Submissions

Author Guidelines

Mediterranean Botany (ISSNe 2603-9109) publishes original scientific works dealing with Botany, including Biogeography, Ecology, Ethnobotany, Flora, Plant Taxonomy, Systematics, and Vegetation. Mediterranean Botany publishes one volume a year consisting of two issues. Each issue is organized in different sections: original articles, botanical checklists, taxonomic and phytosociological nomenclature sections (TPNS), and short notes.

Two appropriate referees will review the manuscript sent for inclusion in Mediterranean Botany, but the final decision to accept or not a manuscript is on the Editorial Board. However, it is necessary to point out that the opinions stated in the works published in Mediterranean Botany are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Editorial Board, the Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany Department, or the University Press. Manuscripts that do not strictly adhere to the following publishing instructions will be returned to the authors.

Manuscript submission and correspondence. Manuscript submission proceeds totally online uploading your files to http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/MBOT (‘register with this site’). Authors may submit a manuscript as a Word document (.doc or .docx) or RTF (.rtf), with all tables and figures embedded in a single file. Authors should provide an extra-file similar to the original but without the name of authors to ensure blind review. The language used is only English.

Other advice to compile your manuscript:

• Use uniform lettering and sizing, using cursive only for scientific nomenclature. Preferred fonts: Times New Roman. Margins: 2.50 cm
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Title should be concise but informative with the authors' name below.
• The address(es) of authors(s) placed at the bottom of the first page of the manuscript.
• Every original should include a broad summary in English pointing out the main results and conclusions of the work.
• The text should consist of Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, and References.
• The nomenclature of taxa and syntaxa used should strictly follow the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) or the Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (ICPN) respectively and reference floras should be included.
• Phytosociological tables should be in portrait format and can contain up to 15 plots. Those tables sent in landscape format will be sent to Supplementary material. Species names should not include authors, those not admitted in reference floras should be part of a floristic appendix with the corresponding information (protologues, etc.). 

Citations and References should follow the Council of Science Editors (CSE) style guide, is commonly used for a scientific paper, journal publications, and books in the life, biological, and other sciences.

Citations. Use forms such as: (Loidi, 2008) or Loidi (2008), Leps & Smilauer (2003) or (Leps & Smilauer, 2003) or Tutin et al. (1964-1993) or (Tutin et al., 1964-1993). Citations should be in chronological order by year (Gavilán & Fernández-González, 1997; Leps & Smilauer, 2003).

References. Use the formats below. Always name all the authors for each publication and give the abbreviate name of the journals using the ISI Journal Title Abbreviations, add the DOI name after the reference when possible:

Lekberg, Y., Bever, J.D., Bunn, R.A., Callaway, R.M., Hart, M.M., Kivlin, S.N., Klironomos, J., Larkin, B.G., Maron, J.L., Reinhart, K.O., Remke, M. & van der Putten, W.H. 2018. Relative importance of competition and plant-soil feedback, their synergy, context dependency and implications for coexistence. Ecol. Lett. 21: 1268─1281. doi: 10.1111/ele.13093 

Gavilán, R.G. & Fernández-González, F. 1997. Climatic discrimination of Mediterranean broad-leaved sclerophyllous and deciduous forests in central Spain. J. Veg. Sci. 8(3): 377─386. doi: 10.2307/3237327

Leps, J. & Smilauer, P. 2003. Multivariate analysis of ecological data using CANOCO. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.

Tutin, S. & al. (Eds.). 1964─1993. Flora Europaea. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

Gehu, J.M. & Rivas-Martínez, S. 1981. Notions fondamentaux de phytosociologie. In: Dierschke, H. (Ed.). Syntaxonomie. Pp. 5─53. J.Cramer, Vaduz.

Romero, M.I. 1993. La vegetación del valle del río Cabe (Terra de Lemos, Lugo). Mem. Doc. (ined.). Fac. Biología, Univ. Santiago de Compostela.

Websites. Use the format below. 

African Plant Database (version 3.4.0). Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. Available from: http://africanplantdatabase.ch [Accessed DD Month YYYY].

Tables and figures. They should have a detailed caption and be enumerated as Table 1, Table 2, etc. or Figure 1, Figure 2. It is possible to publish color photographs on-line.

Phytosociological tables should be in portrait format and can contain up to 15 plots. Those tables sent in landscape format will be sent to Supplementary material. Species names should not include authors, those not admitted in reference floras should be part of a floristic appendix with the corresponding information (protologues, etc.).