Instructions for Authors of Acta Musei Beskidensis
Responsibility of the author
Before submitting a manuscript to the Acta Musei Beskidensis journal, the author shall get to know the publication ethics of the Acta Musei Beskidensis journal based on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) documents, and by sending a manuscript the author declares to comply with the publication ethics of the Acta Musei Beskidensis journal. More details can be found in the Editorial Policy section.
By submitting a manuscript to the Acta Musei Beskidensis journal, the author declares that the submitted manuscript is the original work of the author, has not been published before and that has not been simultaneously sent to another journal for publication.
Review process
All submitted manuscripts are first assessed by the editorial board of the Acta Musei Beskidensis journal in terms of journal's focus, required structure and other requirements. After approval by the editorial board for submission to the peer review process, manuscripts in the category of original studies and short findings reports will be submitted for evaluation to at least two anonymous reviewers.
Based on the reviewers' comments, the submitted manuscript will either be accepted for publication, returned to the author for revision, or rejected. In cases where the two reviewers have different opinions, a third review will be commissioned. If doubts persist, the decision to publish the manuscript will be made by the editorial board of the journal. The author shall participate in the review process, respond to the reviewers' comments, and make suggested revisions based on the reviewers' comments. In disputable cases, the author may address specific suggestions to the editorial board of the journal. In case of co-authors, the corresponding author is responsible for communication with the editorial board and the reviewers. In case of disagreement, the author may refuse to publish the submitted manuscript in the journal.
The author will be informed by the editorial board of the journal within 14 days of its submission if the submitted manuscript is not approved for review. The editorial board of the journal reserves the right to reject a submitted manuscript, or to recommend the implementation of language, formal and content adjustments even before the manuscript proceeds to the review process, if it believes that it does not meet the basic requirements for a professional text, is too extensive, or deviates significantly from the topic which the journal focuses.
Manuscript requirements
Manuscripts are predominantly accepted in Czech (in justified cases also in other languages such as English, Slovak, etc.). Manuscripts are formatted according to the examples published on the website of the journal. Keywords (words mentioned in the title of the paper can only be repeated in justified cases) and the Abstract are exclusively in English. The title of the work and captions to objects (figures, tables) are required in both Czech and English. The author acquires the translation, the editors only mediate minor language revision.
Papers (incl. appendices) are preferably accepted by e-mail. Other ways of delivery need to be agreed on beforehand. Papers must have the following structure: brief and apposite title and its English equivalent, authors’ names, surnames and addresses incl. postcode, contact to corresponding author (preferably e-mail), key words, abstract, main text of the paper (division into Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and possibly Summary, Acknowledgements, References, and captions is recommended). According to need, chapters maybe be joined into one (e.g. Results and Discussion). Texts need not be divided in justified cases or in the case of short notices. Attachments (images, graphs, tables) must be provided to the editors as separate files. Key words: several (3–10) words or terms covering the content of the paper, arranged alphabetically, not according to other parameters. Abstract: brief content of the paper informing on the most important results and conclusions, max. length 2,000 characters, including spaces.
The titles of chapters are written on a separate line with the exception of Abstract and Keywords. The recommended maximum text length is 54,000 characters, including spaces. Do not edit the text in columns, do not use hyphenation. Use italics for names of genera, subgenera, species and subspecies (not for higher taxonomic units), but not for the names of authors of taxa, years and abbreviations like subsp., sp., etc. Species and genus names in the titles of cited literature are written in regular font. Use Capital letters for the authors cited in the text as well as in the References. Other formatting of the text is undesirable.
Images should always be sent as separate files in JPG, TIFF, PDF formats, etc., not as part of the text in MS Word. Submit tables and graphs as separate MS Office (Word, Excel) files. Their position in the text can be indicated by inserting a reference, e.g. ‘Fig. 1 here’. Image templates need to be supplied in sufficient quality, allowing print in greyscale, and in the highest possible resolution. Captions to tables and images must be located at the end of the text.
Authors must respect the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. The source of the used nomenclature must be mentioned in the chapter Materials and Methods. Names of species and lower taxonomic units are unabbreviated at first mention and include the complete authors’ names, year and possible parentheses (especially in entomological contributions). In phytosociological and floristic works, nomenclature should be unified according to the mentioned source. According to established publishing practices, scientific names of taxa and syntaxa are given without authors’ names (in the text as well as in tables). If the nomenclature cannot follow a single or a small number of sources, taxon or syntaxon names must be followed by the authors’ names (at first mention, outside of title and abstract). Authors’ names are not given in the abstract. In the following text, the genus name can be abbreviated where a name is repeated unless this causes confusion or ambiguity. Dates are written including spaces. Avoid Roman numerals (e.g. not ‘1. VI. 2000’, but ‘1. 6. 2000’). In English texts, dates are written without spaces (‘1.6.2000’) and decimal points are used instead of commas (‘5.5 mm’). Grid mapping quadrant codes of localities are given in parentheses after the name of the locality, e.g. ‘Dobrá (6376)’. Locality names are written unabbreviated, e.g. ‘Frýdlant nad Ostravicí’, not ‘Frýdlant n/O’. Floristic and faunistic data should include country, locality (its code), date of find, number of individuals (in zoological contributions possibly also gender – M for males, F for females), name of collector (leg. or lgt.), person responsible for identification (det.), and if applicable name of person responsible for verification of the identification (rev.), collection owner (coll.), etc.
Literature citations. The References only include works cited in the text. For references to works by more than two authors, the name of the first author followed by ‘et al.’ is given in the text and the list of all co-authors in the References. In the case of a sequence of works in the text, these are arranged chronologically. Citations in the text are given in capitals as follows: ‘TKÁČIKOVÁ (2017)’, ‘(DANČÁK 2020; FÉR 2000)’, ‘SEBER & LE CREN (1967)’, ‘(SEBER & LE CREN 1967)’, in the case of more than two authors: ‘KAPLAN et al. (2019)’. Names of journals remain unabbreviated.
Internet links. Include author(s) of the website, name of the site and address (as ‘http://’ or ‘htps://’), and provide date of access (not date of website) in parentheses. See the citation for Pladias (2021) in the examples below.
Citation examples
DANČÁK M. (2020): Euphorbia maculata. – In: DANČÁK M. & KOCIÁN P. (eds): Zajímavé botanické nálezy z regionu severní Moravy a Slezska XIV., Acta Musei Silesiae, Scientiae Naturales 69: 237.
DŘEVOJAN P. (ed.), HOLÁ E., JANOŠÍK L., KUČERA J., KUČERA J., KUČEROVÁ A., LUKÁČ M., MANUKJANOVÁ A., MAREK M., MIKULÁŠKOVÁ E., PLAČEK J., SOLDÁN Z., SZOKALA D., ŠTECH M., ŠTECHOVÁ T., TKÁČIKOVÁ J. & TENČÍK A. (2020): Zajímavé bryofloristické nálezy XXXIV. – Bryonora 66: 62–73.
ELIÁŠ P. jun., DÍTĚ D., KLIMENT J., HRIVNÁK R. & FERÁKOVÁ V. (2015): Red list of ferns and flowering plants of Slovakia, 5th edition (October 2014). – Biologia 70: 218–228.
FÉR T. (2000): Vztah parametrů generativního šíření vodních rostlin k jejich skutečnému rozšíření podél vodního toku. – Ms., Diplomová práce. [Depon. in: Přírodovědecká fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Praha].
HOLUŠA J. (1997): Druhové spektrum sarančí (Caelifera) a kobylek (Ensifera) údolí potoka Dinotice (Vsetínské vrchy). – Klapalekiana 33: 11–16.
KAPLAN Z., DANIHELKA J., CHRTEK J. jun., KIRSCHNER J., KUBÁT K., ŠTECH M. & ŠTĚPÁNEK J. (eds) (2019): Klíč ke květeně České republiky. Ed. 2. – Academia, Praha.
PLADIAS (2021): Pladias – databáze české flóry a vegetace [online]. – URL: https://pladias.cz (accessed 5.1.2021).
SEBER G. A. F. & LE CREN E. D. (1967): Estimating population parameters from catches large relative to the population. – Journal of Animal Ecology 36: 631–643.
SKALICKÝ V. (1995): Agrimonia L. – řepík. – In: SLAVÍK B. (ed.), Květena České republiky 4: 233–238, Academia, Praha.
SPITZER L. & VALCHÁŘOVÁ J. (2006): Monitoring populací druhu Carabus variolosus a zjištění biotopových nároků druhu na vybraných lokalitách na Vsetínsku. – Ms. [Depon. in: Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny České republiky, Praha].
TKÁČIKOVÁ J. (2017): Nálezy šalvěje hispánské (Salvia hispanica) v povodí Bečvy (Česká republika). – Acta Carpathica Occidentalis 8: 8–11.