The Boletín de la Sociedad Micológica de Madrid publishes short original papers related to Mycology, both basic and applied or divulgative. Manuscripts, upon receipt, will be read by specialists in the field (peer review), to then issue an appropriate report on its content (peer review). In view of these reports, the Editor of the Bulletin will decide on their acceptance or rejection for publication in the Bulletin, and may request corrections or additional information from the authors. Manuscripts may be returned to the authors without revision when extensive non-compliance with these guidelines is detected; in this case, the authors should correct and resubmit them.
Manuscripts should be written in Spanish, English or any other language to be considered by the Editorial Committee, always with correct spelling and grammar according to the language used.
It should preferably be sent by email to the address indicated at the end of the rules. Alternatively, they may be sent as a paper original and a copy in computer support (CD) to the postal address of the Newsletter Director (see below). The maximum length allowed for a paper is 30 pages, including illustrations, but in exceptional cases the Editorial Committee may modify this limit.
The title should be as informative and brief as possible, indicating the taxa treated but not their authors. It should be written in CAPITAL LETTERS. The authors of the paper should be written in capitals, with the initials of the first names without leaving spaces between the initials (FERNÁNDEZ, I.G.). Next, the postal address and e-mail address should be indicated in lower case. All centered on the page.
An abstract in Spanish and another in English should be included, each in a single paragraph of no more than 200 words. The objectives, methodology, main results and conclusions should be stated, in such a way that there is a concordance between the title of the work and the results obtained. A maximum of 10 key words should be included, separated by commas, not repetitive with the title or abstract.
The text shall be double-spaced, leaving a margin of two centimeters on each side. The first line of each paragraph will be marked with a tabulator. All scientific names should be written in italics, regardless of rank or taxonomic category, even in bibliographical references. No word should be underlined. Figures and tables cited in the text should be numbered in the order of citation. Physical dimensions (length, width and height) should be written in numerical format and separated by the symbol “x” when they are descriptors of the same object, not by the letter “x”. Each page should be labeled with the name of the first author and abbreviated title. If there are two authors, the names of both should be given, and when there are more than two, the first author should be indicated followed by & al. For example: J. GARCÍA & P. SANZ, in the first case, and R. GÓMEZ & al. in the second. This method of citing authors will be applied in the text, followed by the date of publication of the work referred to, which date will be in parentheses. For example: According to the work of GARCÍA & GÓMEZ (2003). The abbreviation “al.” should always be in italics. As far as possible, the text should be structured in the following sections: INTRODUCTION, MATERIAL AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and BIBLIOGRAPHY. Possible subsections will be in lower case: Collected material, Field studies, Habitat, Macroscopy, Microscopy, Observations, etc., beginning the line without indentation. The descriptions of taxa will be concise and informative, but their length will depend on the interest of the fungus to be described; if the species is new for Spain, or very rare, it may be accompanied by a complete description, macro and microscopic, but if it is a species already cited in Spain, only the indication of the bibliographic reference on which the identification has been based will be accepted, with some commentary in which the analogies and differences found in the material studied are expressed. When a taxon has been found more than 10 times in a province, area or region, it is not necessary to include all the localities; it is said to be a common fungus in the study area, unless it is a new taxon for Science.
The mycological nomenclature should conform to the norms established in the current International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (ICN) (the current one is that of Melbourne, which can be consulted at).
https://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php
Authors of taxa should be indicated only under the heading where the taxon in question is described or discussed, as the only time; they should not be included in the title of the paper, abstracts or rest of the text. If the taxon is not described or discussed, it will be cited only the first time the name is mentioned in the main text. The names of the authors of taxa should be abbreviated according to KIRK & ANSELL (1992) “Authors of fungal names”, CAB, or by contacting the following address:
https://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/AuthorsOfFungalNames.asp.
It is recommended to include complete bibliographic citations and to follow the format used in the CIN.
It is recommended to leave at least one duplicate of the studied specimens in a public herbarium, being mandatory in the case of new taxa or of special interest due to their rarity, ecology, chorology, etc. The acronyms of the herbaria where the studied material is deposited will follow HOLMGREN & al. (1990), “Index herbariorum”, 8 edic., Regnum Vegetabile 120, and can be consulted on-line:
https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/
The use of parentheses in the text can be done in several ways: SINGER (1942), if we refer to the author’s work; SINGER (1942: 27), if we want to refer to a specific page of that work; (SINGER, 1942), when we want to give a reference justifying an explanation. Different works should be separated by semicolons within the same parenthesis: (GARCÍA, 1990; PÉREZ, 2005), except if all the authors are the same, in which case the authors are cited only once and then the different years are separated by commas: (SANZ, 2004a, 2004b, 2008; SANZ & PÉREZ, 1983, 1960).
All bibliographical citations contained in the text should be included in this section and vice versa. First, all papers should be arranged alphabetically according to the first author. In turn, papers with a single author will be ordered chronologically; then, if there are two authors, they will be ordered alphabetically according to the second author and then If there are two authors, they should be ordered alphabetically according to the second author and then chronologically; finally, papers with three or more authors should be ordered by year only. In all cases, papers belonging to the same authors and years should be distinguished by adding letters after the year, in the order in which the references are cited in the text. To cite works published in periodical journals, the abbreviated name of the journal (according to https://ipni.org or, failing that, according to the abbreviation established by the journal itself) should be indicated in italics. Finally, in the case of independent books that do not form part of a series, as well as doctoral theses, the title should be in italics, abbreviated according to STAFFLEU, F.A. & R.S. COWAN (1976-present). Taxonomic literature 1-current, which will be available at:
https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_index.html
The general format will be as follows (pay attention to order, punctuation, italics, special characters and spaces; a number of fictitious examples are included):
Journals: AUTHOR1, AUTHOR2 & AUTHOR3 (year). Title of article. Title of the journal X(Y): pp-pp.
SANZ, J. (2004a). Estudios de hongos cavernícolas. Micol. Subt. 3: 70-78.
SANZ, J. (2004b). Más datos sobre hongos cavernícolas. Micol. Subt. 4: 22-29.
SANZ, J. & M.A. GARCÍA (1987). Continental shelf. Geol. 5: 1-20.
SANZ, J. & O. PÉREZ (1983). Introducción a los hongos litobiónticos. Geol. 1: 35-80.
SANZ, J., O. PÉREZ & P. GIL (1987). Hongos Marinos. Biol. Mar. 27(2): 14-83.
SANZ, J., M.A. GARCÍA & P. GIL (1990). Esporas atmosféricas fúngicas. Palinol. Micol. 3: 12-18.
Books: AUTHOR1, AUTHOR2 & AUTHOR3 (year). Title of book, volume. Publisher, City of publication.
KÜHNER, R. & H. ROMAGNESI (1974). Flore analytique des champignons superieurs. Ed. Masson, Paris.
Book chapters: AUTHOR1, AUTHOR2 & AUTHOR3 (year). Title of chapter. In: Book title, volume. Publisher, City of publication, pp. X-X.
GARCÍA, J.A., E. MAESTRE & J. PÉREZ (2000). The magic of mushrooms. In: Historia básica de la Micología, vol. 2. Ed. Conocimiento, Barcelona, pp. 12-72.
Dissertations, doctoral these and other academic works: AUTHOR (year). Title of the work. Type of work. University, City.
FERNÁNDEZ, C. (1950). Review of the Iberian Agaricales. Tesis Doctoral. Universidad Española de Micología, Madrid.
Electronic documents without journal format: AUTHOR1, AUTHOR2 & AUTHOR3 (year). Title of the document. URL address with disabled hyperlink (date of consultation).
LENNE, M. (2007). Lamproderma pulveratum. http://myxo.be/pdf/Lamproderma pulveratum.pdf (7-II-2015).
They shall be in universal format. Drawings shall be made with Indian ink on white or transparent paper, graphics may be made in the same way or with a computer program; in both cases the files must be sent in digital support JPG or TIFF of high resolution (preferably 600 ppp or higher). Black and white or colour photographs should be of good quality, and should be sent in high resolution JPG or TIFF digital support (preferably 300 ppp or higher), by e-mail with a link for downloading (not directly as attachments) or on a separate CD. In all cases, the author will try to compose the individual images in full-page plates. numbering the photographs and including the captions in the text. The maximum size of the illustrations, including captions, shall be 210 × 160 mm. Images of smaller height will be admitted as long as the width is adjusted to one (76 mm) or two (160 mm) columns. The separation between individual images within the same sheet shall be made with white lines 0.75 mm thick (exceptionally black if the individual images all have a white or very pale background). Optionally, and only if a slide is composed, in turn, of other internal slides, the separation between the images of the internal slides may be made by lines 0.25 mm thick, while the lines separating the internal slides from each other will be of the standard 0.75 mm thick (example: slide composed of three internal slides, one of spores, one of basidia and one of cystidia). A rectangular metric scale, 1.5 mm thick, white, black or white with black margin should be attached to each microscopic illustration to achieve the best contrast with the background, and trying to be uniform within the same slide; the equivalent length of this scale should be noted only in the figure caption. It is also recommended to include a metric scale in macroscopic photos, whenever possible, particularly in photos taken in a studio. The editorial committee may scale images to a smaller size than that submitted for reasons of available space, interest of the illustrations, or quality of the illustrations; the main author will receive a preliminary version of his or her article before publication.
Taxa described as new to science should always be accompanied by an indication of an accessible herbarium where the type material is deposited, as well as a brief diagnosis in Latin or English, different from the complete description. All specimens cited of these taxa should bear the number of the herbarium where they are deposited.
With respect to localities, they will be ordered by places from highest to lowest category; starting with the country in capital letters, province, municipal locality, area where collected, elevation in meters, habitat, date with month in Roman numerals, collector in italics and field number in round (if any), herbarium and number assigned to the deposited specimen. For example: SPAIN: Madrid, Chinchón, El Valle, next to the Tajuña river, 730 m, on Populus, F. González 435, AH 999999. Between the collection area and the elevation, it is recommended to indicate the geographic coordinates according to the European Terrestrial Reference System 1989, either in degrees, minutes and seconds format or in MGRS. In case of doubts, consult the last published Bulletin.
The originals received by April 30, which are accepted, will be published in that year, and those received after that date will be published the following year. A total of 10 free offprints will be provided for each article. If more are needed, the authors will pay the cost of the corresponding copies requested.
Prof. Gabriel Moreno
Universidad de Alcalá. Dpto. de Ciencias de la Vida (Botánica)
Facultad de Ciencias, Alcalá de Henares, 28805 Madrid. España.
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