期刊名称：JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
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About the journal
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Journal of Bryology
Aims
Journal of Bryology exists to promote the scientific study of bryophytes (mosses, peat-mosses, liverworts and hornworts) and to foster understanding of the wider aspects of bryology, such as the role of bryophytes in human affairs, and the lives of notable bryologists.
Scope and Content
Journal of Bryology is an international botanical periodical published quarterly and in a new larger A4 format by Maney Publishing on behalf of the British Bryological Society.
Journal of Bryology publishes original research papers in cell biology, anatomy, development, genetics, physiology, chemistry, ecology, palaeobotany, evolution, taxonomy, applied biology, conservation, biomonitoring aspects and biogeography of bryophytes, and also significant new check-lists and descriptive floras of poorly known regions. Papers containing information on other organisms are acceptable providing that they also incorporate significant new data on bryophytes. Shorter contributions are published as Bryological Notes whereas extremely long papers (exceeding 20 printed pages) may be published as Bryological Monographs. New records of bryophyte species from regions other than the British Isles may appear in an edited and numbered column, New National and Regional Bryophyte Records, which carries the names of all contributors as authors.
Detailed studies of the biology of single bryophyte species from any part of the world are welcomed for inclusion in the Bryophyte Profiles series. All original research articles are subject to full peer review before acceptance and the names of the referees used are published at intervals. Invited obituaries of eminent bryologists are published under the direction of the BBS Honorary Membership Committee.
The journal aims to assess all new bryological books in its Book Reviews section and all newly appearing bryological articles and works are listed quarterly in Recent Bryological Literature.
The Journal regularly publishes new plant names, which are highlighted under the 'taxonomic conditions and changes' Reading. Copies are sent to Missouri Botanical Gardens for indexing.
Individual members of the Society receive the Journal as part of their membership. For further details of the Society please contact: Mr M. A. Walton, Ivy House, Wheelock Street, Middlewich, Cheshire CW10 9AB, UK.
Indexing and Abstracting Services
Services which cover Journal of Bryology include BIOBASE (Current Awareness in Biological Sciences), Biochemistry and Biophysics Citation Index, Biological Abstracts, Current Contents, Ecology Abstracts, Research Alert and Science Citation Index.
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Instructions to Authors
To avoid unnecessary delays prospective contributors should study these notes carefully before they prepare their manuscripts. Submitted manuscripts which depart significantly from the required format will be returned immediately for amendment. For details of style please study papers in recent issues of the Journal.
Text
Three copies of the manuscript, including figures and tables, should be submitted to the Editorial Office, Journal of Bryology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, U.K. The text should be double-spaced on one side of the paper and with a margin of at least 2.5 cm on all sides. The title should be fully informative. Subheadings should be organized as follows: PRIMARY, use capitals and centre; Secondary, use lower case italics except for the first letter, and left-justify; Tertiary, use bold type and a full stop and commence text on same line after two spaces. Figures and photographs must be referred to in the text as 'Fig. 1', etc., and tables as 'Table 1', etc. Dates should be in the form 1 June 1992 with the month written in full. Generic and specific names, formally recognized plant associations and other words which are to be printed in italics (such as ca, in litt., leg., c.fr., et al.), may be typed in italics if the italic type face is clearly distinct from the normal type face, otherwise text which is to appear in italics must be underlined. In abbreviations other than those for S.I. units use a full stop if the word is truncated (e.g. Prof., Fig.) but not if it is a contraction (e.g. Dr, Figs) The authors for scientific names of bryophytes and other organisms should be included at their first mention in the main text except for species studied by cited authors. Abbreviations for authors should follow the recommendations in R. K. Brummitt & C. E. Powell, 1992, Authors of Plant Names, published by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Where the number of species is large (e.g. as in a flora or check-list) an appropriate nomenclatural work should be cited and adhered to wherever possible. Taxonomic novelties should be given once in bold type in the formal treatment.
When it is necessary to name the herbarium in which a specimen is to be found the abbreviations should be those of P. K. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren & L. C. Barnett (eds), 1990, Index Herbariorum edn 8, published for the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, New York Botanical Garden, New York. It is highly recommended that authors reporting chromosome counts, chemical analyses, DNA sequences and SEM photomicrographs etc. deposit voucher specimens in a reputable herbarium for future reference.
S.I. units and their normal abbreviations and conventions should be employed (see L. D. Incoll, S. P. Long and M. R. Ashmore, 1977, Current Advances in Plant Science, 3, 331-343, for details). For example, energy contents (calorific values), radiation fluxes over bryophytes (radiant flux density) and photosynthetic light measurements (photon flux density) would be described using kJ g-1, W m-2 and ?/SPAN>mol PAR m-2 s-1, respectively.
For papers likely to exceed two printed pages, the title page should include a running heading of not more than 50 characters. Also, a Summary describing the aims, methods, results and conclusions, and a list of up to six Keywords (or short phrases), should precede the Introduction. The Summary should be informative, intelligible without reference to the main text, and no more than 5% of its length. Papers which do not exceed around two printed pages will be published as Bryological Notes. They should not include a Summary or Keywords and would normally lack subheadings. Very long papers will only be considered as Bryological Monographs (see below). Authors should indicate the approximate position for each figure and table by a pencil comment in the text margin.
An edited column, New national and regional records, exists to publicize small numbers of new country records of bryophyte taxa from countries other than Britain and Ireland. The entries will appear under the authorship of the column editor together with the names of all contributors. For each record the following information should be submitted to the column editor: name of taxon; name of locality with UTM grid reference or latitude and longitude; brief details of habitat and ecology; name of collector and date of collection; name of referee (voucher specimens from Europe and the wider Mediterranean region may be submitted); herbarium in which the voucher specimen is deposited; a brief paragraph (up to 250 words) may also be added to document other points of interest and to refer to the relevant literature (full citations must be supplied in the normal style for the Journal). Send entries in duplicate to: T. L. Blockeel, 9 Ashfurlong Close, Dore, Sheffield S17 3NN, U.K.
Upon acceptance for publication, authors will be requested to supply the final version of their manuscript on computer disk, preferably as a Microsoft WORD or a WORDPERFECT file. Disks should not be submitted with the initial manuscript copies.
Authors should supply email addresses with their final versions since, wherever possible, proofs will be emailed to authors in PDF format.
References
All references should be listed at the end of the article, arranged alphabetically according to authors' names, except in floras and in some taxonomic accounts where it may be preferable to place the list elsewhere. For formal taxonomic citations employ abbreviated journal names and do not use italic or bold type. For normal citations use the following style, which is one agreed among several U.K. botanical journals:
Gagnon ZE, Karnosky DF. 1992.
Physiological response of three species of Sphagnum to ozone exposure. Journal of Bryology 17: 81-91.
Smith AJE. 1978.
The moss flora of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rudolph H, Kirchoff M, Gliesmann S. 1988.
Sphagnum culture techniques. In: Glime JM, ed. Methods in bryology. Nichinan: Hattori Botanical Laboratory, 25-34.
Glime JM, ed. 1988.
Methods in bryology. Nichinan: Hattori Botanical Laboratory.
For separate monographs in numbered series use the book form. Text citations should be as follows: Smith (1978), Gagnon & Karnosky (1992), or (Smith, 1978; Gagnon & Karnosky, 1992). Where there are three authors, refer to all three at the first mention (Rudolph, Kirchoff & Gliesmann, 1988) and in abbreviated form (Rudolph et al., 1988) in subsequent citations. Always use the abbreviated form where there are four or more authors.
Make sure that all works cited in the text appear in the list of references, and that all the items in the reference list are referred to somewhere in the paper.
Figures and Tables
Figures must be clearly drawn using black ink on good quality paper or tracing paper. Neatly executed computer graphics of laser printer quality are equally acceptable. Photographs should be numbered in sequence with text figures. They should be black-and-white, glossy prints with good detail and moderate, but not excessive, contrast. A scale should be drawn where appropriate. Trim portions of electron micrographs with distracting information about machine settings, and place any relevant data in the legend or text. Colour photographs can only be reproduced if the full cost is met by the author. Drawings, graphs and photographs should not be more than twice the required size for publication except by special arrangement with the Editor. Figures are normally sized to fit in a single column or across the full width of the text. Originals which require reduction should be drawn with correspondingly thicker lines. Whenever possible use thick lines (e.g. 0.5 mm for a 50% reduction), as thin lines are more expensive to reproduce. Authors must apply their own symbols, numbers and lettering to figures, including photographs, and should pay special attention to point size, especially where a computer graphics package is used. For manual production use Letraset 10 pt (2.4 mm) Univers 45 (IL2734) or an equivalent for same-size reproduction, or, Letraset 20 pt (4.9 mm) Univers 45 (IL2731) or an equivalent for 50% reduction. Accuracy is essential as changes to figures are costly.
The author's name and the number of the figure should be written on the back of each figure. The figure legends must be typed on a separate sheet and not written on the figures. The legends should be composed with care and understandable to someone who has not read the text (e.g. include full names of species, give the locality, the type of experimental treatment etc.)
Number tables separately from figures and submit each on a separate sheet with its legend. Study the format used for tables in recent issues of the journal. Do not use vertical lines. Table legends are printed in italics. Follow the guide-lines for figure legends. Digital images should be supplied as separate files, linked, rather tham embedded; photographs should be sent as TIFF and line drawings as EPS files; a hard copy should be included as well.
Proofs
Where email addresses have been supplied, authors will receive PDF files of their papers shortly before publication; where email addresses are not available, page proofs will be posted to authors. Please read the proofs carefully and pay particular attention to numerical data, tables, and to lists of names, to punctuation, and to seeing that abbreviations, capital letters, italics, and other special forms of type have been used correctly and consistently. Alterations other than the correction of printer's errors are permissible only at the discretion of the editors. If the number of alterations is excessive authors will be charged for them.
Where papers are submitted in the joint names of two or more authors, one of them should make himself responsible for all communications with the Editor. Proofs should be returned to the Editor within 7 working days, by airmail if overseas.
Offprints
Authors of original papers, including Bryological Notes and Obituaries, will receive 50 free offprints. Offprints of Book Reviews can be provided only if the author pays the cost of production. Offprints of original papers additional to the first 50 will be supplied at standard rates, but they must be ordered from Maney Publishing when contributors return their proofs to the Editor.
Bryophyte Profiles
Each article will be a detailed study of the biology of a single bryophyte species from any part of the world. Papers should be organized under the following headings: Recognition, Distribution, Life Cycle, Ecology, Physiology, Applied Biology. Illustrations of the major life cycle phases should be included and each paper should contain substantive new information as well as review existing knowledge. Prospective authors are advised to contact the Editor (address above) for further details and to register their interest.
Bryological Monographs
Very long papers (longer than 16 printed pages) can only be considered for publication if the author contributes to the cost of publication. Such papers will be published in the Bryological Monographs series. These papers are accepted subject to the normal refereeing system. Normally the first 16 printed pages will be published free of charge. The remainder are charged to the author at a rate of approximately ?5.00 per printed page. Authors of papers that are likely to be of especial interest to British and Irish readers (e.g. county floras, check-lists, phytogeographical works) should apply, in advance of submission, to the BBS Council for the additional funding. Authors of other types of papers will be required to find the funds themselves.
Editorial Board
Editor
- J. W. Bates Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK
Associate Editors
- R. P. Beckett University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- T. H. Blackstock Countryside for Wales, Bangor, UK
- T. L. Blockeel Sheffield, UK
- J. G. Duckett Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
- J. Enroth University of Helsinki, Finland
- S. R. Gradstein University of Göttingen, Germany
- L. Hedenäs Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
- J. A. Lee University of Sheffield, UK
- D. G. Long Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK
- R. E. Longton University of Reading, UK
- R. D. Seppelt Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Australia
- A. J. Shaw Duke University, Durham, USA
- R. H. Økland University of Oslo, Norway
Editorial Assistants
- Anja Steenkiste Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, UK
Book Reviews Editor
- F. J. Rumsey Natural History Museum, London, UK
Proof Editors
- H. W. Matcham Chichester, UK
- P. E. Stanley Cambridge, UK
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