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Notes for Contributors to Folia Heyrovskyana

Folia Heyrovskyana publishes original, yet unpublished, entomological works, particularly those focused on systematics. The authors of articles are supposed to completely adhere to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN — fourth edition, 1999) including its important recommendations.
The manuscripts are reviewed by two reviewers and the Editorial Board makes decisions concerning their publication.
Manuscripts not adhering to the requirements summarized below may be returned without reviewing.
The works may be accepted for print either in English or in German. The translations will be provided by the authors. The Editorial Board can only provide a final language revision; works calling for extensive changes in the language will be returned to the authors for rewriting.

Each work should consist of the following parts:

H e a d i n g. It includes the following items (in the order as specified below, each item on a separate line): i) a short and comprehensive title (without authors of taxa unless necessary); ii) name(-s) and surname(-s) of the author(-s); iii) address of the author(-s) (in Czech authors with the zip-code, in foreign authors in a relevant form); presentation of the e-mail address is recommended.

A b s t r a c t. In contrast to the formerly used, more extensive “Summary” the “Abstract” summarizes essential results of the work – its extent should not exceed 20 lines of the manuscript. It shall always be written in English. In the case of a work written in German, a German abstract can also be added. In this case, the work will have two abstracts — the first one in English and the second one in German. Include all the taxonomic actions implemented in the work. Names of taxa at generic and specific levels are included with their authors and years of description.

K e y w o r d s. Choose several single-word terms characterizing the work. The words may be identical with those occurring in the title.
Example: Taxonomy, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambyx, description, new species, key, Palearctic region.

S t r u c t u r e o f t h e t e x t i t s e l f (in more extensive works only). Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgement (without academic degrees) and References. If these parts have their subtitles, write them on separate lines. In descriptions of new taxa, the type locality and differential diagnosis shall be included.

G r a p h i c m a t e r i a l s and colour reproductions must be numbered (1, 2, 3,…, xx), not designated by letters (A, B, C,…, Z).

Q u o t a t i o n o f l i t e r a t u r e. Quote works from the literature in the text with specifying the author's name and year of publishing the work – e.g. Novák (1994) or (Kouba 1965; Novák & Kouba 1986); Novák et al. 1990 (in the case of more than two authors)). Complete quotation shall be provided in References.

A b b r e v i a t i o n s o f i n s t i t u t i o n s. When mentioning abbreviations of institutions and private collections (codens) use principally official abbreviations in accordance with the work by Arnett et al (1993) or with a modified internet version of the work: The insect and spider collections of the world: website (http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/…ns-inst.html.).

R e f e r e n c e s. The quotation should be arranged in alphabetical order of the names of authors, chronologically in the case of the presence of several works of the same author; if an author published several works in a year, which are quoted in the manuscript, use letters after the year (e.g. 1989a, 1989b), which must correspond to those employed in the text. All the authors quoted in the text and complete titles of works should be presented. Full names of periodicals should be used with initial capital letters of all the words except conjunctions and prepositions. The issue (not the volume) shall be specified in parentheses after the number of the volume in the case of journals having each issue with independent pagination (see the example presented here: Longberg E. & Gustavson C. 1937). For titles of works that were not published in common world languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), or of those published in languages using other than Roman characters (Russian, Bulgarian, etc.) it is necessary to take the English equivalent of the title from the Abstract or Summary of the work or to translate the original title into English, to put it into brackets (see the example presented here: Nikolaev G. V. 1987), and to provide a note at the end, e. g. (in Czech, English abstr.) (see the example Vláčil V. 1995). References concerning books must comprise the publisher, city of publishing and number of pages.
Examples of references:
Arnett R. H. et al (1993): The insect and spider collections of the world (2nd edition). Flora & Fauna Handbook 11: 1–310 + i-v.
ICZN 1999: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (4th edition). International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 273 pp.
Kouba J. F. 1974: A new Cerambyx species from Bohemia (Coleoptera). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 55: 23–24.
Lattin G. de 1967: Grundriss der Zoogeographie. Fisher Verlag, Jena, 602 pp.
Lekeš V., Pácal V. & Novotný K. 1993: Makrolepidoptera Polabské nížiny. [Macrolepidoptera of the Polabí lowland.] Polabská Příroda 4: 19–20 (in Czech).
Lonberg E. & Gustavson C. 1937: Contribution to the life history of the striped wrasse. Arkiv för Zoologi 29 (7): 1–16.
Majer K. 1993: Dasytidae, Melyridae. Pp. 91–92. In: Jelínek J. (ed.): Check-list of Czechoslovak Insects IV. (Coleoptera). Seznam československých brouků. Folia Heyrovskyana, Suppl. 1: 3–172.
Nikolajev G. V. 1987: Plastinchatousiye zhuki (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) Kazakhstana i Sredney Aziyi. [Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Kazakhstan and Central Asia.] Izdatelstvo Nauka KazSSR, Alma-Ata, 232 pp. (in Russian).
Vláčil V. 1995: Contribution to the faunistics of Oxythyrea funesta (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Klapalekiana 31: 63–64 (in Czech, English abstr.).

G r a p h i c m a t e r i a l s (drawings, graphs, maps) should be supplied in two copies (original + one Xerox copy), preferably twice as large as the intended final size (the size of printed plate taking the whole page is 13×18 cm with three lines for the legend). Do not use line-shading with a pencil. Figures should be arranged in plates in intended shapes (full-page, half-page, etc.). Figures with differences in their scales, adjusted by a software and arranged in combined photographic plates (mostly including photos of microscopic slides) should have a scale bar each in mm. Tables (in format “doc” or “rtf”) and legends of figures should be submitted on separate sheets in as simple form as possible. If you are sending the whole contribution including plates, illustrations and photographs on a CD, use the resolution of at least 300 DPI for colour and black and white photos and 600 DPI for drawings (both in the format “tif”). For printing we need clear “jpg” or “tif” files without figure-numbers and/or texts; the editor will compose them in the graphic style of the journal according to the author's sample pages.

C o l o u r r e p r o d u c t i o n s. Slides 6×6 cm, small-sized slides or digital photos in the format “tif”, with a resolution of at least 300 dpi are suitable. We can also provide good results by the reproduction of colour photos and digital photos in the format “jpg”. Preliminary consultation of possibilities of colour reproductions is preferred.

T e c h n i c a l i n s t r u c t i o n s. Type the text principally by using standard letters in the style Normal (use neither CAPITAL letters, bold types nor underlined words) — the final graphic arrangement will be provided by editors.
In the first use of a genus group or species group taxon in the text, it is necessary to include the whole name of the author and the year of the description (regardless of the fact whether the name of the taxon has already been used in the abstract).
The short hyphen (-) should only be used for the specification of ranges (3–5 mm, pp. 6–9, 3.-9.vi.2006, Figs. 1–5, etc.); the long hyphen ( — ) [Ctrl + -] should be used in other cases.
A gap should be provided throughout the text after each point (except the decimal point in English), coma, colon or semicolon (except abbreviations of the type “e.g., a.s.l., U.S.A.”, etc.).
Gaps should never be used before any point, coma, colon or semicolon.
Italics should only be used in the text for Latin names of the groups of genus and species and for names of journals or monographs in References. In References, italics shall not be used for Latin names of taxa.
Bold types shall only be used for numbers of volumes of journals (see the “Examples of References” above).
All the lines (the headings inclusive) should be left-justified, without indenting paragraphs.
Each paragraph (i.e. also heading or independent line) should only be terminated by the key “Enter”. Do not otherwise use this key.
In the text, do not use fixed gaps (the function of entering fixed gaps should be switched off), line ends made up by hand, hand-inserted ends of pages and automatic division of words.
Use symbols m∗ and f∗ instead of symbols for the male and female, respectively (or possibly m∗m∗ and f∗f∗, respectively).
In English texts, use principally English quotes ( “xxx” ), and decimal points (not comas); use points after the abbreviations Fig., Figs., pp., Mt. and etc.
The manuscript should be delivered in two copies, each page printed on one side of the size A4, including a diskette or CD in the format “doc” (Word) or exceptionally in “rtf”.
Before printing, the author will receive the work for proofreading.
The contributions are not subject to author's fees. The author(-s) will receive 50 reprints free of charge; additional reprints may be purchased based on an arrangement with the publisher (Publishing House Kabourek) at a reduced price. Originals and diskettes are sent back to the authors together with the reprints.
A CD with selected sample articles is available to support beginning authors.

The manuscripts should be forwarded to the following address:

Dr. Svatopluk Bílý
Department of Entomology
National Museum
Kunratice 1
CZ-14800 Praha 4
Czech Republic
e-mail: svatopluk_bily (at) nm.cz