Nova Hedwigia - Instructions to authors

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Nova Hedwigia fully complies with the open access requirements of UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR. Where required by their funder, authors retain the right to distribute their author accepted manuscript (AAM), such as via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. Europe PMC), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence for release not earlier than the date of first online publication.

“Nova Hedwigia” is an international journal publishing original articles in taxonomy, morphology, ultrastructure and ecology of all groups of cryptogamic plants, including cyanophytes/cyanobacteria and fungi. The submission of a manuscript will be taken to imply that the material is original, and that no similar paper has been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts may be submitted in the form of original research reports (not research notes). Authors wishing to contribute review articles or preparing large papers should contact the editors before submitting the manuscript.

All manuscripts will be reviewed before publication. The editor will inform authors of the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts or the need for revision or reduction.

With acceptance and publication of manuscripts the exclusive copyright for every language and country is transferred to the publishers. The copyright covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article including reprints, microfilm or any other reproductions and translations.

Manuscripts

Manuscripts can only be submitted via the journal's Manuscript Management System: ms.schweizerbart.de/submit/nova

An appropriate Editor must be choosen before starting the submission process (see Editors research focus). First-time users, please register as an author. Immediately after registration you are ready to start the five-step submission process. If you need any assistance please contact the publisher (mail@schweizerbart.de). The corresponding author will be notified by e-mail; if a submission notification does not reach you within 24 hours, please also check your system’s spam filter and update your spam filters.

Format of submission

For the review process, please submit the full manuscript as a single file (MS Word or rtf or pdf). The text should have 1.5-fold line spacing, numbered pages and continuously numbered lines. Figures and tables should be included together with their captions on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. Items that are intended for publication as Electronic Supplements should each be provided in a separate file in the final format for publication (i.e. text should be single-line spaced, no line numbering). Each file should be clearly named, and all of them together be uploaded as a single compressed file (such as zip, rar etc.; further details, see below).

Text

The text should normally be subdivided into six sections: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References. Italics should be used only for scientific names of species and genera. Abbreviations must be generally understandable and should be followed by a stop (does not apply to standardized measurements). Footnotes are accepted only exceptionally. Capitals should only be used where they are to appear as such. Symbols, units, and nomenclature should conform to international usage. Scientific names must be used in accordance with International Rules of Nomenclature. The first time a binomen is used in the text (not in the title and abstract) the name of its author should be included, unless a large number of names with authorities are grouped in a table. Authors should be written consistently in full or abbreviated in accordance with the International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Legends and tables should follow the text on separate pages.

The text should normally be subdivided into six sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References. Italics should be used only for scientific names of species and genera. Abbreviations must be generally understandable and should be followed by a stop (does not apply to standardized measurements). Footnotes are accepted only exceptionally. Capitals should only be used where they are to appear as such. Symbols, units, and nomenclature should conform to international usage. Scientific names must be used in accordance with International Rules of Nomenclature. The first time a binomen is used in the text (not in the title and abstract) the name of its author should be included, unless a large number of names with authorities are grouped in a table. Authors should be written consistently in full or abbreviated in accordance with the International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Legends and tables should follow the text on separate pages.

Title of the paper

Contact the handling editor concerning the quoting of more than five authors in the title of the paper. Please always supply an explanation why more than five authors shall be listed.

Tables

Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and have a brief title. They must be neatly typed so that they can be reproduced directly.

Figures

Figures must be numbered consecutively in Arabic numbers. Type area is 12.5 x 18.8 cm.

Data for figures and graphs: tif- or eps-files (in exceptional cases jpg-files may be used), minimum 600 dpi. Please ensure to embed all fonts when submitting eps-files.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements should be simply phrased and given under a single heading at the end of the article.

Literature references

All publications referred to in the text, tables and figure captions must be included in the reference list and vice versa. The format of in-text citations should be as follows: for one author: (Jones 2003), for two authors: (Cumchal & Drenner 2004), and for more than two authors: (Jones et al. 2006). Use semicolons to separate multiple citations. Multiple citations in-text should be ordered chronologically. Reference list: We strongly recommend authors to use the APA 6 reference style to format references. EndNote users can download the EndNote style file here. (https://www.schweizerbart.de/resources/downloads/style-files/endnote_style_schweizerbart_apa6.ens). Authors not using EndNote shall follow the APA 6 reference formatting style. If possible, please also supply the Endnote reference file.

Literature references should be cited in the reference list as follows:
Journal/article:

Fransén, S. (2004). A taxonomic revision of extra-Neotropical Bartramia section Vaginella C. Müll. Lindbergia, 29, 73–107.
Heinken, T., Rohner, M.-S., & Hoppert, M. (2007). Red wood ants (Formica rufa group) disperse bryophyte and lichen fragments on a local scale. Nova Hedwigia Beihefte, 131, 147–163.
Hsueh, Y.-P., Gronquist, M. R., Schwarz, E. M., Nath, R. D., Lee, C.-H., Gharib, S., . . . Sternberg, P. W. (2017). The nematophagous fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora mimics olfactory cues of sex and food to lure its nematode prey. eLife, 6, e20023.
Book:
Smith, A. J. E. (2004). The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland. 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book chapter:
Frey, W. & Stech, M. (2009). Marchantiophyta, Bryophyta, Anthocerotophyta. In W. Frey (ed.), Syllabus of Plant Families (pp. 1–257). Stuttgart: Borntraeger.
Swoboda-Colberg, N. G. (1995). Chemical contamination of the environment: sources, types, and fate of synthetic organic chemicals. In L. Y. Young, & C. E. Cerniglia (eds.), Microbial transformations and degradation of toxic organic chemicals (pp. 27–74). New York: Wiley-Liss.
Reference online:
Maddison, W. P., & Maddison, D. R. (2001). Mesquite. A modular system for evolutionary analysis. Available from: http://mesquite.biosci.arizona.edu/mesquite/mesquite.html

Page proofs

Page proofs must be checked and returned within 10 days of receipt. Changes in proofs, other than typographical errors, will be at the author's cost.

Colour charges

Colour charges: Each printed colour page will charged with € 29.90 + taxes. This includes colour in the online version of the article.

PrePub (pre-print-publication):

PrePub (pre-print-publication):

Manuscripts that are ready to be printed (i.e. accepted by the editors, composed, the proofs checked by the authors and author's corrections included) will be made available online prior to printed publication. Title and abstracts as well as author’s names will be accessible by all visitors of the “Nova Hedwigia” online version. Full text will be available for online journal subscribers. Papers have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) assigned and may be cited. This service gives the opportunity to have articles available well in advance of their actual printed publication date. We offer this service to all authors of “Nova Hedwigia” free of charge.

Manuscripts that are ready to be printed (i.e. accepted by the editors, composed, the proofs checked by the authors and author's corrections included) will be made available online prior to printed publication. Title and abstracts as well as author’s names will be accessible by all visitors of the “Nova Hedwigia” online version. Full text will be available for online journal subscribers. Papers have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) assigned and may be cited. This service gives the opportunity to have articles available well in advance of their actual printed publication date. We offer this service to all authors of “Nova Hedwigia” free of charge.

Reprints

Corresponding authors of an article will receive a pdf-file for personal use only. Personal use implies: No publication on private or other websites (self storage, repositories); No distribution in newsgroups or mailing lists etc. Printed author’s reprints are only available on demand and against costs when ordered prior to the printing process. Please contact the publishers together with the final corrections.

Publishers address

Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung
Johannesstr. 3A, 70176 Stuttgart, Germany
E-mail: mail@schweizerbart.de

December 2023