Submissions

Author Guidelines

Botanica Complutensis -BCOM-, (ISSN: 0214-4565/ISSN e: 1988-2874) comprises the following sections: papers, short notes and reviews.

Papers will be original scientific works on topics related to the different fields of Botany.

including papers on plant and fungal taxonomy and systematics and other related topics as biogeography, conservation, ecophysiology, phylogeny, phylogeography, floristics, functional morphology, nomenclature or plant-animal relationships, including synthesis and revision works. All works will be subject to peer review with external specialists chosen according to the subject matter of their content, while reviews will be devoted to analyzing books related to the topics on which BCOM is concerned.

Manuscript submission and correspondence

Manuscript submission proceeds completely online by uploading your files to http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/BOCM (registration required).

The files sent must correspond to one of the following formats: OpenOffice, MicrosoftWord (.doc, .docx) or .rtf. Tables and figures will be included in the document along with the text in a single file. To ensure a blind review, those authors who consider it necessary, must provide an identical version of the original final manuscript in which only the names of the authors are not included.

Manuscript

• MS will be preferably accepted in Spanish or English, but also in any language commonly used in botanical publications.
• As a rule, MS should not exceed 20 pages.
• All collaborations must conform to the following format: margins of 2.5 cm, font Times New Roman 12, and interlinear spacing of 1.5. All the text will be presented in a single column.
• Scientific names and other words in Latin should be written in italics, and no other type of letter should be used.
• Except for duly justifiable exceptions, the text will be organized in the following sections: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments and Bibliographic References.
• The text does not present handwritten amendments.
• There are no handwritten words or any other format than the body of the text, except scientific names or Latin words, which are in italics. Nor have notes or comments been included in the document.
• The authors of the taxa are indicated only the first time they are cited or in a table that collects all the taxa, and are abbreviated according to the Authors of Plant Names (Brummit & Powell 1992) or if they were not included in the aforementioned, in accordance with http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do

Title and authors

• The title is informative and as short as possible, it includes the group and / or taxa treated, without authorship.
• The title must be concise and consistent with the content of the text.
• Title is not written in capital letters
• For each author, affiliation data and email are indicated. The addresses of all authors must appear under the title, on the first page of the original manuscript.
• The authors must include their ORCID code together with the affiliation data. Those lacking this identifier can register for free at http://orcid.org

Abstract and keywords

• All the articles will be accompanied by two summaries, in Spanish and English, if the article is written in another language a third summary will be included in it, with an extension of 100-150 words, which clearly exposes the results of the work and its main conclusions. The original translated title will be included in English and from 3 to 10 keywords in the two (or three) languages of the abstracts.

Literature references

• References to the bibliography that appear in the text should be made as follows: Aedo (2013), Bolòs (1906: 118) or (Willkomm 1893), Gutiérrez Bustillo & Navarro Aranda (1989) if they are two authors, and Carrasco et al. (1996) if there are three or more.
• At the end of the work, the bibliographical references will be sorted alphabetically by the names of the authors and chronologically for the works of the same author, then the works with two, three and more authors will be sorted successively.
• Journals abbreviations follow Bridson & Smith (1991), Stafleu & Cowan (1976, 1979, 198I, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988) and Stafleu & Mennega (1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000).
• Bibliographical references will be made as follow:

Aedo, C. 2013. Narcissus. In: Rico, E., Crespo, M.B., Quintanar, A., Herrero, A. & Aedo, C. (eds.), Flora iberica 20: 340-397. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC. Madrid.

Bolòs, R. de. 1906. D. Ignacio Seriola, Botánico aragonés. Bol. Soc. Aragonesa ci. Nat. 5: 115-123.

Willkomm, H.M. 1893. Supplementum Prodromi Florae Hispanicae. Stuttgartiae, Sumtibus E. Schweizerbart.

Gutiérrez Bustillo, M. & Navarro Aranda, C. 1989. El herbario de P.A. Pourret (1754-1818) conservado en MAF. Acta Bot. Malac. 14: 193-195.

Carrasco, M.A., Martín-Blanco, C.J., García, A. & Perea, D. 1996. Plantas de D. Estanislao Vayreda en el Real Colegio Alfonso XII de San Lorenzo del Escorial, Madrid. Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 54(1): 589-594.

Illustrations, tables and figures

• All figures and tables are mentioned in the text, and are numbered consecutively in the order they are cited.
• All the illustrations (photographs, drawings, maps, graphs) are considered as figures (abbreviated Fig.) and are numbered with Arabic numerals, consecutively.
• The figures are preferably sent in electronic format (if they cannot be provided in electronic format, the photographs will be of quality on glossy paper), according to the following modes, resolutions and formats (cdx, pict, bmp files are not allowed) wmf or PowerPoint):

Photographs and/or small figures will be composed in groups that fit the magazine box. All the figures will have a metric scale. The legends of the illustrations, as brief and precise as possible, will all go together at the end of the manuscript document and must be written in the same language as the rest of the text. In the text, reference will be made to the figures as Fig. 1 or Tab. 1 and in the legends they will appear as Figure 1 or Table 1.