The CSE quarterly journal, Insecta Mundi, is among the very few journals that have no page charges. Even so, the Center for Systematic Entomology is entirely financed through dues, subscriptions, and donations of cash, property, and time. We have found it necessary to make certain requirements for publication in the journal. (See also information on front inside cover of the journal.

Arnett, R. H., Jr.

Woodruff, R. E.

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Insecta Mundi Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida 3-1-1998 CSE style manual and requirements for publication in Insecta Mundi R. H. Arnett Jr. R. E. Woodruff Florida State Collection of Arthropods, BobsGems@aol.com Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi  Part of the Entomology Commons Arnett, R. H. Jr. and Woodruff, R. E., "CSE style manual and requirements for publication in Insecta Mundi" (1998). Insecta Mundi. 352. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/352 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 38 Vol. 12, Nos. 1 & 2, March-June, 1998, INSECTA MUNDI CSE style manual and requirements for publication in Insecta Mundi The CSE quarterly journal, Insecta Mundi, is among the very few journals that have no page charges. Even so, the Center for Systematic Entomology is entirely financed through dues, subscriptions, and donations of cash, property, and time. We have found it necessary to make certain requirements for publication in the journal. (See also information on front inside cover of the journal.) [At the present time, all work of the organization is done by volunteers among the members, except for the actual printing. Camera ready copy is prepared and edited by mem- bers of the editorial board (see inside front cover of any issue.)] 1. All authors must be members of the Center; this in- cludes each of the authors of articles with more than 1 author. If foreign authors are unable to pay for membership in U.S.A. dollars, but can purchase separates, the membership may be included in the bill for separates. Other arrangements may be made by application to the Board of Directors. Membership is currently $35.00 per year. Membership entitles authors to publish up to 25 pages per year without page charges; over that number- of pages must be paid for- at  $35.00 per page (but with no additional charge for separates for the additional pages). 2. Authors are required to purchase 100 separates at $lO.OO/page/lOO copies (e.g., a 2 page articles costs $20.00,3- page, $30.00, etc. up to 25 pages, $250.00). We cannot supply fewer than 100 copies. If additional copies are needed, ar- rangements will be made for these at additional cost, or we will supply camera-ready pages for the use of the author's printer. Shipping charges for separates are additional (see price list furnished on request). 3. No additional charge is made for line illustrations. However, printers charge $15.00 per page for the insertions of halftone illustrations, a charge passed on to the authors. 4. Full color pages are possible. These are printed on coated paper (now used in all issues). The color separations cost approximately $75.00 per page, and the additional cost of printing color increases the cost to not over $900.00 per page, less under certain circumstances. Those anticipating using color should write for an exact quote. There is no additional charge for separates of articles with full color. 5. When authors submit articles they should send: 1) diskette; 2) Hard copy printout; 3) either original illustrations (particularly haftones) or photocopies of drawings, and 4) authors must submit peer- reviews from 2 entomologists, with comments, names of reviewers, and statement of the author as to action taken on reviewers' comments. Additional peer re- view will be made by the editorial board and other reviewers as needed. [Peer reviews take a long time and materially delay the publication of an issue. Therefore, we ask that the author pro- vide us with 2 peer reviews. Generally these are from the same specialists we would ask. All articles are reviewed by the entire Editorial Board. Unless there is a problem, further reviews are not necessary. At the discretion of the editor, further review may be required. Generally, however, in such cases, the article is returned to the author for repairs.] 6. Articles should be submitted on high density electronic diskettes, along with hard copy printouts. These must be copy edited, i.e., the diskette must be free of typos and misspellings. It must be in acceptable syntax, in typewritten (i.e., manu- script) format, without special commands to make it look as if it were printed. If mistakes are found, the paper will be re- turned automatically for corrections to the diskette. Note: Common mistakes include 2 spaces after a period; use only 1; using 2 hypens (--) to indicate a M-dash (-), used only 1 hy- phen; do not underline to indicate italics, all computer pro- grams now have italics; do not write out numbers 1-10, use numerals throughout (except at the beginning of a sentence); do not use spaces for indentations, centering, etc., use tab key only, not space bar; do not put in dot-leaders as periods (see no. 11, following). We also ask that you add a comma before "and" in a series (black, white, and brown), which is now al- most universally required by editors to prevent ambiguity. [Articles that are submitted with author's attempts to make it look like printing take the longest time to format. All of the formatting added by the author must be taken out, and the new format (ours) added. Hence, a preformatted article takes twice as long to get ready for the printer. Please read the above item carefully.] 7. Articles should be prepared using Word, Word Per- fect, or or other standard word processing program with an MS-DOS, or Windows operating system (or a recent Macin- tosh operating system that can be converted to DOS). IF prop- erly prepared diskettes cannot be submitted, clear typescripts are acceptable and will be scanned onto a diskette at a charge of $1.50 per typescript page. [We can read almost any word processing program, in- cluding Mac disks, except for some extremely old programs. The most time consuming job is finding out what program was used because many authors neglect to write this on the disk's label. We need to examine the disk when the article first arrives in order to determine what needs to be done to produce the article. Please label the disk with the name of the operating system and word processing program and version used.] 8. New species descriptions should be, first, a description of a single specimen, the holotype. This is followed by a dis- cussion of the variation of the paratype series, including any sexual dimorphism present. The unique holotype is the name bearer (and reference point). Therefore, it is obvious that the description of it is the most significant part of the naming of a new species. The variations within the type series can be men- tioned parenthetically or in a separate section on variation. The International Rules and CSE recommend against naming (Continued on page 58.) 58 Vol. 12, Nos. 1 & 2, March-June, 1998, INSECTA MUNDI (Continued from page 38.) new species based on only 1 specimen. This should be done only after years of study of the group and normally only within the context of a generic revision. Therefore, we now ask that authors comply with this requirement. 9. Spell out: new species; new genus, etc.; use English or foreign language words, but not Latin, e.g., do not use "species nova." Abbreviate such words as "page and pages" as "p."; "figure and figures" as "fig."; "illustrations" as LLillus." [There is no point in abbreviating a word if the abbrevia- tion isn't short, or brief. The saving of space is trivial from the standpoint of having the article take up less space. Usually these abbreviations are merely a convention.] Measurements, both in text and in fig. legends, should be as follows: 19m1n [no space, no period]. We can supply "p" but these do not always convert over from other word proces- sor formats. The same is true of "6" and "0" symbols. We have most diacritical marks, but not all. Make sure these are clearly marked on the manuscript. T o  distinguish the role in classification, rather than nor- mal usage, we ask that Order, Family, Genus, and subdivisions of these be capitalized. In general we prefer that words not be hyphenated. It is usual to use "hairlike" [hair is not found in insects] rather than hair-like, or hair like. Some words without a hyphen, e.g., dogeared are better hyphenated, 'Ldog-eared," but "well- developed" is better as "well developed." 10. The text of the diskette must be without indication of boldface or type size. Italics are to be used for Latin names of genera, species, and other Latin words, such as etc. only. All text is to be in caps and lower case, including subheads; never use all caps. If text is placed in 2 or more columns, (e.g., copy in a table), the copy must be submitted as a camera ready table (which we may reduce as in line drawings). We do not set ta- bles. 11. The text is to have all commands omitted, the only exception is for paragraph indentation, but use the tab key, not the space bar. Keys must omit dot leaders (these will be added after final formatting). Never create hanging indentation in a key by tabbing. Species and generic names may be italicized in keys and text; never use all caps. 12. We ask that collection codens be used when citing the location of collections; for uniformity, use those published in Insect and Sfiider Collections of the World, 1993 edition, by R. H. Arnett, Jr., G. A. Samuelson, and G. M. Nishida. 13. All geographical names must be spelled out, and place names should have the first letter capitalized, including World, Nearctic, etc. 14. Consistency in the "References" [not LLLiterature cited"] section is especially important. All journal names are to be spelled out in Ml  to facilitate easy library search. Each cita- tion should start with the author(s) name(s), then year, and title of the article with only proper names capitalized in English title, or otherwise according the custom of the language. The bibliographic reference is cited by volume and pages, these in Roman. Usually the issue number may be omitted. The fol- lowing are a few examples: References Bielawsky, R, 1960. Materialien zur Kenntnis der Coccinelli- dae (Coleoptera). Annales Zoologici. 18(24):435-458. Deyrup, M. A., N. Carlin, J. Trager, and G. Humphrey. 1988. A review of the ants of the Florida Keys. Florida Entomologist. 71 :I 63-1 76. Gyllenhal, L. 1833. In  Schonherr. Genera et species curculi- onidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Volume l(1). Paris, 381 p. Kingsolver, J. M. 1991. A new species of Amblycems (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) from Central and South Amer- ica, with notes on its biology. Proceedings of the. Ento- mological Society of Washington 93:433-436. 15. Papers are published in order of final acceptance. Ac- ceptance date is the date corrected proofis received. Please check recent issues of Insecta Mundi for examples of our required style. Any additional information needed will be supplied by members of the editorial board (see a recent copy of Insects Mundi) or by calling the managing editor at (352) 371-9858; fax (352) 371-0962. For the Editorial Board by R. H. Arnett, Jr., and R. E. Woodruff April 13,1998 [Text: Bulmer, 10 pt. type on 11 pt. body] 

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