JESO Volume 139, 2008 



INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS 



(revised October 2008) 



The Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario (JESO) is a fully refereed publication 

 comprising full length articles, scientific notes, and reviews on entomological topics, with 

 a special focus on the insects of Ontario. JESO is published annually towards the end 

 of each calendar year. Manuscript submissions are welcomed at any time, but should be 

 received by the Editor by 1 April for publication in the current year. The following set 

 of instructions is intended to assist in the writing and preparation of manuscripts. The 

 style is quite standard, and reference to recent volumes of the Journal will assist in cases 

 of difficulty. Special problems should be brought to the Editor's attention at the time of 

 submission of a manuscript. These Instructions to Authors', appearing here on our website, 

 take precedence over any hardcopy version printed in the Journal. 



General. Articles accepted for publication are either in English or French, with an English 

 abstract. At least one author shall be a member in good standing of the Society. Manuscripts 

 shall not be offered for prior or simultaneous publication elsewhere, and the Editor should 

 be informed if manuscripts have been refused elsewhere. Authors shall write as concisely 

 as possible, omit material not essential to the main theme of the paper, keep footnotes to a 

 minimum, and explain in the letter of transmittal the general subject and any presubmission 

 reviews. 



Electronic Submission. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as file attachments 

 with a cover letter to the Editor (Miriam. Richards@brocku.ca). Initial submissions of 

 manuscripts may be in the form of Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, or PDF documents; 

 at this stage, tables, figures and illustrations may be embedded in a single file. After final 

 revisions and acceptance, the final manuscript must be submitted to the Editor as a series 

 of clearly named electronic file attachments containing the text, the tables, and the figures. 

 Photographic and drawn images should be submitted as high resolution graphics files 

 (preferably in TIF format). 



Types of Articles. Full length papers will generally be divided into sections (Abstract, 

 Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, Literature 

 Cited, Tables, Figure Legends, Figures). For scientific notes, the same standards apply as 

 for full papers except that abstracts are not included, they are limited to four pages, and the 

 breakdown of the text into headed sections should be avoided. Taxonomic and faunistic 

 papers should conform to the style of those in recent issues of the Journal (excellent 

 examples may be found in Volume 138 (2007)). 



Text. Text should use Times Roman, 12 point font, and should be double-spaced throughout 

 (including captions, references, synonymies, and footnotes), with margins of at least 

 25 mm at the top, right, left, and bottom of each page, and include both page and line 

 numbering to facilitate review. Spelling within one article should consistently conform to 

 usage recommended in either the Oxford or Webster's New International dictionary. Except 



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