Biogeography & Systematics: Guidelines for Authors

Biogeography & Systematics is primarily an online journal that will print 20 copies of each number to be deposited in publically accessible libraries around the world. The journal confirms to publication requirements as outlined in the International Codes of Zoological and Botanical Nomenclature. The journals aim is to become a forum for larger papers (i.e. monographs) in biogeography and systematics, to include the fields of systematic and evolutionary biogeography, phylogenetic systematics, its history, theory, methodology and epistemology. A typical paper may include a biogeographical analysis of an area or group or a systematic or taxonomic revision of a group and an accompanying biogeographical analysis. Papers that only focus on systematic revisions may be considered.

We look forward to your contributions.

Editorial Policy
Biogeography & Systematics has an editorial policy in order to ensure that the articles we receive are of high quality and relevant to the interests of our readers.

• Biogeography & Systematics publishes in English (US spelling) only.
• Biogeography & Systematics publishes original research papers in biogeography and systematics.
• Biogeography & Systematics is a peer-reviewed journal.
• Biogeography & Systematics publishes monographic taxonomic, systematic and biogeographical treatments.
• Articles may cover any aspect of biogeography, systematics or taxonomy.

Types of Articles
Biogeografía publishes the following types of articles:

• Biogeographical anaylses, revision of methods or epistomological reviews.
• Systematic revisions that may include biogeographical analyses.
• Taxonomic treatments that include systematic analyses.
• Historical revisions in biogeography, systematics and taxonomy, including biographies.

If you have been invited to contribute an article please submit your manuscript as an .odt, .rtf or .doc. We ask authors to only use Primary (bold) headings.

Citations
All citations are to be made without using commas between author and year (Wallace 1855) and commas between multiple authors (e.g. Nelson and Platnick 1981, Brandon-Jones 1998). Quotes should be cited as (Willis 1922, p. 100). Please refer to this issue for further usage of figures (see figure 1 or Fig. 1), tables and numerals.

References
Please include the full titles of journals and books. Do not use abbreviations! Please keep your references in the styles listed below.
Brandon-Jones D. 1998. Pre-glacial Bornean primate impoverishment and Wallace’s line. In Hall R, Holloway JD eds. Biogeography and geological evolution of SE Asia. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers, pp. 393-404.
Heads M. 2006. Panbiogeography of Nothofagus (Nothofagaceae): Analysis of the main species massings. Journal of Biogeography 33: 1066-1075. Merriam CH. 1898. Life zones and crop zones of the United States. U.S. Department of Agriculture Division Biological Survey Bulletin 10: 1-79.
Nelson G, Platnick NI. 1981. Systematics and biogeography: Cladistics and vicariance. New York: Columbia University Press.
Wallace AR. 1855. On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 16 (2nd series): 184-196. [http://www.victorianweb.org/science/science_texts/wallace_law.html; http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/wallace/S020.htm; http://www.zoo.uib.no/classics/new_species.txt].

Proofs
Authors will be given a chance to proof their paper prior to publication. The final proof will be published on the SEBA website simultaneously as the journal is printed.

Copyright Form
Authors will be asked to complete a copyright form upon acceptance of their manuscript.

Submissions
Please submit your articles in electronic format to the Editor-in-Chief, Dalton de Sousa Amorim

Biogeography & Systematics is printed by the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela.