UNIVERZITA PAVLA JOZEFA ŠAFÁRIKA V KOŠICIACH

Pokyny na prípravu príspevkov do edície

Guide to authors
 

Original scientific works, short communications and reviews (botanical taxonomy, phytocoenology, ecology, phytogeography, etc.) in maximum extent of 30 pages (the Editorial Board may accept longer papers) should be written in English (with exclusion of descriptions of new taxa and syntaxa) in the following layout: a) Title of paper; b) The name and surname of the author (or authors); c) Author’s contact address with phone/fax number and e-mail address if possible; d) Abstract (300 words as a maximum); e) Keywords (three to eight words); f) Text of the paper; division of the paper is proposed by the author, experimental works should be divided as follows: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion; g) Acknowledgement (if any); h) References.

Papers should be submitted to the address: thaiszia@upjs.sk (Thaiszia - Journal of Botany, Botanical Garden of UPJŠ, Mánesova 23, SK-04352 Košice, Slovakia). Submission of a paper is taken to mean that the results reported have not been published and are not being considered for publication elsewhere. Authors will be notified about the receipt of the paper. All papers are peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. If the paper is returned for revision, the authors should submit a revised version within 6 months. Accepted papers are printed usually within 12 months. Thaiszia – J. Bot. is prepared for press by means of a computer system; authors will obtain proofs with lineart figures. The senior author will receive the offprints free of charge. Number of offprints will be decided by the Editorial Board. The author has permission from the publisher to make further copies at the author’s expense.

Manuscript incl. tables and figures should be sent as a file (files) via e-mail. Use Arial (or Times New Roman) types (do not use Courier types). WORD 2000 (or WORD 97) for WINDOWS (files *.doc or *.rtf ; and *.tif, *.jpg for figures) files of the final version are most welcome.

Tables should be prepared separately, table heading should be written above the table, designated by abbreviation Tab. (e.g. Tab. 1). Tables should be used only when essential, and arranged with regard to the dimension of the printed page. Tables should not include vertical lines.

Figures must be high quality camera-ready or pen-and-ink drawings. All figures should be accompanied by a descriptive phrase typed on a separate sheet. All figure captions may be given on the same sheet. The size of figures submitted should not exceed 205 x 290 mm. Drawings and photographs should be accompanied by a scale bar. Colour photographs are published only when author shares the cost. The figure number and the author’s name should be written on the back of all figures in soft pencil.

Literature references. In the text references are given by the name of the author and the year of publication (in brackets). Author’s name has to be written in SMALL CAPITAL letters or double underlined in manuscript. In the list of references only the cited works are mentioned. Authors’ names are listed in alphabetical order. The following format is to be used: ROBSON N. K. B. (1977): Studies in the Genus Hypericum L. I. Infrageneric classification. – Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. 5: 291-355. The place of publication (precedes volume) is given, only in the cases of homonymic journals. Journal titles should conform to Lawrence G. H. M. et al. (1968): Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum, Pittsburgh, and its supplement (1991). In the case of books, the title is followed by the data on edition and division of work: Ed. 2., Vol. 3, and, following after the dash the location of edition. References to compendia and proceedings are introduced by the word In:, according to following example: FAVARGER C. (1984): Cytogeography and Biosystematics. – In: GRANT F. W. (ed.): Plant Biosystematics, p. 453-476. – Toronto etc. Titles in languages not using Latin alphabet should be transliterated. Transliteration of Cyrillic should follow ISO-1 standard.

All plant names must follow the accepted nomenclatural rules and cited with their author; e. g. Knautia slovaca ŠTĚPÁNEK. Abbreviations of the names of authors of plant names should follow R. K. BRUMMIT & C. E. POWELL (1992): Authors of plant names, Kew. Author’s name has to be written in SMALL CAPITAL letters or double underlined in manuscript. Once cited in the text, the following reference to the species name may be written without authorship (K. slovaca). Taxon names should be written in italic (preferably) or underlined by wavy-line in manuscript. In reviews with large number of taxa or in phytocoenological works it is possible to mention the nomenclatural references work used, without mentioning the authors of taxa. As to syntaxa, similar rules should be used.