期刊名称：PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Plant Growth Regulation
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Plant Growth Regulation accepts papers on all aspects of
the chemical, molecular and environmental regulation of
plant growth and development and responses to stress.
Emphasis is placed on papers presenting the results of
original research. Occasional reviews on important topics
will also be welcome. All contributions will be in the English
Language.
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Plant Growth Regulation is indexed/abstracted in Biological Abstracts; BIOSIS Previews; CAB Abstracts; Chemical Abstracts; Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences; IBIDS; PASCAL Database; The ISI Alerting Services; Reference Update; Research Trends in Agrochemicals; Science Citation Index; Science Citation Index Expanded
Instructions to Authors
Manuscript Submission
Kluwer Academic Publishers request the submission of manuscripts and figures in electronic form in addition to a hard-copy printout. The preferred storage medium for your electronic manuscript is a 3 1/2 inch diskette. Please label your diskette properly, giving exact details on the name(s) of the file(s), the operating system and software used. Always save your electronic manuscript in the word processor format that you use; conversions to other formats and versions tend to be imperfect. In general, use as few formatting codes as possible. For safety's sake, you should always retain a backup copy of your file(s). After acceptance, please make absolutely sure that you send the latest (i.e., revised) version of your manuscript, both as hard-copy printout and on diskette (submission in electronic form of the final version of your article is compulsory).
Kluwer Academic Publishers prefer articles submitted in word processing packages such as MS Word, WordPerfect, etc. running under operating systems MS DOS, Windows and Apple Macintosh, or in the file format LaTeX. Articles submitted in other software programs can also be accepted.
For submission in LaTeX, Kluwer Academic Publishers have developed a Kluwer LaTeX class file, which can be downloaded from: http://www.wkap.nl/authors/jrnlstylefiles/
Use of this class file is highly recommended. Do not use versions downloaded from other sites. Technical support is available at: texhelp@wkap.nl. If you are not familiar with TeX/LaTeX, the class file will be of no use to you. In that case, submit your article in a common word processor format.
For the purpose of reviewing, articles for publication should be submitted as hard-copy printout (4-fold) and on diskette to: The Journals Editorial Office
Plant Growth Regulation
Kluwer Academic Publishers
PO Box 990
3300 AZ Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 78 6576 549
Fax: +31 78 6576 254
Manuscript Presentation
The journal's language is English. British English or American English spelling and terminology may be used, but either one should be followed consistently throughout the article. Manuscripts should be printed or typewritten on A4 or US Letter bond paper, one side only, leaving adequate margins on all sides to allow reviewers' remarks. Please double-space all material, including notes and references. Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off clearly, either by indenting the left-hand margin or by using a smaller typeface. Use double quotation marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations and for words or phrases used in a special sense.
Number the pages consecutively with the first page containing:
- running head (shortened title)
- article type
- title
- author(s)
- affiliation(s)
- full address for correspondence, including telephone and fax number and e-mail address
Key Words
Please provide 5 to 6 key words or short phrases in alphabetical order.
Abstract
Please provide a short abstract not exceeding 5% of the total text. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Abbreviations and Units
Only Sl units should be used. For normal or molar concentrations italics (i.e. N and M underlined) should be used. International standardized abbreviations should be used, e.g., for Sl units; mg, g, kg, mm, cm, m, rpm, cpm, l (liter), ml, s (second), h (hour), min, mol, m3, kg per ha or kg ha-1 (the minus index form is always to be used in tables), etc. Abbreviations may be used for other expressions provided that they are collected in a list after the abstract.
Article Types
Three types of papers will be published. These are: General Papers, Review Papers and Short Communications. Book reviews are also welcome.
(1) General Papers describing original research should not exceed 10 pages of printed text, including tables, figures and references (one page of printed text = approx. 600 words). These will usually be published within 5 months after acceptance.
(2) Review Papers not exceeding 20 pages of printed text (including tables, figures and references) will usually be published within 5 months following acceptance. However, in scheduling manuscripts for publication, preference will be given to original research reports.
(3) Short Communications. These will rarely exceed 2 pages (i.e. 1200 words). They are intended for short reports on a variety of subjects where limited new information is presented.
Figures and TablesSubmission of electronic figures
In addition to hard-copy printouts of figures, authors are requested to supply the electronic versions of figures in either Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or TIFF format. Many other formats, e.g., Microsoft Postscript, PiCT (Macintosh) and WMF (Windows), cannot be used and the hard copy will be scanned instead.
Figures should be saved in separate files without their captions, which should be included with the text of the article. Files should be named according to DOS conventions, e.g., `figure1.eps'. For vector graphics, EPS is the preferred format. Lines should not be thinner than 0.25pts and in-fill patterns and screens should have a density of at least 10%. Font-related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman and Helvetica. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is the preferred format but EPS is also acceptable. The following resolutions are optimal: black-and-white line figures - 600 - 1200 dpi; line figures with some grey or coloured lines - 600 dpi; photographs - 300 dpi; screen dumps - leave as is. Higher resolutions will not improve output quality but will only increase file size, which may cause problems with printing; lower resolutions may compromise output quality. Please try to provide artwork that approximately fits within the typeset area of the journal. Especially screened originals, i.e. originals with grey areas, may suffer badly from reduction by more than 10-15%. AVOIDING PROBLEMS WITH EPS GRAPHICS
Please always check whether the figures print correctly to a PostScript printer in a reasonable amount of time. If they do not, simplify your figures or use a different graphics program.
If EPS export does not produce acceptable output, try to create an EPS file with the printer driver (see below). This option is unavailable with the Microsoft driver for Windows NT, so if you run Windows NT, get the Adobe driver from the Adobe site (www.adobe.com).
If EPS export is not an option, e.g., because you rely on OLE and cannot create separate files for your graphics, it may help us if you simply provide a PostScript dump of the entire document. HOW TO SET UP FOR EPS AND POSTSCRIPT DUMPS UNDER WINDOWS
Create a printer entry specifically for this purpose: install the printer 'Apple Laserwriter Plus' and specify 'FILE': as printer port. Each time you send something to the 'printer' you will be asked for a filename. This file will be the EPS file or PostScript dump that we can use.
The EPS export option can be found under the PostScript tab. EPS export should be used only for single-page documents. For printing a document of several pages, select 'Optimise for portability' instead. The option 'Download header with each job' should be checked. Submission of hard-copy figures
If no electronic versions of figures are available, submit only high-quality artwork that can be reproduced as is, i.e., without any part having to be redrawn or re-typeset. The letter size of any text in the figures must be large enough to allow for reduction. Photographs should be in black-and-white on glossy paper. If a figure contains colour, make absolutely clear whether it should be printed in black-and-white or in colour. Figures that are to be printed in black-and-white should not be submitted in colour. Authors will be charged for reproducing figures in colour.
Each figure and table should be numbered and mentioned in the text. The approximate position of figures and tables should be indicated in the margin of the manuscript. On the reverse side of each figure, the name of the (first) author and the figure number should be written in pencil; the top of the figure should be clearly indicated. Figures and tables should be placed at the end of the manuscript following the Reference section. Each figure and table should be accompanied by an explanatory legend. The figure legends should be grouped and placed on a separate page. Figures are not returned to the author unless specifically requested.
In tables, footnotes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table. Such explanatory footnotes, identified by superscript letters, should be placed immediately below the table.
Section Headings
Section headings should be clearly distinguishable but not numbered.
Appendices
Supplementary material should be collected in an Appendix and placed before the Notes and Reference sections.
Notes
Notes should be kept to a minimum. Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Notes should be indicated by consecutive superscript numbers in the text and listed at the end of the article before the References. Footnotes in tables should be referred to by superscript letters, a, b, etc. A source reference note should be indicated by means of an asterisk after the title. This note should be placed at the bottom of the first page.
Cross-Referencing
In the text, a reference identified by means of an author's name should be followed by the date of the reference in parentheses and page number(s) where appropriate. When there are more than two authors, only the first author's name should be mentioned, followed by 'et al.'. In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter like 'a' and 'b' after the date to distinguish the works. Examples:
Winograd (1986, p. 204)
(Winograd 1986a, b)
(Flores et al. 1988; Winograd 1986)
(Bullen and Bennett 1990)
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References.
References
References to books, journal articles, articles in collections and conference or workshop proceedings, and technical reports should be listed at the end of the article, arranged alphabetically. Personal communications should not be included in the reference list but should only be mentioned in the article text (e.g., T. Moore, personal communication).
References to books should include the author's name; year of publication; title; page numbers where appropriate; publisher; place of publication, in the order given in the example below.
Davies P.J. 1987. Plant Hormones and their Role in Plant Growth and Development. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 286 pp.
References to articles in an edited collection should include the author's name; year of publication; article title; editor's name; title of collection; first and last page numbers; publisher; place of publication, in the order given in the example below.
Loughman B.C., East A.K., Maynard J.C. and Southon T.E. 1986. Metabolism of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides in plants. In: Schreiber K., Schutte H.R. and Sembdner G. (eds.), Conjugated Plant Hormones. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, pp. 376-383.
References to articles in conference proceedings should include the author's name; year of publication; article title; editor's name (if any); title of proceedings; date and place of conference; publisher and/or organization from which the proceedings can be obtained; place of publication; first and last page numbers.
Harley N.H. 1985. Comparing radon daughter dosimetric and risk models. In: Gammage R.B. (ed.), Indoor Air and Human Health. Proceedings of the Seventh Life Sciences Symposium, 29-31 October 1984, Knoxville, USA. Lewis, Chelsea, USA, pp. 69-78.
References to articles in periodicals should include the author's name; year of publication; article title; abbreviated title of periodical (Journal names should be abbreviated in conformity with the Bibliographic Guide for Editors and Authors (BIOSIS, Chemical Abstracts Service and Engineering Index, Inc., 1974).); volume number (issue number where appropriate); first and last page numbers, in the order given in the example below.
Weston G.D. and Thomas T.H. 1980. The effects of some growth retardants on the growth of shoots and storage roots of radish. J. Hort. Sci. 55: 235-257.
References to technical reports or doctoral dissertations should include the author's name; year of publication; title of report or dissertation; institution; location of institution, in the order given in the example below.
Schreibner B.M.N. 1990. The role of cytokinins in maize kernel development. PhD Diss., University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
Proofs
Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. One corrected proof, together with the original, edited manuscript, should be returned to the Publisher within three days of receipt by mail (airmail overseas).
Offprints
50 offprints of each article will be provided free of charge. Additional offprints can be ordered by means of an offprint order form supplied with the proofs.
Page Charges and Colour Figures
No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions. Colour figures are published at the author's expense only.
Copyright
Authors will be asked, upon acceptance of an article, to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information under copyright laws.
Permissions
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for a quotation from unpublished material, or for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in copyright, and for the reprinting of figures, tables or poems from unpublished or copyrighted material.
Additional Information
Additional information can be obtained from: The Journals Editorial Office
Plant Growth Regulation
Kluwer Academic Publishers
P.O. Box 990
3300 AZ Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 78 6576 549
Fax: +31 78 6576 254
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Tudor H. Thomas
IACR-Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, UK
Jerry D. Cohen
University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA
Editorial Board:
C. Auer, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
F. Bangerth, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
P.W. Barlow, University of Bristol, UK
S. Clouse, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
David T. Cooke, IACR-Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, UK
R.A. Creelman, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
P.J. Davies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
K.M.A. Gartland, University of Abertay Dundee, UK
T.J. Gianfagna, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
A.H. Halevy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
R.F. Horton, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
Y. Kamiya, RIKEN Frontier Research Program, Wako-shi, Japan
M. Kamek, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic
D.A. Morris, The University, Southampton, UK
R. Pharis, University of Calgary, Canada
S.A. Quarrie, Norfolk, UK
A. Slater, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
R.D. Slocum, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, USA
J.P. Slovin, USDA-ARS-CSL B046A, Beltsville, MD, USA
J. van Staden, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, RSA
J.L. Stoddart, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
C. Town, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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