期刊名称：FOLIA PARASITOLOGICA
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Folia Parasitologica was founded in 1954 as a national parasitological yearbook entitled “Československá parasitologie” that published articles in Czech. Since that time the journal has covered a long way. In 1966 it started to appear under its present name and to publish articles quarterly, in English, by both Czech and international authors. In the 1990s, Folia Parasitologica transformed from the periodical of still rather a local impact into a truly international journal. Since then it has gradually improved its contents, looks and impact, and has firmly established a good position among parasitological journals. It is covered by most major abstracting and indexing services (ISI Web of Knowledge, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, MEDLINE, etc.).
Folia Parasitologica publishes original research articles, research notes and review articles, as well as book reviews, news and advertisements. The subject scope covers all branches of animal parasitology, including morphology, taxonomy, biology, ecology, biochemistry, physiology, immunology and molecular biology of parasites, host-parasite relationships and parasite evolution. All submissions complying with this description will be given a prompt, critical and unbiased evaluation.
To contributors, Folia Parasitologica offers publishing their papers free-of-charge on high-quality glossy paper of large (A4) size, an excellent reproduction of figures, free reprints, and for a reasonable amount of money the authors can make their papers freely available on the Folia website.
The journal is abstracted and/or indexed in
- ISI Web of Knowledge
- Biological Abstracts
- Zoological Records
- CAB Abstracts
- MEDLINE
The journal is available online also through
- ProQuest Biology Journals
- CABI Full Text
Contact:
Folia Parasitologica
c/o Institute of Parasitology
Biology Centre AS CR
Branisovska 31
370 05 Ceske Budejovice
Czech Republic
Phone: (+420) 387 775 450, 387 775 406
Fax: (+420) 385 310 388
E-mail: folia@paru.cas.cz
Instructions to Authors
General
Folia Parasitologica is an international journal that covers the whole field of general, systematic and experimental parasitology. It publishes original research papers, research notes and review articles, as well as book reviews, news and advertisements. The following page limits are generally applied (exceptions may be negotiated in specific cases): reviews, 18 pp.; research papers, 15 pp.; research notes, 3 pp. (one page corresponds to approx. 5,000 characters or 2.5 standard pages of manuscript typed with double spacing). Manuscripts should be written in English using British spelling. Authors whose mother tongue is not English are strongly urged to have the language of manuscripts improved before submission. Manuscripts written in poor English will be returned.
Manuscripts found suitable on submission will be reviewed by at least two referees. Authors will receive referees’ comments and first editorial decision within 8 weeks from confirmed submission. It is understood that manuscripts submitted to Folia Parasitologica have not been offered to any other journal for prior or simultaneous publication.
Scope
Contributions from all branches of animal parasitology, such as morphology, taxonomy, biology, biochemistry, physiology, immunology and molecular biology of parasites, host-parasite relationships and parasite evolution, are eligible. Novelty and importance of data in the international (not local) context are required. The following types of manuscripts will usually be rejected:
1. New geographical records of parasites, records of new hosts, regional parasite and/or host surveys (if they constitute the principal substance of manuscript).
2. Local/regional prevalence surveys of diseases, local/regional studies on epidemiology of well known diseases and of parasite impact on human/animal health, case reports, routine clinical studies, testing of established diagnostic or treatment procedures.
Authors should respect the articles of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Fourth Edition, 1999) and its relevant recommendations, particularly Recommendation 16C concerning the deposition of name bearing types in appropriate institutions. Whenever possible, manuscripts containing description of new helminth or arthropod species should be accompanied with at least one paratype of each new species for scrutiny by reviewers and for a later deposition in the collection in the Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of ASCR.
Proofs and page charges
Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author for correction. No page charges are levied except for colour print. Fifty reprints are provided free of charge. A PDF file for personal use is provided free of charge. Additional reprints or open access to articles on the journal www page can be ordered at cost. Additional reprints should be ordered when page proofs are returned; later orders cannot be accepted. Prices can be found here. Manuscript of both published and rejected papers as well as originals of published illustrations are not returned, unless requested.
Contact
Editorial office: Folia Parasitologica, c/o Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of ASCR, Branisovska 31, CZ-370 05 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. Phone (+420) 387 775 450, 387 775 406; Fax: (+420) 385 310 388; E-mail: folia@paru.cas.cz; Website: http://www.paru.cas.cz/folia
Preparation of manuscripts
Organisation. The standard order of constituent parts for original full papers is: Title page (with Title, Author name[s], Running header, Key words, Address for correspondence); *Abstract; *introduction (which, however, does not bear this heading); Materials and Methods; Results; Discussion; Acknowledgements; References; *Tables; *Figure legends. The asterisked sections should start on new pages. The layout of research notes is similar to that of full papers but running header, key words and section headings (except for Abstract and References) are omitted.
Title. Title should not mention authors of taxa and years of description unless in special cases (e.g., taxonomic revisions and redescriptions). Title is expected to contain names of higher taxa (such as order and family) accommodating the parasites and hosts under study; these names of higher taxa may not be appropriate for multiple parasites/hosts or widely used models in papers of experimental nature.
Authorship. Author names should be given with full first names and with full institutional postal addresses. Start each different address on a separate line.
Running header. Suggest a short version of title for use as running header.
Key words. Suggest a set of key words (index terms). The set should be complete (i.e., words from the title should be repeated if considered index terms), but keep it as short as possible (typically, under 10 words/phrases).
Address for correspondence. Full postal address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address should be given for one author as a separate item on title page. These data will be used for editorial correspondence and later will be published in the article.
Abstract. It should be a factual summarisation of the main results and conclusions so that it can be published in abstracting journals without change. Abstracts, written without paragraphs, should not exceed 250 words (in reviews and full papers) or 150 words (in research notes). Abstracts of taxonomic papers should mention all nomenclatural acts and newly proposed nominal taxa.
Names. For each species or genus of parasites studied, scientific name followed by author and year of description should be given in Abstract and again, at least once, in the main body of text (usually, when first mentioned, or in Materials and Methods, or in tabled lists). Do not mention authors of taxa on other occasions or mention these authors sparingly. The same applies to authors of host species, but the year of description should be omitted. Current, valid names of hosts should be used (with synonyms, such as used in cited papers, given in parentheses). Author and year of description should be given also for parasites that are mentioned for taxonomic comparison. References to authors of names should not be included in the References section. Scientific names of taxa up to the generic level should be italicised (or underlined if italics are not available). Examples of style for organism names: Fasciola hepatica (L., 1758), Allocreadium patagonicum Shimazu, Urawa et Coria, 2000. (Note that names of all authors are given; “et” connects two last authors’ names; and comma separates author from year).
Taxonomic descriptions. Authors should follow all requirements of the current International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. This journal requires that at least holotype be deposited in an institution that provides long-term care of collections and access for study of deposited materials. One of such institutions is the Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre ASCR (publisher of this journal). Whenever possible, manuscripts containing description of new species of helminths or arthropods are expected to be accompanied with at least one paratype of each new taxon for scrutiny by reviewers and for a later deposition in the collection of the Institute.
Within taxonomic treatment the following order of data is preferred: species name, author with year of description (if not new species), reference to figures; synonymy; description in telegraphic style (i.e., omitting articles and as many verbs as can be elided without loss of meaning); after description: material data (type host, other hosts, type locality, other localities, site, prevalence, specimens deposited and their collection numbers); etymology; differential diagnosis (it may be headed as “Remarks”); other comments if appropriate.
Citations. For papers by two authors, names should be connected with “and”, e.g., Koskivaara and Valtonen (1992). For papers by more than two authors, the first author should be cited with “et al.”, e.g., Iglesias et al. (1997). Names and years should not be separated by commas, e.g., (Koskivaara and Valtonen 1992); commas, not semicolons, should separate citations in parentheses, e.g., (Iglesias et al. 1997a, b, Koskivaara and Valtonen 1992).
References to illustrations and tables. Examples: Fig. 1. Figs. 1, 2. Figs. 1–3. Table 1.
List of references. Entries should be listed alphabetically by names of all authors and subordinately, chronologically. Author names should NOT be typed in capital letters. Title of journal article should be cited in full, followed by abbreviated name of journal as listed in Serial Sources for the BIOSIS Data Base (BioSciences Information Service, Philadelphia), volume and pagination (example i). Issue number should be given (after volume, in parentheses) only if volume is not continuously paginated. Title and chapter pagination are required for chapters in monographs (ii). Publisher, place where published and number of pages are required for monographs (iii). Titles in languages other than English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian should be translated into English and their original language stated in parentheses. Titles whose English version is not that given in the original publication should be in square brackets (iv). Examples:
• (i) Fisher S.A., Kelso W.E. 1990: Parasite fauna development in juvenile bluegills and large mouth bass. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 119: 844–877.
• (ii) Taverne J. 1993: Immunity to protozoa and worms. In: J. Roitt, J. Brostoff and D. Male (Eds.), Immunology. Third Edition. Mosby-Year Book Europe, London, pp. 16.1–16.22.
• (iii) Levine N.D. 1988: The Protozoan Phylum Apicomplexa. Vol. I. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 203 pp.
• (iv) Dubinina M.N. 1971: [Cestodes from fishes of the Amur basin.] Parazitol. Sb. 25: 77–119. (In Russian.)
Listing theses (same style as for monographs) is acceptable but other unpublished data, personal communications and papers “in preparation” or “submitted” should not be listed in references. Work “in press” may be listed only if it has been accepted for publication. Unpublished data may be incorporated in text with affiliation in abbreviated form given for their authors if different from authors of manuscript. Example: (Ribeiro J.M.C., N.I.H., Bethesda, USA; pers. comm.).
Illustrations. Illustrations should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Whenever possible, individual figures should be grouped together in a single block (composite figure) of rectangular shape, using space efficiently. Without change or after reduction, illustrations should neatly fit into one or two columns (80 mm or 165 mm width, respectively). The maximum printing area is 165 × 235 mm, but an appropriate space below figures should be left for legends.
Line drawings. Hand-drawn line art should be in black waterproof ink on good quality white paper. The elements of composite figure can be identified with consecutive Arabic numerals or with letters in sans-serif font. A scale bar is required for each figure.
Graphs. Two-dimensional black-and-white graphics are preferred. Lettering (in sans-serif font) should be of such size that the height of characters, after possible reduction (often to one-column width, 80 mm), will be at least 2.5 and 1.25 mm (upper and lower case, respectively). The same font style and lettering size should be used for all graphs.
Photographs. It is optimal to submit photographs in the same size as they will appear in the journal. Space should be used efficiently; individual figures should be trimmed to contain only relevant information but areas of major interest (as well as labelling) should not be too close to the edges of figures. Individual figures should be mounted in composite plates of rectangular shape. In plates, individual figures should be precisely trimmed as regular rectangles or otherwise, and abutted tightly (= without space or masking between). If computer-finished plates are submitted, individual figures may be separated by 1-mm wide white rulers. Magnification should be indicated by scale bars. All labels (i.e., figure identification, symbols, letters and scale bars) should be from pre-printed sans-serif sets, if not inserted electronically. If the editor is to insert the final labelling, author’s requirements should be indicated on a model copy.
Legends. Legends to illustrations should be typed on separate page. All abbreviations and symbols appearing in figures should be explained in legends or (if too numerous and frequently repeated) collected in a list (preferably in Materials and Methods). For composite plates, a summary statement, if possible, should precede specific explanations to separate figures. Parasite and host names should be spelled out completely in each legend when first mentioned.
Tables. Tables, typed on separate pages and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, should be self-explanatory, i.e., their headings and explanations should make them fully understandable without reference to text.
Submission
Initial submission
Manuscripts can be submitted in an electronic form via the journal’s online submission site. The size of any individual file composing the online electronic submission must not exceed 10 MB. Alternatively, the manuscript can be submitted as an e-mail attachment (combined size of files sent in one e-mail must not exceed 10 MB) or on a 3.5 inch floppy, CD-R or ZIP disk(s). We may additionally request a printed copy, particularly if there is concern about the quality of figures or in case of complex manuscripts. The electronic manuscripts may be either in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format, or a combination of Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) for text and tables with JPEG (.jpg) or TIFF (.tif) files for figures. No figures may be embedded in .doc or .rtf text files. The quality of figures for review may be reduced but authors should be ready to comply with the requirements for quality at final submission after review. Submitting only a printed (“hard”) copy is possible but may slow down the review process. The printed copy should be submitted in triplicate, typed with double-spacing on one side of paper and with wide (at least 25 mm) margins on both sides. Pages should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript. Whenever possible, with manuscripts containing description of new species of helminths or arthropods, at least one paratype of each new taxon is expected to be provided for scrutiny by reviewers and for a later deposition in the collection of the Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre ASCR. Authors are welcome to provide us with lists of competent reviewers and/or those who might constitute a conflict of interest.
Revised versions, Final submission
With revised version, authors should enclose cover letter, detailing how the manuscript has been revised. A point-by-point statement on what has been improved and/or a rebuttal of comments not addressed in the revised version should be provided. All comments of reviewers and editor must be addressed individually. The final text for print should be supplied as Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) electronic file accompanied with one printed copy. Users of Apple computers should submit the text either in a format directly transferable to PC, or as a plain text file. Figures will always be required for best printing quality. Unsuitable figures, typically because of wrong format and/or unacceptable low resolution of electronic files, are a serious shortcoming which will disqualify papers from the publication even after successful review. Originals of figures in a “hard” form, e.g., ink drawings on paper, primary prints from photographic negatives, are accepted and often are the best option. Figures may also be provided in an electronic form, in Tagged Image File Format (.tif), Adobe Photoshop (.psd) or simple bitmap (.bmp). Of the common and popular formats, NOT ACCEPTED are, e.g., PowerPoint (.ppt) and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), and also NOT ACCEPTED are figures embedded in the text. The modes and minimum resolutions required: colour photographs, RGB mode, 400 dpi at print size; black-and-white photographs, greyscale mode, 400 dpi at print size; line drawings or graphs, black-and-white mode, 1,200 dpi at print size. If you have problems understanding the computer graphics formats, you might like to read a basic guide here (courtesy of European Journal of Entomology).
Editorial Board
Editorial board
Assistant Editors
- L. Grubhoffer (arthropod vectors and transmitted agents of disease)
- F. Moravec (helminths)
Editorial Advisors
- P. Bedrnik (Jilove u Prahy, CR), I. Beveridge (Parkville, Australia), R.A. Bray (London, UK), K. Buchmann (Frederiksbeerg, Denmark), R.A. Campbell (North Dartmouth, USA), A. Choudhury (De Pere, USA), J.C. Chubb (Liverpool, UK), T.H. Cribb (Brisbane, Australia), T.A. Dick (Winnipeg, Canada), E.S. Didier (Covington, USA), I. Dykova (Ceske Budejovice, CR), L. Euzet (Sete, France), S.W. Feist (Dorset, UK), B.B. Georgiev (Sofia, Bulgaria), L.M. Gibbons (St. Albans, UK), D.I. Gibson (London, UK), H. Hasegawa (Hasama, Japan), P. Horak (Praha, CR), Z. Hubalek (Valtice, CR), R.L. Jacobson (Jerusalem, Israel), J.-L. Justine (Noumea, New Caledonia), P. Kindlmann (Ceske Budejovice, CR), D.C. Kritsky (Pocatello, USA), J. Kulda (Praha, CR), R. Larsson (Lund, Sweden), D.T.J. Littlewood (London, UK), D.J. Marcogliese (Montreal, Canada), D. Mirelman (Rehovot, Israel), P.A. Nuttall (Wallingford, UK), J.H. Oliver (Statesboro, USA), R.M. Overstreet (Ocean Springs, USA), T. Scholz (Ceske Budejovice, CR), D.E. Sonenshine (Norfolk, USA), J.G. Valenzuela (Rockville, USA), J. Vavra (Praha, CR), I.D. Whittington (Adelaide, Australia)
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