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Instructions for Authors Scope. Sherbornia publishes on all aspects of bibliographical research in zoology that includes (but is not limited to) bibliographies, dating of published books, plates, and journals, and publishing history and methodology if put into context with potential dates of publication. New nomenclatural information resulting from such bibliographic research (e.g., new synonymies, new combinations, new replacement names, or other novel nomenclatural acts) are allowed. However, Sherbornia DOES NOT publish descriptions of new taxa or make available previously unavailable names. Taxonomic journals should be contacted for submission of such manuscripts. Submission. Authors should submit manuscripts in the Microsoft Word® (.doc, .docx, or .rtf) file format. The manuscript and associated files (images, tables, other supplementary files) should be submitted by e-mail to either the editor or co-editor. [See below under Image Preparation for how to send low resolution images for review; full resolution images will only be requested once a paper is accepted]. Only submissions in English will be considered for publication. The editor will acknowledge receipt of the submission via e-mail. By submitting a manuscript to Sherbornia, the author(s) declare that the submission: a. contains original research carried out by the author(s) unless otherwise fully attributed therein; Review and acceptance. Authors are requested to submit a list of suggested reviewers with email addresses when submitting the manuscript. However, the ultimate choice of reviewers will remain with the editor. After reviews are completed, the editor will return to the corresponding author the reviewer form(s), and (if revision is necessary) the manuscript(s) containing editing and/or comments from the reviewer(s) and/or editor. If the reviews indicate as such, the corresponding author will be asked to revise the manuscript in accordance with the comments of the reviewer(s) and/or editor. The corresponding author should also justify any decision(s) when they disagree with any of the comments of the reviewer(s) or editor. The corresponding author should return as soon as possible the revised manuscript and any additional image files (the latter if requested by the editor). Upon receipt of the revised manuscript, the editor will determine final acceptance or whether further revision is necessary. Once accepted, the files will be typeset and proofs will be sent to the corresponding author via e-mail in PDF format. Proofing. The corresponding author is asked to make the necessary changes directly in the PDF proofs (or if necessary, in a separate document that can be read in Microsoft Word®). The corrections should be consolidated into a single PDF (or Word) document and be returned to the editor as quickly as possible. No second proofs will be sent to the corresponding author unless there are a significant number of changes or, if few changes, are complex enough to require significant additional typesetting. Open-access license agreement. Articles published by Sherbornia will be made available online for free (on the Sherbornia website) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Submission of a manuscript to Sherbornia is taken as acknowledgment and acceptance by the author(s) of this license. Manuscript formatting Language. Sherbornia will publish submissions written in British or American English (either orthography is acceptable as long as it is used consistently throughout). To prevent delays, authors are encouraged to ensure that submitted manuscripts are written clearly and concisely, and that the manuscript is formatted according to the guidelines listed below. For those submissions from authors whose first language is not English, the corresponding author should ensure upon submission (if necessary) that the manuscript has been checked by a person whose first language is English. Manuscripts found to require extensive editing for English grammar and spelling will be returned immediately to the corresponding author for language compliance. Title. The title of a submission should be as informative and concise as possible. The title should summarize the overall direction and focus of the article. As Sherbornia is an online-only publication, we encourage authors to use key terms or phrases in the title that reflect the content. Short running header. Upon acceptance of the manuscript, the corresponding author will be asked to suggest a shortened title (no more than 40 characters) to be used in the header of the typeset paper. Authors and addresses. To ensure standardization and accurate citation, authors are requested to spell their names in the following order: First (Given) Name(s), Last (Surname / Family) Name. Addresses for all authors should be footnoted and should include institutional affiliations (if any), full street address, city, state/province, postcode, country; and email address (at least for the corresponding author). If a paper is multi-authored and only one person requests to be contacted by readers, that name should be denoted as such with an asterisk (*) and footnoted that s/he is the corresponding author. Abstract. All Sherbornia manuscripts must include an abstract, which should contain a summary of all major findings or conclusions in the work. Any new nomenclatural acts that may result from the research discussed in the paper should be listed in the abstract (and elsewhere in the manuscript) with appropriate abbreviations and boldfaced (e.g., “stat. nov.”, “comb. nov.”, etc.). Main Text. Structure of manuscripts submitted should generally follow the normal convention of scientific manuscripts (e.g., Introduction, Sources Used, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References) with the replacement or addition of sections allowed in between the Introduction and Acknowledgments. Figures and tables intended for insertion into the text should NOT be embedded into the text but intended insertion points for each can be indicated with “>>Insert Fig. 2”, “>>Insert Table 10”. Authors should note that the final position of figures and table will ultimately depend on the typesetting. Italicization and author-date citation for taxa. The italicization of Latin names throughout manuscript is mandatory. Foreign words, publication titles, and other words that are conventionally italicized to distinguish them from the main text (e.g., the names of ships or research vessels) should also be italicized. When citing a taxon, the author should be cited at the first instance and can be omitted in subsequent appearances. If citing the author and date of a taxon, the author and date should be separated by a comma [e.g., “X-us Jones, 1990”, “X-us bus (Smith, 1939)”] to distinguish from textual citations of references. Dates, time, numbers, and mathematical notations. Dates should be spelled in full throughout the manuscript with the day preceding the month and year (e.g., “5 July 2014”). Time should be given in the 24-hour format (e.g., “2300 hrs” for 11:00 pm). All numbers less than 10 should be spelled in full in the main text (except in the results section and tables). Ranges of values (and page numbers) should be separated by an En dash (“–”). Numbers exceeding 999 should have a comma as a separator (e.g., “1,000”). A period (not a comma) should be used to indicate the decimal point (e.g., “24.35 mm”). Abbreviations. Widely-accepted abbreviations may be used. Periods are not necessary between the letters in the abbreviation (e.g., “UK”, “USA”, “asl”, “BCE”, “CE”). The abbreviations “pl.”/“fig.” and “pls.”/“figs.” Can be used for “plate”/“figure” and “plates”/“figures”, respectively. Citations. When citing a reference, the author(s) should be followed without a comma before the year (e.g., “Evenhuis 1997”) [this is to distinguish from citations of taxa with author and date]. When citing a publication by two authors, an ampersand should be used (e.g., “Ng & Chou 2008”), and when citing a publication with three or more authors, the notation “et al.” (in italics) should be used (e.g., “Purchon et al. 1960”). Pages, plates or figures cited in a publication should be separated from the year by a colon and no iniital capital for "fig." or "pl." to disamibgute them from images referred to in the submitted manuscript (e.g., “Adams 2013: 25, pl. 25, fig. 27”). When publications by different authors with the same family names are cited in a manuscript, it is strongly encouraged that the initials of the authors (e.g., “P.K.L. Ng 1988”; “T.H. Ng et al. 2014”) be given in the text to enable them to be located quickly. When referring to figures or table in the manuscript, the words “Table” and “Figure(s)” (as “Fig.” or “Figs.”) should be capitalized (e.g., “See Table 1, and Fig. 1A”). Nomenclature and nomenclatural actions. The usage and application of all Latin names at the family-group level and below must follow the articles and recommendations outlined in the fourth edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN; International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, 1999). Images, figures, tables, and captions. Authors are encouraged to include photographs and tables regarding material discussed in the manuscript when it helps clarify the works under study. Image Preparation. Authors should only include low resolution images at the time of submission. A PDF combining all images in order of appearance in the paper should accompany the submission of text and tables. Final files will be requested only after papers are accepted, unless high-resolution images are requested by the editor or reviewers. Authors are advised to combine individual images into a larger composite figure of 180 mm in width and no more than 230 mm in height. When combined into one figure, individual images should be labelled with small or capital letters. All images should be prepared with a final high resolution of least 300 dpi for color or grayscale images and 600 dpi for black and white line art. These resolutions should be used at the desired size without the expectation that images will be enlarged during typesetting. Table preparation. Short tables that can fit onto one page or less should be presented using the table function in a word processing application (as opposed to tab-delimited information). Longer and more complex tables should be prepared in Microsoft Excel®. There are no limits to size of such tables. These larger tables will not be typeset and will be converted to pdf directly from the Excel file after their final version has been approved by the editor. The headings of tables in the text should be in bold. Caption preparation. Captions for both figures and tables should be self-explanatory and not require any reference to the main text. Table and figure captions should begin with “Figure 1.” or “Table 1.”. Captions to both figures and tables in submissions should be listed on a new page at the end of the manuscript, after the references. Figures and tables should be submitted as separate files. When multiple Excel tables are submitted, they should be combined as one file with each table indicated in a separate “worksheet”. References. Authors are encouraged to format the references cited in the manuscript according to the Journal’s style. This will ensure fewer delays in publication. Italics should be restricted only to Latin names, the names of sailing vessels, the names of other publications being cited in the title of the reference, and the titles of books. The titles of journals should not be italicized. Titles of all works should be given verbatim and not shortened or abbreviated. If titles are in a non-Roman alphabet (e.g., Chinese, Cyrillic, Hiragana, Kanji, Katagana), they may be printed in the font of the language but, if done so, should also have an English translation or transliteration placed in square brackets following the title. Otherwise, all transliterated or translated titles of non-Roman alphabets should be given in square brackets in place of the title in its original font. Initial capitalization should only be at the beginning of the title of a journal article or for proper nouns in the title. The words of titles of books and journals in English should have initial capitalization. The capitalization of titles of books and journals in non-English languages should follow accepted convention (e.g., only the first word of the title and proper nouns for French and Latin; all nouns in German). The first and last page, and plate numbers should be separated by an En dash (e.g., “pp. 1–101”, “pls. 1–24”, “pls. A–D”). Author names are to be written with the family name (surname) first, followed by the initial(s) separated by a comma. In the case of two authors, an ampersand should be inserted between the first and second authors. In the case of three or more authors, each author’s name should end with a comma before the next author. There should also be an ampersand between the names of the penultimate and last author. The same format is applicable to the names of editors of a book. The name(s) of editor(s) of a book should be followed by an “(ed.)” or “(eds.)”, and a comma (see examples below). For book chapters and papers that form a part of a larger work, the title of the chapter or part should be followed by an “In:” before the title of the book or larger work (see examples below). The publisher and place of publication should also be given for books. The current name of the place of publication should also be given in square brackets if it differs significantly from the name used in the work (e.g., “Hafniae [= Copenhagen]”). The year of publication should be placed in parentheses following the author(s). Where the year of imprint (as stated on the cover, title-, or contents pages) differs from the actual date of publication, the actual date of publication should be given in parentheses after the author(s), and the date of imprint given in square brackets at the end as an annotation. References should be arranged alphabetically by first author (and in the case of more than one author, by second and subsequent authors). Journal articles: Clark, P.F. & Crosnier, A. (2000) The zoology of the Voyage au pôle sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840 sous les commandement de M. Dumont-d'Urville (1842–1854): titles, volumes, plates, text, contents, proposed dates and anecdotal history of the publication. Archives of Natural History 27(3): 407–435. Frauenfeld, G.R. von (1862) Versuch einer Aufzählung der Arten der Gattung Bithynia Lch. und Nematura Bns. Nach der kaiserlichen und Cuming’s Sammlung. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12(3): 1145–1161. Paramonov, S.J. (1936) Биологическая загадка мухи Lucilia sericata Mg. [Biological enigma of the fly Lucilia sericata Mg.]. Priroda 1936(11): 1–3. Sabrosky, C.W. (1961) Rondani’s “Dipterologiae Italicae Prodromus”. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 54: 827–831. Swennen, C. (1998) Two new gastropods, Elysia bangtawaensis and E. siamensis from southern Thailand. Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 16(6): 33–39. [Imprint is 1997 but published 18 April 1998 (Swennen 2011: 32)] Tanaka, T., Kawase, M. & Karasawa, H. (2008) ヒラフネガイの化石と属名. [Fossils of Syphopatella walshi (Reeve) and the nomenclatural status of Syphopatella Lesson, 1831, Ergaea Adams and Reeve, 1854, and Siphopatella Tryon, 1886 (Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae)]. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34: 117–119. Books: Adams, A. & Reeve, L.A. (1848–1850) Mollusca. In: Adams, A. (ed.), The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; Under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., during the years 1843–1846. Reeve & Benham, London. x +87 + [ii] pp., 24 pls. Coan, E.V. & Kabat, A.R. (2014) 2,400 Years of malacology. Eleventh edition. American Malacological Society. 1128 [Main text] + 94 [Annex 1] + 65 [Annex 2] pp. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London. xxix + 306 pp. Linnaeus, C. (1767) Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tom. I. Pars II. Editio duodecima reformata. L. Salvii, Holmiae [= Stockholm]. Pp. 533–1327 + [36]. Marschall, A.F. de (1873) Nomenclator zoologicus continens nomina systematics generum animalium tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum disposita. C. Ueberreuter, Vindobonae [= Vienna]. v + 482 pp. Nevill, G. (1885) Hand list of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Part II. Gastropoda. Prosobranchia-Neurobranchia (contd.). By Order of the Trustees [of the Indian Museum], Calcutta. x + 306 pp. [Title-page states 1884 but preface (p. [iii]) dated 25 January 1885; 1885 is herein adopted as the date of publication, see nomenclatural notes in text.] Chapters: Rye, E.C. (1877) Diptera, pp. 468–479. In: Rye, E.C. (ed.), The zoological record for 1875; being volume twelfth of the record of zoological literature. Zoological Society, London. Valdés, Á. & Fahey, S.J. (2006) Dorid nudibranchs described by J.E. Gray in M.E. Gray, 1842–1857 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). In: Brodie, H., Fahey, S., & Wells, F.E. (eds.), Contemporary studies into the systematics and evolution of opisthobranch molluscs. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 69: 95–102. Dissertations or Unpublished Reports: Bullington, S.W. (1986) Two new genera related to Laphria Meigen (Diptera: Asilidae), with revisions of the included species in North America north of Mexico. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. 275 pp. Websites: Evenhuis, N.L. & Pape, T., editors (2023) Systema Dipterorum. Version 4.0 Available at: http://www.diptera.org. (Accessed 26 January 2009).
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