INTRODUCTION, continued
2. Monographs may be published in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish, along with any necessary quotations in other languages. Proposals of new taxa must be accompanied by Latin diagnoses. For correct spelling, consult the dictionaries selected by the editors and listed here in Appendix III.
3. Authors are asked to keep in mind that the monographs should be as useful as possible, not only to professional botanists but also to ecologists, agronomists, foresters, conservationists, and others in related fields. Authors are therefore urged to provide high- quality keys and illustrations as well as detailed information on geographical distribution, habitat, and actual or potential uses of the taxa.
4. Monographs may be at the ordinal, familial, subfamilial, tribal, or generic level. Ordinarily, at least 50 species should be included in treatments of a group of phanerogams below the familial level. Exceptions to this limit must be approved by the OFN Board.
5. Monographers are urged to consult as much authentic plant material as possible, especially type material and material from the tropical herbaria. It is particularly important to consult the larger Latin American herbaria (e.g., BA, COL, EAP, IJ, INPA, LPB, MEXU, MG, PMA, QCA, R, RB, SP, USM, VEN) and to consult local herbaria in the taxon's distribution area. Naturally, material from the major worldwide herbaria (e.g., A, B, BM, CAS, F, G, GH, K, MO, NY, P, S, U, US, W) should be examined.
6. Plant names employed in FLORA NEOTROPICA must conform to the rules of nomenclature as set forth in the most recent edition of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN).
7. Monographs are published as they are accepted, without regard to order of taxonomic or hierarchical sequence. Manuscripts submitted for publication will be peer-reviewed by at least two scientists before acceptance.
8. Manuscripts should be sent to the Executive Director of OFN. A title page with appropriate authorship and a table of contents should accompany the manuscript, along with a black/white photograph and brief biographical sketch of the author(s).
9. If previously published material is being used (e.g., illustrations, tables, extensive portions of text), permission, in written form, must be obtained by the monograph author from the copyright owner. This permission must accompany the manuscript when submitted for publication.
10. It is the author's responsibility to submit a grammatically correct manuscript. It is recommended that the manuscript be read for grammar and clarity of thought by at least two colleagues fluent in the language in which it is written before submission.
11. Students writing theses intended for publication in FLORA NEOTROPICA must follow the Guidelines from the onset of their thesis preparation.
The major headings should be centered and capitalized. When subordinate headings of the above are needed, they should be centered as follows:
Brako, L. (The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 10458-5126, U.S.A.). Phyllopsora (Bacidiaceae). Flora Neotropica Monogr. 55: 1-67. 1991. A taxonomic monograph of ....
Introduction and other Preliminary Topics
Examples of chapters and headings are given above. Appropriate illustrations, tables, and diagrams should supplement the text, to show diagnostic features (e.g., diagrams of flowers, fruits, etc.).
GUIDELINES
-- Introduction
-- General Principles
-- Systematic Treatment
-- Preparation of Manuscripts
-- Appendix I: Geographic Sequence in the Citation of Herbarium Specimens
-- Appendix II: General Abbreviations and Contractions
-- Appendix III: Reference Works