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Author Guidelines

Format for text and citations



Use Rich Text Format, Times New Roman font, 12 point. Single space. Separate paragaraphs. Left justify the text.

Include e-mail addresses for all authors.

Use bold for titles of major sections (Abstract, Introduction, Methods and Materials, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References) and sub sections within major sections.

The text should be written in the past tense: "The experiments were done..." "Total RNA was extracted....", but reference to tables and figures is in the present tense: "The data are shown in Figure 1". Note that the word data is plural.

Avoid the use of personal pronouns (I, we). Say "The insects were collected." not "I collected the insects." What you did is important, there is no need to keep reminding the reader that you did it as your name is in the list of authors.

Include the taxonomy and authority of the species being studied in the abstract and text, e.g. Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae). The title should include the common name and species name, but not the taxonomy, e.g.the silkworm, Bombyx mori.

Where possible avoid abbreviations. Species names should not be abbreviated. For example in a paper on the Colorado potato beetle use L. decemlineata, not CPB. Do not use Manduca for Manduca sexta, or Drosophila for Drosophila melanogaster. Use M. sexta and D. melanogaster.

Do not include tables and figures in the text. Do not indicate where the tables and figures should be placed in the text.

Citation style in the text:

References in the text should by cited as follows (Smith et al. 2000; Jones 2003; Williams 2005, 2006, 2007). Note the absence of a comma before the year, the use of a semicolon between citations, and that the the references are cited in order with the oldest citation first.

Reference style is shown in the examples below.
Please note that journal names should be fully spelled out in the references. Pay attention to the location of periods and commas.

Wigglesworth VB, Beamont JWL. 1950. The respiratory mechanisms of some insect eggs. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 91(4): 429-452.

Tschinkel WR, 2004. Nest architecture of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius. Journal of Insect Science, 4:21, Available online: insectscience.org/4.21.

Purcell AH. 2005. Xylella fastidiosa- A scientific community Internet resource on plant diseases caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa .

Books should be cited as follows:

Zar JH. 1996. Biostatistical Analysis, 3rd edition. Prentice Hall.

Articles or chapters in a book should be cited as follows:

Smith WA, Combest WL. 1985. Role of cyclic nucleotides in hormone action. In: Kerkut GA, Gilbert LI, editors. Comprehensive Insect Physiology Biochemistry and Pharmacology, 8: 263-299. Pergamon Press.

Bekoff M. 1979. Quantitative studies of three areas of classical ethology: social dominance, behavioral taxonomy and behavioral variability. In: Hazlett BA, editor. Quantitative Methods in the Study of Animal Behavior, pp. 1-47. Academic Press.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  2. The manuscript is an RTF Microsoft Word document file or a OpenOffice file. It does not contain tables or figures.
  3. The format of the manuscripts usually includes an abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion. Taxonomic papers and reviews often have a different format. You may include additional abstracts in languages other than English.
  4. The text is single-spaced with a 12-point font. Italics, rather than underlining are used for species names. Figure legends are at the end of the manuscript. Text lines are numbered.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined above, in Citation Format.
  6. E-mail addresses of all authors of the manuscript are provided. All authors agree to its submission.
  7. Key words are included that are not part of the title.
  8. A list of abbreviations with definitions is included. Abbreviations are kept to a minimum.
  9. Tables are in Excel files, not included in the text. Legends are above the table. Explanatory notes are below the table.
  10. All figures are tif documents with a resolution of 350 ppi (pixels per inch). Color images are in 24 bit RGB or CMYK format. Black and white halftones are in 256 Gray (8-bit grayscale). All figures should be sent as tif files, not in the text. If you are experiencing difficulty uploading figures, please check your image files to confirm that they have a resolution of 350 ppi and width no greater than six inches. The system will not allow uploads of files larger than 25 megabytes in size. Larger files can be sent to jis@insectscience.org using Pando.com (freeware).
  11. DNA and RNA and deduced amino acid sequences are submitted in Rich Text Format (rtf) files using Courier font. They are not submitted as images.
  12. Vidoes are submitted as AVI files.
    Sound files are submitted as WAV
 

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