Blumea

Biodiversity, evolution and biogeography of plants

Blumea is an international journal on the biodiversity, evolution and biogeography of plants (systematics, floristics, phylogeny, morphology, anatomy). For floristic studies, the focus is pantropical. The language is English.

Publications

Online available:
Volume 55
Volume 55-1 2010
Volume 55-2 2010
Volume 55-3 2010

Volume 54
Blumea 54 1-3 Proceedings of the 7th Flora Malesiana Symposium


Volume 48-3 (2003) to 53 at IngentaConnect


Older volumes:
Content overviews of older volumes (from 1996, vol. 41) will soon be available online.

Editors

Editor-in-chiefs:
P. Hovenkamp

Book review editor:
M. C. Roos

Associate editors:
F. Adema
P.J.M. Maas
L.J.G. van der Maesen
M.S.M. Sosef
J.J. Vermeulen

Desk editor:
Ms. C.G.G. Baak

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Editorial board
P. Baas
L.W. Chatrou
D.F. Cutler
S. Dessein
K. Kartawinata
R. Kiew
P.P. Lowry II
D.J. Mabberley
G.T. Prance
L.G. Saw
P.F. Stevens
D.W. Stevenson
T. Stützel
C. Taylor

Submission of manuscripts

Electronic manuscripts

Submission of electronic manuscripts is encouraged.

For reviewing purposes, manuscripts in PDF-format are acceptable, in that case, use double spacing, at least 1-inch margins all round, and format for A4 (not Letter).

For the final submission of the manuscript, use either MS-Word (use Office 2003-format), or RTF for text. Illustrations should be submitted as separate files (JPEG, TIFF, AI or EPS), and not be embedded in Word or Powerpoint, except for (annotated) cladograms, for which Powerpoint is acceptable. Size of the image should be equal to or larger than the intended size in print, using 1200 DPI for line-art, 300 dpi for grayscale or colour (CMYK). Preferably use an uncompressed format (TIFF or PSD is preferred), use TIFF-LZW compression only for line-art, and compression for JPG only in highest quality.

If you combine separate files into a single file, TAR or ZIP-format is accepable.

Please consult us before using any other file types.

Printed manuscripts

Typed manuscripts are considered when they strictly follow the following format:

Apply double spacing throughout the manuscript
Use margins of at least 1 inch (2.5 cm) all round
Print one-sided only

Illustrations should be either black-and-white photographs printed on glossy paper or text figures executed in India ink (preferably not on transparent or tracing paper), or photographic reproductions thereof.

Copyrights

Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that on acceptance of the manuscript, they will be asked to transfer the copyrights in the article, including the right to reproduce the article in all forms and media, to the Publishers of Blumea. Authors retain the right to exchange prints or electronic copies with colleagues and to use the work for educational purposes.

Address
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CD or printed manuscripts:

Editor, Blumea
PO Box 9514
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands

Subscriptions

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Instructions for the preparation of manuscripts

Structure of the manuscript

Language
Use British English throughout, with spelling following the Cobuild English Dictionary (HarperCollins Publishers, London). Summaries in other languages using the Latin alphabet may be included.
Title
Start with a concise and informative English title, followed by the name(s) and address(es) of the author(s). In taxonomic papers the family name should be included in the title. Avoid citing authors of plant names in headings.
Summary
Each paper should be provided with a summary not exceeding 250 words. Do not include references, author citations or descriptions.
Keywords
Provide, on a separate line, up to 7 key words.

Formatting
Keys
For keys the bracketed type is compulsory. The choice between alternatives should be set out as clearly as possible, and information that does not contribute to a choice should be omitted as much as possible.

Citations in text  should be as follows (please note the absence of commas between author and year!):
• One author: Lam (1932) or (Lam 1932) or Lam (1932: 288).
• Two authors: Smith & Gomez (1990) or (Smith & Gomez 1990).
• Three or more authors: Smith et al. (1990) or (Smith et al. 1990). But give all author names in the References.
• Multiple references when within parentheses (Liu 1977, Smith 1989, 1990).
• Do not use “l.c.” to refer to a full citation given earlier, but repeat the full citation.

Citations in synonymy blocks should include author and year only, as follows:
• Hemarhtria longiflora (Hook.f.) A.Camus (1922) 380
• Rottboelia longiflora Hook.f. (1869) 154
The full citation, including titles of papers, book titles, journal names, etc., must be added to ‘References’ in the format that is used in that section.
Please note that exceptionally, the reference to a basionym for a new combination should include a “full and direct reference” (ISBN art. 33.4) as follows:

Friesodielsia ovalifolia (Ridl.) I.M.Turner, comb. nov.—Melodorum ovalifolium Ridl., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1912: 387.

For both authors and journals Blumea follows the standard abbreviations used by IPNI (www.ipni.org). These are also available in R.K. Brummitt & C.E. Powell (eds.) ‘Authors of Plant Names’ (APN), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and in ‘Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum’ (BPH). But note that the use of abbreviations in the References sections is strongly discouraged!

Electronic sources
References to sources that are available only electronically should provide a doi-specification, or else the full URL (incl. the specification http:// or otherwise), as well as the date on which last accessed.
For in-text citations, use the following format:
• For online-only publications, e.g. in PLOS-journals, and other resources that are clearly attributable to one or more authors, cite author(s) and year (as above). Provide the full reference in the List of references (see below).
• For other resources, such as download locations, that are not clearly attributable to one or more authors, give the full URL and the date on which accessed in the text (not in a footnote), e.g.:
“Collection localities were georeferenced with the aid of the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer (http://middleware.alexandria.ucsb.edu/client/gaz/adl/index.jsp, last accessed 22 November 2008).”
In the list of references, include only the references to the first type of publications.

Species names
On subsequent use, genus names may be abbreviated (R. longiflora) except when they are the first word of a sentence. 

Specimens
Citation of collections in full (including locality data, dates, etc.) is only permitted for type specimens and for the (preferably few) specimens of new taxa. Other specimens should be included in an Identification List.

The order of the parts of specimen citations (type specimens, specimens of new taxa) should be:
collector,  number (herbaria), locality (country, province, etc.), date.
Note the use of italics for collector and number.

The use of conventional signs like “!” to indicate specimens seen is undesirable - please cite only specimens seen, and use “not seen”, “not found”  etc. when it is necessary to refer to a specimen that you have not seen.

If only an on-line picture has been seen, the citation should be followed by the complete URL and the date on which last accessed:
“Bory de St. Vincent s.n. (L), Mauritius, 1844 (http://145.18.162.53:81/c8?ent=300017&rec=43165&sct=1, last accessed 9 October 2003)”

Voucher specimens
Whenever applicable (in anatomical, molecular studies etc.), voucher specimens should be clearly indicated, with the herbarium in which they are deposited.

List of references
Blumea strives to adhere to the Appropriate Citation of Taxonomy (Seifert et al. 2008, Persoonia 20: 105). This implies that the list of references should contain:

• All references cited in the text and in the synonymy of the species.
• Wherever possible references for all DNA sequences used, even if these were downloaded from GenBank.
• As much as reasonably possible, the original publications for all binomials used in the text, in particular when the binomials are recent. When large numbers of taxa are cited, e.g. for descriptions of vegetation, this requirement may be superseded by the next one.
• Publications, revisionary or floristic, that form the basis of the taxonomy adopted even if only species names are used that derive their meaning from that publication. Thus, the use of a particular identification tool used in identifying material is to be considered sufficient reason to cite that tool. In the case of long-established species or long lists of species, the citation of a recent revision of this type may replace the citations for the original binomials.

Please follow this guideline as much as possible. It is intended to increase the visibility of taxonomic literature to the various citation indexing services.

On-line sources cited should include the doi specification or if that is unavailable, the full URL and date on which last accessed.

Thus, citations in the ‘References’ should be as follows:

Books, e.g.:
• Hillis WE. 1987. Heartwood and tree exudates. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
Chapter in a book, e.g.:
• Esau K. 1964. Structure and development of the bark in dicotyledons. In: Zimmermann MH (ed.), The formation of wood in forest trees:  37—50. Academic Press, New York.
Journals, e.g.:
• Bailey IW, Nast CG. 1945. Morphology and relationships of Trochodendron and Tetracentron, 1. Stem, root, and leaf. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 26: 143—154.
On-line publications:
• Hull D, Pettifer SR, Kell DB. 2008. Defrosting the digital Library: Bibliographic tools for the next generation web. PLoS Computational Biology 4(10): e1000204 doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204. Last accessed 22 April 2008.

When publications have a very limited distribution (as may be the case with internal reports) we recommend that whenever possible, an on-line source is cited in addition to the normal reference. In the case of normal printed publications, a reference to an additional on-line source is not necessary. 

Format
• Always write out the name(s) of author(s) in full, i.e., do not replace author names with a long dash, when the author(s) is (are) the same as in the immediate preceding citation(s).
• Initials follow an authors name for all authors, not only first ones.
• No space or periods between the initial(s) of an author’s name.
• Leave one space between the volume number with colon and page numbers in a journal article.
• Cite all journals with their full title. In on-line publications, this allows the titles to be cross-linked.

For journals no longer current, this requirement may exceptionally be dropped. Thus “Journal of the Arnold Arboretum” is to be used instead of “J. Arn. Arb.” but “Nov.Actorum Acad.Caes.Leop.-Carol Nat.Cur.” need not be cited in full.
• Use double hyphens between page numbers, e.g., Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 10: 72—81.
• Do not use italics or bold in the references.
• Use European-style capitalization, that is, capitalize only first letters of proper names, distinct geographic units and genus names.

Sorting
References and specimens lists should be sorted following international standards. Please note that (Dutch or otherwise) names with prefixes (Van, De, Van de, Mc, Mac, O’ etc.) should be sorted on the first letter of the prefix: Van Steenis will appear under V; De Vogel under D, etc.

Figures and tables
Captions of all illustrations must be given on a separate page in the manuscript, figures and tables themselves in a separate file. Citations in the text should be in numerical order as far as possible. Captions of illustrations should include a full citation of the specimen used in preparing the illustration (collector + number, herbarium)
Index
At the end of large papers an index of scientific names should be given, preferably referring to the taxon numbers.

Always check the latest issues of Blumea for guidance. Make your descriptions with headings etc. conform to Blumea standards!

Preparing the text

Fonts and lay-out
• Scientific names should be in italics. All other font attributes will be applied by the editors. If you wish, you may highlight a word by using italics or bold.
• Please indicate fonts using font attributes only. Keep away from the CAPS LOCK-key: do not type uppercase except for initials.
• Place major headings on a separate line.
• Do not indent using spaces. Indentation, where necessary, will be applied by the editors.
• Separate tabulated items with single tabs.
Keys
• Separate couplets with a blank line.
• Number the leads within a couplet without a or b.
• Do not space items by typing blanks or dots, but by a single tab-character.
• Example:

[empty line]
7.[tab]Rhizome creeping with internodes 10-15 cm long[tab]Species a
7.[tab]Rhizome erect or creeping with internodes up to 3 cm long[tab]8
[empty line]

Other formatting will be applied in the preparation of the manuscript for printing.

Measurements
• Use metric units throughout the descriptions – m, cm, mm
• For fractions of numbers the decimal system is preferred.
• Use a double hyphen for ranges of quantitative values, e.g., 4—10 mm, (5—)7—9 cm, without spaces.
• Indicate length and width clearly when used in isolation (3 mm long), or combine using “by” (3 by 4 mm), not “×”.

Preparing illustrations
• Illustrations may be grayscale or colour illustrations with a resolution of at least 300 DPI, or line illustrations with a resolution of 1200 DPI. Please use a size that is at least equal to the printed size.
• If you want to combine photographs (or drawings) into plates, include the separate photographs with a clear indication how they should be combined. Maximum page dimensions for a plate are 170 by 240 mm.
• Magnifications should be indicated by a scale bar in the image.
Costs of colour photographs
Blumea will print colour photographs, but the author may be required to pay for the additional printing costs. Please inquire.

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