期刊名称：FLORA
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
FLORA is the oldest scientific botanical journal, with an uninterrupted publication sequence since 1818. Papers will be considered for publication dealing with plant structure (morphology and anatomy), plant distribution (chorology) and plant functional ecology (ecophysiology, population ecology, ecosystem ecology). Papers of mostly taxonomic nature or focussed on floristics and vegetation science will only be considered if they exceed the pure descriptive approach and have relevance interpreting plant morphology or ecology. Papers whose content is restricted to purely systematic and nomenclature matters, to geobotanical aspects of only local interest, and experimental studies dealing exclusively with investigations at the cellular and subcellular level will not be accepted.
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Instructions to Authors
- FLORA publishes regular articles and reviews, the latter solicitated by the editors. Only contributions will be accepted which have not been published previously.
Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate to the Editor-in-chief: Prof. Dr. Rainer Lösch, Abt. Geobotanik, Universitätsstr. 1/ 26.13, D-40225 D¨¹sseldorf, Germany, e-mail: loesch@uni-duesseldorf.de.
In cases with difficult postage connections, manuscript submission may occur also in form of an e-mail attachment.
An electronic file of the text (by preference in "Word" under "Windows") should be delivered after manuscript acceptance; it is not needed to add it earlier. Correspondence between authors and editor occurs by preference via e-mail.
- Copyright. Submission of a manuscript implies that the submitted work has not been published before (except as part of a thesis or lecture note or report, or in the form of an abstract ); that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors as well as by the authorities at the institute where the work has been carried out; that written permission of copyright holders was obtained by the authors for material used from other copyrighted sources; that, if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors hand over the transferable copyrights of the accepted manuscript to the publisher; and that the manuscript or parts thereof will thus not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright holder. Copyrights include, without spatial or timely limitation, the mechanical, electronic and visual reproduction and distribution; electronic storage and retrieval; and all other forms of electronic publication or any other types of publication including all subsidiary rights.
- The manuscript will be reviewed by two referees, at least one of them being a Flora Editorial Board member. Decision about acceptance of a manuscript is based upon these reviews.
- Manuscripts should be written in English or German; publication in English is recommended. Publication in French or Spanish is possible in exceptional cases by appointment of the editor-in-chief. Authors not using their mother tongue are strongly advised to have the text reviewed by a native speaker before submission. Manuscripts should be submitted in final form and prepared in accordance with the journal's accepted practice, form and content. Manuscripts should be checked carefully to exclude the need for corrections in proof. They should be typed double-spaced throughout, on one side of the paper only and with wide margins.
- The first page (title page) should contain the full title of the paper, the full name(s) and surname(s) of the author(s), name of laboratory where the study was carried out, and the address (incl. e-mail) of the author(s).
- Each manuscript must be preceded by an English title and an English summary which presents briefly the major results and conclusions of the paper. In case of not-English-written papers this summary must be more extensive as normal and may be as long as maximally 1½ printed pages. Immediately following the summary, up to six English key words should be supplied indicating the scope of the paper. Legends of figures and tables must be given also in English in the case of non-English papers.
- Papers should be written as concise as possible; as a rule, the total length of an article must not exceed 10 printed pages; exceptions are possible only upon explicite consent of the editors.
The main portion of the paper should preferably be divided into four sections: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, and Discussion, followed by Acknowledgements (if necessary) and References. Each section and sub-section must bear a heading.
- Text marking: Names of AUTHORS should be written in small capitals. Scientific names up to the genus are to be written in italics or underlined with a wavy line (Viola alba subsp. alba); plant community names are not to be printed in italics (Seslerietum, but Sesleria-slope). The SI-System of units must be used wherever possible.
- The beginning of a paragraph should be indented. The sections "Materials and methods", "Summary", "References", captions for illustrations and tables will be printed in small print (petit).
This must be marked by a vertical line in the left margin of the manuscript or indicated by using the 9 pts. type size instead of the normal 12pts. size.
- Each table should be typed on a separate sheet of paper resp. on a separate page of a file. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, e.g. "Table 1, Table 2", etc., and attached to the end of the text. Tables should be supplied with headings, kept as simple as possible.
- Figures (including photographic prints, line drawings and maps) should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, e.g. "Fig. 1, Fig. 2", etc. and attached to the text after the tables. Legends for figures should be listed consecutively on a separate page.
Plan all figures to suit a column width of 8.3 cm or a page width of 17.1 cm. Figures, in particular photographs, may be combined to a maximum plate size of 17.1 cm x 22.7 cm.
Figure number, desired reduction scale and author's name should be written in pencil on the back of the respective figure.
Submit illustration files separately from text files. Files for full color images must be in a CMYK color space. All illustration files should be in TIFF or EPS formats. Journal quality reproduction will require greyscale and color files at resolutions yielding approximately 300 dpi. Bitmapped line art should be submitted at resolutions yielding 600-1200 dpi.
- Photographs should be black-and-white, high-contrast, sharp glossy prints of the original negative and in a square or rectangular format. Color photographs may be printed if unconditionally needed, provided that the additional costs are covered by the author.
Magnification of microphotographs should be indicated by a scale bar. Inscriptions, marks, and scale bars should preferably be drawn neatly in black ink in an appropriate size on the face of the illustrations. When several pictures are used to produce a single plate, please ensure that they fit each other in size, are of equal contrast, and that they correspond to the caption in number and description.
- Line drawings (incl. maps) should be large enough in all their details to permit a suitable reduction. Important points to note are thickness of lines, size of inscriptions, size of symbols, adequate spacing of shaded and dotted areas. Line drawings must be submitted as black drawings on white paper. If computer-plotted they must have laser-print quality. If traditionally drawn the originals must be prepared with Indian ink according to the established methods of technical drawing.
- Figures and tables should always be mentioned in the text. The author should mark in the margin of the manuscript where figures and tables are to be inserted.
- When quoting references in the text, the following format should be used: MEYER (1999) resp. (MEYER 1999), MEYER & SMITH (1995) resp. (MEYER & SMITH 1995) or MEYER et al. (1990) resp. (MEYER et al. 1990). Several papers by the same author(s) published in the same year should be differentiated in the text, and in the list of references, by a, b, c following the year of publication. The symbol "&" is to be used between the names of two authors, "et al." should be used in the text in the case of more than two authors. Quotations of references from different authors within one pair of brackets must be separated by semicolons, commata are to be put between the years of publication of papers of the same author: (MEYER 1992, 1999; MEYER & SMITH 1995; JONES et al. 1998 a, b).
References should be listed alphabetically. Listings of several works by the same author should be grouped in chronological order. Then, papers of this author each with another one will follow according to the alphabetical order of the second author names, papers with three and more authors ("et al." in the text) will then be arranged again in the chronological order. The style to be used is shown in the following examples:
a. Papers published in periodicals:
AKHALKATSI, M. & WAGNER, J. (1996): Reproductive phenology and seed development of Gentianella caucasea in different habitats in the Central Caucasus. - Flora 191:161-168.
ZOTZ, G.; PATIÑO, S. & TYREE, M.T. (1997): CO2 gas exchange and the occurrence of CAM in tropical woody hemiepiphytes. - Flora 192: 143-150.
b. Books:
TAKHTAJAN, A. (1959): Die Evolution der Angiospermen. - G. Fischer, Jena.
c. Papers published in multiauthor books:
MATHES, U. & FEIGE, G. B. (1983): Ecophysiology of lichen symbiosis. In: LANGE, O. L.; NOBEL, P. S.; OSMOND, C. B. & ZIEGLER, H. (eds.): Physiological plant ecology. II. Responses to the chemical and biological environment. Encyclopedia of plant physiology. New Series, vol. 12C, 423-467. - Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York.
The titles of books and papers in periodicals should always be quoted completely and exactly. Titles of periodicals should be abbreviated according to the usual rules listed e.g. in the World List of Scientific Periodicals or in Biological Abstracts. The number of the volume should be given in Arabic numerals, in boldface or underlined.
- When papers are cited which were originally published in languages which use alphabets other than Latin (e.g. Russian Cyrillic etc.), then the author, title of the paper and the periodical name itself must be transliterated using standards like ISO 1 or ISO 2 (cf. Taxon 30: 168-183).
- FLORA is produced directly in page set. Consequently the author only receives the final page proofs for checking and approval. Extended corrections are not more possible at this stage.
- Publication of an article of normal size and without color photographs in FLORA is free of charge to the author(s). In exchange, the Copyright of the article is transferred to the publisher. However, the author(s) will be free to use single figures or tables of the article in subsequent own work. 30 reprints of each paper will be supplied free of charge. Additional reprints can be purchased. The order must be placed when the proofs are received and should be sent directly to the publisher.
Editorial Board
Prof. i. R. Dr. Rainer Lösch, Nebensteingasse 1, D-63739 Aschaffenburg, Germany, Tel. +49/6021/583 6012, Fax +49/6021/584 8237, e-mail: Loesch.Rainer@t-online.de
Eckehart J. Jäger, Institut für Geobotanik und Botanischer Garten, Neuwerk 21, D-06108 Halle (Saale), Germany
Otto L. Lange, Julius-von-Sachs-Institut für Biowissenschaften der Universität, Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 3, D-97082 Würzburg, Germany
Editorial Board
Karl-Georg Bernhardt, Wien, Austria
Reinhard Bornkamm, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Bresinsky, Regensburg, Germany
Helge Bruelheide, Halle (Saale), Germany
Burkhard Büdel, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Ulrich Deil, Freiburg i. Br., Germany
B. Erschbamer, Innbruck, Austria
Johann Greilhuber, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Heilmeier, Freiberg, Germany
Michael Hesse, Wien, Austria
N. Hölzel, Münster, Germany
Maria Soledad Jimenez, La Laguna, Spain
Joachim W. Kadereit, Mainz, Germany
Yashitaka Kakubari, Shizuoka, Japan
Gerhard Lang, Bern, Switzerland
Peter Leins, Heidelberg, Germany
Ernst-Gerhard Mahn, Halle, Germany
Yiannis Manetas, Patras, Greece
Irving Mendelssohn, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
A.T. Oliveira-Filho, Belo Horizonte, MG, Bazil
Ettore Pacini, Siena, Italy
G. K. Psaras, Patras, Greece
Marlies Sazima, Campinas, Brasil
Denis Wm. Stevenson, New York, NY, USA
Thomas Stützel, Bochum, Germany
Frank Thomas, Trier, Germany
Blaise Touzard, Talence, France
Stefan Vogel, Wien, Austria
Gerhard Wagenitz, Göttingen, Germany
Anton Weber, Wien, Austria
Karsten Wesche, Görlitz, Germany
Fei-Hai Yu, Beijing, China
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