Contributor's Guidelines for Herbertia
HERBERTIA is an international journal devoted to the botany and horticulture of geophytic plants. A special emphasis of the journal is the Amaryllidaceae and other petaloid monocot families rich in bulbous or cormous plants, but articles treating any aspects of dicotyledenous geophytes are welcome as well. Contributors are asked to follow the following guidelines when submitting papers. Manuscripts departing grossly from this format will be returned to the author(s) for revision. PLEASE ALSO REFER TO A CURRENT ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL FOR FORMAT.
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Articles in HERBERTIA may be refereed (peer-reviewed) or non-refereed. Articles of a scientific nature (e.g., taxonomy, plant physiology) will usually be sent to at least two appropriate reviewers. Authors wishing to insure that their contributions will be peer-reviewed should indicate so in their cover letters.
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Manuscripts must be typed or produced with legible ink jet or laser printers on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper. Double spacing should be used throughout.
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An electronic copy of the manuscript MUST accompany the written copy. This should be provided on a diskette or send to the editor as an email attachment. Microsoft Word for Windows versions 6, 7, 97, 2000 and XP are preferred, but WordPerfect, Word for the Macintosh, or other standard word processors are acceptable.
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Scientific papers may be prefaced with a short abstract if appropriate and so desired.
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Descriptions of taxa must follow conventional form as to construction of descriptive paragraphs, specimen citation, and synonomy. Use the following example as a guide or consult journals such as Systematic Botany, Brittonia, or Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden:
      Eucrosia aurantiaca (Baker) Pax. Die Nat. Pflanzenfam. (A. Engler and K. Prantl, eds.), 15a: 415 (1930).
      Callipsyche aurantiaca Baker. Refug. Bot. 3:t. 167 (1869). Neotype: Ecuador, El Oro, Ayabamba, 200 m, Andre 4262 (K).
      Eucrosia morleyana Rose. Addisonia 7: 3-4, pl. 226 (1922). Type: Ecuador, Chimborazo, Huigra, 4000 ft, Rose & Rose 22593 (holotype, US; isotypes, GH, NY, S).
      Eucrosia eucrosioides var. rauhiana (Traub) Traub. Pl. Life 22: 62 (1966). Callipsyche eucrosioides var. rauhiana Traub. Pl. Life 13: 61 (1957). Type: Ecuador, Azuay, Pasaje, 300 m, Rauh & Hirsch E15 (holotype, MO)
      Bulb large, 7. 7-10 cm long, 6-7. 7 cm in diam. ; tunics tan-brown; neck (2. 5)5-8 cm long, 2-2. 6 cm thick. Leaves 2, hysteranthous; petiole 27-35 cm long, 7. 5-10 mm thick, deeply channelled for most of its length; lamina ovate-elliptic, 29-40 (50) cm long, (12) 16-22 (29) cm wide, acute or short-acuminate, basally attenuate to the petiole, thick, coarsely undulate, hypostomatic, abaxial cuticle thickly striate and non-glaucous. Scape (5) 7-9(10) dm tall, ca. 10 mm in diam. proximally, ca. 4-6 mm in diam. distally; bracts 3(5) cm long, lanceolate. Flowers (7) 10-12 (13), zygomorphic, all reaching anthesis concurrently, more or less perpendicular to the axis of the scape; pedicels (11) 22-33 mm long, 1-2 mm in diam. ; perianth (2. 8) 3-4 (4. 4) cm long, green in bud, yellow at anthesis, rarely orange or pink, compressed laterally giving the perianth a somewhat flattened appearance; tube sub-cylindrical, 5-7 mm long, ca. 5-6 mm wide, constricted at the ovary to ca. 3. 8 mm wide, concolorous with the tepals for for most of its length, green only at the base; tepals spreading dorsally and ventrally to 23-29 mm wide, recurved and sometimes stained green apically; outer tepals (20) 23-29 (36) mm long, 5-6 mm wide, apiculate, lanceolate, keeled, 2 of them situated laterally, one dorsally; inner tepals 20-26 (34) mm long, obtuse, oblanceolate-spatulate, margins undulate at the middle, 2 of them ca. 9. 5 mm wide and situated laterally above the 2 lateral outer tepals, the third one 5-7 mm wide, ventrally declinate and with the lower lateral tepals forming a pseudo-labellum. Stamens subequal, 8. 5-11 cm long, filiform, long-declinate, ascendent in their distal 1/4, green; filaments dilated and connate in their proximal 2-3 mm; globose nectar glands present at the perianth throat, each 1-2 mm in diam. ; anthers 5. 5-6 mm long, oblong; pollen green, the exine mostly tectate-perforate. Style 10-11 cm long, green; stigma less than 1 mm wide. Ovary ellipsoid, 6. 5-9 mm long, 4-4. 5 mm wide; ovules 20 or more per locule. Capsule 2. 5-3 cm long, 17-22 mm in diam. ; pedicel 5-6 cm long; seeds numerous, blackish-brown, ca. 6. 5 mm long, 1. 5 cm wide. 2n = 46. Flowering July-September and December-January.
      ECUADOR. El Oro: between Santa Rosa and La Chorita, 0-100 m, Hitchcock 21139 (GH, NY, US). Chimborazo: R’o Chanchan canyon between Naranjapata and Olimpo, terrestrial in rock wall crevices, 800 m, (ex hort), Horich ISI # 214 (UC). Between Huigra and Naranjapata, 600-1200 m, Hitchcock 20638 (GH, NY, US). Ca–ar: valley of R’o Ca–ar near Rosario, 960 m, Prieto CP-18 (NY, S). Azuay: Road from Jiron to Pasaje, near Uzhcurrumi, dry, steep, rocky hillside, 840 m, Plowman et al. 4600 (GH), Plowman 7634 (F), Plowman 12024 (F). Km 97 on road from Cuenca to Saraguro, dry thorn scrub, ca. 1100 m [incorrectly typed on specimen label as 2400 m], Madison et al. 7517 (SEL). - Inhabiting semi-desert and dry, rocky canyons and hills of the lower inter-Andean valleys (100) 300-900 (1100) m. Endemic.

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Descriptions of new taxa MUST be accompanied by a short Latin diagnosis or description. Holotype or isotype specimen MUST be deposited in an herbarium listed in the current edition of Index Herbariorum. A diagnostic drawing or photo documentation sufficient to distinguish the new taxon MUST accompany the text.
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Figures should be cited in numerical order in the text as follows : Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc. ; tables as Table 1, Table, 2, etc. Figure captions (legends) should be provided for all figures at the end of the manuscript, one paragraph for each figure. If high quality digital scans of figures can be sent, this is preferred. Scans must have a minimum resolution of 1000 DPI, regardless of size.
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Literature citations should follow the Harvard system. Author and year of publication is cited in the text with placement of parentheses depending on sentence structure:
      One author: Doe (1989) or (Doe, 1989).
      Two authors: Doe and Stein (1990) or (Doe and Stein, 1990).
      Three or more authors: Doe et al. (1978) or (Doe et al., 1978).
      If there are two or more references with identical authorship and year, use lowercase letters in alphabetical order as designation: Stein (1989a) or (Stein, 1989a).
      Citations must be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the paper using hanging indentations. Only the first word in titles is capitalized. Journal titles should NOT be abbreviated. Sample literature formats are as follows:
      Journal article:
Stebbins, G. L. 1984. Mosaic evolution, mosaic selection and angiosperm phylogeny. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 88: 149-164.
      Book Chapter:
Hammen, T. van der. 1979. History of the flora, vegetation and climate in the Colombian Cordillera Oriental during the last five million years. Pp. 25-32 in H. Larsen & L. B. Holm-Nielsen (eds.). Tropical Botany. Academic Press, London.
      Book:
Prance, G. T. (ed.) 1982. Biological Diversity in the Tropics. Columbia University Press, New York.

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Figures accompanying contributions may be good quality line drawings, 35 mm transparencies, or high quality black and white or color photographs. Electronic format for figures is encouraged. Electronic copies of figures should be sent in uncompressed TIF format. Color or gray scale photos should be scanned at 1000 dpi; line drawings at 1200. Figure captions should be included in the manuscript following the literature citations.
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Though HERBERTIA does not at this time assess page charges, assistance is welcomed if funds are available to defray costs of publication. Contact the editor at the address below for more information.
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HERBERTIA provides one contributor's copy of the journal to each author free of charge, as well as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file of their article. Authors desiring printed reprints of their articles must notify the editor when they submit their manuscript. Purchase of reprints will be negotiated directly with the printer by the author, and details will be forwarded on request after the article is accepted for publication.
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Manuscripts should be sent IN DUPLICATE to: