Instructions for authors

This international scientific journal publishes manuscripts on e. g. taxonomy, systematics, collections, ecology, stratigraphy and history of science, either as self-standing individual works or as thematically homogeneous (monothematic) volumes consisting of individual contributions (proceedings).
High quality manuscripts submitted to this journal are accepted if they have not been published or submitted for publication in any other journal; authors affirm that text and illustrations are not protected by copyrights of third parties. The author(s) must sign a granting of rights of use to use both in print and electronically. A granting of rights of use is given to the authors with the confirmation of receipt of the manuscript.
If the manuscripts comply with the editorial instructions below papers will be sent to at least two referees. The editors of the journal will inform authors of the referees’ comments. If a manuscript requires major revision, final acceptance may only be decided after a revised version of the manuscript has been received and checked by the editors and/or the referees.
The author(s) confirm that the content of the submitted article complies with the rules of good scientific practice (according to COPE, and ‘Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice – Code of Conduct’ of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), does not contain any plagiarism, all data were collected and analysed legally (including CITES, Access & Benefit Sharing), and investigations were conducted in compliance with all legal requirements and regulations.
Type specimens and illustrated material, if not stored in an appropriate research collection of a permanent institution, must be deposited in the collections of the Senckenberg Research Institute. The name of the institution and, if possible, the registration number must be indicated. Gene sequences must be deposited in GenBank and the accession numbers indicated in the manuscript.
Five print copies free of charge will be sent to the corresponding author. More hardcopy reprints are available for purchase. The corresponding authors will be supplied with a PDF copy (150 dpi) for personal use only. Senckenberg Monographs are published as hybrid format and will be available online free of charge 4 years after publication. Supplementary material may be submitted on request and will be available online on the publisher´s website.

Manuscripts

Manuscripts (ms) must be sent to the editor as an electronic version (senckenberg-monographs@senckenberg.de). Manuscripts are preferably in English; we recommend that the ms should be checked by a native speaker prior to submission. All illustrations should be sent in a high-quality digital version directly suitable for the layout and printing process.

Heading
English title, short title, full name of the author(s), institution(s) (affiliation) and full address(es). In case of several authors, a corresponding author must be indicated.

Abstract
Including a list of up to five keywords that do not appear in the title.

Text
Sectioned (where applicable) into: 1. Introduction, 2. Materials and methods, 3. Results, 4. Discussion, 5. Conclusion, 6. Acknowledgements (if desired), 7. References.

Names of genera and species are set in italics. For the first mention of species names within the text, the name should be followed by the describing author(s) and the year of publication; author and year must be separated by a comma, for example: Genus species Author, 2004.

Taxonomic descriptions must accord with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) and the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants.

Nomenclatural novelties should be abbreviated as gen. n., sp. n., syn. n., comb. n. etc. and collections according to the ‘codes’ from ‘Abbreviations for Insect and Spider Collections of the World’. Several special characters are to be substituted with e. g.: #w for ♀, #w#w for ♀♀, #m for ♂, and #m #m for ♂♂.

References within the text should be given as in the following examples: ‘Author & Author (2005) have shown…’, or, ‘Some authors (Author & Author 2005, Author 2006) consider that…’. For two collaborating authors, the names are to be connected with an ampersand (&), more than two authors are to be cited with the first author’s name followed by ‘et al.’ No comma should be used to separate the year of publication from author names. Citations within brackets should be arranged chronologically, for example: (Author & Author 2005, Author 2006, Author et al. 2007).

Figures, Tables, plates

Figures and photographs are to be submitted in high-resolution digital form (drawings 1200 dpi, monochrome photos 600 dpi, colour photos 300 dpi in the size for publication and in loss-free formats). The preferred file formats are PSD (Photoshop) and TIFF. Please do not reduce the layers to one layer.

Diagrams and line illustrations should be supplied as high-resolution digital files. The print space of the journal, should be kept in mind in the preparation of tables and graphs. If you scan line drawings, select a resolution of 1200 dpi for the final figure size.

Text in illustrations should be as short as possible in sansseriftype (Arial) and regular style.

All illustrations should fit within one of the three possible widths: one column (80,5 mm), two-thirds of a page (120 mm), or a page (165 mm); maximum height is in any case 240 mm.

References

References are to be listed alphabetically by author(s), and within these in chronological sequence.

1 author: several articles chronologically; 2 authors: alphabetically after the second author, then chronologically; from 3 authors: only chronologically (no matter how many authors!).

Multiauthor papers with the number of authors exceeding 10 should be cited by the first 10 authors followed by ‘et al.’ to save printing space.

The journal style requires:

Author, A.M. (1989): Title of the article. Full title of the journal (no abbreviations!), 56: 1–45.

Author, A., Author, B. & Author, C. (1989a): Title of the article. Full title of the journal (no abbreviations!), 12 (3): 1–45.

Author, A. (1989): Title of the book. Publisher, Place of publication: I–VIII, 1–450.

Editor, A. & Editor, B. (Eds) (1989): Title of the book. Publisher, Place of publication: 250pp. [In Russian].

Author, A. & Author, B.C. van (1990): Title of the contribution. Full title of the journal (no abbreviations!): 44–67. http://www.bspp.org.uk/ndr/.

Author, A. & Author, B.E. van (1990): Title of the contribution. – In: Editor, C. (Ed.): Title of the book or volume. Publisher, Place of publication: 12–34. https://doi.org/10.123456/98765.

If manuscripts submitted are not in agreement with the editorial instructions they will be returned to the author immediately.

Proofs

Authors of accepted manuscripts will receive a proof copy of their article as a PDF. Corrections should be returned to the Editor-in-Chief within four weeks to ensure uninterrupted processing; in the case of an authors’ failure to do so the manuscript will be checked by the Editor and will be published in the presented form. Major alterations to the text and illustrations are only accepted when absolutely necessary and the additional costs will be charged to the author. The correspondence addresses for all matters concerning the manuscripts are: senckenberg-monographs@senckenberg.de