GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION. Please submit your manuscript to the Organizing Committee of
the Conference as a file sent as an email attachment.
Manuscripts are considered only on the understanding that either whole manuscripts or parts of it, in
any language, have not been published and are not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission
implies that the publication is approved by the responsible authorities where the work has been
carried out. The articles will undergo the peer-reviewing process.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION. Contributions should be written in English, using consistently
either standard British or American English. No linguistic revision or editing will be provided, so
the editors reserve the right to reject contributions for linguistic reasons. For the manuscript file, the
RTF format compatible with Microsoft Word is required. All parts of the manuscript should be
prepared using double (2.0) line spacing (29 lines per page) with the left and top margins of 3 cm
each, the right margin of 1 cm, and the bottom margin of 2.5 cm. The whole text should be Times
New Roman, font size 14pt and left-justified so that the right margin is uneven. Primary headings
should be flush left. The manuscript should not exceed 12 standard pages in the format specified
above.
Papers submitted for publication must conform to the following general layout.
Author names, affiliations and addresses. Use capital letters for family names and initials. Below
the names present the authors’ affiliations (where the actual work has been done). Indicate all
affiliations with lower-case superscript Arabic numerals immediately after the author's name and in
front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the
country name, and, if available, e-mail address of each author. In case of several authors, please
identify the author for correspondence.
Title. The title should be concise and informative. Write the title in bold capital letters. Use italics
for the genus and species names; their affiliation to families or higher taxa should be mentioned.
Keywords. List up to 6 words or short phrases separated by commas, in italics; Latin names should
not be italicized in the Keywords.
Main text. The papers can be structured to include Introduction, Material and Methods, Results,
Discussion, Conclusions and, if necessary, Acknowledgements. For some papers this structure can
be modified and the headings omitted. The text should be clear and concise, without detailed
literature or historical surveys and duplications.
All tables and illustrations must be referred to in the text in the order presented.
The main text should be followed by References and Captions for the figures and tables.
Scientific names. For names of genera and taxa of lower rank use only Latin names typed in italics.
Latin names must conform to the current International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and recent
and reliable taxonomic treatments. Generic names in the main text are repeated with their initial
letters after the first mention. Author abbreviations in plant names should follow The International
Plant Names Index (http://www.ipni.org), those in fungal names – Index Fungorum
(http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp). All taxonomic authorities are given at first
mention in the text, non-italicized. Omit authors' names for taxa throughout the text (except the first
mention) unless they are necessary to avoid uncertainty.
Abbreviations. Standard International (SI) units and other generally accepted symbols and terms
are recommended to use throughout the text. Abbreviations not in common use should be spelt out
at first mention. Avoid abbreviations at the beginning of sentence or heading. Use a space to
separate figures in measurements from the units.
Literature citation in text. References in the text are cited in chronological order as follows.
Single author: James (2005) or (James, 2005). Two authors: James, Wright (2007) or (James,
Wright, 2007). More than two authors: Ivanenko et al. (2005) or (Ivanenko et al., 2005). Several
references by the same author published in the same year: Wright (2002a, b) or (Wright, 2002a, b).
More than one publication within a year are ordered alphabetically (e.g., Anders, 2005; Ivanenko et
al., 2005; James, 2005). Manuscripts accepted for publication but not yet published: Sirko (in press)
or (Sirko, in press). Websites should be cited the same way as other references; those having no
author or title may be cited in the text with the http address (e.g.,
http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cybernome/eng/index.htm).
Tables. All tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order cited in the text. The
author should specify their place in the text. Tables must have concise titles and comprehensible
legends. The titles are placed at the top of the tables. Abbreviations should be explained in the
legends. Submit all tables electronically as separate files Table01, Table02, etc. Make sure that data
presented in the tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the paper.
Illustrations. Photographs, line drawings, diagrams, maps, schemes, etc. should be designated as
figures, numbered with Arabic numerals (e.g. Fig. 1). They must be cited in the text in consecutive
numerical order. Illustrations should be high-resolution (minimum resolution of 300 dpi) and
always provided separately from the main text file. Maximum size of a full-page figure in the
printed version is 13 × 17 cm.
Each figure should have a concise and clear caption. Include the captions in the text file, not in the
figure file. All photographs or drawings are provided with a scale bar defined as corresponding
measurement on the figure itself or at the end of the caption. Photographs or drawings can be
arranged in plates; in case of composite figures, the left corner of each element should be labelled
with a small letter. All letters, symbols and abbreviations must be defined in the caption.
Color illustrations will be shown in the printed version in black and white (grayscale). It is therefore
recommended to check quality of color figures converted in black and white (grayscale). Color
reproduction in print is possible for additional cost. Authors are encouraged to submit color
illustrations with the manuscript so that they can appear in color free of charge in the online PDF
version of the paper.
Submit all figures electronically in their final size as separate files Figure01, Figure02, etc.
The figures must be supplied in TIFF or CDR format; JPEG (JPG) files of maximum quality
are also acceptable. Authors should specify place for pictures in the text having resized them
for MS WORD file.
Bibliographic references. All bibliographic references cited in the text are listed at the end of
manuscript in alphabetical order by author’s last name(s) (surname). Only published or those
accepted for publication (“in press”) original sources are included. Single-author references precede
multi-authored ones. Works by the same author(s) are listed chronologically; for publications by the
same author(s) in the same year use “a”, “b”, “c”, etc. added immediately after the year. For multiauthored works, the first three authors are listed followed by “et al.”; if there are four authors, list
all four of them. Titles of papers are provided in the original language; those in non-Latin script
should be translated into English with an indication of original language at the end of reference, in
parentheses. Titles of periodicals published in Cyrillic characters can be transliterated.
All references must be given according to the following format.
Papers in journals
Gussarova G.L. Checklist of Euphrasia (Scrophulariaceae) of Russia and adjacent states (within the
limits of the former USSR) // Bot. Zhurn. – 2005. – 90, 7. – P. 1087-1115 (in Russian).
Volz P.A., Yao J. P., Wasser S.P. Soil micro-fungi of Moscow and Kiev parks and public walks //
Ukr. Bot. Zhurn. – 1992. – 49, 1. – P. 39-43.
Books
Margalef R. Our biosphere. – Oldendorf: Ecology Institute, 1997. – xix + 194 p.
Red Data Book of Ukraine. Plant Kingdom / Ed. Ya.P. Didukh. – Kiev: Globalconsulting, 2009. –
900 p. (in Ukrainian)
Chapters in Books
Wells K., Bandoni R.J. Heterobasidiomycetes // The Mycota VII. Systematics and Evolution. Part
B. / Eds. McLaughlin D.J., McLaughlin E.G., Lemke P.A. – Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001. – P. 85120.
Online documents
Clayton W.D., Harman K.T., Williamson H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase – The Online World Grass
Flora. http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html (accessed 20.07.2010).
Abstracts are given at the end of the manuscripts and include the following:
name of the author(s), in italics;
affiliation(s), for multiple authorship insert a superscription number after an author’s name to
indicate the affiliation;
title of the paper, in capital letters;
text of the abstracts;
keywords, up to 6 maximum, separated by commas, in italics with Latin names non-italicized.
Manuscripts not conforming to the requirements will be returned for revision.
Manuscripts accepted for publication are generally published in the order of original submission, or
receipt of the final version of the paper after author revision following reviewer(s) critical
comments.
All authors from Ukraine should also submit abstracts in Ukrainian and Russian, following the
above format. All other authors knowing Ukrainian and Russian languages or having possibility to
translate their abstracts are kindly requested also to submit short abstracts in Ukrainian and Russian.
For all other authors, the English summary will be translated by the editorial team.