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Recent issues of The Bryologist (including abstracts) can be found online at www.bioone.org. Click on "Browse," select "Current Issues," and then scroll down to The Bryologist. Members since 2007 may select to have full-text on-line access as well as a mailbox copy. Complete information on electronic access to the journal is described in detail here.
The Bryologist is published quarterly by the American Bryological and Lichenological Society. Annual dues for membership in the Society are US $20 ($10 for students; $25 for families). The cost for individuals to receive The Bryologist is an additional $45. Members with non-USA addresses must pay an additional fee for mailing costs. Please visit the subscriptions page for a complete listing of subscription rates.
Go to the membership services page for membership information and a printable form; please send payment with this application from to avoid the need for invoicing.
PLEASE NOTE: You must be a member of ABLS to publish the results of your research in The Bryologist.
Instructions to Authors
A copy of these instructions can be downloaded here.
The Bryologist is an international journal devoted to all aspects of bryology and lichenology, and we welcome reviews, research papers and short communications from all members of ABLS. Submissions must be original, clearly and precisely presented, and submitted online at The BryologistPeerTrack site at http://www.editorialmanager.com/bryologist/
Regional inventories, floristic notes andsimple range extensions will not be accepted for review by The Bryologist. The Editorial Board recommends that such articles be sent to Evansia for consideration (the editor of Evansia can be contacted at mpneditor_evansia@umanitoba.ca.
Editor contact information is available at ABLS.org and at PeerTrack/bryologist. Email contact for the journal is: bryologist@peertrack.net
Submission policies
and procedures
EITHER THE CORRESPONDING AUTHOR OR AT LEAST ONE OF THE CO-AUTHORS MUST BE A MEMBER OF ABLS. This information will be requested during the submission process and will be checked by the editorial staff.
Corresponding authors must register to use the PeerTrack system. Once registered, authors will be asked to provide information about the co-authors and the article. They will then upload the article, including tables, figures and supplemental information, all of which must be in electronic form.
General manuscript
format
TITLE PAGE
The title should be in
Roman bold font
and centered at the top of the first page. It should be concise but
informative. Except for homonyms, author
names should
not be in thetitle. If the title contains a generic name, then the
family of
that genus should be given inparentheses, immediately following the
name.
However, do not include higher taxonomiccategories, such as Bryophyta,
Marchantiophyta, Ascomycetes, etc.
Author(s)
names should be listed below the title,
written in full and formatted in the newstyle adopted for The
Bryologist
starting with volume 113 (2010): author(s) namesshould be in Roman font
(not
bold and not in capitals), in consecutive order and centered.
Addresses should
follow as a single paragraph below the author name line, in
theconsecutive
order of authors, in italics, and centered. Superscripts should link
authorsto
their address(es). Each address should be preceded by one (or more)
superscript(s) asneeded in case of multiple authors with multiple
affiliations.
Current addresses shouldfollow the first address and not be given in a
footnote. Superscripts should follow authornames and precede address.
Lastly,
identify corresponding author by name and includehis/her e-mail address.
Abstract must be in
English; if an abstract in Spanish is included, an English versionmust
follow.
The abstract should clearly state the hypothesis being addressed,
mentionthe methodology
that is followed, and summarize the main results and the conclusions
drawnfrom
them. Except for Latin names, the entire abstract is in Roman type.
Keywords should
immediately follow the abstract, and include taxonomic categories,field
of
research (lichen systematics, bryophyte evolution, etc.), geographic
focus,
(Asia, Macaronesia, etc.) asjudged appropriate for insuring recovery of
the
publication in specific literature searches.
FIGURES
Size. Design figures with the size in the publication in mind. Phylogenetictrees should include italicized names when possible, unless it jeopardizes clarity. When multiple trees are presented, retain the same font among figures. When composing aplate with multiple figures, keep edges flush: the margins of the plate should becontinuous. The individual figures should be fitted together into composite blocks and arranged with all interior edges flush with one another. Do not combinephotographs and line drawings in the same block. The engraver at Allen Press will addfine white lines to separate the components of such blocks.
Scale bars
must be applied directly onto the illustrations
to indicate magnification.
Numbering
figures. Figures are numbered
(1, 2, 3,…) sequentially as they are
mentioned throughout the article. Figuresassembled into plates, should
be
numbered Fig. 1A, 1B,…. Letters, numbers, or arrowsmay be used
to indicate
features of special interest within figures.
All
figures must be prepared as
electronic versions and sent as
individual
files in TIF, PDF, or
JPG formats.
The original submission may be made at a lower
dpi, but the acceptedversion of line drawings should be at 1200 dpi for
line
art (including cladograms) andgrayscale figures at least 350 dpi. Color
graphics should be at 300 dpi and in CMYKmode (RGB mode is NOT
accepted). Figures
should always be presented at size ofpublication or larger (one column
width or
two column width). Figures submitted in PowerPoint format are not
accepted.
ABLS is
currently offering free color for authors on the
online version of The
Bryologist.
The printed version will have black and white images (unless the author has paid forcolor), but if an author uploads a separate set of color images and contacts the editor, these will be partof the online version of The Bryologist. Authors should only do this if color enhances thevalue of the images. This option costs the Society $75/plate but ABLS will cover thisif it can be justified.
TABLES should be in a
tabbed format (this includes word processing tables). In otherwords, to
get
from cell to cell, the tab should be used, not repeated use of the
space bar.The
“Table layout” in Word is acceptable. Tables should be free
of the internal
grid. They should be uploaded in separate files, numbered sequentially
as they
occur in the manuscript. Table legends should explain thecontent of the
table
fully, and should be placed above the table. All explanatory
materialmust be in
the legend, and not placed in footnotes.
SCIENTIFIC
NAMES
The first time a scientific name is mentioned in a taxonomic/systematic article (notincluding the abstract), it should include an author citation. Subsequent use of the name(except possibly in tables) should not re-cite the author. Authority names should NOT beincluded in ecological, physiological, and other non-systematic articles. However, it maybe appropriate to cite a reference indicating what nomenclature is being followed.Authors should be abbreviated following Brummitt and Powell’s Authors of Plant Names(Brummit, R. K. & C. E. Powell (eds). 1992. Authors of Plant Names. Royal BotanicGardens, Kew). This information is available online at http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.
Citation of
specimens must be very concise. Instead of long
detailed lists of specimens, briefly state representative specimens or
distribution maps, or both. Geographic names are arranged in strict
order of
decreasing political magnitude; collectors are cited by family name
only. Cite
only a single specimen per smallest political or geographical unit.
Habitat data
are summarized in the text and are not included in lists of specimens.
The date
of collection is given only if a collection number is lacking.
Herbarium
designations are those of Index Herbariorum. For studies relying on
large number
of specimens, and if these are databased include a reference of the
database.
U.S.A. texas:
Brewster Co., Smith 22793 (mo, ny).
Authors of
manuscripts based upon author-collected
specimens must have legally collected the specimens. Evidence of
collections
made without proper authorization or where the collector has violated
conditions
upon which the permission was given will result in manuscripts being
rejected
prior to review. The editor reserves the right to request proof of
authorization.
GENE SEQUENCES AND CHARACTER MATRICES
All sequences
used in analyses must be identified by a
GenBank accession number.Newly generated DNA sequences must also be
linked to
specimen voucher and the herbarium where the voucher is deposited.
Matrices of
characters used for phylogenetic inference must be deposited at
TreeBASE (http://www.treebase.org), and the accession number must be provided
before
acceptance of the manuscript.
Description
of new taxa and proposals of new names of
lichenized and lichenicolous fungi at all ranks must be accompanied by
the
MycoBank registration number, obtained when registering the name at http://www.mycobank.org/.
Registration of a new name should be done only after a manuscript has
been
accepted for publication.
In the text,
citations must be presented in a strict
alphabetic order, with each reference separated by semi-colons, and
each
different reference by the same author separated by a comma, e.g.,
(Allen 1980;
Rowe 1970, 1979; Sawyer et al. 1999a,b; Wyatt 1910).
Authors are
listed alphabetically by family name, then
chronologically. The author(s) lastnames should be in Roman font with
any
further references by the same author(s)denoted by a long dash. Leave a
space
between the author(s) initials. For example:
Adams, C. D. 1990. Title of
article. Name of Journal 103: 1–10.
Adams, W. L. 1920. Title of
article. Name of Journal 13: 33–77.
Adams, C. D. & F. R.
Baker. 1982. Title of chapter. Pages 000–000. In: J. D.
Baker (ed.),Title of Book. Publisher, Place of Publication.
All authors will be asked by the Editor to approve manuscripts before they are sent to the printer. Proofs are sent directly to the corresponding author as an e-mail attachment, and these must be corrected immediately and returned electronically to the Editor. If the proofs are not returned promptly, the Editor will make corrections. Resetting due to corrections other than printer's error is chargeable to the author.
ONLINE PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED ARTICLES AT BIOONE
Issues
in progress: Beginning with Volume 115(2), all accepted articles in The Bryologist will be
published online
in their final version of record at BioOne
as soon as they are ready, without waiting for the issue contents to be
complete. This means that the latest articles are added continuously,
each one
final, paginated and showing a date of publication. All ABLS members
can obtain
online BioOne
access to The Bryologist
from the
Secretary-Treasurer.
James
Lawrey
Irene Bisang
(bryophyte ecology/reproductive
ecology)
The New York Botanical Garden
Bronz, New York U.S.A.
Bruce McCune
(lichen ecology
and systematics)
Eimy Rivas-Plata
(lichen
systematics)
Blanka Shaw
(bryophyte
ecology and systematics)
Alain
Vanderpoorten
(bryophyte systematics)
Liege B4000
Southern
Scott LaGreca
(lichenology)
Last modified 15 May 2012