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under Submission
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Content
The
Journal of
Crustacean Biology
contains papers of broad interest dealing with any aspect of crustacean
biology, biographies of notable carcinologists, notices of business transacted
at meetings of The Crustacean Society, book reviews of works on Crustacea,
obituary and memorial pieces, and pertinent announcements. We also can
entertain submissions from time to time on other groups of marine arthropods
such as pycnogonids and merostomes. Papers will be published in English
only, but abstracts or summaries in French, German, Portuguese, or Spanish may
be added when appropriate. Descriptions of single new species may be accepted
if accompanied by significant information on zoogeography, ecology,
phylogenetic relationships, or other biological concerns.
You
do not have to be a member of the Society to publish in the Journal of
Crustacean Biology, but there are benefits of membership that are specified
below.
Publication
Costs
(1)
The Journal of
Crustacean Biology accepts
papers for publication on the basis of merit. Page charges are optional for
society members, but members are requested to pay full page charges, if able.
Authors unable to pay full charges are requested to pay as large a share of
the page charges as possible. However, lack of funds for page charges will not
prevent a paper from being published. Alternatively, successful authors
who are not members of the society must pay for all charges in full.
(2)
The cost of printing color plates is in addition to the regular page charges
and is very expensive. The author must pay for the printing of color. The
Crustacean Society cannot cover that additional cost. If an author is unable
to pay for color, the figure will be printed in black and white.
(3)
The cost of reprints is in addition to the page charges and is billed
separately to the author by the printer. The Crustacean Society and the
journal are not involved in the production or sale of reprints. If your paper
is published, the printer will send you a reprint order form that shows the
cost of reprints, and you will pay the printer directly.
(4)
If you are a member of The Crustacean Society, the society will send you a
free PDF file of your paper, regardless of whether you purchase printed
reprints. The PDF file should not be posted on a public website for two
years, but it can be distributed like a reprint to colleagues.
Current
Policies Concerning Author Costs
1.
PAGE CHARGES
Nominal
page charges requested from authors are US$75.00 per printed page, which is
less than the true cost to the society to publish a page. Page charges are
optional for members of The Crustacean Society, but members are requested to
pay full charges if able to do so. Authors unable to pay full charges are
requested to pay as large a share of the page charges as possible. If an
author is without funds and unable to pay page charges, the Society will, to
the best of its ability, cover the cost, but this may result in a delay of the
publication date. Alternatively, successful authors who are not members of the
society must pay for all page charges in full. However, it is easy to
become a member, and a membership form is downloadable from elsewhere on this
site.
2.
CHARGES FOR AUTHOR'S ALTERATIONS MADE IN PROOF
Authors
must pay for each alteration to text made in proof, not to include corrections
of printer's errors or editor's errors, and not to include the updating of
references listed as "in press" that have since been published or
updates to an author’s address. The charge is US$5.00 per alteration.
The formula used by our printer to count the number of alterations will be
used. This charge is not waived for authors who are members of the society.
3.
MANDATORY CHARGES FOR PRINTING COLOR FIGURES
The
cost of printing color figures is in addition to all other charges.
Authors must pay the full cost of printing color figures after the manuscript
has been accepted but before it is published. For recent issues of the
journal, the costs of printing color figures has ranged from US$692.50 to
US$832.50 for each
signature in the
final complied journal.
The cost varies depending on the size and composition of the figures and
whether or not they are submitted as hard copy or as electronic image files.
4.
BILLING
Authors
will be billed for all charges in paragraphs 1-3 on a single invoice, which
will be sent immediately after publication of the paper (payments for color
plates, see below).
Papers
with color illustrations will not be published with the illustrations in color
before the full cost is paid by the author. An invoice for printing
color figures will be sent to the author when the manuscript is accepted but
before it has been sent to the printer. Failure to pay for color
illustrations in advance will result in printing the illustrations in black
and white.
5.
PENALTIES
Authors
who fail to pay a promised page charge (full or partial) or the mandatory
charges (figures, tables, alterations in proof) will not have other papers
published in JCB until the deficit is paid. JCB
will not publish papers from authors who will not pay the nominal page charges
but offer to pay for color plates or excess illustrations or tables.
Authors who pay no page charges or pay only partial page charges must be aware
that their manuscript may not be published as quickly as those from authors
paying in full.
Submission
of Manuscripts
Before
you submit a manuscript, and if you are not fully fluent or a native
speaker of English, we recommend the following. American
Journal Experts (AJE) provides professional language editing services to
authors around the globe who wish to publish in scientific, technical,
medical, and humanities journals. We
urge authors who are not well versed in the English language to use this
service to improve a paper's English and, therefore, its overall quality.
Seeking this assistance is suggested before an article is submitted to JCB for
peer review and certainly before it is finally accepted for publication.
AJE
has over 500 editors from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and Duke; these
editors are native English speakers and subject-matter experts in a wide
variety of fields. They will check your manuscripts not only for terminology
and language specific to your field but also for proper English usage,
grammar, punctuation, spelling, verb tense, and phrasing. In addition, AJE's
professional editors will make sure the text reads naturally and the sentences
are well constructed. Visit AJE's website for more information, or to submit a
document for their scientific proofreading service use this link: www.JournalExperts.com?rcode=JCB1
When
you are secure about your text, manuscripts should be submitted on line to www.jcb.allentrack2.net
While
embedded figures can suffice for the review process, by the final revision
process, separate text and TIF-figure files will be needed saved at the
appropriate resolution.
Form
of Manuscripts
The
printed manuscript must be typed double-spaced leaving margins of at least
2.54 cm (one inch) all around. Use triple spacing above primary headings.
Number pages consecutively in the upper right corner.
Sequence
of material should be as follows: Running head, including author name and
brief title; Title; Author(s) name(s); Mailing and e-mail address(es) of
author(s) (see journal for format); Abstract; Key words; Article body;
Acknowledgements; References; Appendix; Tables; Figure captions; Figures (each
numbered and identified).
The
title page should give the running head; the title of the paper, typed in all
capital letters; and the author name(s), followed by affiliation(s) including
e-mail address(es). In the case of multiple authorship, list all authors'
names first, then each author's initials should be enclosed in parentheses
before the appropriate mailing address; the e-mail address should be within
parentheses immediately following the mailing address. The running head should
contain the first author's surname, a colon, and an abbreviated title in the
case of a single author. When there are two authors, include both authors'
surnames before the colon. In the case of three or more authors, use only the
first author's surname followed by - et al. The running head should not exceed
about 52 characters.
The
abstract should not exceed one double-spaced page. It should contain a summary
of significant findings and note the implication of those findings. The
section title "ABSTRACT" should be in all capital letters and
centered within the margins.
In
the text, the Journal
of Crustacean Biology follows
the style of the most recent of the journal. When in doubt, consult the
editor. JCB allows both American and British spelling, but spelling
format should be consistent within an article. Metric units of measurement
prevail.
Tables
and figures should be self-explanatory, not requiring reference to the text.
Each table should start on a separate page and must be double-spaced
throughout, even if it extends onto multiple pages. Headings and format must
be consistent with the style used in Journal
of Crustacean Biology;
see previous issues for format. Vertical rules and excessive horizontal rules
should not be used. For treatment of large tables of gene sequences, see
below.
Figures
must be proportioned to fit nicely within the journal's margins when reduced.
Figures will be reduced to either 176 mm width (full page) or 84 mm width
(column width) and a maximum height of 237 mm (including the space for caption
beneath). For figures with multiple parts (A, B, C, etc.), all of the parts
must be together on one figure, not spread over multiple separate photographs.
For electronic submission of figures, see below.
All
papers referred to in the text should be listed in the "References"
section alphabetically by the authors' surnames, then chronologically for
multiple papers by the same author(s), e.g., Smith, 1999, followed by Smith
and Brown, 1998, followed by Smith and Jones, 1996, followed by Smith and
Jones, 1997. Use only the authors' surnames and initials in the References;
place a space between an author's initials. Names of periodicals should be
written out in full and should not be italicized. Do not use issue numbers of
continuously paginated volumes. Use a hanging indent for multiple lines within
one citation (see below for more about hanging indents). All citations
in the article must be in the References, INCLUDING the authors of taxonomic
names.
A
sample citation of an article by a single author in a serial journal follows:
Smith,
J. Q. 1981. The distribution of swimming crabs. Journal of Crustacean Biology
1: 105-119.
A
sample citation of an article by two authors follows:
Martin,
G., and P. Juchault. 1999. Androgenic hormone specificity in ten species of
lobsters. Journal of Crustacean Biology 19: 684-689.
A
sample citation of an article in an edited work follows:
Garth,
J. S. 1991. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of Galapagos Brachyura, pp.
123-125. In, M.
J. James (ed.), Galapagos Marine Invertebrates. Plenum Publishing Company, New
York.
Some
Things To Do or Not To Do When Preparing the Manuscript
Do
not use a type size smaller than 12 points.
We prefer a Times New Roman font.
Do
not use boldface type anywhere except to highlight a new taxon.
Do
not justify the right margin.
Use
italics only for the scientific names of genera and lower categories; do not
use underlining.
Do
not italicize "et al."
and fully spelled Latin words such as "sensu" or "ad libitum",
but make no other typesetting indications. Do not underline them.
Do
not use running headers on each page of the manuscript; however, do number
every page in the upper right corner.
Do
not use line numbers in the submitted version. These will be added by
the AllenTrack system automatically when it converts your source files into
reviewable PDFs.
Center
primary and secondary section headings within the margins; primary headings
should be in small capital letters, and secondary headings should be in
uppercase and lowercase letters. Tertiary (third-level) headings should be
even with the left margin, upper and lower case letters, and followed by a
period and an em-dash (or three hyphens). Quaternary (fourth-level) headings
should be avoided, but if required they should be indented from the left
margin, upper and lower case Roman letters, and followed by a period and an em-dash
(or three hyphens).
Do
not begin a sentence with an abbreviation, especially of a genus-level Latin
name of an organism.
Do
not use an ampersand (&) for "and", even between authors' names
in text citations.
Do
not quadruple-space text between paragraphs.
Indent
the first line of each paragraph except for the first paragraph after a first-
or second-level heading or when a third-level heading is used, which is set
flush left on the margin (see above). Do not use the space bar to indent the
line; either use the tab key (not preferred) or set a first-line-indent
distance in paragraph formatting with the word processor settings (preferred).
In
synonymies used in taxonomic papers, use a hanging indent if the references
listed after a scientific name extends onto multiple lines (see below for more
about hanging indents).
One
can use United States Postal Service initials for states and territories of
the United States. European Union country abbreviations can be included
in postal code formulae, e.g., NL-1092 AD.
Start
the text of your paper with an Introduction section.
Place
a space between the author's initials in the References section (see above).
Do
not use issue numbers of continuously paginated volumes in the References
section (see above).
Shorten
the title of your paper by eliminating the author and date of a taxon name
(they will appear in the text) and by not using "Crustacea: " within
parentheses when giving the classification of the organism (this is the
Journal of
Crustacean Biology;
abstract services will know to place your article in the subject Crustacea).
N.B.:
Include the author and date of publication of each species-level name
the first time it appears in the body of the text or in the tables (but not in
the title or abstract). In addition, these citations also must appear in
the Reference section.
In
References, place two spaces between the components of the citation: Author(s).
date. Title. Journal with volume and pages. Separate the ranges of
the pages with a simple hyphen. (Do
not italicize journal titles.)
In
the References section, do not create a hanging indent by pressing the
"enter" or "return" key at the end of each line and the
"tab" key at the start of indented lines. Use the software's
paragraph formatting feature to make a hanging indent. Otherwise, when the
printer translates the file, the line breaks and tabs end up in arbitrary
places.
Do
not try to create the look of certain characters by creating your own symbol.
For example, a superscript letter "o" will not translate as a
degrees symbol; it will translate as a superscript "o", which is
unacceptable for degrees. Similarly, an apostrophe will not translate as
a minute or prime symbol; a prime mark should be used for minutes in
latitude-longitude coordinates.
Do
not create plus-minus signs by underlining a plus sign. Use the plus-minus
symbol instead.
Provide
long tables or appendices of character-state data used in phylogenetic
analyses as an electronic image file (not text file), because they will be
treated as figures in order to avoid retyping them and introducing errors.
Provide the table title for such a table on a separate page, because it will
be typeset.
Do
not submit long tables or appendices of gene sequences. Submit sequence
data to an appropriate repository, e.g., GenBank, and publish only the
accession numbers.
Do
not use unusual fonts. Use the Symbol, Times/Times New Roman, or Palatino
fonts. Serif
fonts are preferred over sans-serif fonts for ease of reading.
Be
consistent in the representation of each symbol throughout the document. The
correct representation of special symbols is critical if the printer is to use
the file.
Distinguish
between similar-looking but disparate symbols, such as with the letter
"x", a multiplication symbol, and the Greek letter Chi. Use the
proper symbol, not the similar-looking letter, i.e., do not use "X"
when you mean it to be a multiplication symbol.
Proofs
The
printer will send galley proofs to the corresponding author for correction and
approval. Changes other than correcting printer's or editor's errors or for
updating references listed as "in press" to add the publication date
or to update an author’s address will be charged to authors. Printed
reprints, available by purchase from the printer only (see Publication costs,
above), may be ordered at the time proofs are returned. Separate artwork is
discouraged since all images should be submitted as TIF files at the proper
resolution of 600 d.p.i. for photographs and 1200 d.p.i. for line art, so
separate artword will be returned only upon request.
Read
and return your proofs PROMPTLY to the editor, including also the separate
figure proofs. If you will be away from your office aaround the time
proofs are scheduled (around 3 months before the scheduled publication date)
make provisions for someone to open and correct the proofs. Delays in
returning proofs will cause delays in printing the issue.
Final
Submission
Upon
final submission, not all parts of the document should be in one electronic
file, as they could be upon initial submission. Parts of the document that
should be included in a single electronic file are as follows: Running head;
Title; Author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s)/ addresses; Key words; Abstract;
Article body starting with Introduction; Acknowledgements; References;
Non-tabular appendices; and Figure captions.
If
the electronic version of your table is to be used, you must create them using
the word processor's "Table" command or use a single tab (not space
bar) between columns and a hard return between rows. Use no rules except those
created by the word processor's Table-menu commands, i.e., do not use
underlining to create a rule. Use no borders or shading and no text boxes.
For
guidelines on the submission of figures electronically, see below.
Guidelines
for Submitting Electronic Art Files to JCB
Separate
electronic art files along with the text files must be submitted at the time
final revisions are completed.
Line
art must be scanned at 1200 dots per inch
(472 dots per centimeter). Halftones
must be scanned at 600 dpi
(236 dpc). Combination halftones, i.e., continuous grade plus line art, must
be scanned at 600 dpi. Color must be scanned at 350 dpi.
Only
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) [or possibly Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)]
formats for both Macintosh and Windows platforms are acceptable.
Indicate the file format of the image in the file name, examples:
"fig1.tif" or "fig2.eps". [Images in JPEG or GIF format
will be 72 dpi and are UNACCEPTABLE for the printing process. Powerpoint,
Excel, DeltaGraph, and other similar files are UNACCEPTABLE
for the printing process.]
The
screen and printer font files for any text added to the figure electronically
must be included on the disk. Only Adobe Postscript fonts for either Macintosh
or PC platforms are acceptable. Do NOT use True-Type or system
"bitmap" fonts. In EPS files, type can be converted to
outlines to avoid the necessity of submitting font files.
Do
not send multiple versions of the same figure.
If
you have any questions regarding these instructions, contact the JCB Editor
at: jcb@whidbey.com.
Last updated: 16 April 2009.