Bonn zoological Bulletin (BzB) 



Instructions to authors 

 Scope 



The Bonn zoological Bulletin (BzB), formerly "Bonner zoologi- 

 sche Beitrage", is an international, peer-reviewed, open access jour- 

 nal publishing original research articles, reviews, and scientific notes 

 dealing with organismal zoology. Focus of the BzB are (1) taxon- 

 omy, (2) systematics and evolution, and (3) biodiversity and bio- 

 geography, all with respect to terrestrial animals. Terrestrial animals 

 as understood here include those inhabiting fresh or brackish wa- 

 ters. Contributions from related fields like ecology, morphology, 

 anatomy, physiology or behaviour are welcome when of clear rel- 

 evance to the focus topics. 



Publication in BzB is free of charge, including colour illustrations 

 or photographs contributing significantly to quality and / or read- 

 ability of the manuscript. Authors retain full copyright of their pub- 

 lished papers, may share them with colleagues, and are encouraged 

 to post the original pdfs on their personal or institutional website 

 for non-commercial use. All material must be original, unpublished 

 work and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. 



Research articles: Manuscript preparation and submission 



Manuscripts should be written in English. For serving readers from 

 the organism's country of origin, bilingual abstracts are welcome. 

 If you plan to submit a manuscript of more than 50 manuscript pages, 

 please contact the editor-in-chief in advance. Please submit your 

 manuscript as electronic file (see paragraph on electronic submis- 

 sion below). Manuscripts should strictly follow the instructions spec- 

 ified below. Manuscripts not compatible with these guidelines will 

 not be taken into consideration. 



Format Typing should be double-spaced in 1 2 pt throughout the text, 

 including tables, figure legends, and reference list. Pages and lines 

 should be numbered consecutively. Short subheadings may struc- 

 ture the text into sections. Do not number headings or subheadings. 



Structure Research articles should be organized as follows: Title, 

 Author(s), Address(es) including email address and telephone, Ab- 

 stract, Key words, Running Title, Introduction, Material and Meth- 

 ods, Results, Discussion (or combined Results and Discussion), Con- 

 clusions (optional), Acknowledgements, References, Tables, Figure 

 Captions, Figures (separately numbered and identified). Appendices 

 (if necessary). Footnotes should not be used except in Tables. 



Title The title should be brief (30 words limit, ideally shorter) and 

 indicate clearly the field of study and group of animals investigat- 

 ed. The systematic position of taxa listed in the title must be indi- 

 cated (e.g. "Squamata: Colubridae"). A Running Title (maximum 45 

 characters inclusive of spaces) should describe the paper's core top- 

 ic. 



Abstract Each manuscript should contain a concise abstract as sin- 

 gle paragraph (max. 200 words) summarizing the significant find- 

 ings, followed by not more than six key words. 



References In the text, cited sources should be referred to as fol- 

 lows: Ax (2001), Kim & Lumaret (1989), Holm et al. (1997) - for 

 three or more authors, or, if cited consecutively: (Ax 2001, 2002; 

 Holm et al. 1997; Kim & Lumaret 1989) - please follow exactly 

 the use of commas and semicolons. Do not use commas between 

 author and year (only exception: taxonomic names, in which a com- 

 ma is placed between author and year). 



The list of references should be arranged alphabetically according 

 to the surname of the first author; all authors should be included. 

 Citations of two or more authors should be arranged alphabetical- 

 ly according to the first- and then the following author's surname. 

 When more than one reference is given for a single author or the 

 same combination of authors, these should be arranged chronolog- 

 ically. If citing more than one reference by the same author(s) pub- 

 lished in the same year, use a, b, etc. after the year in both, text and 



reference list (e.g. 2006a, b). The names of journals in the 

 References should be given in full. References "in press" shall on- 

 ly be cited when they have been accepted for publication. Exam- 

 ples of reference style are: 



Kottelat M, Whitten T, Kartikasari SN, Wirjoatmodjo S (1993) 

 Freshwater fishes of Western Indonesia and Sulawesi. Periplus 

 Editions, Hong Kong 



Mayr E (2000) The biological species concept. Pp. 17-29 in: Wheel- 

 er QD & Meier R (eds.) Species Concepts and Phylogenetic The- 

 ory - A Debate. Columbia University Press, New York 



Parenti RP (2008) A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision 

 of ricefishes, Oryzias and relatives (Beloniformes, Adrianichthyi- 

 dae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154: 494-610 



Sullivan J (1994) Bufo boreas. In: Fire Effects Information System 

 (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Moun- 

 tain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory). Online at 

 http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/animals/amphibian/bubo/all.ht 

 ml last accessed on December 28, 2009 



Sztencel-Jablonka A, Jones G, Bogdanowicz W (2009) Skull mor- 

 phology of two cryptic bat species: Pipistrellus pipistrellus and 

 P. pygmaeus - a 3D geometric morphometries approach with land- 

 mark reconstruction. Acta Chiropterologica 11: 113-126 



Authors are kindly requested to make sure that sources listed in the 

 References match those cited in the text. Names of persons who pro- 

 vided unpublished information should be cited by including the ini- 

 tials) and city as follows: "(JG Frommen, Bonn, pers. comm. 

 2009)". 



Tables and Figures Tables and Figures should not duplicate infor- 

 mation provided in the text. Tables should be numbered consecu- 

 tively in Arabian numbers in order of their mention in the text (Table 

 1, Tables 1-3; do not abbreviate "Table(s)"). A brief self-explana- 

 tory title should be typed directly above each table, not on a sepa- 

 rate page. Do not insert frames, vertical rules, dotted lines or foot- 

 notes. Figures (maps, graphs, charts, drawings, photographs etc.) 

 must be numbered consecutively using Arabian numbers in order 

 of their mention in the text (abbreviate "Fig. 1", "Figs 1-3" etc. in 

 the text, but use the full term "Figure(s)" in the captions. If refer- 

 ring to illustrations in cited sources, use "fig. / figs". Grouped fig- 

 ures should be lettered with a lower case block letter in the lower 

 left corner. Scale should be indicated on figures by a scale bar. A 

 fully descriptive caption of each figure should contain all relevant 

 information; captions are to be typed together on a separate page. 

 Colour figures will be published free of charge if contributing sig- 

 nificantly to quality and / or readability of the manuscript. The de- 

 cision to print in colour or black and white any figure submitted in 

 colour will generally be based on the referee's and handling editor's 

 recommendations, but remains with the editor-in-chief and publish- 

 er. If appropriate, authors may be asked to group single colour fig- 

 ures into plates. For review, tables and figures should be enclosed 

 to text (preferable one electronic file per manuscript), but may al- 

 ternatively also be submitted as separate files (jpg, pdf, tiff). At this 

 stage, illustrations of low resolution allowing the referees to follow 

 the contents are sufficient; high-resolution files (jpg, pdf, tiff of pho- 

 tographs, maps etc. at > 300 dpi; line artwork etc. at 600 dpi or in 

 eps format) will be requested after acceptance. Unless otherwise 

 agreed with the editor, single electronic submissions should not ex- 

 ceed 6 MB file size. 



Appendix Appendices should be numbered consecutively in Roman 

 numbers, in order of their mention in the text (Appendix I, Appen- 

 dices I- VI). 



Abbreviations Except of very common abbreviations such as mm, 

 kg etc.; all abbreviations should be explained in the Methods sec- 

 tion or figure legend if appropriate. Hyphenation or upper case let- 

 ters for entire words are not permitted. All measurements must be 

 metric units and given to the same decimal, i.e., 5.3-6.0 mm (not: 

 5.3-6 mm). 



