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Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Bryology.

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Article types

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Letter
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Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 250 words.
  • Use a structured abstract.
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  • A structured abstract of no more than 250 words for articles. (Abstracts are not required for Bryological Notes.) Read tips on writing your abstract.
  • Your abstract should focus on what your research is about, what methods have been used, and what you found out.
  • The instructions for authors for each journal will give specific guidelines on what’s required here, including whether it should be a structured abstract or graphical abstract, and any word limits.

Keywords

  • 6 keywords for articles. (Keywords are not required for Bryological Notes).

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • A typical article for this journal should be no more than 20 pages; this limit includes tables; figure captions; references.
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  • Names of new taxa should be given with the authorities, followed by the citation of the holotype.
  • Specimen citation should be concise, with the minimum number of essential specimens cited.
  • References Please use this reference guide when preparing your paper, but please note that journal titles should be written in full, not abbreviated.
  • Please include DOIs for journal article references where available.
  • Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • For each record the following information should be submitted to the column editor: name of taxon; name of locality with UTM, grid reference or latitude and longitude; brief details of habitat and ecology; name of collector and date of collection; name of referee (voucher specimens from Europe and the wider Mediterranean region may be submitted); herbarium in which the voucher specimen is deposited; a brief paragraph (up to 250 words) may also be added to document other points of interest and to refer to the relevant literature (full citations must be supplied in the normal style for the Journal).
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Group figures at the end of the manuscript.
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  • Group tables at the end of the manuscript.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size).
  • Tables and figures Show clearly in your article text where the tables and figures should appear, for example, by writing [Table 1 near here].
  • The authors for scientific names of bryophytes and other organisms should be included at their first mention in the text, or be included in a Table or Appendix.
  • If only a few specimens are involved accession numbers can be listed in a table in the Materials and Methods section, otherwise they should be provided in an Appendix.
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • Figures should be saved as TIFF, PostScript or EPS files.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • It’s very important that you have been given permission to use any tables or figures you are reproducing from another source before you submit.
  • Check the instructions for authors to see how you should supply tables and figures, whether at the end of the text or in separate files, and follow any guidance given on the submission system.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Include or confirm the data availability statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Blinded manuscript

  • Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

  • Papers that include author collected specimens should acknowledge the organisations that granted permission for these collections to be made.
  • Using third-party material in your paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
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  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • If long specimen lists are required these should be placed in an appendix, or as supplementary material to be published online.
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  • Long lists of information (lists of specimens, voucher specimens for molecular studies, lists of primers, GenBank accession numbers etc.), more than about half a printed page in length, should be included in an appendix or as supplementary material to avoid breaking the flow of the text.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
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  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • Homotypic synonyms should be cited in chronological order in a single paragraph with the identity sign (≡), followed by the type.
  • Heterotypic synonyms should be listed in separate paragraphs, indicated by the equality sign (=).
  • Where more than one specimen is cited from a single locality the locality information must not be repeated, use loc. cit. instead.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • Before you submit your article, make sure you’ve checked the instructions for authors for your chosen journal, so you are aware of everything required.
  • Most journals create image descriptions during the production process, but a minority may require authors to provide image descriptions.
  • Review: Running heads and received dates These aren’t required when submitting a manuscript for review.
  • Specimens that have been seen by the author(s) should be indicated by an exclamation mark after the accepted herbarium acronym in parentheses (Holmgren, P.K., Holmgren, N.H. & Barnett, L.H. eds).
  • All sequences used in analyses must be identified by a GenBank accession number and voucher specimens for newly generated DNA sequences must be deposited in a public herbarium.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: European accents (Greek, Hebrew, or Cyrillic letters, or phonetic symbols): choose Times New Roman font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: Asian languages (such as Sanskrit, Korean, Chinese, or Japanese): choose Arial Unicode font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • The only exceptions to this are: reports of expeditions where there is a large number of new records from a limited area, especially from little known areas of the world.
  • If you are at the early stage of your research, you may also need to read how to start writing a journal manuscript.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Preparing your paper Structure Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; structured abstract; keywords; main text, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Language and text style

  • Abbreviations for the authors of plant name follow Brummitt & Powell 1992, Authors of plant names, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (note that spaces after full stops should be suppressed within author abbreviations, e.g. H.Whitehouse, P.de la Varde).
  • Please use British spelling consistently throughout your manuscript.
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  • Please use single quotation marks, except where 'a quotation is "within" a quotation'.
  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
  • Generic and specific names, formally recognised plant associations and other words which are to be printed in italics should be typed in italics.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fourth-level headings should be in bold italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fifth-level headings should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Names of collectors and collector numbers must be in italics and herbarium acronyms in parentheses, dates should be given with the month written out, but this can be abbreviated to the first three letters for longer lists.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).

Manuscript structure

  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 250 words
Declarations: Artificial intelligence
Format: Times New Roman

Source transparency

This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.

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