1200 dpi at print size. The
manuscript may also by an original written text, typewritten with double spacing. The original and two copies of the text and illustrations will be
required, also including an identical text-file (in WordPerfect or Word) on diskette (3.5”) or CD.
04. The Editor represents the opinion of the Editorial Board; he will inform the authors about the acceptance or rejection of their contributions. All
manuscripts will be reviewed by the Editor and two independent reviewers in order to guarantee the quality of the papers. Based on their reports
the Editor decides whether a manuscript shall be accepted for publication. The process of review is rapid. Once accepted, papers are published
as soon as practicable, usually within 12 months the initial submission. Upon acceptance, manuscripts become the property of the journal, which
reserves copyright no published material may be reproduced without quoting its origin.
05. Manuscripts should include a summary in Spanish and another in any other official languages of the Journal, preferably in English (Abstract).
For authors who do not know Spanish, translation of the English abstract into Spanish is provided by the Editor, if the paper has been accepted.
Abstracts shall be brief and condense the conclusions of the paper, without full stops. Each summary shall be followed by a maximum of 10 key
words (Palabras clave) in the same language, separated by comas. The summary in a language different to that of the text will be preceded by a
translation of the title into English.
06. Contributions should be presented as follows: title, author, summaries, text and bibliography. In case there are any doubts, please check previous
issues of the journal. Works which do not comply with these rules shall be returned to authors.
07. AUTHORS: Should give their full name and address. The author’s first names must be referred to by their initials.
08. TEXT: It is requested not to use footnotes, if possible, they sometimes make understanding of papers difficult.
Dates must be given as 15-VII-1985 (days and years in Arabic and months in Roman numbers).
References given in the text should be done like: LINNAEUS (1758), (LINNAEUS, 1758) or HARRY (in MOORE, 1980) that is names of
authors in capitals and date of the indicated work. If there are two or more authors, the first one followed by et al. will be given. If pages are to
be quoted, they will follow the year separated by a colon (1968:65).
Mentions of captures should be made in this way: Country (when pertinent), province (or equivalent administrative unit), locality, altitude,
sex of the specimens, date and in parenthesis collector. Male and female symbols have to be coded as (&&) and (&) respectively, with
parenthesis. Special characters with diacritic marks usually not included in West European fonts (e. g. Slavic languages, Romanian, Polish,
Turkish, etc.) should also be coded; the codes used must be presented on a separate sheet with a printed version of the manuscript.
09. SPECIES AND OTHER TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES: All the names of taxa mentioned in the text, both well established and new ones,
must conform to the current norms of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The abbreviations gen. n., sp. n., syn. n., comb. n.,
or similar should be used to explicitly indicate all taxonomic innovations. In describing new genus level taxa, the nominal type-species must be
designated in its original combination and with reference to the original description immediately after the new name. If the article describes new
taxa, type material must be deposited in a scientific institution.
Names of taxa should be followed by the names of their describers (complete surnames) and by the date of description at least once. The
internationally accepted abbreviations may be used. Examples: L. (Linnaeus); H.-S. (Herrich-Schäffer); Stgr. (Staudinger), etc.
10. ILLUSTRATIONS: Drawings should be made with Indian ink on white card or drawing paper DIN A4. Authors may send high contrast
photographs. Colour plates may also be published. Publication cost for colour plates will be borne by the author.
11. BIBLIOGRAPHY: All manuscripts must include a bibliography of those publications cited in the text. Bibliographic references should be
made as follows: author, publication year, title of the paper or book and the title of the journal should be cited full, indicating volume, number
(within parenthesis) and pages. Examples:
Article in journal:
SARTO I MONTEYS, V., 1985.- Confirmación de la presencia en la Península Ibérica de Earias vernana (Hübner, 1790).- SHILAP Revista
de lepidopterología, 13(49): 39-40.
Article to collective volume:
REBEL, H., 1901.- Famil. Pyralidae-Micropterygidae. 2 Theil.- In O. STAUDINGER & H. REBEL. Catalog der Lepidopteren des
palaearctischen Faunengebietes: 368 pp. R. Friedlander & Sohn, Berlin.
Book:
HIGGINS, L. O., 1975.- The Classification of European Butterflies: 320 pp. Collins, London.
Internet:
DE PRINS, J. & DE PRINS, W., 2011.- Global taxonomic database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera). Available from http://www.gracillariidae.net
(accessed 14th December 2011).
Bibliographic references should be given following the alphabetical order of the author’s name. If there is more than one reference to the
same author they should be ordered from older to more recent dates.
12. TABLES: They must be identified with correlative Roman numerals, on unnumbered sheets.
13. NOTES AND BOOK REVIEWS: No more than two pages without figures, instructions as for articles.
14. PROOFS: Authors will be provided with galleys for careful checking of misprints. Only misprint corrections will be allowed, text or style
corrections will be charged to author. Corrected galleys should be returned within 15 days after reception date. If delayed, the Editorial Board
will decide whether to delay publication of the article or to do corrections, declining responsibility for persisting errors. The Editorial Board
reserves the right to do appropriate modifications in order to keep the uniformity of the journal.
15. REPRINTS: Authors shall receive a PDF of your paper free of charge. If you need additional reprints of their paper, should be ordered
beforehand from the General Secretary, at extra cost to be paid by the author/s.
16. CORRESPONDENCE: The first author is responsible for correspondence unless stated otherwise when submitting the typescript to the
General Secretary. If photographs or colour figures are included, authors are requested to accept charges in writing when submitting the
typescript.
17. MANUSCRIPTS: Should be sent to:
SHILAP
Apartado de Correos, 331
E-28080 Madrid
ESPAÑA / SPAIN
E-mail: avives@orange.es / antoniovives@wanadoo.es
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