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Author Guidelines

Guidelines for manuscripts submission

Iheringia, Série Botânica, journal edited by the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, publishes three a year research articles, reviews and original scientific notes on issues related to different areas of Botany. The manuscripts should be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English, the later having priority of publication. When submitting a manuscript, authors should suggest in the field “Comments for the Editor” the name of three reviewers with their respective e-mails.

The manuscript should be formatted in Times New Roman, size 12, space 1,5, with continuous numbering lines (not exceeding forty pages including figures). The manuscript format (Title, Abstract in Portuguese and English, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and/or Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments and References) must comply with the format of the latest articles published on the Journal found on the website. Scientific notes (not exceeding six pages), should be communications of original results and do not have to necessarily present all topics of an article.

The authors’ names followed by the professional address and e-mail must only be included in the last version (not in the first one). Reference to the article as part of an academic Thesis or Dissertation should be indicated by a superscript number, below the title of the manuscript.

The Summary and Abstract, not exceeding 150 words, should contain the same information. No more than five key words in alphabetical order, separated by comma are allowed, and they should not be the same words that appear in the title. The abstract should be preceded by the title of the manuscript. When the manuscript is written in English it should have an abstract in Portuguese preceded by the title in Portuguese as well.

Taxonomic names of any category are written in italics. The generic and specific names, when cited for the first time in the text should be followed by their authors. The journals, books and authors abbreviations must be in compliance with The International Plant Names Index (http://www.ipni.org/index.html), The Taxonomic Literature (TL-2), Word List of Scientific Periodicals or Journal Title Abbreviations (http://library.caltech.edu/reference/abbreviations).

In taxonomic manuscripts, identification Keys should preferably be indented and the authors of the taxa should not be cited. In the text the taxa are to be presented in alphabetical order and cited as follows (basionym and synonym are not obligatory). 

Bouteloua megapotamica (Spreng.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 3 (3): 341. 1898. Pappophorum megapotamicum Spreng., Syst. Veg. 4: 34. 1827. Eutriana multiseta Nees, Fl. Bras. 2(1): 413. 1829. Pappophorum eutrianoides Trin. ex Nees, Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2(1): 414. 1829. Bouteloua multiseta Griseb., Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24:303. 1879.

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The material examined may be presented as a table or cited in the following sequence: country, state, city, specific place listed in alphabetical order, then date, collector’s name and number and Herbarium’s acronym or the Herbarium’s registration number when the collectors’ number does not exist, according to the following examples.

Examined material: ARGENTINA, MISIONES, Depto. Capital, Posadas, 11.I.1907, C. Spegazzini s/nº (BAB 18962). BRASIL, ACRE, Cruzeiro do Sul, 24.V.1978, S. Winkler 698 (HAS); RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Santa Maria, Reserva Biológica do Ibicuí-Mirim, 10.XII.1992, M.L. Abruzzi 2681 (HAS); Uruguaiana, 12.III.1964, J. Mattos & N. Mattos 5345 (HAS, ICN). VENEZUELA, Caracas, 15.III.1989, J. C. Lindeman 3657 (VEN).

Examined material: BRASIL, RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Mato Leitão, arroio Sampaio, estação 1, 10.V.1995, lâmina nº 4899 (HAS 34015); arroio Sampainho, estação 2, 5.VIII.1994, lâmina nº 4903 (HAS 34017).

Latin words (et al., apud, in, ex, in vivo, in loco, in vitro ...) must be written in italic and foreign words in quotation marks. References in the text should be in alphabetical and chronological order, such as the following: Crawford (1979) or (Crawford 1979); (Bawa 1990, Free 1993); Smith & Browse (1986) or Smith & Browse (1986); Round et al. (1992) or (Round et al. 1992).

The references should contain all the authors, and have to be presented without justifying with simple or double spaces between authors, year, title of the article or book, citing the Journals in full. Dissertations and Thesis citations can be included only in exceptional cases. The style to be used for references is as follows:

Book chapter

Barbosa, D.C.A., Barbosa, M.C.A. & Lima, L.C.M. 2003. Fenologia de espécies lenhosas da Caatinga. In Ecologia e conservação da Caatinga (I.R. Leal, M. Tabarelli & J.C.M. Silva, eds.). Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, p. 657-693.

Book

Barroso, G.M., Morim, M.P., Peixoto, A.L. & Ichaso, C.L.F. 1999. Frutos e Sementes. Morfologia Aplicada à Sistemática de Dicotiledôneas. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa. 443 p.

Serial Issues

Bentham, G. 1862. Leguminosae. Dalbergiae. In Flora brasiliensis (C.F.P. Martius & A.G. Eichler, eds.). F. Fleischer, Lipsiae v.15, part. 1, p. 1-349.

Congress Records papers

Döbereiner , J. 1998. Função da fixação de nitrogênio em plantas não leguminosas e sua importância no ecossistema brasileiro. In Anais do IV Simpósio de Ecossistemas Brasileiros (S. Watanabe, coord.). Anais da Academia de Ciências de São Paulo, São Paulo, p. 1-6.

Books of a Series

Förster, K. 1982. Conjugatophyceae: Zygnematales und Desmidiales (excl. Zygnemataceae). In Das Phytoplankton des Süsswassers: Systematik und Biologie (G. Huber-Pestalozzi, ed.). Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Band 16, Teil 8, Hälfte 1, p. 1-543.

Metzeltin, D., Lange-Bertalot, H. & Garcia-Rodriguez, F. 2005. Diatoms of Uruguay. In Iconographia Diatomologica. Annoted diatom micrographs. (H. Lange-Bertalot, ed.). Gantner Verlag, Ruggell v. 15, 736 p.

Electronic Reference

Guiry, M.D. & Dhonncha, E. 2004. AlgaeBase. World eletronic publication. Available at http://www.algaebase.com. Acessed on 18 February, 2005.

Journal

Nervo, M.H. & Windisch, P.G. 2010. Ocorrência de Pityrogramma trifoliata (L.) R. M. Tryon (Pteridaceae) no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Iheringia. Série Botânica 65(2):291-293.

Smith, A.B. 1996. Diatom investigation. In Proceedings of the Nth International Diatom Symposium (X.Y. Brown, ed.). Biopress, Bristol, p.1-20.

Thesis or Dissertation

Werner, V. 2002. Cyanophyceae/Cyanobacteria no sistema de lagoas e lagunas da Planície Costeira do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Tese 363 f. Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, São Paulo.

Acronyms and abbreviations when first mentioned should be preceded by their meaning in full. As for numerical data, non-integer numbers should be written to the tenth decimal point whenever possible, and abbreviated units of measurement with a space between the number and the unit (eg.25 km,3 cm, 2-2.4 mm). Numbers from one to ten must be written in full (exceptions are for character measurements and quantifications) and for numbers with more than three digits the comma must be used.

Tables and figures are numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals, and their citations in the text should be abbreviated (Tab. or Tabs.) and (Fig. or Figs.) or written out, when appropriate. The short sized tables and figures should be included in the text with their respective captions.

Figures (digital images and pictures) and large sized tables must be sent in JPEG and WORD file respectively as “Supplementary files” and their captions must be included in the text file after the References.

After the manuscript is accepted the digital images should be sent in TIF at least in 300 dpi. The illustrations layout should not exceed23 cmx17.2 cmfor a full page, or column size of 23 cm x 8.1 cm, including captions. The scale bars should be beside the illustrations and their values should be referenced in the caption. The citation of the taxa author(s) name(s) is optional. See the examples below:

Figs 1-6. 1, 2. Navicula radiosa: internal view (MEV); 2. External view (MEV); 3. Pinnularia borealis (MO); 4. P. viridis; 5. Surirella ovalis (MO); 6. S. tenuis (MET). Bars: Figs 1, 2, 6 = 5 mm; Figs 3-5 = 10 mm.

Figs 1-5. Paspalum pumilum Nees. 1. Habit; 2. Upper glume (vista dorsal); 3. First lemma (dorsal view); 4. Second anthecium (dorsal view); 5. Second anthecium (ventral view). (Canto-Dorow 24 – ICN).

Figs 1-3. Venation pattern of the leaflets. 1. Lonchocarpus muehlbergianus (J. A. Jarenkow 2386 - ICN); 2. L. nitidus (A. Schultz 529 ICN); 3. L. torrensis (N. Silveira et al. 1329 - HAS).

Figs 3A-C. Eragrostis guianensis. A. Habit; B. Spikelet; C. Lower anthecium reduced to the lemma and similar to the glumes (Coradin & Cordeiro 772 - CEN). Bars =1 mm.