期刊名称：PLANT PATHOLOGY
 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 Pathology
This international journal, owned and edited by the British Society for Plant Pathology, covers all aspects of plant pathology and reaches subscribers in 80 countries. Top quality original research papers and critical reviews from around the world cover: diseases of temperate and tropical plants caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, phytoplasmas and nematodes; physiological, biochemical, molecular, ecological, genetic and economic aspects of plant pathology; disease epidemiology and modelling; disease appraisal and crop loss assessment; and plant disease control and disease-related crop management.
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Instructions to Authors
Plant Pathology publishes research papers and critical reviews on all aspects of plant pathology. Letters to the editors are welcome when these comment on matters relevant to plant pathology. New Disease Reports are published in Plant Pathology biannually in June and December. The objective of these short edited papers is to encourage early and rapid reporting of the incidence of new plant diseases. All material submitted for publication is reviewed by the editors who act on advice from referees who are not identified to the authors.
The editors particularly welcome papers that apply the scientific method, describing not only the collection and interpretation of data but also the critical testing of hypotheses. Only papers written in English are accepted. They must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere. Papers become the copyright of the journal. No charge is made for publication, except for colour plates (see Colour below), but authors will be asked to pay for excessive alterations to agreed scripts at the proof stage. Fifty offprints of each paper are provided free, and additional copies may be ordered when proofs are returned. PDF e-mail attachments of published papers may be requested to be sent to up to 10 author-nominated recipients.
Replication, statistics and controls
All experiments should have adequate replication and, where relevant, should have been repeated for confirmation. Data should be subjected to appropriate statistical analysis. All experiments must include adequate controls for comparison with the treatments.
Preparation of Manuscripts
Authors are requested to examine a recent copy of Plant Pathology and to follow the style of the published papers as closely as possible, saving alterations at later stages. Authors are requested to send a computer-disk version, with four hard copies of their original submission of each paper, to the Senior Editor:
Dr Richard Shattock
School of Biological Sciences
University of Wales
Bangor
Gwynedd LL57 2UW
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1284 382 540
Fax: +44 (0)1284 388 198
e-mail: r.c.shattock@bangor.ac.uk
Instructions for manuscript preparation for New Disease Reports follow those for Plant Pathology, with the exception that the former should not exceed c. 300 words (excluding the title, authors, address and a maximum of four references). Papers accepted for publication in New Disease Reports are first posted electronically on the BSPP Website where full instructions for publication can be found. Figures will be accepted for publication on the BSPP Website, but not within Plant Pathology. Authors without access to the internet can obtain written instructions on request from the Senior Editor, New Disease Reports:
Dr Rick Mumford
Central Science Laboratory
Sand Hutton
York YO41 1LZ
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1904 462140
Fax: +44 (0)1904 462111
e-mail: ndr@bspp.org.uk
Text
The text should be typed on one side only of A4 paper (297 ?210 mm, or the nearest local equivalent), double-spaced (not 1.5), with wide margins (at least 25 mm) and the sheets numbered consecutively. British English and spelling should be used, following that in the Oxford Concise Dictionary, 9th Edition (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995) and the Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991).
Titles, authors and addresses
This should be informative but concise. Each title should be unique and not indicated as being part of a series. It should be followed by a list of the authors, with first names as initials only (preceding the name) and with each name separated by a comma, except for the last two which are separated by 'and'. The list of names should be followed by a list of authors' addresses. The address and author for correspondence should be indicated by superscript letters and symbols where there is more than one author and address. A short title of no more than 40 characters (including spaces) should be provided at the top of the title page, in italics, with Latin names not in italics. For communication, please provide phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses, on the title page of the paper.
Summary
This should indicate concisely (normally in less than 250 words) the scope and main conclusions of the paper. The summary does not need a heading. Please provide up to six additional key words.
Introduction
This should provide, succinctly, the current state of work in the relevant field, and the reasons for carrying out the experiments, as well as a clear statement of the objectives.
Materials and methods
Commercial equipment and products used in experiments should be given as follows: product, company, city, country.
Results
These should be presented in an orderly fashion, making use of tables and figures where necessary. Material presented in tables should not be repeated in figures.
Discussion
The Discussion should be presented separately from the Results, and it should be noted that simple restatement of results in it does not constitute adequate discussion. The Discussion should be focused on the work presented, and its relationship with other relevant published work. It should not digress widely into general discussion of a research area, or into excessive speculation.
References
In the text, references should be cited by author and date (Harvard system). An ampersand (&) should be used between names of joint authors and et al. for references with more than two authors, even when they first appear, e.g. (Jones et al., 1970). In the text, lists of such references should be placed in chronological sequence. References should be listed at the end of the paper in full and set out in the styles shown below. Personal communications cited in the text should be given as follows: initials, name, brief address, personal communication. Only papers accepted for publication or published may be cited (not those only submitted).
Units and Quantities
SI units are preferred. Others should be related to SI units at the first mention. Numbers preceding units should be written as numerals; those preceding other items up to nine should be spelt out; e.g. 8 cm, 2 days, nine fields, 10 leaves. Units should preferably be explicit, e.g. 1 g/L or 1 g L? rather than 0.1% w/v. Whereas grams per litre can be indicated as g L?, spores per litre is written as spores per L.
Latin binomials
Except in taxonomy papers, Latin binomial names are given without authorities.
Tables
Each table should be self-explanatory and typed on a separate sheet with an appropriate caption. Tables should be referred to in the text with arabic numerals as, e.g. Table 1, etc. In the Results section, do not state 'Table 1 shows the results of a given test' ?describe the results of the test and then indicate which table shows them. The description should not repeat the results of the table but can draw attention to particular or general features of them. Refer to tables in the sequence in which they are presented.
Figures
These should be numbered in a separate series and referred to with arabic numerals in the text as, e.g. Figure 1, etc. Figure legends should be self-explanatory and grouped together on a separate sheet. Subdivisions within figures should be labelled with lower-case letters, e.g. a, b and c, etc. and these should also be used in the figure captions, footnotes and the text. In the full-text online edition of the journal, figure legends may be truncated in abbreviated links to the full-screen version. Therefore, the first 100 characters of any legend should inform the reader of key aspects of the figure.
Photographs should be unmounted and have good contrast. Magnification should be shown by a scale or bar. Four prints of each photograph are requested, of the desired final size. Three prints only should be labelled, or the labelling indicated on an overlay. The figure number and the author's name should be pencilled lightly on the reverse of all photos, with the top edge identified. Where several photographs are to be mounted together on the printed page, a sketch or photocopy of the layout should be provided.
Graphs and other line figures may be provided as drawings in black indelible ink and be no more than twice the required publication size. Four copies, one unlabelled, should be provided.
Alternatively, good-quality computer-generated figures may be sent. If used, please send digital versions of your figures. These should be supplied in EPS or TIF format. Each complete figure should be placed in a separate file. Avoid using tints if possible; if shading is essential to the understanding of the figure, try to make it coarse. Always enclose hard copies of digitally supplied figures.
Detailed information on our digital illustration standards can be obtained at: http://www.blackwell-science.com/elecmed/digilla.htm.
Normally, no original submitted should be larger than A4 (297 ?210 mm). Remember that all lines and symbols used should be thick/large enough to take a reduction of 50% (final lettering size should be approximately 2 mm). Acceptable symbols for graphs are: http://www.blackwell-science.com/httpimg/ifasym.gif (?and ?will not be accepted). Include symbol keys within the body of the illustration rather than in the legend.
Colour
Coloured illustrations are welcome but should only be used when details cannot be adequately observed on black and white photographs. Authors must contribute to the cost of coloured illustrations, currently (2003) about ?25 (+ VAT at 17.5%) per full page or part of a page. Authors must signify their willingness to pay the standard charge by completing the Colour Work Agreement form and returning this to the Senior Editor. Following publication the author will be requested to pay and an invoice sent by Blackwell Publishing.
Reference List
All journal titles should be written out in full. Examples are given below.
Journals
Standard journal article
Jones CS, 1980. A forecasting system for leaf blight of tomato. Phytopathologische Zeitschrift 49, 460?9.
No author given
Anonymous, 1947. The measurement of potato blight. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 31, 140?.
Journal supplement
Grylls NE, Waterford CJ, 1976. Transmission of the causal agent of chloris striate mosaic disease by insect injection and membrane feeding. Australian Plant Pathological Society Newsletter 5 (Suppl. 1), 89.
On-line journal
Gibbs MJ, Ziegler A, Robinson DJ, Waterhouse PM, Cooper JI, 1996. Carrot mottle mimc virus (CMoMV): a second umbravirus associated with carrot motley dwarf disease recognized by nucleic acid hybridization. Molecular Plant Pathology On-line [http://www.bspp.org.uk/mppol] 1996/1111gibbs.
Books and other monographs
Personal author(s)
Sutton BC, 1980. The Coelomycetes. Kew, UK: Commonwealth Mycological Institute.
Editor, compiler, chairman as author
Palti J, Kranz J, eds, 1980. Comparative Epidemiology. A Tool for Better Disease Management. Wageningen, the Netherlands: Centre for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation.
Chapter in a book
Jones CS, Smith N, Brown RS, 1979. Biology of diseases caused by Botrytis spp. In: Smith N, Brown RS, eds. Diseases of Vegetables. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 40?9.
Published proceedings paper
McIntosh RA, 1992. Catalogues of gene symbols for wheat. In: Miller TE, Koebner RM, eds. Proceedings of the Seventh International Wheat Genetics Symposium, 1987. Cambridge, UK: IPSR, 1225?23.
Monograph in a series
Allen PJ, 1976. Control of spore germination and infection structure formation in the fungi. In: Heitefuss R, Williams PH, eds. Physiological Plant Pathology. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 51?8. (Pirson A, Zimmerman MH, eds. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology New Series; vol. 4.)
Agency publication
Harvey JM, Pentzer WT, 1960. Market Diseases of Grapes and Other Small Fruits. Washington, USA: United States Department of Agriculture: USDA publication no. 189. (Agriculture Handbook Series.)
Dissertation or thesis
Lenn?JM, 1978. Studies of the Biology and Taxonomy of Colletotrichum Species. Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne, PhD thesis.
Copyright
Authors will be required to assign copyright in their paper to Blackwell Publishing and the British Society for Plant Pathology. Copyright assignment is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned. (Papers subject to government or crown copyright are exempt from this requirement.) To assist authors the editorial office will supply an appropriate copyright assignment form. Alternatively authors may like to download a copy of the form from the journal website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/PPA_CAF.pdf.
A File Description Form must be completed for all electronic submission of manuscripts.
Editorial Board
Editor:
Richard Shattock
School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382 540
Fax: +44 (0) 1248 388 198
e-mail: r.c.shattock@bangor.ac.uk
Senior Editor for New Disease Reports:
Rick Mumford
Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 462140
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 462111
e-mail: ndr@bspp.org.uk
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