期刊名称：COPEIA ISSN： 0045-8511 版本： SCI-CDE 出版频率： Quarterly 出版社： AMER SOC ICHTHYOLOGISTS & HERPETOLOGISTS, MAUREEN DONNELLY, SECRETARY FLORIDA INT UNIV BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 11200 SW 8TH STREET, MIAMI, USA, FL, 33199   出版社网址： http://www.asih.org 期刊网址： http://www.asih.org/CopeiaLinks 影响因子： 1.160 主题范畴： ZOOLOGY 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    About the journal Membership/SubscriptionRates Library and Institution Rate (Domestic and Foreign): $100 Individual Rates Life Member: $1500 (single payment) Sustaining Member: $75 Regular and Foreign Members: $60 Student Member: $30 Associate (2nd member in family; no journal): $10 MEMBERSHIP CORRESPONDS TO THE CALENDAR YEAR. CHECKS SHOULD BE DRAWN ON A UNITED STATES BANK OR A UNITED STATES BRANCH OF A FOREIGN BANK. CHECKS SHOULD BE MADE PAYABLE TO "ASIH COPEIA". YOUR CHECK IS YOUR RECEIPT. Membership Application Contact: ASIH Business Office Sabrina Mowry P.O. Box 1897 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-8897 U.S.A. Phone 1-800-627-0629 x221 or (785) 843-1234 FAX (785) 843-1274 smowry@allenpress.com Instructions to Authors Copeia is a broadly based scientific journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) that publishes results of original research performed by societal members in which fish, amphibians, or reptiles are used as study organisms. The journal does not publish range extensions, listings of species inhabiting geographic areas, teratological notes, or unsolicited review articles. Principal criteria for acceptance of articles are quality and significance of research, clarity and conciseness of expression, breadth of interest, and compliance with the style and format of the journal. Manuscripts cannot have been published or submitted elsewhere. All aspects of publishing in Copeia are electronic, including submission, review, and correspondence. Manuscripts must be submitted online via the Copeia Submitlink located on the ASIH website (www.asih.org). Format stipulations are listed as “Instructions for the Author?under the “Publications?link. Manuscripts will be rejected without review if not properly formatted. The Editorial Office will pre-screen each manuscript upon submittal. If deemed appropriate, the manuscript will then be reviewed by a Sectional Editor and selected outside reviewers. Acceptance will be based upon the quality of the science and the appropriateness of the manuscript for the journal. Each manuscript must stand on its own merits and be a substantial contribution to the field. Four Categories are available for manuscript submission:     Major articles are full-length reports usually greater than 15 but not more than 50 manuscript pages (the latter only at discretion of the Editor).     Shorter Contributions are more limited in scope and usually occupy 15 or fewer manuscript pages. Manuscripts may be moved from one category to the other at the discretion of the Editor.     Comments are most often critiques of data and/or interpretations published in Copeia (or elsewhere). These can be either extemporaneous or solicited.     Announcements are in subjects of interest to Copeia readers. These are edited and must be received four months before issue date. MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS The format of a submitted manuscript must be strictly adhered to, or it will be returned to authors without review. Each submission receives a Copeia Checklist associated with the online article files that details format problems that require correction prior to acceptance. Manuscripts will be rejected if these problems remain uncorrected in subsequent revisions. All pages must be numbered, all aspects left justified and double-spaced throughout, and all lines numbered continuously (i.e., number sequence not restarted each page; in MS Word line numbering is selected under “Page Setup? “Layout?menus). Page setup must use US-Letter page length of 28 cm, 2.5 cm (1 in) margins on all sides of each page, font size may be no smaller than 11-point. Do not use two spaces after periods, colons, or anywhere else in the manuscript. All measurements must be in SI units, and abbreviations (except for common ones pertaining to measurement, time, or statistical test) must be defined at first use. Footnotes (other than in tables) are not permitted. Generic and specific names (and nothing else except secondary headings, genetic loci, and some statistical abbreviations) are italicized, and taxonomic authorship should appear only when nomenclatural problems are involved. Recognized common names of organisms must be capitalized. Institutional abbreviations used in text and in Material Examined must follow ASIH standard code designations as listed on the ASIH website under “Standard Institutional Codes?or as published in Leviton et al., Copeia 1985:802--832 (Authors using such abbreviations are encouraged to insert the following sentence in their Materials and Methods section: “Institutional abbreviations are as listed at http://www.asih.org/codons.pdf?. All submissions must be in English and consist of letter of submission, article file, tables, and figures. Article files are arranged in the following order, each of these sections begin on a new page: cover page, abstract, body of text (including acknowledgments at end), literature cited, author address(es), appendices (if any), figure captions. Tables and figures must be submitted as separate, independent files and not included as part of the article file. COVER PAGE is mandatory as the first page of the article file and must contain title of manuscript, names and affiliations of authors, contact information for corresponding author, running head (35 characters max.), manuscript type, and six key words not found in the title. New taxonomic names may not appear in the title. ABSTRACT is required of all submissions and must present a concise summary of the main facts, ideas, and conclusions of the paper and not simply list the topics discussed or preface the Introduction. The abstract is untitled in the text and a non-English translation of the English version is permitted. Literature citations in the abstract are not permitted. BODY OF TEXT may employ named sections at only two levels (i.e., primary and secondary), and cannot be lettered or numbered. Primary sections are centered, formatted in ‘small cap?font, use title capitalization, and include Introduction (untitled in text), Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, Literature Cited, and figure legends. If appropriate, Material Examined follows Discussion, and appendices follow Literature Cited. Secondary sections are italicized, start at the left margin, conclude with a period and an em-dash (or triple hyphen), and are followed immediately by text. Papers that include taxonomic accounts, such as taxonomic reviews and new species descriptions, may substitute the following standard presentation for the Results section: (1) taxonomic name, common name(s), table and figure appearances of new name (these centered and on separate lines), (2) holotype, paratype(s), non-type material, (3) diagnosis (a true differential diagnosis that specifies the features that serve to differentiate the new taxon from all others at rank, along with the taxa that share the alternative state(s) is preferred), (4) description, (5) supplementary notes, such as coloration, ecology, distribution, comparisons, etc. as appropriate, (6) etymology. Items 2--6 are formatted as secondary-level sections. Listing of specimen material must follow standard style and order of presentation; see a recent issue for examples. Acknowledgments identify individuals by first initial and full surname and do not list professional titles. Institutional affiliation may be provided where acknowledging institutional (rather than personal) support. It is Copeia policy that neither ASIH editors nor identified reviewers, in the conduct of their duties, be acknowledged for improvement of manuscripts. Collecting permits, Institutional Animal Care protocols, accession numbers for molecular data and voucher specimens (if not listed elsewhere) must be cited in Acknowledgments. Literature Cited is double-spaced and formatted identically for all manuscripts. New format requirements go into effect for 2007: names of authors are typed in ‘small cap?font; sequential entries by the same author(s) are provided in full (i.e., not “lined?; journal titles are provided in full and are not abbreviated. Manuscripts submitted or in preparation, abstracts, in-house or intra-agency reports, computer program manuals, and any writings not readily obtainable through normal library channels cannot be placed in Literature Cited (but may be quoted in text as "unpubl."). Citations in text must agree with Literature Cited. Full address(es) of author(s) follow Literature Cited and must conform to standard Copeia style (see recent issue). TABLES (numbered in Arabic) must each appear with a short heading on a separate sheet and be double-spaced, centered, with no dotted or vertical lines. The first sentence of the heading must be in ‘small cap?font. Tables must be cited chronologically, and location of each table should be indicated in the right margin of text as “T1,?“T2,?etc. Tab-delimited text format is preferred over “draw table?feature in MS Word; do not submit tables in spreadsheet form. Images may not appear in tables. FIGURES must be submitted as separate files, not embedded in text files or as a composite PDF. When several drawings or photographs are grouped as a single “plate? they must be arranged as one unit on a single page, and each lettered with an uppercase block letter in the upper corner of each element. Figures must not include numbering or identification. Figure legends are listed sequentially, double-spaced, and are included in the article file following the Literature Cited. Figures are cited chronologically in the text in order of their appearance, and location of each figure should be clearly indicated in right text margin as “F1,?“F2,?etc. Only digital files can be used for publication. Figures for initial submission/review may be submitted as lower resolution PDF for faster upload; however, a PDF is 1200 dpi by default and source images converted from lower resolutions will be interpolated and may suffer pixelation and other consequences. For best results, these files should be replaced by native source files in TIFF, Jpeg, Postscript, or EPS formats. To ensure that images are reproduced at the highest quality, please follow these guidelines for the final submission of figures for accepted manuscripts: SPAN> Halftone images (e.g., color or grayscale images/photographs prepared with software such as Adobe Photoshop) should be submitted as TIFF (.tif) files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi, although 600 dpi is preferred for optimal results. If the figure contains text (beyond figure part labels), the file must be at least 400 dpi. SPAN> Bitmap images (e.g., exclusively black and white scans of graphs, drawings, or maps prepared with software such as Adobe Photoshop) should be submitted as bitmapped (1 bit) TIFF (.tif) files with a resolution of 1200 dpi. SPAN> Vector or line drawings (e.g., cladograms or files prepared with software such as Adobe Illustrator (.ai) or Corel Draw (.cdr) should be submitted as EPS (.eps) files. Since vector drawings are images that are completely described using mathematical definitions, they are not limited by a single resolution. The use of this format guarantees optimal results for all line drawings. SPAN> Graphs can be submitted as Postscript, EPS, or PDF formats. Figures will be published at either one (=67 mm) or two column (=140 mm) widths (maximum column length is 214 mm) at the discretion of the Editor. Authors are encouraged to submit figures at final publication size. Do not submit color artwork unless color reproduction is intended. Ensure that black-and-white versions prepared from color originals are saved in grayscale mode and not as RGB or CMYK files with color discarded. The cost of color reproduction is $300 per plate for ASIH members, $800 per plate for nonmembers. To ensure a high quality reproduction of your color image(s), it is required that you submit a hard copy of the color image(s) printed from an inkjet printer, color laser printer, or photograph to the Editor immediately after final acceptance of your manuscript. Most color monitors are not properly calibrated to the same color and gamma standards as employed in production. In the absence of hardcopy color print, authors will be billed for post-proof color balance modifications that are not attributable to printer error. Labels on figures should be sufficiently large (at least 2.0 mm high after reduction) to guarantee optimal results. Lettering within figures (e.g., axis titles, labels, etc.) should be in lowercase type with the first letter capitalized, without full stop, and using a sans-serif font (e.g., Arial, Helvetica). Parts of figures should be indicated by bold, upright (not italic), uppercase letters in a sans-serif font without periods or parentheses. Genus and species names must be in italics. Measures should have a single space between the number and the unit, and follow SI nomenclature or the nomenclature common to a particular field. Unusual units or abbreviations must be defined in the figure legend. Scale bars should be used rather than magnification factors, with the length of the bar defined in the legend or materials and methods section, rather than on the bar itself. EDITORIAL POLICIES The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists endorses the principle that experimental use of live animals should only be for the purpose of advancing knowledge and must conform with National Institutes of Health (NIH) animal care guidelines. If organisms are maintained in the laboratory, or if experimental procedures are performed in the field, then requisite Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) protocol numbers must be cited in Acknowledgments. Reports involving sampling or removal of organisms from natural populations must indicate, in text, the depository and catalog numbers of voucher specimens and, in Acknowledgments, the numbers of requisite permits and licenses. Analyses based on molecular sequence data must cite the relevant GenBank accession numbers in the text. Holotypes of taxa described in Copeia as new to science must be deposited in National or International Centers [designated in Poss and Collette, Copeia 1995(1)]. Secondary types of these taxa should be distributed among several museums. Authorship implies responsibility. All authors should have played a significant role in designing and performing the research and in writing the manuscript. Those whose roles were limited solely to providing materials (to include financial support), collecting data, or reviewing the manuscript, should be recognized in Acknowledgments. Honorary authorship must be avoided. 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