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The Bulletin of the Botanical Society of Argentina publishes original
scientific articles in all areas of Botany (structure, development, taxonomy,
cytology, genetics, evolution, phytogeography, ecology, etc.) in basic and
applied aspects of the diverse plant organisms and fungi. Articles should not
exceed 16 printed pages, including illustrations, excepting especially invited
articles.
Manuscripts will be evaluated by two anonymous reviewers. Manuscripts receiving
"split reviews" will be sent out to a third reviewer, and the final
decision will be taken by the Editorial Board. After this process, authors will
be informed on the evaluation result.
Authors are to follow strictly the Instructions detailed hereafter, as this will
facilitate the evaluation of manuscripts submitted for publication. If
manuscripts do not agree with these instructions, they will be sent back to the
authors before being considered by the Editorial Board. In addition, the journal
itself should be the first guide for contributors.
The manuscripts have to be addressed to the Director. For revision, the
original manuscript should be sent in electronic format to our email
address (bolentisab@gmail.com).
We recommend to send a single file in which all figures in low resolution
and tables are included (a Word or PDF file is suitable). In formatting
the file, A4 pages with margins of one inch, double spaced throughout, and
12 letter size for the text.
Once the manuscript is accepted, a compact disk with should be sent to the
Director to our Post Office Box with the final files as follows: text in
Word, Tables in Excell, and Figures in TIFF or Corel Draw format with a
resolution of 600-900 dpi.
Page proof corrections should be limited to typographical errors, eluding
extensive modifications to the original. Should such changes prove unavoidable,
the additional correction costs must be borne by the author. Colour
illustrations, if applicable, and offprint costs are expected to be covered by
the author.
Presentation |Titles|Scientific names |Plant Author's names|Studied material|Bibliography|Type material|Illustrations|
Articles are accepted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Authors should
prepare their manuscripts using a word processor compatible with Word, or
documents RTF type.
Use UPPERCASE LETTERS, boldface, and italics where indicated. Leave only one
space between words and use just one "Enter" at the end of each
paragraph.
It is advisable to preserve the following sequence of chapters: Summary, Resumen,
Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions,
Acknowledgements, Bibliography. Such chapters will not be numbered, and although
the scheme can be varied depending on the subject, they must always keep the same
order.
The Summary and Resumen must have a maximum of 200 words each and must include a
synthesis of the conclusions. If the paper is written in Spanish or Portuguese,
the Summary should also contain the title; the same should be done in the Resumen
for an English-written article. Up to seven Key words and "Palabras
clave" should be included respectively.
The Introduction must include the purpose of the paper and the background
information on the subject.
Material and Methods should refer to the material studied, the techniques
applied, the nomenclature used, the colour tables employed, the herbarium
abbreviations, the preparation of the figures, etc.
Results should only incorporate original data, obtained through the research
work. When including keys, they must be dichotomic and progressively indented.
The Discussion should contain a comparative analysis between what was already
known and what the author observed.
The Conclusions will summarise the contribution made by the author(s). Depending
on the case, Discussion and Conclusions might be combined.
Tables should be drawn in units fitting the journal page size.
The title of the article should be concise and informative. Authors are asked
to suggest an abbreviated title for the page heading. The title must be written
in boldface and capital letters; if the specific or generic name of a taxa is
included, the superior taxonomic category to which it belongs must be added
between brackets (except for Trachaeophytes, the Division must always appear),
excluding plant author's names. If a very specific geographical region is
mentioned in the article, the name of the country where is located and, if
applicable, the appropriate political subdivision should be added between
brackets.
The name(s) of the author(s) should be written in capital letters, under the
title. Affiliation(s) or any other relevant personal information that the
author/s may wish to specify shall be indicated as footnotes.
The title of each chapter will also be written in capital letters and aligned to
the left. Subtitles, if any, will also be aligned to the left but in italics.
Latin names, which designate genus, species, subspecies, and varieties, will be written in italics, except for those leading the descriptions of taxa, which shall in turn be written in boldface. Names of families, orders, etc., shall be written in normal, plain font.
Plant author's names should be written with only the first letter in capital.
They shall be mentioned neither in the title nor in the figure legends. They must
be written when the taxonomic categories are mentioned for the first time in the
text, or, in any case, they should appear in the list of studied material.
For the abbreviations, the use of:
BRUMMITT, R.R. & C.E. POWELL (eds.). 1992. Authors of Plant names. Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew, is recommended.
In taxonomic articles, the following order in data reference is advisable:
country (capital letters); province (Prov.); Department (Dpto.); locality or
place; date; collector's last name and number; herbarium abbreviation (in
parentheses), following the indications from the latest edition of Index
Herbarium, as in the following example:
ARGENTINA. Prov. Tucumán: Dpto. Trancas, Tapia, 14-XI-1920, Venturi 1046 (BAA,
LIL).
If the number of specimens is high, the citing of only one specimen per location
is recommended.
In non-taxonomic articles, authors should write complete information regarding
the place, date of collection, collector and number, indicating the herbarium in
which specimens are kept.
Works that are cited in the text should be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical order under the first author's name, and in chronological order when citing several papers of the same author. When there are several authors, only the first author's last name precedes the first name and the remaining authors' names shall be written in the normal order. Names should be written in capital letters. When listing the same author more than once his/her full name must be repeated. Then, the year of publication (in the case of several papers of the same author and year, the year of publication will be followed by a, b, etc.), the paper's title, the name of the journal were it was published (abbreviated following Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum) in italics, the volume number, colon, the paging.
Some examples:
CABRERA, A. L. 1962. Compuestas andinas nuevas. Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 10: 21-45.
RICHARDS, A. J. 1997. Plant breeding systems. 2nd ed. Chapman and Hall, London.
DONOGHUE, M. J. & J. A. DOYLE. 1989. Phylogenetic analysis of angiospems and
the relationships of Hamamelidae. In: CRANE, P. R. & S. BLACKMORE (eds.),
Evolution, systematics and fossil history of the Hamamelidae, pp. 17-45.
Clarendon Press, Oxford.
In numbering the volumes, it is recommended to transform the Roman numbers
into Arabic numbers.
Bibliographic cites or references of bibliography in the text should be written
as follows: Smith & Robinson (1994), (Burkart, 1952, 1957a, b; Archangelsky
& Petriella, 1971), Poggio et al. (1993).
Bibliography accompanying the Latin names of the species or genus, shall not be
repeated in the Bibliography chapter, unless mentioned in a comment. Data should
be ordered as follows: author; name of the journal or book; volume and number;
colon; paging (just the page where such name is mentioned); year of publication.
Data shall be written right after the bibliographical cite of each taxon,
following the order as indicated in STUDIED MATERIAL (see e). Thereafter, the
category and the herbarium(s) where sample(s) is (are) kept will be indicated,
marking the samples examined by the author with an exclamation mark. For example:
Gaya eligulata Krapov., Tressens et Fernández. Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 16: 97.
1974. Tipo: Brasil. Bahía, Joazeiro, Estaçao Experimental Manda-carú,
6-IV-1967, Krapovickas 12882 (Holotypus CTES!).
If the type belongs to a very old species, it is advisable to write the complete
cite from the original diagnosis enclosed in quotation marks in order to complete
the data of the specimen.
They should match either the column width (7.2 cm) or the full page width (15
cm x 21.5 cm, including the legend). Original illustrations exceeding twice the
size of the printing area will not be accepted.
Capital letters will be used to characterize the elements of each figure.
Preferentially, they should be aligned to the right and placed below each
illustration, maintaining a horizontal order from left to right. Lowercase
letters or abbreviations will be used to indicate particular details of each
element. Figures should either have a printed scale on them or indications of the
exact augmentation in the legend.
Drawings and graphics can be done manually with Chinese ink or with a personal
computer. In the latter case, authors should submit high-resolution printouts.
White paper of an adequate thickness should be used. The use of rub-off for
letters, symbols, etc. is recommended.
Well-contrasted highly defined photographs should be printed in brilliant paper.
When framing them, leave no spaces among them. Photographs should be glued on a
white cardboard.
On the reverse side of each illustration, authors should write lightly with soft
pencil their names, the title of the paper, and the figure number. Letters and
scales from the figures should be indicated in a transparent sheet over each
illustration. All figures should be arranged in a resistant cardboard and
protected with a paper cover.
Legends must be written in a different page appended to the text.
All figures, photographs, graphs, or diagrams must be numbered consecutively
throughout the manuscript in the same order as they are cited in the text.
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