1 - Ecologia Mediterranea

Ecologia Mediterranea publishes original research report
and synthesis in the fields of fundamental and applied ecology
of Mediterranean areas, except for descriptive article or
article about systematic. The editors of Ecologia Mediterranea
invite original contributions in the fields of: bioclimatology,
biogeography, conservation biology, populations
biology, genetic ecology, lanscape ecology, microbial ecology,
vegetal and animal ecology, ecophysiology, palaeoecology,
palaeoclimatology, except marine ecology.
Symposium proceedings, review articles, methodological
notes, book reviews and comments on recent papers in the
journal are also published.
Manuscripts are reviewed by appropriate referees, or by
members of the Editorial Board, or by the Editors. The final
decision to accept or reject the manuscript is made by the
Editors. Please send us 3 copies.
When the article is accepted, the authors should take reviewer's
comments into consideration. They will send back
to the journal Editorial Office, within 3 months, their corrected
printed manuscript (one copy) and join the corresponding
floppy disk (as far as possible: 3.5" PC, Word 7 or
.RTF). The authors are asked to check the conformity between
printed and computerised versions. Enclose the original
illustrations.
Corrected proofs must be returned to the journal Editorial
Office without delay.
Books and monographs to be reviewed must be submit to
the Editors.
Manuscript preparation
Manuscripts (typewritten with double spacing and A4 size
for paper) should be preferably written in French, English,
but Spanish or Italian are accepted. If the language is not
English, you should join an English short version and English
litles of figures and tables.
The manuscript must be complete: French and English titles,
author(s) and address(es), French and English abstracts (at
least), an English short version (only if it is not the language
used in the article), key-words, text, references, acknowledgements,
figures and tables. For research papers, the text
should normally consist of 4 sections: introduction, methods,
results, discussion.
In typing the manuscript, please clearly distinguish titles
from others paragraphs. Titles and subtitles should not be
numbered. Avoid letters to number subtitles. Use lower-case
lettertype for names. Do not underline any word. In English,
there is one blank after any punctuation, never before.
Copy editing of manuscripts is performed by the journal.
Authors
Each author's address should be specified. The first time,
please precise the complete address of the correspondent
author to which the proofs should be sent.
Abstracts, key·words and short version
Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. The English
short version should not exceed one page long (1000 words).
Do not use more than six key-words (translated in the abstract's
language). Key-words should not be present in the
title.
Instructions to authors
References
Ali publications cited in the text should be presented in a list
of references following the text of the manuscript. The list of
references should be arranged alphabetically on author's
names, and chronologically per author. You should abbreviate
the titles of periodicals mentioned in the list of references
(except ifyou are not sure ofit).
Check the manuscripts to make sure that ail references are
cited and that all citations in the text are included in the
references. Use following system for arranging the references:
- journal article:
Andow D.A., Karieva P., Levin S.A. & Okubo A., 1990.
Spread ofinvading organisms. J. Ecol.4: 177-188.
- book:
Harper J.L., 1977. Population biology ofplants. Academic
Press, London. 300 p.
- book section:
May R.M., 1989. Levels of organisation in ecology. In:
Cherret J.M. (ed.), Ecological concepts. Blackwell Scientific
Public., Oxford: 339-363.
- conference proceedings:
Grootaert P., 1984. Biodiversity in insects, speciation and
behaviour in Diptera. In : Hoffmann M. & Van der Veken P.
(eds.), Proceedings of the symposium on «Biodiversity:
study, exploration, conservation », Ghent, 18 November
1992: 121-141.
Citations in·text
The words «figures» and «tables» announced in-text
should be written in extenso and with lower-case lettertype.
In the text refer to the author's name and year of publication
(followed by pages only if it is a quotation). If a publication
is written by more than two authors, the name of the first
author should be used followed by «et al. » (this indication,
however, should never be used in the list of references : first
author and co-authors should be mentioned in it). Examples:
«Since Dupont (1962) has shown that... », or «This is in
agreement with previous results (Durand et al., 1990;
Dupond & Dupont, 1997) ... ».
Abbreviates, nomenclature and Latin words
Explanation of a technical abbreviate is required when the
first use. International convention codes for nomenclature
should be used. Latin words should be in italic (et al., a
priori, etc.), particularly for plants or animals' denomination
(the first time, please precise author's name: for example,
Olea europaea L.).
Figures and tables
Ali illustrations should be submitted separately and they
should be preceded by the figures and tables legends on a
separate page. Figures and tables should be sent «ready to
be printed », without need to be reduced (so their size should
be 16 x 22 cm or 8 x 22 cm maximum). Ali the illustrations
being in-text should be cited, increasing numbered, and
should have a legend. Computerised tables' columns should
not be represented by signs ( : or 1).
Reprints
Twenty-five reprints will be supplied free of charge. By
request, additional reprints can be ordered with charge.