Australasian Mycologist Instructions to Authors
Submission of manuscripts
All manuscripts for publication in the journal should be submitted as electronic copy, using 12 pt Times font or similar, with lines double-spaced (note: manuscripts are not submitted as camera-ready copy). Figures should not be pasted into the word processor document, but rather sent as separate graphic (TIFF) files. Hard copies are not usually required, unless requested at the time of submission by the Editor. Detailed guidelines for the submission of manuscripts, including guidelines for the preparation of figures, are available from the Society's web site or from the Editor (david.orlovich@otago.ac.nz). Where colour is essential to the paper, members may publish one colour page free of charge; more than one colour page will attract charges to cover the cost (currently AU$200 per colour page).
Both members and non-members of the Society are eligible to publish in Australasian Mycologist. Manuscripts submitted for publication in Australasian Mycologist should not be submitted to another journal waiting publication nor have been previously published in another journal. Authors submitting manuscripts are responsible for obtaining the copyright holders' permission to reproduce any material for which the author does not hold copyright.
Research papers are refereed by two anonymous referees. Non-refereed articles are published as Reports.
Manuscripts for the Australasian Mycologist should be sent to:
Dr David Orlovich
Department of Botany, University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand
Email: david.orlovich@otago.ac.nz
The journal can publish colour and black and white photographs. Where colour is essential to the paper, members may publish one colour page free of charge; more than one colour page will attract charges to cover the cost (currently AU$200 per page).
Detailed guidelines
Content
Abbreviations follow Brummitt RK, Powell CE 1992. Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
All new names, new combinations etc (at any rank) must have a MycoBank number (http://www.mycobank.org/).
All new DNA or protein sequence data should have Genbank (or equivalent) numbers (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/).
Layout
Authors: Separated by commas, with the last 2 separated by the word "and". Where necessary, use superscripted numbers immediately following the author name (no space) to indicate affiliations, corresponding author, present addresses etc in the address line.
Address line. The postal address(es) of the author(s) (including country), followed by the author for correspondence email address and (if desired) telephone and fax numbers.
Abstract. A single paragraph, maximum 300 words. May not contain references. Key words: All papers should include keywords, up to a maximum of 8. These are separated by a comma, the line ending with a full stop.
Headings. Authors should ensure that the level of headings is clearly apparent. The correct styles will be applied by the Editor, but authors can assist by ensuring the level of heading desired is clearly apparent. Heading level 1 (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References) is bolded and centered. Level 2 is bold, leftjustified, Level 3 is italics, non-bold, and left-justified, Level 4 is in-line with the paragraph text, and is bolded, followed by an 'em-dash'.
Figures. Numbered consecutively in the text and referred to as "Fig. 1", "Fig. 1A", "Fig. 2B–C", "Figs 3–4" (note no full stop in the plural) etc. Parts of multi-part figures should be lettered with capital letters: A, B, C etc. Figure legends should be placed at the end of the manuscript. Start with "Fig. 1 etc" Parts of figures ("A.", "B.") etc are bolded and followed by a full stop (unless they are enclosed within a sentence, where there is no full stop).
The journal can publish colour and black and white photographs. Members may publish one colour page free of charge; more than one colour page will attract charges to cover the cost (currently AU$200 per page). As the use of colour is costly to the Society, it is requested that authors use colour only where it is essential.
Do not insert figures into a Word document. Instead, provide separate electronic files of colour, black and white images and line drawings. Where possible, these should be provided as TIFF files and should be 300 dpi for photographs, and 600 dpi for line drawings. JPEG images are acceptable if this is the original format of the image (e.g., from a digital camera). Send these electronic files on CD if they are too large to email. Figures should be sized either to 1 column (80 mm) wide, 1.5 columns (125 mm) wide, or full-page width (170 mm). The maximum height for any figure is 250 mm. In labeling figures, authors should use a 10 pt (at the final Figure size) sans serif font (e.g., Arial, Myriad Pro).
Tables. Use the Table function in a word processor to produce the table. Put the table caption at the top of the table, and any footnotes immediately following the table. The captions starts with the words "Table 1" etc in bold without a full stop, followed by the caption text, which ends with a full stop. There is a 0.5 pt line above and below the top row, and again at the bottom of the table. The editor will apply the necessary styles to the table.
Citations in the text. Use an ampersand to separate two authors. Three or more authors are cited as (e.g.,) "Smith et al. (1997)" if used in a sentence, or "(Smith et al. 1997)" when used in brackets at the end of a sentence. Where there is more than one paper by the same authors cited in one place in the text, put them in ascending chronological order, with the years separated by commas (e.g., Smith et al. 1997, 2001). In the case of multiple papers by different authors, separate these by semi-colons (e.g., Smith et al. 1997, 2001; Jones & Anderson 1998; Davis 2003). Where the same authors have more than one paper in the same year cited, refer to them as "Smith et al. (1997a,b)" or "(Smith et al. 1997a,b)".
References. No full stops after author initials. No comma after author surnames, authors are separated by commas. There is no "and" or "&" before the last author. No bracket around the year of publication. Journal titles are in italics, and are written out in full. Volume is in bold. Issue numbers are not used, unless page numbers do not follow on from issue to issue within a volume. Use an en-dash to indicate the range of page numbers. For papers with 10 authors or less, all authors are included. Where there are more than 10 authors, the first 10 authors are written out as usual, followed by "et al.". Journal and book titles are written out in full. References cited must be either published or in press.
Remove field codes produced by bibliography software (e.g., EndNote) before submission.
References follow the following formats:
Journal article:
Alspaugh JA, Pukkila-Worley R, Harashima T, Cavallo LM, Funnell D, Cox GM, Perfect JR, Kronstad JW, Heitman J 2002. Adenylyl cyclase functions downstream of the Galpha protein Gpa1 and controls mating and pathogenicity of Cryptococcus neoformans. Eukaryotic Cell 1, 75–84.
Book:
Casadevall A, Perfect JR 1998. Cryptococcus neoformans. ASM Press, Washington, DC. 541 pp.
Chapter in a book
White TJ, Bruns T, Lee S, Taylor J 1990. Amplification and direct sequencing of fungal ribosomal RNA genes for phylogenetics, pp. 315–322, in Innis MA, Gelfand DA, Sninsky JJ, White TJ (eds), PCR Protocols: A Guide to Methods and Applications. Academic Press, New York.
Research dissertation:
Beggs JR 1999. The ecological impact and control of introduced wasps (Vespula spp.) in Nothofagus forest. PhD thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. 197 pp.
Instructions updated: 1 March 2010