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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.
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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/
Authors are not encouraged to submit manuscripts
describing
new species without underlying original (molecular, morphological,
etc.)
analyses, or thorough discussions about taxonomic
affinities, biogeographical and/or ecological significance. Papers
describing
new species should also include a key to similar species.
Papers may also be rejected without review if they are deemed to lack scientific quality. In such cases, the editor and at least one associate editor will review the submission and make a decision as to its suitability. Authors are urged to contact the Editor about suitability, unique content, or difficult problems of presentation.
Authors who wish to submit a memorial or obituary should contact the editorial office before uploading files as short articles (no abstract) in PeerTrack. All requests to publish obituaries will be discussed by the Editorial Board and reviewed before a decision is made.
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.
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 the title. If the title contains a generic name, then the
family of
that genus should be given in parentheses, immediately following the
name.
However, do not include higher taxonomic categories, such as Bryophyta,
Marchantiophyta, Ascomycetes, etc.
Addresses should
follow as a single paragraph below the author name line, in the
consecutive
order of authors, in italics, and centered. Superscripts should link
authors to
their address(es). Each address should be preceded by one (or more)
superscript(s) as needed in case of multiple authors with multiple
affiliations.
Current addresses should follow the first address and not be given in a
footnote. Superscripts should follow author names and precede address.
Lastly,
identify corresponding author by name and include his/her e-mail
address.
Abstract must be in
English; if an abstract in Spanish is included, an English version must
follow.
The abstract should clearly state the hypothesis being addressed,
mention the methodology
that is followed, and summarize the main results and the conclusions
drawn from
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, (
FIGURES
Size. Design
figures with
the size in the publication in mind. Phylogenetic trees should include
italicized names when possible, unless it jeopardizes clarity. When
multiple
trees are presented, retain the same font among figures. When composing
a plate
with multiple figures, keep edges flush: the margins of the plate
should be continuous.
The individual figures should be fitted together into composite blocks
and arranged
with all interior edges flush with one another. Do not combine
photographs and
line drawings in the same block. The engraver at Allen Press will add
fine
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. Figures assembled into plates, should
be
numbered Fig. 1A, 1B,…. Letters, numbers, or arrows may 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 accepted version of line drawings should be at 1200 dpi
for line
art (including cladograms) and grayscale figures at least 350 dpi.
Color
graphics should be at 300 dpi and in CMYK mode (RGB mode is NOT
accepted).
Figures should always be presented at size of publication or larger
(one column
width or two column width). Figures submitted in PowerPoint format are
not
accepted.
Color figures
will be printed in color if the author has
agreed in advance to pay $400 per color page (which is half of the
actual cost;
ABLS subsidizes the other half). Authors who do not agree to pay these
charges
must submit black and white images instead.
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 for color), but if an author uploads a
separate set
of color images and contacts the editor, these will be part of the
online
version of The Bryologist.
Authors
should only do this if color enhances the value of the images. This
option costs
the Society $75/plate but ABLS will cover this if it can be justified.
TABLES should be in a
tabbed format (this includes word processing tables). In other words,
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 the content of
the table
fully, and should be placed above the table. All explanatory material
must be
in the legend, and not placed in footnotes.
ABBREVIATIONS
in the
text are followed by periods except for metric measurements and compass
directions.
FOOTNOTES should be
avoided except in Tables. Such information should be incorporated into
the
text.
SCIENTIFIC
NAMES
The first
time a scientific name is mentioned in a
taxonomic/systematic article (not including 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 be included 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.
In taxonomic
citations in the text, literature should be
abbreviated following BPH and TL-II (the exception being that all words
are
capitalized) (Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum. G. H. M. Lawrence and
others, eds.
SPECIMEN CITATIONS
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 data based include a reference of
the
database.
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.
NEWLY PROPOSED FUNGAL NAMES
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.
LITERATURE CITED
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).
ASSIGNMENT OF COPYRIGHT
Please read, complete and sign the assignment of copyright form found here. Return this form at the same time you submit your article. The Assignment of Copyright does not take effect until the article is accepted for publication
EDITING AND PRINTING
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. Ifthe 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)
Linda Fuselier
(bryophyte ecology and systematics)
Antioch College
Yellow Springs,
Ohio U.S.A.
Bernard
Goffinet (moss
systematics)
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)
Northridge, California
Last modified 07 September 2012