Guide for Authors
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Style and Formatting
Language: Papers should be written in English. Either British or American style is accepted but should be consistent through the whole manuscript.
Units: The SI units should be used.
Typescript: Electronic manuscripts should be prepared in double-spaced format with a font size of 12 points.
Title and Author: Title of paper should be concise, informative and in capital letters. Author(s) and affiliation(s) should appear below the title.
Abstract and Keywords: Abstract should not exceed 250 words; Keywords should not exceed 4 words.
Headings: Headings for sections should be centered and numbered with Roman numerals. Headings for subsections should start from the left-hand margin and numbered with Arabic numerals.
Equations and Mathematical Formulas: All equations and mathematical formulas should be typewritten. Equations should be numbered serially on the right-hand side by Arabic numerals in parentheses.
Length: The manuscript should not exceed 8,000 words (10 printed pages in the Journal), including title, authors and affiliations, abstract, text, figures, tables, and references.
Figures and Tables: All figures and tables should be numbered and have descriptive captions.
References: We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.
EndNote reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp
Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp.
References should not be numerical and bring according to the American Psychological Association (APA) style, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. The numbers of references should not preferably exceed 40 for original articles, 15 for brief, and 5-10 for case reports. For the references credited to more than 6 authors please provide the name of the first six authors and represent the remaining authors by the phrase “et al.”
In the text, give references in the following forms: 'Stork (1988) said', 'Stork (1988: 331)' where it is desired to refer to a specific page, and '(Rapport, 1983)' where giving reference simply as authority for a statement. Note that names of joint authors are connected by '&' in the text. When papers are by more than two authors, use et al. after first author: Ghahreman et al. (2006) or (Ghahreman et al., 2006).
The list of references must include all publications cited in the text but only these. Prior to submission, make certain that all references in the text agree with those in the references section, and that spelling is consistent throughout. In the list of references, titles of periodicals must be given in full, not abbreviated. For books, give the title, place of publication, name of publisher (if after 1930), and indication of edition if not the first. References should conform as exactly as possible to one of these four styles, according to the type of publication cited
Journal papers:
Yosefzadeh H, Hosseinzadeh Colagar A, Tabari M, Sattarian A, Assadi M. 2012. Utility of ITS region sequence and structure for molecular identification of Tilia species from Hyrcanian forests, Iran. Plant Syst Evol 298: 947-961.
Books:
Gould SJ. 1989. Wonderful life: the Burgess Shale and the nature of history. New York: W.W. Norton.
A chapter in the book
Dow MM, Cheverud JM, Rhoads J, Friedlaender J. 1987b. Statistical comparison of biological and cultural/history variation. In: Friedlaender J, Howells WW, Rhoads J, eds. Solomon Islands project: health, human biology, and cultural change. New York: Oxford University Press, 265-281.
Thesis:
Example from printed thesis:
Badbar M. 2012. Genetic diversity investigation of the Populus alba and Populus caspica in the western Hyrcanian forests, north IRAN by trnL-F molecular marker. Unpublished MSc thesis, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.
Example from electronic thesis:
Ignatov I. 2013. Eastward voyages and the late medieval European worldview. MSc thesis, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9187
Internet pages:
Maddison WP, Maddison DR. 2006. Mesquite: a modular system for evolutionary analysis, Version 1.12. Available at: http://mesquiteproject.org
Other citations such as papers “in press” may appear on the list but not papers “submitted”, “in review” or “in preparation”. A personal communication may be cited in the text but not in the reference list. Please give the initials and surnames for all authors of personal communications and unpublished data.
Give foreign language references in ordinary English alphabetic form (but copy accents in French, German, Spanish, etc.), if necessary transliterating in accordance with a recognized scheme.
Figures:
All illustrations (line drawings and photographs, maps and histograms etc) are classified as figures. Figures should be cited in consecutive order in the text.
Figures should be sized to fit within the column (80 mm), intermediate (120 mm) or the full text width (169 mm). If supplied electronically, graphics must be supplied as high resolution (at least 300 d.p.i.) files, saved as .eps or .tif. A high-resolution print-out must also be provided. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement. Figures should be comprehensible without reference to the main text. Figures should be prepared exclusively with black-and-white or grey-scale settings unless they are meant to be printed in color. NOTE that different colors may produce the same shade of grey when printed in black-and-white. For preferred figure sizes please see pages of our journal. Figures, drawings and photographs must always be referred to as "Fig.", followed by a number. Refer to figures parenthetically; e.g. '... (Fig. 1)'. 'Fig. 1 shows ...' type statements should always be avoided when referring to figures presenting results. Use the same font in all figures and within a figure. Arial is recommended. Freehand lettering is unacceptable. Explain all graphic symbols (e.g. squares, triangles and so on) within the figure, not in the caption. A legend should be placed under the figure not next to it. Relate the size of letters, the thickness of lines (preferably uniform for all figure items), and the size of other parts of a figure, to the size of the figure itself. All figures should be referred to in the text in the proper numerical order (e.g., the first reference to Fig. 2 cannot precede the first reference to Fig. 1). There is an extra charge for printing of illustrations in color.