期刊名称：CLADISTICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The comparatively new methods of cladistics provide exciting and effective tools for systematists that often challenge existing ideas and theories regarding evolution and taxonomy. The Willi Hennig Society was formed in 1980 to explore and promote this new field and their journal, Cladistics, has done much to bring the subject to a wider audience. Its scope is wide, covering theory, method, the philosophical aspects of systematics, and the role of systematic and evolutionary studies in the investigation of biogeographical and other general biological phenomena.
The journal includes original papers, forum discussions, meeting reports, and book reviews.
Research Areas Include:
Biogeography
Botany
Evolution
Genetic and molecular evolution
Ontogeny
Phylogenetics
Systematics
Zoology
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Audience
Systematics, taxonomists, evolutionary biologists
Instructions to Authors
The Willi Hennig Society publishes Cladistics, The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society. Cladistics publishes both empirical and conceptual papers on systematics, and encourages debate and other useful dialogue about systematic methods. It has wide scope and publishes papers in zoology, botany, morphology, molecular biology, ontogeny, biogeography, ecology, and systematic philosophy.
Manuscripts should be sent to the editor-in-chief or an Assistant Editor, the addresses of whom are found on the inside front cover of the journal. Manuscripts are considered with the understanding that their contents have not appeared, or will not appear, elsewhere in substantially the same or abbreviated form.
Type of Papers. Cladistics publishes three types of papers: regular papers, Forum pieces, and Letters to the Editor. Regular papers generally concern original research in the field of systematics and phylogeny. This research may concern a taxonomic group of interest, a new method, systematic theory, and practice, or several other kinds of work. Authors are strongly encouraged to consider broadly the implications of their resulting phylogenies, be they biogeography, theory, analytical issues, or character evolution. Forum pieces usually have as their focus a consideration of work already published in Cladistics or in other journals. These pieces may be critiques, responses to critiques, clarifications, or drawing of broader implications from some other previously published work. Authors are encouraged to be concise and direct in their forum pieces, as these usually comprise fewer pages than regular articles. Letters to the Editor are much shorter notes concerning an issue of general importance to the field and typically (though not necessarily) have a shorter turn-around time. Regular articles and Forum pieces must have an abstract.
Submission OF Manuscripts. Manuscripts should preferably be submitted by electronic mail to the editor-in-chief (akluge@umich.edu)or to the associate editor. Ideally, the submitted manuscript should consist of a single file including text, tables, and figures. This file should be a PDF or MS-Word file with the figures embedded. If there are no figures, the file may be RFT. Embedded images should be at a resolution sufficient for printing and review but not so high a resolution that the file is unmanageably large. Please try to keep submitted files below 3 Mb. Final images for accepted manuscripts may be at a higher resolution than those that are submitted for review and may be provided on disk at that time (but not before; see below).
Macintosh Users Note: Please add suffixes to your files before sending, .pdf to PDF files; .doc to Word files; .rft to Rich Text files; .jpg to JPEG files; .tif to TIFF files; .ai to Illustrator files; .psd to Photoshop files.
Authors are requested to pay attention to the instructions listed below concerning the preparation of the manuscript: manuscripts deviating from the required form will be returned for revision. The Society does not specify the length of manuscripts, but authors are requested not to exceed the length of an individual issue of the journal. If there is any doubt about suitability, authors wishing to submit long manuscripts should contact the editor-in-chief before considering submission.
Papers should conform to the following layout:
(1) Title page. This should include title, authors, and institutions. The title should be concise but informative and, where appropriate, should include mention of families or higher taxon. A subtitle may be included, but papers in numbered series are not accepted. Names of new taxa should not be included in titles.
(2) Abstract. All papers, whether regular or Forum pieces, should have an abstract. This must be on a separate page. The abstract is of great importance, as it may be produced elsewhere and is all that many see of your work. It should be 100-200 words long for regular papers and may be shorter for Forum papers. It should be in the form that is intelligible in conjunction with the title. It should not include references.
(3) Table of contents. A list of first, second, and third order headings should be provided on a separate sheet. This is not published but is used to assist publication.
(4) Subject matter. The paper should be divided into sections under short headings. Except in systematic hierarchies, the hierarchy of headings should not exceed three. The botanical and zoological codes, where appropriate, should be strictly followed. Use SI units and the appropriate symbols (e.g., mm, not millimeter; Myr for million years). Avoid elaborate data matrices, species lists, and character lists within the text but include them in appendixes. Keep footnotes and cross references to a minimum.
(5) Appendixes. Please note that new guidelines exist as of November 14, 2001. Cladistics will now be requesting the deposition of your matrices and other material electronically for publication on the Hennig Society Journal Web page. Please submit these data as e-mail attachments to Associate Editor Mark Siddall at the time you submit your manuscript to the editor-in-chief. These data will be made available to the reviewers but not to the community at large until such time as the paper may be accepted. If the paper is not found to be acceptable for publication, the data and associated files will be removed from the directory structure and destroyed. Reviewers are reminded of their responsibilities to keep all such data confidential and that failure to do so constitutes a serious violation of trust and scientific property.
For morphological data:
Character descriptions, character argumentations, and material examined must be submitted as plain text, html., or pdf format.
Images for character and state descriptions must be submitted JPEG/JPG or GIF format at 72 dpi and with dimensions no greater than 6 x 6 inches (and preferably smaller). They must be clearly named and numbered (e.g., MES001.JPG) and an associated figure legend must be included in the e-mail to Associate Editor Mark Siddall with these files as attachments.
Taxon by character matrices may be submitted as text files only and in any of the following formats: plain text (do not tab delimit; include names of characters and states after the matrix); WinClada (which is the same as Hennig86 or Nona/Piwe but includes character and state information); fully annotated Nexus including character and state information.
For molecular data: Matrices DNA or RNA data may be submitted as a plain text alignment (do not tab delimit); WinClada/Hennig86 format which presumes 0/1/2/3(/4) are A/C/G/T(/-) respectively; Nona dread format; Xac format; Nexusformat.
For optional supplementary documentation
If there are additional figures beyond those to be included in the printed portion of the paper that add to the scope and depth of understanding issues or data in the submission, they may also be submitted in accordance with the guidelines above.
Executable binary applications may be submitted if they are to be made freely available to the community.
(6) References. All citations in the text should refer to:
1. Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication.
2. Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication.
3. Three or more authors: first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of the publication. Citations may be made directly or parenthetically. Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically and then chronologically.
Examples: "as demonstrated (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999: Allan and Jones, 1995)". "Kramer et al. (2000) have recently shown...."
References should be arranged alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication.
Reference to a journal publication:
Van der leer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2000. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51-59.
Reference to a book:
Stunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 1979. The Elements of Style, third ed. Macmillan, New York
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, O.R., Adams, L.B., 1999. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.B., Smith, R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281-304.
The reference need not be cited when author and date are given only as authority for a taxonic name. References should be listed alphabetically with journal titles abbreviated according to the World List of Scientific Periodicals and its supplements. For books, give the title, name of publisher, place of publication, page numbers, and indication of edition if not the first. Follow conventions used in recent issues of the journal for reference style.
Give foreign language references in ordinary English alphabetic form but copy accents in French, German, Spanish, etc. For the Cyrillic alphabet use British Standard 2979 (1958). If only a published translation has been consulted, cite the translation, not the original.
(7) Tables. Keep tables as simple as possible and avoid vertical rules.
(8) Illustrations. These may be computer-assisted drawings, output from programs, ink drawings, or half-tone illustrations from black-and-white photographs. Use one consecutive set of Arabic numbers for all figures (do not separate "plates" from "text figures" but treat all as "figures").
Electronic files with line art (including cladograms) should be submitted as vector art (e.g., Illustrator, EPS, or PDF). If these are provided in pixelated form, they must be at least 300 dpi, anti-aliased text and lines, and RGB (not CMYK, not indexed color) and as a JPEG or TIFF file.
Grayscale or color art should be at least 300 dpi and RGB (not CMYK, not index colored) and as a JPEG or TIFF file.
Lines must be clean and heavy enough to stand reduction; drawings should be no more than twice the journal page size. Explanations should, as far as possible, be placed in the legend; the drawing itself should contain a minimum of lettering.
Photographs are best submitted in their final size and a scale line should be included to indicate magnification.
Type legends for figures in numerical order on a separate sheet.
Authors wishing to reproduce figures from other published works must obtain permission for themselves and before the paper is submitted for consideration.
If authors wish their artwork to be returned after publication, they must clearly state so on each figure; artwork is otherwise not returned after publication.
Proofs. Manuscripts must be submitted in the final, fully corrected form. Make certain that all the references in the text agree with those in "REFERENCES," that spelling is consistent throughout, and that all figures and other details have been double-checked. Page-proofs only are supplied, and authors may be charged for excessive alterations. In the case of multiple authors, proofs are supplied to the one author responsible for correspondence.
Copyright and Reprints. The Willi Hennig Society owns the copyright of its journal Cladistics, and authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that, if it is accepted for publication, copyright in the article, including the right to reproduce the article in all forms and media, is assigned to the Willi Hennig Society. The required Copyright Transfer Agreement must be signed before the article can be published. In consideration of those assignment in copyright, the Publisher will supply 50 offprints of each paper. Additional offprints can be ordered at extra cost at the proof stage. The rights due the authors are spelled out in the Copyright Transfer Agreement. Authors receiving requests for permission to reproduce work published in Cladistics are encouraged to contact the president of the Willi Hennig Society for advice.
Manuscripts on Disk following Acceptance. Submit a disk only following acceptance of a manuscript. Do not send disks at submission of manuscripts for review. Only supply a disk of your final manuscript if there is a single image or other item that requires a resolution not facilitated by electronic (e-mail) submission of the final form. If you are supplying your final article on disk, that disk should be a ZIP disk or a CD-ROM.
Author Inquiries. Authors can also keep a track on the progress of their accepted articles and set up e-mail alerts informing them of changes to their manuscript status by using the "Track a Paper" feature of Elsevier Author Gateway (http://authors.elsevier.com). Full details of electronic submission of artwork can be obtained from http:/authors.elsevier.com. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided when an article is accepted for publication.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
A.G. Kluge, Division of Reptiles and Amphibians, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 1109 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079, USA
Fax: (734) 763-4080
Email:akluge@umich.edu
Managing Editor:
I.J. Kitching, Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom
Book Review Editor:
B.I. Crother, Department of Biology, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402
Fax: (985) 549-2162
Email:bcrother@selu.edu
Associate Editors:
J. Crisci, Department of Botany, Museo de La Plata, Argentina
G. Hormiga, Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
P. Hovenkamp, Rijksherbarium/Hortus Botanicus, P.O. Box 9514, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Fax: 31 71 527 3511
Email:hovenkamp@nhn.leidenuniv.nl
M. Siddall, Division of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
J. Woolley, Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2475, USA
Advisory Board:
K. Bremer, Division of Invertebrates, American Muserm of Natural History, New York, USA
J.M. Carpenter, Division of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
P. Goloboff, Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina
C.J. Humphries, Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom
J. Hyvönen, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Finland
J.J. Morrone, Museo de Zoologia, UNAM, Mexico
N.I. Platnick, Division of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
R.I. Vane-Wright, Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom
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