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African Plant Protection
Instructions to authors..../ Instructions aux auteurs....
African Plant Protection provides a
unique forum for research in the plant
protection sciences, and promotes
African authorship and/or contents. The
journal is multidisciplinary, and includes
original research and review articles,
both basic and applied, in the pest
management of crops and plants. The
journal supports primary scientific
articles, technical reports, short communications and review
articles. Papers
dealing with miscellaneous observations
and species will be considered
only if there are special circumstances.
Rigorous review standards are applied.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be submitted in
English. Three copies must be submitted,
in double spacing on A4 paper with
a margin of 3 cm on all sides. A short
abstract must be provided as well as up
to ten key words. To facilitate typesetting,
italics should be indicated by underlining
rather than by an italic font. All pages
must be numbered consecutively,
including those carrying references, tables,
and legends to figures, all of which
should be placed after the text. Do not
use line numbers. All illustrations (linedrawings,
graphs, maps, photographs)
are to be numbered consecutively as
figures. Annotated copies of line-drawings
and photographs must be submitted
with each copy of the manuscript.
Lettering on graphs and figures must
be uniform and the Helvetica (Swiss)
typeface is recommended. Original
illustrations and a diskette containing
the manuscript, as well as a printed
copy, must be submitted once the paper
has been accepted for publication. If
possible, the manuscript should be
compiled in WordPerfect or Microsoft
Word or exported to these programs in
the Windows environment.
Authors should consult recent issues
of African Plant Protection for general
arrangement of subject matter, including
the use of headings, arrangement of
tables and illustration style. The
Système International d'Unités (SI)
must be used. A decimal point (not a
comma) must be used when citing
decimal numbers.
Usage of scientific names must
comply with the requirements of the:
International Code of Zoological
Nomenclature (Third edition); International
Code of Botanical Nomenclature
(1988); Classification and Nomenclature
of Viruses, Fifth Report of the
International Committee on Taxonomy
of Viruses; and for bacteria with
usage in the `Journal of Systematic
Bacteriology.'
Telegraphic style must be used in
taxonomic descriptions which should
include a diagnosis/differential diagnosis.
The `discussion' or `remarks' section
should be placed last. A taxon
heading should be followed by a
reference to the original description and
should always include the author, date
and page number but not the title of the
publication as this is provided in
the reference section. Dichotomous
keys should be used. The abbreviations
gen.n., sp.n., syn.n., comb.n.
should be used for distinguishing
new taxa, new synonymies or new combinations.
References
All references in the text, using the
author-date system, must appear at the
end of the paper in alphabetical order.
In the text the names of two co-authors
are linked by an ampersand (&); for
three or more the first author's name is
followed by et al. Examples in the text
are: Jones (1999a); (Jones 1999a);
Jones & Mothlasedi (1998a,b, 1999);
(Jones & Mothlasedi 1999a; Ranthakwe
et al. 1999); Ranthakwe et al.
(1999) or (Ranthakwe et al. 1999).
Other references could include Jonker
(pers. comm.); (Jonker, pers. comm.);
Jonker (unpubl.); (Jonker, unpubl.);
Jonker (in prep.), and in these cases the
source together with an address must
be listed in the acknowledgements section;
reference to e.g. Jonker & Jonker
(in press) must be taken up in the references
section.
The following examples show the
method of reference citation (note
spacing, capitalisation and punctuation):
Jones D M 2005a. Control of mites in
space stations. Annual Review of
Space Exploration11: 1–12.
Jones DM 2005b. Control of spiders in
space stations. Annual Review of
Space Exploration11: 100–112.
Jones E 2005. Southern African viruses.
In: Proceedings, 10th international
symposium on African
viruses, 63–76 (Ed. H F Cucumo),
Pretoria, 26–27 June 2004. African
Virological Society, Windhoek.
Jonker L R & Jonker J P M 2005.
Zoogeography of southern African
nematodes. In: African zoogeography,
63–76 (Ed. H F Ranthakwe).
African Press, Pretoria.
Mothlasedi Y Z (in press). The principles
of plant pathology,4th edition.
African Book Publishers, Entebbe.
Tables
Tables should be submitted on separate
sheets, each with a concise,
self-explanatory heading. Tables
should be arranged to fit the printed page
horizontally (142 mm); the number of
columns must be kept to a minimum.
Illustrations
Original drawings and graphs must
be in black ink on white board or drawing
film, and permit reduction to about
one half to one third of the original size.
The dimensions should not exceed 297
_ 210 mm; illustrations should either be
arranged to fit into a single column
(width 68 mm) or to fill the page horizontally.
Only good quality photographic
reproductions will be accepted. Illustrations
generated electronically should
be submitted in e.g. WMF, TIFF, CDR, EPS, GEM, PLT or PIF
format, preferably in one of the vector (not bitmap) formats.
All illustrations (line-drawings,
graphs, maps, photographs) will be
called figures (Fig. or Figs) and are to
be numbered consecutively in Arabic
numerals. Each sheet of figures must
be clearly identified by author/s name
and figure number/s. Lettering and
numbering in figures are not provided
by the printer; sizes should be selected
for uniformity and legibility after reduction.
Magnifications must be indicated
as scale bars on the figures.
Legends to figures must be typed on
one or more sheets of paper, and should
be clear, unambiguous and concise.
Black and white glossy photographs
of high quality and good contrast must
be submitted. Colour illustrations may
be submitted, provided the cost is borne
by the author.
Proofs
Page proofs are provided for the purpose
of checking printer's errors, and
not for author's corrections such as
adjustments to language, style and
punctuation. Author's corrections will
be charged to authors.
Offprints
Twenty-five offprints are provided
free of charge. Orders for additional
offprints must be placed when returning
the page proofs.
Address for manuscripts
The Managing Editor
African Plant Protection
P.O. Box 26320
Arcadia
0007 South Africa
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