REQUIREMENTS FOR SMITHSONIAN SERIES PUBLICATION 



ALL MANUSCRIPTS ARE REVIEWED FOR ADHER- 

 ENCE TO THE SISP MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND 

 STYLE GUIDE FOR AUTHORS (available on the "Submis- 

 sions" page at www.scholarlypress.si.edii). Manuscripts not 

 in compliance will be returned to the author. Manuscripts in- 

 tended for publication in the Contributions Series are evalu- 

 ated by a content review board and undergo substantive peer 

 review. Accepted manuscripts are submitted for funding ap- 

 proval and scheduling to the Publications Oversight Board. 



MINIMUM MANUSCRIPT LENGTH is thirty manuscript 

 pages. If a manuscript is longer than average, an appropriate 

 length will be determined during peer review and evaluation 

 by the Content Review Board. Authors may be asked to edit 

 manuscripts that are determined to be too long. 



TEXT must be prepared in a recent version of Microsoft 

 Word; use a Times font in 12 point for regular text; be double 

 spaced; and have 1 " margins. Each chapter/section must be 

 saved in a separate Hie. 



REQUIRED ELEMENTS are title page, abstract page, table 

 of contents, main text, and reference section. See the SISP 

 Manuscript Preparation and Style Guide for Authors for the 

 order of all elements. 



HEADINGS should be styled so different levels of headings are 

 distinct from each other and so the organization of the manu- 

 script is clear. Insert one line space above and one line space 

 below all headings. 



FRONT MATTER should include title page, abstract page, 

 and table of contents. All other sections are optional. Ab- 

 stracts must not exceed 300 words. Table of contents should 

 include A-, B-, and C-level headings. 



TABLES (numbered, with captions, stubs, rules) should be 

 submitted in separate MS Word files; should include foot- 

 notes, if appropriate; should have rules only at top, bottom, 

 and beneath column heads. Print outs of each table should 

 accompany the manuscript to ensure correct layout of data. 

 Tabulations within running text should not be numbered or 

 formatted like formal tables, and should be included in the 

 text of the manuscript. 



FIGURE CAPTIONS should be provided in a separate MS 

 Word file. 



FIGURES (e.g., photographs, line art, maps) should be num- 

 bered sequentially (1, 2, 3, etc.) in the order called out; be 

 placed throughout text, not at end of manuscript; have all 

 components of composites lettered with lowercase letters and 

 described in the caption; include a scale bar or scale descrip- 

 tion, if appropriate; include any legends in or on the figure 

 rather than in a caption. 



ART must not be embedded m the mam text. 



Figures must be original and submitted as individual TIFF 

 or EPS files. Resolution for art files must be at least 300 dpi 

 for grayscale and color images and at least 1200 dpi for line 

 art. Electronic images should measure no more than lOO'Xi 

 and no less than 75% of final size when published. JPG files 

 will not be accepted. Color images significantly increase 

 costs so should be included only if required. Funding for 

 color art is subject to approval by SISP and the Publications 

 Oversight Board. 



TAXONOMIC KEYS in natural history papers should use 

 the aligned-couplet form for zoology. If cross referencing is 

 required between key and text, do not include page references 

 within the key but number the keyed-out taxa, using the same 

 numbers with their corresponding heads in the text. 



SYNONOMY IN ZOOLOGY must use the short form (tax- 

 on, author, year:page), with full reference at the end of the 

 paper under "References." 



IN-TEXT REFERENCES should be used rather than biblio- 

 graphic notes and should follow the author-date system in the 

 following format: "(author last name, year)" or . . author 

 (year)"; "(author, year:page used within the text)" or ". . . 

 author (year:page)." A full citation should be included in a 

 "References" section. 



ENDNOTES are to be used in lieu of footnotes and should 

 be keyed manually into a separate MS Word file, in a sec- 

 tion titled "Notes". Notes should not contain bibliographic 

 information. Manually t\'pe superscript numerals in text and 

 use full-sized numerals at the beginning of each note in the 

 "Notes" section. SISP will determine the best placement of the 

 notes section, either at the end of each chapter or at the end 

 of the main text. 



REFERENCES should be in alphabetical order, and in chron- 

 ological order for same-author entries. Each reference should 

 be cited at least once in main text. Complete bibliographic 

 information must be included in all citations (e.g., author/edi- 

 tor, title, subtitle, edition, volume, issue, pages, figures). For 

 books, place of publication and publisher are required. For 

 journals, use the parentheses system for volume(number):pag- 

 ination [e.g., "10(2):5-9"]. Do not use "et al."; all authors/ 

 editors should be included in reference citations. In titles, 

 capitalize first word, last word, first word after colon, and all 

 other words except articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. 

 Examples of the most common types of citations are provided 

 in the SISP Manuscript Preparation and Author Style Guide. 



For questions regarding the guidelines, please email SISP at 

 scholarlypress@si.edu. 



