Instructions
for authors
The
following notes are primarily for those preparing applications;
other authors should comply with the relevant sections. Applications
should be prepared in the format of recent parts of the Bulletin;
manuscripts not prepared in accordance with these guidelines may
be returned.
General: Applications
are requests to the Commission to set aside or modify the Code's
provisions as they relate to a particular name or group of names
when this appears to be in the interest of stability of nomenclature.
Authors submitting cases should regard themselves as acting on
behalf of the zoological community and the Commission will treat
applications on this basis. Applicants should discuss their cases
with other workers in the same field before submitting applications,
so that they are aware of any wider implications and the likely
reactions of other zoologists.
Text: Typed
in double spacing, this should consist of numbered paragraphs setting
out the details of the case and leading to a final paragraph of
formal proposals. Text references should give dates and page numbers
in parentheses, e.g. 'Daudin (1800, p. 49) described ...'.
References. These should
give all authors of a publication. Where possible, ten or more
reasonably recent references should be given illustrating the usage
of names that are to be conserved or given precedence over older
names. For both periodical and book citations, lines subsequent
to the first are indented. Authors’ initials
always follow the surname.
1. Periodicals.
The title of periodicals should be in full and in italics. The title
of the paper is given in Roman script, capitals are only used for
proper nouns in English, and where appropriate in other languages,
e.g.
Miers, E.J. 1878. Revision of the Hippidea. Journal
of the Linnean Society of London, (Zoology), 14:
312-336.
The author and volume number are given in bold. The year of publication
is not in bold and is followed by a full stop. A comma separates
title and series/volume/part number. A colon separates series/volume/part
number and page numbers. A hyphen separates first and last page of
relevance. The reference ends with a full stop.
Series numbers are given in parenthesis
(but not in bold) before the volume number; part or issue numbers
are given in parenthesis after the volume number (but not in bold),
e.g.
Memoire della Reale Academia delle Scienze di Torino,
(2)13: 19-94.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, (Harvard
College), 52(16): 303-317.
Papers by more than one author are
cited as shown below, with an ampersand (&) before the last author
in a list (ampersands are similarly used in the text); commas separate
surname and initials; full stops separate initials and come after
the last initial. There is no space between initials, e.g.
Michener, C.D. & Moure,
J.S. 1957. A study
of the . . .
Michener, C.D., McGinley, R.J. & Danforth, B.N. 1994.
The bee genera . . .
2. Book titles. These should be in italics
and followed by the number of pages (both Roman and Arabic numerals
where appropriate) and plates, the publisher and place of publication,
e.g.
Michener, C.D. 2000. The bees of the world.
xiv, 913 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
If a title is given in Latin, publisher
and place of publication may also be given in their latinized form
and as in the original publication, e.g.
Gmelin, J.F. 1788. Caroli
a Linné,
Systema Naturae, Ed. 13, vol. 1, part 4. Lipsiae.
Long titles may be abbreviated,
but should continue to make sense, e.g.
Owen, R. 1839.
Crustacea. Pp. 77-92, pl. 25 in Beechey,
F.W. (Ed.), The zoology of Captain Beechey’s
voyage…to the Pacific
and Behring’s straits performed in Her Majesty’s
ship Blossom…in
the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28.
Bohn, London.
Plate is indicated by pl. and several plates are indicated by pls.
(both are followed by a full stop). Editor is abbreviated to
(Ed.) and editors to (Eds.) (both are followed by a full stop). Book
edition is abbreviated to Ed. (no parenthesis). Page is abbreviated
to p. or P. (if it appears after a full stop) and pages to pp. or
Pp. (if it appears after a full stop). Edition (Ed.) and volume number
(vol.) are separated from the title by a comma. Part number is separated
from volume by a comma. Page number is separated by a full stop from
volume or part number and by a comma from plate number. Multiple
authors follow the same style as for periodicals. The reference ends
with a full stop, e.g.
Jones, A.B. 2002. Animals of the world,
Ed. 2, vol.1, part 2. 222 pp., 12 pls. Publisher, place of publication.
Smith, A.B. & Jones,
B. 2001. In search of
rare animals, vol. 1, part 3. 254 pp., 6 pls. Publisher, place
of publication.
Submission
of application: Two copies should be sent to: The Executive
Secretary, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature,
c/o The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD,
U.K. It would help to reduce the time that it takes to process
the large number of applications received if the typescript could
be accompanied by a disk with copy in IBM PC compatible format,
or the script be sent via e-mail to 'iczn@nhm.ac.uk' within the
message or as an attachment (disks and attachments to be in Word,
rtf or ASCII text). It would also be helpful if applications
were accompanied by photocopies of relevant pages of the main
references where this is possible.
The
Commission's Secretariat is very willing to advise on all aspects
of the formulation of an application.
