Rodriguésia - Revista do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Scope

Rodriguésia, issued four times a year by the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro Research Institute (Instituto de Pesquisa Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro), publishes scientific articles and short notes in all areas of Plant Biology, as well as History of Botany and activities linked to Botanic Gardens. Articles are published in Portuguese, Spanish or English.

Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts are to be submitted with 3 printed copies and CD-ROM to:

Revista Rodriguésia
Rua Pacheco Leão 915
Rio de Janeiro - RJ
CEP: 22460-030
Brazil
e-mail: rodriguesia@jbrj.gov.br

The maximum recommended length of the articles is 30 pages, but larger submissions may be published after evaluation by the Editorial Board.

The articles are considered by the Editorial Board of the periodical, and sent to 2 referees ad hoc. The authors may be asked, when deemed necessary, to modify or adapt the submission according to the suggestions of the referees and the editors.

Once the article is accepted, it will be type-set and the authors will receive proofs to review and send back in 5 working days from receipt. Following their publication, the articles will be available digitally (PDF, AdobeAcrobat) at the site of the Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de
Janeiro (http://rodriguesia.jbrj.gov.br).

Guidelines

Manuscripts must be presented in Microsoft Word software (vs 6.0 ou more recent), with Times New Roman font size 12, double spaced. Page format must be size A4, margins 2,5 cm, justified (except in the cases explained below), printed on one side only. All pages, except the title page, must be numbered in the top right corner. Capital letters to be used only for initials, according to the language.

Latin words must be in italics (incl. genera and all other categories below generic level), and the scientific names have to be complete (genus, species and author) when they first appear in the text, and afterwards the genus can be abbreviated and the authority of the name suppressed, unless for some reason it may be cause for confusion.

Names of authors to be cited according to Brummitt & Powell (1992), “Authors of Plant Names”.

First page - must include title, authors, addresses, financial support, main author and contact address and abbreviated title. The title must be short and objective, expressing the general idea of the contents of the article. It must appear in bold with capital letters where relevant.

Second page - must contain a Portuguese summary (including title in Portuguese or Spanish), Abstract (including title in English) and key-words (up to 5, in Portuguese or Spanish and in English).

Summaries and abstracts must contain up to 200 words each. The Editorail Board may translate the Abstract into a Portuguese summary if the authors are not Portuguese speakers.

Text – starting on a new page, according to the following sequence: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References. Some of these items may be omitted in articles describing new taxa or
presenting nomenclatural changes etc. In some cases, the Results and Discussion can be merged.

Titles (Introduction, Material and Methods etc.) and subtitles must be in bold type. Number figures and tables in 1-10 etc., according with the sequence these occupy within the text.

References within the text should be in the following forms:
Miller (1993), Miller & Maier (1994), Baker et al. (1996) for three or more authors or (Miller 1993), (Miller & Maier 1994), (Baker et al. 1996).

Unpublished data should appear as: (R. C. Vieira, unpublished). Conference, Symposia and Meetings abstracts should only be cited if strictly necessary.

For Taxonomic Botany articles, the examined material ought to be cited following this order: locality and date of collection, phenology (fl., fr., bud), name and number of collector (using et al. when more than two collectors were present) and acronym of the herbaria between brackets, according to Index Herbariorum. When the collector’s number is not available, the herbarium record number should be cited preceded by the Herbarium’s acronym. Names of countries and states/provinces should be cited in full, in capital letters and in alphabetic order, followed by the material studied, for instance:

BRASIL. BAHIA: Ilhéus, Reserva da CEPEC, 15.XII.1996, fl. e fr., R. C. Vieira et al. 10987 (MBM, RB, SP).

Decimal numbers should be separated by comma in articles in Portuguese and Spanish (e.g.: 10,5 m), full stop in English (e.g.: 10.5 m). Numbers should be separated by space from the unit abbreviation, except in percentages, degrees, minutes and seconds.

Metric units should be abbreviated according to the Système Internacional d´Unités (SI), and chemical symbols are allowed. Other abbreviations can be used as long as they are explained in full when they appear for the first time References - All references cited in the text must be listed within this section in alphabetic order by the surname of the first author, only the first letter of surnames in upper case, and all other authors must be cited. When there are several works by the same author, the surname is substituted by a long dash; when the same author publishes more than one work in the same year, these should be differentiated by lower case letters suffixing the year of publication. Titles of papers and journals should be in full and not abbreviated.

Examples:

Tolbert, R. J. & Johnson, M. A. 1966. A survey of the vegetative shoot apices in the family Malvaceae. American Journal of Botany 53(10): 961-970.

Engler, H. G. A. 1878. Araceae. In: Martius, C. F. P. von; Eichler, A. W. & Urban, I. Flora brasiliensis. Munchen, Wien, Leipzig, 3(2): 26-223.

______. 1930. Liliaceae. In: Engler, H. G. A. & Plantl, K. A. E. Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien. 2. Aufl. Leipzig (Wilhelm Engelmann). 15: 227-386.

Sass, J. E. 1951. Botanical microtechnique. 2ed. Iowa State College Press, Iowa, 228p.

MSc and PhD thesis should be cited only when strictly necessary, if the information is as yet unpublished in the form of scientific articles.

Tables – should be presented in black and white, in the same software cited above. In the text, tables should be cited following in the examples below:

“Only a few species present hairs (Tab. 1)...”

“Results to the phytochemical analysis are presented in Table 2...”

Figures (must not be included in the file with text) - submit originals in black and white high good quality copies for photos and illustrations, or in electronic form with high resolution in format TIF 600 dpi, or compatible with CorelDraw (vs. 10 or more recent).

Scripts submitted with low resolution or poor quality illustrations will be returned to the authors. In case of printed copies, the numbering and text of the figures should be made on an overlapping sheet of transparent paper stuck to the top edge of the plates, and not on the original drawing itself. Graphs should also be black and white, with good contrast, and in separate files on disk (format TIF 600 dpi, or compatible with CorelDraw 10). Plates should be a maximum of 15 cm wide x 22 cm long for a full page, or column size, with 7,2 cm wide and 22 cm long. The resolution for grayscale images should be 600 dpi.

In the text, figures should be cited according to the following examples:

“It is made obvious by the analysis of Figures 25 and 26....”

“Lindman (Fig. 3) outlined the following characters for the species...”

After adding modifications and corrections suggested by the two reviewers, the author should submit the final version of the manuscript electronically plus two printed copies.