Phytoneuron*
<www.Phytoneuron.net>
Editorial and publication information
Phytoneuron enables quick and no-cost publication of reports
primarily on taxonomy, floristics, and geographic distribution of vascular
plants. At present, the scope of the
journal is mostly limited to studies of plants of North America (including
Mexico), Central America, and the West Indies.
Geographic exceptions will be made when exigency is required for
publication of nomenclature. Also welcome are related articles, such as reviews
and commentaries on botanical issues.
The editor of Phytoneuron
is Guy Nesom. Submissions will be
reviewed for content and style by the editor, based
on his own knowledge and expertise. If deemed appropriate or necessary by the editor,
review by other botanical peers will be sought.
An indication of the Phytoneuron review
process (if beyond the Editor) will appear in the Acknowledgements. Authors are encouraged to seek
reviewers before submitting a manuscript and include appropriate
acknowledgement.
In
view of how quickly papers are published, authors must use extra care in
checking for errors, omissions, completeness of information, etc. The editor strongly recommends that once a
manuscript appears to be in final form, authors set it aside for several weeks,
then reread before submitting it. Before
a manuscript is posted, authors always will have the opportunity to review
modifications and formatting by the editor, but the posted form is final. Manuscripts will appear online upon review,
editing, and acceptance and will remain there permanently, organized by year
and order of appearance.
A maximum of 4 manuscripts per author (or per combination
of authors) per year will be accepted.
In
addition to access through the Phytoneuron website, articles are available through
Botanicus (www.botanicus.org/) and
mirrored through the Biodiversity
Heritage Library. Updates will be at least twice a year.
All issues hosted by BHL also are duplicated on the Internet Archive (http://archive.org/index.php). Very many thanks to Doug Holland at the
Missouri Botanical Garden Library for arranging these significant archival
elements.
Manuscripts are posted in PDF
format. Publication in Phytoneuron
complies with the PDF/A archival standard (ISO 19005-1:2005), –– enabling
long-term archiving of electronic documents, ensuring that
they can be reproduced exactly the same way in the future. PDF/A documents are 100% self-contained, with
all of the information necessary for displaying the document embedded in the
file. Information from external sources
such as font programs and hyperlinks is not permitted. See full information in Wikipedia
("PDF/A") and Digital Preservation ("Sustainability of Digital
Formats"; http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/). Copyrights of Phytoneuron articles belong to the
author.
Because of the efficiency
of major search engines, especially Google, it often is possible to search for
and find a Phytoneuron article within a single day after posting.
Libraries are
encouraged to make permanent copies from the PDF files, enabling the existence
of a full “shelf copy” for a tiny fraction of a typical subscription
price. For libraries interested in
archiving the files as paper copies or digitally, contact the editor for ease
of transfer.
Format
requirements
Submissions should be
in MS Word (or comparable) and format
should generally follow the papers posted.
Manuscripts should be single spaced throughout and in 11 point font;
margins top and bottom 1 inch, left 1 inch, right 1.25 inches. Double space between paragraphs. Two character spaces between sentences. No character space between author's
initials. Please check other format features
in published manuscripts, particularly for formal typification paragraphs and
for "collections cited." Illustrations
may be imbedded in the submitted manuscript but also should be sent as separate
jpeg files. Do not use section
breaks. When submitting a manuscript,
please indicate that you have read through and followed the Checklist for
submitted manuscripts by
including the following phrase: 'I have read and
followed the 'Checklist for submitted manuscripts.'
Citation
examples
Nesom,
G.L. [2 spaces] 2010. [2 spaces] Pyracantha
(Rosaceae) naturalized in Texas and the southeastern United States. [2 spaces] Phytoneuron 2010-2: 1–6.
Singhurst, J.R. and W.C.
Holmes. 2010. Carissa
macrocarpa (Apocynaceae
): New to the Texas flora. Phytoneuron 2010-19:
1–3.
Panda, S. and J.L. Reveal. 2012. A
step-two lectotypification and epitypification of Pentapterygium sikkimense
W.W. Sm. (Ericaceae) with an amplified description. Phytoneuron 2012-8: 1–7.
Please use the guide found in Format examples and commonly
used references for Phytoneuron for
format of many references potentially used in Literature Cited. If your manuscript includes a reference among
the 'format examples,' please use that format.
As of 1 January
2012, valid publication of new taxa no longer requires that a Latin diagnosis
or description be included in the protologue.
For more details see Knapp et al. (2011; Phytoneuron 2011-64). Also as of 1 Jan 2012, publication is
effective through posting in electronic-only journals that have an ISSN
number. Phytoneuron is such a journal. New typifications also are validated through
electronic posting. Dates of electronic
publication in Phytoneuron are clearly indicated for each article.
A
description or diagnosis, which may be in English or in Latin, still is
required for validation of new taxa. A
diagnosis is preferable to a description, and for Phytoneuron the preferred format
for a diagnosis is this: "Similar to [taxon] in [these features] but
different from it in [these features].
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* The name Phytoneuron
alludes to the digital/electronic Internet as the primary path of this
botanical publication. Plants, of
course, don’t have neurons, but research in plant neurobiology points to the
involvement of vascular tissue “in conveying electrical impulses generated in
zones of special sensitivity to receptive locations throughout the plant in
response to mild stress” (Barlow 2008; Baluška & Mancuso 2009).
Baluška1, F. and S.
Mancuso. 2009. Plant neurobiology: From
stimulus perception to adaptive behavior of plants, via integrated chemical and
electrical signaling. Plant Signaling & Behavior 4: 475–476. [PDF]