BioClimLand author guide

Below you will find the useful information for authors.

BioClimLand considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that
•    the manuscript reports your own original research, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work;
•    the manuscript has been submitted only to BioClimLand; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere;
•    the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.

Manuscript preparation

1. General guidelines
•    Before submission manuscripts need to be registered. This process requires authors details. Register please at the BioClimLand site: http://journals.tsu.ru/bcl
•    Papers should be as concise as possible.
•    English language is preferred, but French or German papers will be accepted if an English summary of 400-500 words is also supplied.
•    When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or ™.
•    Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph.
•    The data about all the authors of a paper including their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses should be given at separate file. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. The affiliations of all named co-authors should be the affiliation where the research was conducted.

2. Type of the manuscript
•    Manuscripts that contain new and significant findings are welcome. Should any related papers be in press or submitted elsewhere, the authors are requested to give details on submission. Each manuscript is classified as a Research Paper, Short Research Paper, Short Communication, Research Letter, Review or Book Review.
•    Research Papers are full-length articles that contain new and significant findings (5,000–10,000 words).
•    Short Research Papers should contain new findings of exceptional interest and novelty (2,000–5,000 words).
•    Short Communications should present significant new information to readers in a short but complete form (<2,000 words).
•    Research Letters should make a positive impact on the subject by either contributing new and original information or through provision of theoretical, methodological or commentary material that acts to strenghten the subject (<3,000 words).

3. Manuscript Composition
For the review process a MS Word (*.doc, *.rtf) or *.pdf file of the complete manuscript is required and the pages should be placed in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords (5 to 8); main text (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and/or Summary); acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); tables and figure captions (as a list). All pages of the manuscript must be numbered.

Title Page: Title (concise but informative), author initials and last names, full institutional addresses of all authors, correspondence email for proofs.

Abstract: Abstracts of no more than 200 words for a full paper and 100 words for a Short Communication are required for all manuscripts submitted. The abstract should be intelligible to the general reader without reference to the text. After a brief introduction of the topic, the summary recapitulates the key points of the article and mentions possible directions for prospective research. Reference citations should not be included in this section, unless urgently required, and abbreviations should not be included without explanations.

Sections: The headings of all sections, including introduction, results, discussions or summary must be numbered. Three levels of sectioning are allowed, e.g. 3, 3.1 and 3.1.1.

Appendices: These should be labelled with capital letters: Appendix A, Appendix B etc. Equations, figures and tables should be numbered as (A1), Fig B5 or Table C6, respectively.

Figures:
•    Images should be submitted as separate files in *.pdf, *.ps, *.eps, *.jpg, *.png, *.tif, or *.gif format.
•    Please provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
•    Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file. The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the paper.
•    All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)). A legend should clarify all symbols used and should appear in the figure itself, rather than verbal explanations in the caption (e.g. "dashed line" or "open green circles"). The abbreviations used in the figure must be defined, unless they are common abbreviations or have already been defined in the text.
•    Label please each figure file with corresponding author's name and figure number, e.g. SmithFigure1, SmithFigure2a.

Units: Authors must adhere to SI units . Units are not italicised.

Tables: Any tables should appear on separate sheets after the references and should be numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals. For the production of the accepted manuscript, they should be submitted as MS Word file. Tables submitted as a *.pdf file or an image file cannot be processed. Tables should be self-explanatory and include a concise, yet sufficiently descriptive caption. Horizontal lines should normally only appear above and below the table, and as a separator between the head and the main body of the table. Vertical lines must be avoided.

Equations and formulae:
Mathematical: Mathematical equations should preferably be type-written, with subscripts and superscripts clearly shown. To simplify typesetting, please use (1) the "exp" form of complex exponential functions; (2) fractional exponents instead of root signs; and (3) the solidus ( / ) to simplify fractions e.g.3/4, exp x 1/2 .
Chemical: Please supply reproducible artwork for complex chemical matter such as ring formulae. Chemical equations referred to in the text should be indicated with Arabic numbers set over to the right in parentheses.
Marking: Where chemistry is straightforward and can be set (e.g. single line formulae) please distinguish between e.g. double bonds and equal signs, and single bonds and hyphens.

Date and Time: January 17th, 1998 (month dd  yyyy), 15.17 (hh.mm). 

Abbreviations and Acronyms: Equations should be referred to by the abbreviation "Eq." and the respective number in parentheses, e.g. "Eq. (14)". However, when the reference comes at the beginning of a sentence, the unabbreviated word "Equation" should be used, e.g.: "Equation (14) is very important for the results; however, Eq. (15) makes it clear that..." 

References: Papers should make proper and sufficient reference to the relevant formal literature. Works cited in a manuscript should be accepted for publication or published already. 
These references should be cited in the text by consecutive Arabic numbers enclosed in brackets. The full list should be collected and typed at the end of the paper in numerical order. Journal names should be written out in full. Citations such as "personal communication" are not acceptable as numbered references but may be included in parentheses in the text.

Journal article:

[1] Zafarnejad, Fatemeh, 2009, The contribution of dams to Iran's desertification. International Journal of Environmental Studies 66, 327-341.

Book:
[2] Oluwole, A.F. and Akerdolo, F.A., 1992, Ambient air and air-borne radiation pollution monitoring in Nigeria, In: E. O. A. Aina and N.O. Adedipe (Eds) Towards Industrial Pollution Abatement in Nigeria: FEOA Monograph 2 (Nigeria: Ibadan University Press), pp. 259-278.

Book Chapter:
[3] Other, A.N. and Bloggs, J., 1988, Title of chapter. In: J. Brown (Ed.) Style Manuals Past and Present (London: Taylor & Francis), pp. 729–752.

Online article:
[4] Bloggs, B.G., Simon, S., Caine, M. and Hepburn, A., 1995, Style guides are fun. Available online at: www.makeituptheyllneverbelieveit.co.uk (accessed XX Month Year).

Newspaper article:
[5] Jones, W., 2002, Purple is my favourite colour, Guardian, 4 May.

Conference paper:

[6] Trevor, P. and David, C., 1993, This is the title of a paper presented at a conference. Presented at the 4th International Meeting of Minds, Chicago, IL, 1–4 April.

Report:

[7] Western Australian Sports Centre Trust, 2006, Annual Report 2006 (Perth, Western Australia: Western Australian Sports Centre Trust).

4. Publication charges

Submission fee
There is no submission fee for BioClimLand.

Page charges
There are no page charges for BioClimLand.

Manuscript submission

All submissions should be made online at the site: http://journals.tsu.ru/bcl
Executive secretary of the journal Tatyana S. Kolesnikova will answer your questions via
e-mail kirpota@inbox.ru  or by phone +7-913-104-25-22.
On submission of a manuscript, authors may suggest the names and addresses of up to five potential reviewers who have not seen the manuscript before its submission. The Editors are not, however, bound by these suggestions.

Copyright and authors' rights
To assure the integrity, dissemination, and protection against copyright infringement of published articles, you will be asked to assign us, via a Publishing Agreement, the copyright in your article. Your Article is defined as the final, definitive, and citable Version of Record, and includes the accepted manuscript in its final form. Our Publishing Agreement with you will constitute the entire agreement and the sole understanding between you and us; no amendment, addendum, or other communication will be taken into account when interpreting your and our rights and obligations under this Agreement.

Free access
BioClimLand has printed and electronic version. We reserve open free access to the online electronic version.