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Instructions for Authors  Acta Palaeontologica Polonica accepts papers of moderate length. Longer manuscripts, i.e., above 100 typeset pages and congress/symposium proceedings will be published as a supplement to APP (underPalaeontologia Polonica subtitle) with full indexing capacity. Once you have prepared your manuscript according to the instructions below, please visit the online submission system. You will be treated as a corresponding author. Please prepare the following documents before clicking on the 'register' button:
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1. General submission requirementsArticles consist of a title, abstract, keywords, authors’ mail and e-mail addresses, ORCID digital identifier number, introduction, main text, conclusions, acknowledgements, and references.Brief reports (2000-3000 words, ca. 12 double-spaced pages including illustrations). Brief reports consist of a title, bold first paragraph of the introduction that provides the rationale for the work and summarises the main results, main text, acknowledgements, and references, authors’ mail and e-mail addresses, ORCID digital identifier number. Comments,Discussions (1000-1500 words, ca. 6 double-spaced pages),Paper/Book reviews,Prefaces (500-1500 words, ca. 3 double-spaced pages). ).Monographs (50 000-75 000 words, ca. 300 double-spaced pages including illustrations) published as a supplement to APP (under Palaeontologia Polonica subtitle). For more information on the organisation of these types of submissions, please see examples in recent APP issues. Editors' choice. This heading will receive papers of wide topical interest significantly increasing the knowledge of the fossil record and/or evolutionary processes. It will typically contain 2-4 papers (c. 15% of the volume) per issue which will be fast-tracked after acceptance for the speediest possible publication. All submissions are subject of screening against plagiarism. For details see http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck/index.html Financial information. There are no charges for submission of an article. There are no obligatory page charges for papers up to 10 typesetted pages (approximately 30 double-spaced manuscript pages, 12 points Times New Roman font; assuming no illustrations), although any financial support for publication is welcome. For longer papers, a page charge of EUR 22 (VAT included) will be requested for each page over the 10 free pages. Colour figures are free of charge starting with APP issue 69(1). We are inclined to provide exceptions for authors of papers of extreme scientific value if they are lacking financial support. Appeal for a cost reduction may be made to the Editor in Chief. Joint Data Archiving Policy.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica requires, as a condition for publication, that all of the data underlying or supporting the results in the paper should either be made available as Supplementary Online Material (see section 5), or be archived in an appropriate public archive, such as Dryad (http://www.datadryad.org/), MorphoBank (www.morphobank.org) or GenBank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/). Data are important products of the scientific enterprise, and they should be preserved and usable for decades in the future. Authors may elect to have the data publicly available at time of online publication, or, if the technology of the archive allows, may opt to embargo access to the data for a period up to a year after publication. Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the editor, especially for sensitive information such as human subject data or the location of endangered species. Editorial announcement. Following the recommendation of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology we decided that until the human rights situation in Myanmar is resolved, we will not publish papers on Burmese amber collected from 2017 onwards. Authors who wish to publish on Burmese amber specimens are expected to supply the APP editors with adequate proof to satisfy any and all editorial concerns regarding the provenance of the specimens, in the form of certification or other demonstrable evidence, that they were acquired before the date both legally and ethically. Any manuscript submitted that fails to meet these criteria will, at the discretion of the editors, not receive further consideration by APP. This decision is effective from April 23rd, 2020. 2. Cover letterThe cover letter should be no longer than one side of A4 (max words count 300), and it should provide the background for the problem or question your research answers. The focus of the first paragraph is to explain why your research was needed and clearly state the question your research answers.The corresponding author must give written assurance that neither the submitted material nor portions thereof have been published previously or are under consideration for publication elsewhere. Any closely related material currently in press should be submitted with the manuscript.It is assumed that the corresponding author represents all co-authors in certifying that all listed authors participated meaningfully in the study and that they have seen and approved the final manuscript.3. Organisation of the manuscriptGeneral informationThe journal publishes in English. Authors are asked to use either British or American spelling consistently throughout. Authors whose English is not fluent are urged to seek linguistic help from native English-speakers before submitting the manuscript. For the general usage of scientific English, please consult Scientific Style and Format: the CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (6th Edition), Cambridge University Press. APP uses the iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.
Titles should be in capital and lowercase letters. A title should be informative, but also as brief as possible. Do not use terms or names that may not be known to most readers, for instance those introduced in the paper for the first time. Avoid abbreviated words, names of high systematic rank or stratigraphic units given in parentheses, and authorities and dates. Example: Instead of the title: "Occidensbaatar hutchisoni gen. et sp. nov. (Multituberculata, Allotheria, Mammalia) from the Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation at Bug Creek, Wyoming, with some remarks on its bearing on the taxonomy and evolution of Multituberculata as a whole", write: "A new Late Cretaceous multituberculate mammal from Wyoming and its evolutionary implications". Abstract Provide a structured abstract of min 100, max 300 words summarizing methods, results, and conclusions of the study in terms accessible to the general reader. All newly described taxa must be given by name in the abstract. Except in unusual circumstances, references should not be cited in the abstract. Key words Authors have to choose topics from the list provided in the submission form. Additionally they may suggest 3 to 8 key words identifying the nature of the subject matter. Please include stratigraphic and geographic information, where applicable. Use Latin names for higher taxonomic units. Introduction The introduction should be concise and intelligible to a professional palaeontologist or geologist, and preferably to an educated lay reader. Provide the minimum background information that will orient the general reader, and do not engage in a literature review. Institutional abbreviations.—Provide institutional abbreviations used in the text in alphabetic order: abbreviation, name of the institution, town, country. Other abbreviations.—Provide an explanation of any other abbreviations used frequently in the text in alphabetic order. Nomenclatural acts.—Starting from APP issue 64(1) the registration in ZooBank (http://zoobank.org/) of nomenclatural acts published in APP is mandatory prior to online publication. Please register your new taxa in due time and provide Zoobank number in Systematic palaeontology section. New plant taxa should be registered in IPNI (https://www.ipni.org/). Material and methods In accordance with the recommendations of the International Codes of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) and International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), all illustrated and described fossils should be deposited in a appropriate museum or collection to permit free access by other researchers in perpetuity. Collection numbers must be quoted, preceded by an institutional abbreviation. Results/ Systematic palaeontology Present your results in a logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations; emphasise or summarise only important observations. For papers dealing with taxonomy, authors and editors are, by general agreement, obliged to accept the rules governing biological nomenclature, as laid down in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). Authors should ensure that the diagnosis distinguishes the taxon in question from all morphologically similar taxa. Use differential diagnoses for new taxa, including comparisons with all other closely related species or genera. Alternatively, a short diagnosis containing only apomorphies of the new taxon, followed by a "Differential diagnosis", is also acceptable. The number of taxon authors should be kept within reasonable limits, preferably not exceeding three. Organisation of sections in formal taxon descriptions:
The discussion should focus on the interpretation and significance of the findings. State the implications of the findings and their limitations, including possibilities for future research. Relate the observations to other relevant studies. Conclusions Please summarize your findings and explain the implications of your work in a short conclusions section. This chapter should not contain new data or findings but may provide recommendations for future work. If discussion and conclusions are presented together, the they should be namedConcluding remarks. Acknowledgements Authors' contributions (facultative). Providing authors' contributions is optional in APP. Acknowledge contributions that do not justify authorship, technical help, and financial support. Provide the first names of all acknowledged persons, as well as their institutional affiliations (if applicable) and/or city and country names in parentheses. References Do not abbreviate journal names. Always give the names of editors of symposium volumes and edited books. Author, year, and article title are each separated by a period and single space. Capitalise first characters of titles of books and publications, but use lower case for titles of articles within publications. The original titles of publications in Latin alphabets are to be retained. Names of journals and titles of books in non-Latin alphabets should betransliterated (to facilitate library retrieval), while titles of individual papers should be translated into English (to help in understanding the contents). A note such as “[in Russian]” or “[in Chinese, with English abstract ]” should be added at the end of the reference. For examples of exact formatting of references, consult the bibliographies in recent APP papers. Endnote and Procite users may download the output styles (PC platform) for Acta Palaeontologica Polonica here [EndNote] [Procite]. Appendix Use appendices for longer tables or listings such as specimens examined and locality information. 4. Tables and figuresUse space wisely in your tables and figures. Locality maps and stratigraphic sections should include essential information only. Extensive stratigraphic intervals beyond the fossil-bearing horizon or large-scale maps seldom convey useful information and should not be included.Tables.Please submit the tables as Word or Excel files. Begin each table on a new page. Include table descriptions with the tables. Provide explanation of abbreviations used in the table. Begin the text of the table description without a space. Subsequent lines are indented four spaces. Figures (FINAL VERSION)
5. Supplementary Online Material (SOM)Supplementary Online Material should be submitted at the same time as the manuscript. Authors are welcome to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication (the original files will be hosted on our server, a link will be provided in the SOM document). Please supply descriptions, captions, and references for all supplementary materials.6. Review processAll manuscripts (except book reviews and obituaries) are sent to at least two reviewers. While we do not encourage this, the reviewers may ask to remain anonymous. The MS authorship is visible to the referees.Authors are asked to suggest between 3 and 5 potential reviewers (during electronic submission of the manuscript), whose expertise qualifies them to review the work and who are not in the conflict of interests with the authors. Any reviewers the authors wish to exclude may be named, along with the reason for exclusion. While all suggestions will be considered, the final choice of reviewers as well as final decision on publication of the manuscript rests with the Editors. 7. Paper acceptanceAfter revisions have been made by the author to address the reviews, the revised version is adjusted by the editors for the format consistency. The final version of the text as well as high resolution figures should be uploaded via our online submission system. Use only MS Word compatible word processors working in a Windows environment or convert text to RTF format (in which case, both converted and native format files should be sent). For the final version mark the approximate position of figures and tables close to the initial citation.8. ProofsThe corresponding author will receive page proofs in the form of PDF file. Authors are requested to check proofs for typesetting/editing and return corrections to the editor as quickly as possible, preferably within 48 hours of receipt. Failure to return the proof promptly may delay publication. Authors are requested to make corrections directly on the PDF file. Only necessary corrections are permitted; the cost of excessive changes will be billed to the author.9. ReprintsHigh quality pdf files (print ready) are available free of charge upon request.The reprints, in multiples of 25, can be produced as a special order. Inquiries about printing costs should be directed to the technical editor. 10. Copyright policyIf any illustration or table is reproduced from a book or journal article, the author must obtain copyright permission. A suitable acknowledgement of any borrowed material must always be made.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. [last amendments on January 3rd, 2024] |
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