Manuscript submission

All submissions should be made online at the International Journal of Acarology Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

International Journal of Acarology considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to International Journal of Acarology, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which International Journal of Acarology incurs and their papers will not be published.

Contributions to International Journal of Acarology must report original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.

Please be advised that there are no longer any page charges in International Journal of Acarology.

1. General guidelines
   • The language of choice for manuscripts is English but manuscripts written in other languages may be considered.
   • Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
   • Title: the title should be concise and complete. Include order and family names of any organisms cited in the title.
   • Authors: the names of all authors should appear below the title, typed in the format first name, middle initial (if available), last name, e.g. James A. Yoder, Vikram Prasad.
   • All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.
   • Abstracts: a brief but informative abstract typed single space must appear below the author's name. Abstracts should include the authors of all scientific names mentioned in the text.
   • Keywords: important keywords should be including for indexing purposes.
   • All scientific names of genus of lower rank should be italicized. When an animal or plant species or sub species is first mentioned in the text, the binomical or trinomial should be spelled out in full, followed by the author's name. Spell out any genus or species names that may be confused with other names in the text. Spell out genus names when used at the beginning of the sentence.
   • Holotype, paratype and voucher specimens: these should be deposited in national and international museums, and a statement to that effect should appear in the text. Types should be distributed in such a way that they are not all held in the same country. Types and voucher specimens may be deposited in the Acarology Laboratory, Museum of Biological Diversity, the Ohio State University, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 432112, USA and/or Department of Entomology, Types Collection Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, D.C., 20013-7012, USA.
   • Section headings should be concise.
   • Footnotes and acknowledgements: Footnotes should be single spaced and numbered consecutively, following the references. Acknowledgements, if appropriate, should appear before the references.
   • References: authors should be listed alphabetically and chronologically. Citations should include the paper or book's full title, an abbreviated title of the journal of source, and pagination.
   • Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicized.
   • When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or ™.

2. Style guidelines
   • Description of the Journal's article style
   • Description of the Journal's reference style 

3. Figures
   • It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please ensure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 600 dpi for color.
   • Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
   • Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
   • All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labeled (e.g. Figure 1A, Figure 1B).
   • Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
   • The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2B.
   • Author photographs, to be published alongside your article, are also welcome. Please upload these, along with any other figures, on the journal's Manuscript Central site.

4. Color
   
   There are a limited number of color pages within the annual page allowance. Authors should restrict their use of color to situations where it is necessary on scientific, and not merely cosmetic, grounds. Authors of accepted papers who propose publishing figures in color in the print version should consult Taylor & Francis at the proof stage to agree on an appropriate number of color pages. If the color page budget is exceeded, authors will be given the option to provide a financial contribution to additional color reproduction costs. Figures that appear in black-and-white in the print edition of the Journal will appear in color in the online edition, assuming color originals are supplied.

5. Reproduction of copyright material
   
   Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table or extensive extract (more than 50 words) from the text of a source that is copyrighted or owned by a party other than Taylor & Francis or the contributor. This applies to direct reproduction as well as 'derivative reproduction', where the contributor has created a new figure or table that derives substantially from a copyrighted source. Authors are themselves responsible for the payment of any permission fees required by the copyright owner. Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the Editor(s).
   • Copyright permission letter template

6. Supplementary online material
   
   Authors are welcome to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.
   • Information about supplementary online material

Copyright

It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Exceptions are made for authors of Crown or US Government employees whose policies require that copyright cannot be transferred to other parties. We ask that a signed statement to this effect is submitted when returning proofs for accepted papers.

• Further details and FAQs on Taylor & Francis's policy on copyright and authors' rights

Reprints

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