NOTICE TO AUTHORS

Aims and scope

Systematic and Applied Acarology (SAA) is an international journal of the Systematic and Applied Acarology Society (SAAS). The journal is intended as a free publication outlet for members of the SAAS ; however, publication by non-members is possible at a charge of US per print page.

SAA publishes papers reporting results of original research on any aspects of mites and ticks. Submission of a manuscript implies that the results have not been published and are not being considered for publication elsewhere. The journal assumes that all authors of a multi-authored manuscript agree to its submission. All papers are peer-reviewed before acceptance for publication.

Presentation

All manuscripts must be in English. Authors should make sure that the manuscript is written in good and concise English. A manuscript must start with a concise title followed by the name(s) and address(es) of the author(s). An abstract of no more than 500 words should be included before the text. Up to 6 key words should be provided. Headings such as Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, and References may be used. The text is followed by tables, appendices (if any), figure captions, and figures, all of which must be numbered consecutively. Scientific names with authors should be given when names of any animals are first mentioned. Manuscripts should be double spaced with at least 2 cm margins.

Systematic manuscript

Taxonomic revisions and phylogenetic studies are preferred, although manuscripts that simply describe a single new species are also considered for publication. New taxa, new combinations and new synonyms should be indicated as fam.nov., gen. nov., sp.nov., com. nov. and syn. nov. The data for holotype and paratype(s) and their depositories must be provided in the original descriptions. All material examined should also be listed.

Illustrations

Illustrations should have author(s') name(s) and the figure numbers on the back. When preparing the illustrations, authors should bear in mind that the journal has a matter size of 22 cm x 14 cm and is printed on 26 cm x 19 cm paper. Photographs should be used only when necessary and the original prints should be submitted.

References

References are cited in the text in the format: Xin (1988) or (Xin 1988), Shih and Huang (1991) or (Shih & Huang 1991); Zhu et al. (1995) or (Zhu et al. 1995). All dated references cited in the text should be listed in alphabetical order and the ones not cited should not be listed. The names of all authors should be given and the titles of the journals should be in full and not abbreviated. The references are arranged alphabetically in the following format for book chapters (A), books (B) and journal articles (C).

Submission

Three copies of the manuscript in English should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Zhi-Qiang Zhang, c/o Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, the United Kingdom.

Authors in P. R. China should submit their manucripts in English to Dr. Tingkui Qin (agricultural acarology) in New Zealand or Dr. Renjie Hu (medical acarology) in the USA.

Manuscripts in Chinese should be sent to Prof. Lairong Laing (agricultural acarology) or Prof. Tinghuan Wen (medical acarology).

See editors' page for addresses of these four editors.

Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit an electronic version of the manuscript. The journal accepts 3.5" diskettes for IBM or Macintosh computers. Wordperfect and Microsoft Word in Macintosh format are preferred software. For other software, author(s) should indicate the software and version used. Electronic version of the revised manuscripts may also be sent via e-mail as an attachment. A paper copy of the final version of the manuscript should always be submitted.

Offprints

Authors of each paper receive 10 free reprints. Additional reprints may be ordered at cost to authors.