Instructions to authors
Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (AMM) publishes original papers, reviews and short notes (e.g. faunistic records, biographies and book reviews), particularly in biosystematics and biogeography, but also in other related fields of biology. All works are peer-reviewed and their acceptance is determined by the editorial board. Manuscripts submitted must not be offered elsewhere for publication, nor may they have already been published. Each work must contain a heading (a title, the first and last name of all authors, their affiliations and e-mail of the corresponding author), key words (a maximum of ten not repeated in the title) and an Abstract. The standard structure of an article is: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion (Conclusions), Acknowledgements and References. AMM is published in English or Czech. English articles may include a short Summary in the native language. English abstract, title and keywords are obligatory for Czech-written manuscripts, which must be also supplemented with English summary. Authors are obliged to conform with the current editions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. We recommend that faunistic and floristic works be provided with geographical co-ordinates of the cited locality and assigned to the squares of the Central European grid-mapping network (e.g. Klapalekiana 32, Suppl., 1996; Fytokartografické syntézy ČSR, I, BÚ ČSAV, Průhonice 1986), as well as regional phytogeographical units (e.g. Skalický, Flora Czech Soc. Rep. vol. 1, 1988; Futák, Fl. Slovakia vol. 1, 1966).
In zoological systematics we recommend the following itemised description of new taxa: type locality; holotype: sex, deposition, citation of identification labels; other material studied; description, distribution, etymology, differential diagnosis, remarks. (Abbreviations as gen. nov. or sp. nov. are used.) References in the text should be cited as: Jacobson (1905), (Majer 1993), Rendahl & Vestergren (1941), Burakowski et al. (1985). All these references must be listed in the respective section in a form strictly consistent with previous issues of the journal (available online). Transliterations of Cyrillic should follow the British standard.
Examples:
Antonín V. & Noordeloos M. E. 2010: A monograph of marasmioid and collybioid fungi in Europe. IHW-Verlag, Eching, 480 pp.
Rendahl H. & Vestergren G. 1941: Notes on Colombian snakes. Arkiv för Zoologi 33A(1): 1–16.
Manuscripts written in poor English may be rejected. The AMM editorial board ensures only minor linguistic correction. Manuscripts should be written in standard fonts (Arial or Times New Roman), with the margins of all lines ranged left without using the tab key, paragraph indention or divided words. Use of the formatting tools is undesirable, with exception of italics for the scientific names andsmall capitals for names of cited authors. Artworks (e.g., figures, graphs, maps) should be submitted in tiff or jpeg format. Tables should be provided in a separate file, preferably as MS Word or Excel documents. Figure and table captions must be given in the end of manuscript. Authors may indicate the general location of the individual graphics (tables). Publication size of figures: 12.5×17 cm (full size), 12.5×<11 cm (half size). Resolution of figures: min. 600 dpi (bitmap), min. 300 dpi (greyscale, colour).
Publication in AMM is free, 25 reprints (on request) are also free of charge. Articles published in AMM are freely downloadable (open access) on the journal website <www.ammbiol.com>.
CONTRIBUTIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO:
Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae Biologicae
e-mail: ammbiol@mzm.cz
or to subject editors: pbanar@mzm.cz, vtaraska@mzm.cz, mcerny@mzm.cz
