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Instructions to authors

The journal Casopis slezskeho zemskeho muzea (Acta Musei Silesiae), series A – Natural Sciences publishes original papers dealing with the natural sciences (geology, paleontology, botany, zoology and allied fields) written in the English. It also accepts short reports, book reviews or biographical notes which can be written in English or Czech language. In the Czech written reports it is necessary to add an English abstract including the title, English names of geographical units and English captions to all graphic supplements (illustrations, graphs, tables).

All manuscripts are reviewed (by minimum of two peer reviewers) before acceptance and the editorial board decides about their publication and order of printing.

Manuscripts for review must be submitted by means of the electronic editorial system accessible at http://www.szmo.cz/rubrika/70/veda-a-vyzkum/periodika.html. Each author should register here first. Subsequently, he will receive a login password so that he can be able to see the state of the reviewing process, read reviews, proofs and submit the corrected manuscript after reviews.

The final text must be submitted in electronic form (as .doc or .rtf files, MS Word) written by standard type (Times New Roman – size 12). Please, do not use any formatting of the text, only left margin justification. However, it is recommended to write all scientific names of taxa of the species and genus level (not higher) in italics. All illustrations and other larger supplements (drawings, graphs, tables) should be submitted as separate files (not included in the text file). Drawings and other graphic work can be submitted in the formates jpeg, tiff, bmp, cdr or cpt; tables best in xls or cdr. The resolution of line drawings and other graphics should be at least 600 dpi, of photographs 300 dpi at print size.

The standard order of sections for original papers should be: Title, Name(s) of the author(s), Abstract, Key words, Introduction, Methods (Material and Methods), Results, Discussion and Conclusions (these two may be combined), Acknowledgements, References, Author’s address, Tables, Figure legends. A Czech written summary can also be added (after References).

References should be written as follows (Times New Roman – size 10):

• Shaw A. J. & Gaughan J. (1993): Control of sex ratio in haploid populations of the moss Ceratodon purpureus.– Am. J. Bot., 80: 584- 591.
• Shaw J. A. & Goffinet B. (2000): Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge University Press, 565 pp.
• Martinovský J. (1995): Mycetophilidae, pp. 50-61. In Roháček J., Starý J., Martinovský J. & Vála M. (eds): Diptera Bukovských vrchov. Diptera of the Bukovské hills. Humenné, 232 pp.
• Čelechovský A. (in litt.): Denní motýli (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) na území střední Moravy. (Disertační práce). [Daily butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) of Central Moravia region]. (Ph.D. thesis). Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, 2001, Olomouc, 130 pp.
• Chandler P. (2011): Fauna Europaea: Mycetophilidae. In Jong H. de (ed.): Fauna Europaea: Diptera, Nematocera. Fauna Europaea Version 2.4, http://www.faunaeur.org.

References should be cited in the text as follows: Chandler (2011), (Chandler 1993, 1995a,b), Shaw & Gaughan (1993, 1995), (Skelton et al. 1990) etc.

No page charges are required. After the publication author(s) will receive 1 copy of the journal issue, 40 reprints and a pdf file for personal use. The journal is also published online and can be found on web page http://www.versitaopen.com/cszm. All questions can be sent to the editorial address: vitezslav.plasek@osu.cz.