Journal of Apicultural Science - Instructions for authors Journal of Apicultural Science is a scientific journal intended to publish in English original papers in the field of the broad-sense beekeeping science. Submission of a paper implies that it reports original unpublished work, that it has not been accepted and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All authors must have read and approved the manuscript. Submission of manuscripts Manuscripts should be no longer than ten pages as a rule, i.e. about 30 000 characters (spaces excluded), including tables and figures (see template for more information). Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail: beata.panasiuk@man.pulawy.pl Manuscripts should comply with the Instructions and be submitted as a MS Word 2000-2003 or 2007 file containing text, references, tables and figures (RTF or PDF files can be also accepted). The file should be labelled with the corresponding author’s name, for example: Woyke_2010.doc. The manuscript should be typed in Times New Roman (12) single-spaced with margins of 2.5 cm at top, bottom and sides for editor’s markings. Use italics only for latin names of organisms. The Editorial Board requests that authors whose native language is not English, have their manuscripts checked by an English-speaking person prior to submission. The Editorial Board maintains the option of returning, before evaluation, manuscripts which do not meet the instructions and/or acceptable standards of English. Reviews All manuscripts are examined initially by the Editorial Board for their appropriateness to the journal. Those which do not match the scope of journal or are of insufficient general interest are sent back promptly to their authors. The editor reserves the right to choose the reviewer/s. Each initially accepted manuscript is reviewed by one expert chosen by the handling editor. Reviewers are invited to present their comments and/or suggestions within 4 weeks after reception of the manuscript. Reviewers’ comments are marked in Reviewer evaluation form and manuscript in reviewer mode and sent to the authors without their names to remain anonymous. The authors should correct manuscript in accordance with the reviewers comments and must indicate in which ways the comments and suggestions were taken into account or why they were not taken into account. The corrected version should be returned to the handling editor within 3 months after the decision has been made. After this delay, it will be considered as a new manuscript. Corrected papers are send to the experts from Associate Board for final acceptance. Structure of manuscripts The manuscript should be organized in the following way: title, author(s), author affiliation, brief summary with keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, acknowledgments, references, extended summary with keywords in Polish, figure captions, tables, figures, photos. The results and discussion should not be combined. Tables and figures, with their captions, should not appear in the text, but be placed together on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript. Title of the paper should be as short as possible, clear and consistent with the subject. No abbreviations are allowed in the title save for the authors of taxonomic descriptions. Surnames of authors are preceded by full first names. If there is more than one first name an initial of the second name is given. Below are full names and addresses of institutions at which the work was done. If authors’ affiliations do not clearly follow from the order of names and institutions the names and the institutions should be marked by the same character e.g a numeral. E-mail address of the corresponding author should be given. Brief summary (not exceeding 2,000 characters, space including) should be in a form suitable for abstracting services. It should give a short account of the paper’s content. It should contain no paragraphs, footnotes, references, crossreferences to figures and tables and undefined abbreviations Keywords derived either from the title or from the main text ought to be informative of the subject. They should be placed at the end of summaries. The keywords, not to exceed seven, should be in the first case and in singular if possible. They should be written in lowercase letters, separated by comma. Introduction needs to be very concise, well structured, and inclusive of all the information needed to follow the subject of the manuscript(including the objectives of the work). Materials and Methods should briefly state the protocols used and describe the experimental materials clearly enough for the reader to be able to reproduce faithfully a similar study. Results should be reported very concisely without detailed discussion of data contained in the tables. An emphasis should be put on the significance of differences or the phenomena described. The same data must not be simultaneously contained in tables and figures (graphs). Discussion should state authors’ interpretations and opinions, explain the implications of described findings, and make suggestions for future research. Its main function is to answer the questions posed in the Introduction (the subject), explain how the results support the answers and, how the answers fit in with existing knowledge on the topic. Conclusions should generalize the results obtained. They should not be the summary of the paper or the recommendations for commercial beekeeping. References In the text, refer to author(s) name(s) and year of publication. When there are more than two authors, give the first author’s name followed by et al. References cited together in the text should be arranged chronologically. Ex.: (Chmielewski, 2005, 2006; Hrassing and Crailsheim, 2009; Frączek et. al., 2010). In the reference list, the references should appear in alphabetical order. If there is more than one author, the order is as follows: publications of a single author in chronological order; publications of the same author with one co-author in chronological order; publications of the author with more than one co-author in chronological order. Proceedings of articles submitted for publication, unpublished data, personal communications should not appear in the reference list but should be cited in the text as “unpubl. data”. All entries in the reference list must correspond to references in the text and vice versa. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the rules of Biosciences Information Service (Biosis) or those of the Liste d’abréviations de mots des titres de publications en série (conforming to ISO 4, Centre international de ISSN, Paris). Words for which no abbreviation is given should be written in full. Examples are given below of the layout and punctuation to be used in the references: Article Frączek R., Żółtkowska K., Lipiński Z. (2009) - The activity of nineteen hydrolases in extracts from Varroa destructor and in hemolymph of Apis mellifera carnica worker bees. J. apic. Sci., 53(1): 43-51. Book Morse R.A., Nowogrodzki R. (1990) - Honey bee pests, predators, and diseases, Cornell University Press, New York. Chapter in book Shimanuki H. (1990) - Viruses, in: Morse R.A., Nowogrodzki R. (Ed.) Honey bee pests, predators, and diseases, Cornell University Press, New York, pp. 12-26. Electronic material Bogdanov S. (2002) - Harmonised method of the International Honey Commission, [online] http://www.apiculturacluj.com/ApiculturaCluj/italiano/Documents/IHCmethods_e.pdf (accessed on 25 July 2010). Conference proceedings Bieńskowska M., Panasiuk B., Gerula D., Węgrzynowicz P. (2009) - Weight of honeybee queens and its effect on the quality of instrumentally inseminated queens. In Proceedings of 41st Apimondia congress, France - Montpellier, 15-20 September, 2009. pp. 135. Extended summary (for translation into Polish) with paper title, initials and full surnames of authors and with keywords - not to exceed 3,000 characters of text. It gives a brief account of methods, results and conclusions. Polish authors should prepare it in Polish. Tables, Figures and Photos Tables presented in paper ought to be self-explanatory i.e. it should be comprehensible without making references to the main text. The headings must not contain symbols which are not generally known and the wording of headings must be concise. Tables and figures should be accompanied with descriptions. Tables - should be designed in such a way as to stand reduction to publication size (125 x 200 mm) without compromising legibility and should be referred to in the text by their number Tab. 1. Figures (drawings, graphs) should be prepared on a white background and a size of 125 x 200 mm; larger illustrations will be reduced to publication size of which due allowance should be made (if scaled down to required size small print may become illegible). The figures must be identified by placing a number on the back e.g. Fig. 1, Fig. 2 etc. Graphs should be submitted as MS Excel 2000 files or in the TIF format scanned at 300 dpi resolution. Photos should be supplied a grayscale JPG or TIF file scanned at 300 dpi resolution acceptable for Adobe Photoshop Image file format. Poradniki dotyczące pisania prac naukowych: How to write scientific papers tu.. Jak nie pisać prac naukowych tu.. Powrót do strony głównej