NOTICE TO AUTHORS 
Telopea is published twice-yearly, in March and September. Preference will be given to papers relating to 
the flora of New South Wales. Brief papers may be published as Short Communications (see previous issues 
for format). 
Deadlines for the submission of papers are 1 June (for the March issue the following year) and 1 November 
(for the following September issue). Authors are expected to have had their papers peer-reviewed before 
submission. All papers will be refereed. Two copies of the manuscript should be submitted along with 
originals of photographs and clear photocopies of all other figures. The full postal address (plus telephone 
and fax numbers) of the author who will check the proofs and receive correspondence should be included. 
Once a paper has been accepted for publication the author should provide the paper on a computer disk 
along with final artwork. The disk should be in IBM compatible (MS-DOS) or Macintosh format and 
clearly labelled with the word processing program used and the file name(s). 
General formatting requirements • Text should be flush left. This applies also for abstracts, headings, keys 
and reference lists. Headings should be in upper and lower case, and not underlined. • Use only a single 
space after all punctuation marks including fullstops. • Insert a space between a numeral and unit of 
measurement, e.g. 3 mm, but no space between initials, e.g. L.A.R. Haegi, or between en dashes and 
associated numerals, e.g. 5.2-6 mm or between extreme measurements and ranges e.g. (l()-)25-35(-90). 
Use double hyphens (—) to indicate en dashes (-). • Do not use the spacebar to indent or tabulate. Underline, 
in preference to italics, and use single quote marks before double. 
Organisation of the paper The title should be explicit and descriptive of the content. Include the family name 
and broad geographic region where appropriate. Abstracts (except for Short Communications) should 
be included. Check most recent issue for format. Bracketed keys are preferable especially for long keys, 
but indented keys are acceptable. Long indented keys should be divided into groups. When giving 
authors of botanical names follow the forms in the Kew Draft Index of Author Abbreviations. But note 
unabbreviated use in references below. 
Types Cite details in full, giving details from protologue and from specimen label separately if there 
are important differences. Type citations should be in a consistent format, e.g: Type: New South Wales: 
North Western Plains: 10 km W of Moree (29°08' S 129°48' E), B. Wiecek 1250, 2 Jan 1989; lecto NSW 
(Weston 1990: 21); isolecto K, MO. 
Selected specimens Cite no more than 20 (except for very widely distributed species) and arrange by 
Botanical Divisions. Use accepted format: locality, collector & number, date (herbarium code plus 
institutional number if there is no collector's number) and omit the initials of collectors, unless confusion 
is likely. Only latitudes and longitudes on the original labels should be included. Give dates in the 
following format: 12 Jan 1987, 2 June, 30 July, 10 Dec etc. 
References In formal taxonomic citations use the fully abbreviated (Harvard) form: author (year: page) e.g. 
Bentham (1878: 234). The traditional ± abbreviated form, e.g. Bentham, FI. Austral. 7: 234 (1878), may be 
used in shorter papers. Authors' names in these citations should be given unabbreviated. References to 
books published before 1900 need not include the publisher and place of publication, but be consistent. 
Index to taxa This is useful if the paper is large and deals with many species and synonyms. The author 
should prepare the basic alphabetic listing including all names in recent use. 
Illustrationsimaps/photos • In general figures should be drawn one and a half times the final printed size. 
Check that line thickness and evenness, and labelling size are suitable for the final reproduction size and 
that maps show their context clearly (by lat/longs or an inset map) and that relevant place names in the 
text (but not for cited specimens) are shown. • Submit line drawings as bromide (Repromaster) copies 
with the final manuscript. • Photos should be unmounted, good-quality gloss prints. Do not label photos. 
• Labelling that is part of an illustration, e.g. place names on a map, should be added in Helvetica font 
by the person preparing the illustration. • Bar scales on the figure are preferable to numerical scales in 
the caption. Any magnification levels in the capHon should refer to the size of the submitted original figure 
(not anticipated final size). • Bear in mind the shape of the final printed page and that the maximum 
final size of the illustration is 205 mm high x 125 mm wide, but preferably less to leave space for a caption 
on the same page. 
Captions Use lowercase letters for the parts of a figure e.g. Fig. l.Jacksonia michaeliana. a, stem tissue (x 10); 
b, calyx lobes (x 0.5). (a from holotype; b from Barson 234.) 
Tables should preferably be portrait rather than landscape shape. They should be typed as separate files. 
More detailed instructions are available on request from the editors. 
