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Information for contributors and house style guide
1. The journal “Studies in the History of Biology” is an academic publication specializing in the fields of history, philosophy and sociology of biology. It is not intended for publishing popular and non-academic papers.
2. No submission fees are charged.
3. Contributors receive no royalties for publication.
4. Submitted articles should not exceed 60,000 signs with spaces and footnotes (30 doublespaced pages). Exception is granted only to the papers commissioned by the editorial board. Contributions to ‘Reviews’ and ‘Chronicle’ sections should not exceed 12,000 signs (6 pages).
5. Contributions should be either in Russian or in English with titles provided in both languages. Articles should include abstracts (up to 1000 signs or 0.5 page) and key words in both languages. All documents reproduced should be given in the language of the original with translation provided, if necessary.
6. Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form (recorded on a disc or as a fileattachment sent to the editorial board).
7. All texts should be submitted as MS .doc or .rtf files (please, do not send documents in .docx or .odt files!), Times New Roman 12 pt, singe-spaced, preferably all quotations should be in Arial. All photos and pictures should be submitted as separate .tif files or as hard-copies.
8. Contributions can contain abbreviations and acronyms, however full institutional names, titles etc. should be used when they first appear in the text with an appropriate abbreviation / acronym given in brackets. Specific and generic names of animals and plants should be in italic. All quotations from other sources should be given in quotation marks with an appropriate reference. A reference to a published source should include page where the cited text first appears; a reference to an archival manuscript should contain all relevant information (the archive’s name, collection, inventory, file and the sheet number on which the original text appears). In quotations, all omissions should be marked with omission points, all comments and explications should be given in square brackets.
9. Bibliography items should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper, they should not be numbered. Journal titles should be given in their full form, with volume, number (issue) and pages indicated. References to books should contain the place of a publication, the publishing house, the year of publication, and the number of pages. For collected papers (books with more than more than three authors), please, indicate the editors of a book. For a sample bibliography, please, refer to the website of our journal.
10. References are given in-text, in brackets. They should contain the author’s surname, the year of publication and a page, if necessary. If an author published several works in the same year references to them should be marked with letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ etc., both in-text and in bibliography. E.g.: (Pallas, 1773a), (Pallas, 1773d, p.244), (Gajsinovich, 1967d; 1988), (Kolreuter, 1761; cit. in Kyolrejter, 1940, p.84. However references to archival sources should be given in footnotes. When the name of an archive appears for the first time it should be given in full; in further references it can be given as an acronym.
11. Footnotes can be used for short explanations. If necessary a contribution can contain supplements located at the end of an article.
12. When submitting a paper, contributors are kindly requested to provide information on themselves: their last, first and middle names, academic degree(s), institutional affiliation, mail address ,contact phone number(s), e-mail address.
13. All contributions which fail to meet these requirements will not be considered by the editorial board.
14. All contributions are reviewed. Authors are notified about the acceptance or rejection of their papers within three months since the day their paper has been received by the editorial board. The authors can familiarize themselves with the content of reviews; however the editorial board does not comment or discuss its decisions.
15. Accepted papers are to be signed by their authors who also sign Agreement to a temporary copyright transfer. For a full text of the Agreement, please, refer to the journal web-site.
16. Authors are personally responsible for ensuring that all information, quotations, dates and names given in their papers are correct. All pictures (illustrations) should be supplemented with references to their provenance and copyright holder.
