Acta Forestalia
Fennica instructions
to authors
Updated 9 Feb 98
[ Acta Forestalia Fennica ]
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General
- Acta Forestalia Fennica publishes monographs in forest science.
These may be original research articles or comprehensive reviews
aiming at a synthesis of knowledge in a particular topic. The
series covers all aspects of forest science, both basic and applied
subjects. Manuscripts are subject to peer review. Authors are
anonymous to reviewers of manuscripts.
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- Acta Forestalia Fennica is published in English. The minimum
length of the papers is 32 printed pages, and the maximum 80
printed pages.
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- The series carries a page charge
of FIM 200 per printed page. Contents
Submission
of Manuscripts
- Submission of a manuscript to Acta Forestalia Fennica is
taken to imply that the manuscript has not been published nor
is being considered for publication elsewhere.
Research Articles, Review Articles and
Research Notes
Please submit the manuscript to the editorial
office in three copies complete with text, tables, figures
and figure captions. Provide good quality prints of such photographs
that need to be critically examined during the review process.
In the cover letter, give full name(s) of the author(s), title
of the manuscript, postal address, phone and fax numbers, and
e-mail address of the corresponding author, and state the intended
category of your manuscript. Do not identify the author(s) in
the manuscript itself nor on the figures. You may suggest reviewers.
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- You may also submit the manuscript in PDF format via e-mail
to silva.fennica@metla.fi.
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- Manuscripts are usually sent to two or three reviewers. Once
you have received the reviewers' comments, you should send the
revised manuscript to the editor in two weeks. The editor-in-chief
will inform you about his/her decision. Following acceptance,
no major changes may be made to the manuscript without the permission
of the editor. Contents
Discussion Papers
Decision on discussion papers is made by the editor. Submit the
text on a 3.5" PC or Mac diskette together with a printout,
accompanied by original figures. In the cover letter, state the
intended category of your manuscript. Contents
Form
of Manuscript
- Lay-out
Print the manuscript on A4-sized paper, leaving enough margin
for referee comments. Leave enough space between lines (maximum
40 lines per page). Pages should be numbered consecutively, starting
with the title page.
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- Paragraphs are separated by blank lines. Headings are preceded
by two blank lines and followed by one blank line.
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- Equations are separated from the body text by a blank line.
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- Information presented in tabular form in the text itself
should be of single column width (68 mm on the printed page)
and no more than 10 printed lines in height. Anything larger
than this should be presented in the form of a table with an
appropriate title. Contents
Headings
If possible, use no more than three levels of headings. Words
in the headings should have an initial capital. Headings are
numbered as follows: 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 etc. "Acknowledgements"
and "References" are not numbered. Contents
Italics
Use italics for scientific names of species, but not for expressions
or abbreviations such as in vitro, a priori, et al., e.g. Contents
Equations
Equations will be printed over a single column width. Equations
are numbered consecutively in parenthesis on the right margin
of the page. Symbols used should be explained in the List of
Symbols. Preferable software formats are MathType and MsWord's
Equation Editor. Contents
Citing References
in the Text
For references in the text, the name-year system is used:
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- "Allen (1984) has shown..." or "It has been
shown (Allen 1984)..."
- Allen and Jones (1980)
- Allen et al. (1986)
- (Allen 1978, Smith 1981, Jones 1984)*
- (Handbook of forest... 1981)**
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- * When reference is made to several publications, arrange
them in chronological order.
- ** Where a publication has no known author or editor, the
first 23 words of the title are quoted (followed by three
dots), together with the year of publication. The term "Anonymous"
must not be used. Contents
References to
Figures and Tables
References to all figures and tables should be made in the text.
References are written with an initial capital letter: Fig. 3,
Figs. 3-5, Table 2. Contents
Notes
If it is necessary to use notes, endnotes are preferable. Footnotes
should be avoided in the body text but can be used in tables.
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Tables
Tables are numbered consecutively through the paper. Vertical
dividers are not allowed. When typing tables, use the tabulator
key to separate the columns. Never separate columns by multiple
spaces. Also, if you prepare tables using a table editor, never
enter a paragraph break within a table cell. Contents
Figures
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- Figures are numbered consecutively through the paper. Refer
to them in the text as "Fig. 1" etc. Captions to figures
are printed on a separate sheet. Captions should be self-explanatory
and independent. When preparing figures, bear in mind the effect
of reduction on text size and line weight. Characters should
have a height of 1.52 mm when printed. Aim at clarity and
simplicity, avoid unnecessary effects, like 3-D and shadows.
Use solid black or white or coarse line fills for columns. Do
not use grey (rasterised) fills. All lines should be in solid
black. Do not use line weights below 0.5 point or, where heavy
reduction is necessary, below 1.0 point.
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- Black-and-white photographs should be submitted as prints,
colour photographs as slides. The costs of colour figures are
normally paid by the author.
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- If the copyright to a figure is held by someone other than
the author, the copyright holder's name should be published with
the figure. In matters of copyright, strict adherence to the
law must be observed. Contents
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- Title and
Abstract
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- A good title is one that is brief and informative. Empty
words and constructions like "A study of...", "Observations
on..." and the like conveying very little to the reader
are not used.
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- An abstract is a concise, independent résumé
of the paper. Its purpose is to assist the reader in deciding
whether it is worth reading the entire paper, to provide sufficient
information for a reader who is not an expert on the topic involved,
and to assist the communication of information. Its length should
be no more than 250 words in one paragraph. References to literature
are not allowed.
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- The abstract is followed by 37 keywords. Contents
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- List of
References
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- Reference should be made only to published, available material.
Reference should not be made to second-hand sources. Personal
communications are not included in the list of references.
- For the order, structure and form of the references, consult
the examples below. In addition, note the following:
- When the same author has more than one publication,
the author's name is replaced by a dash. Only the first author's
name is thus replaced.
- If a publication has no obvious author or editor, the
publication is listed in alphabetical order of its own title.
- The standard number, ISBN in books, or STRN in reports,
should be given for sources of low circulation at the end of
the reference.
- No italics are used in the reference list.
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- Order of references
- Smith, C. 1996. Aspen. Timber 77(4): 369384.
- 1997. Silver birch. Timber 78(1): 1723.
- & Allen, A. 1997. Scots pine. Forest Management
15(1): 59.
- & Harris, B. 1995. Scots pine. Forest Management
13(2): 105119.
- , Harris, B. & Allen, A. 1990. Sawn goods. Timber
71(2): 131140.
- , Allen, A. & Harris, B. 1995. Sawn goods revisited.
Timber 76(3): 231240.
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- Article in a journal
- Deleuze, C. & Houllier, F. 1997. A transport model for
tree ring width. Silva Fennica 31(3): 239250.
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- Article in a book
- Wilcove, D.S., McLellan, C.H. & Dobson, A.P. 1986. Habitat
fragmentation in the temperate zone. In: Soulé, M.E. (ed.).
Conservation biology: the science of scarcity and diversity.
Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts. p. 237-256.
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- Monograph
- Ilvessalo-Pfäffli, M-S. 1995. Fiber atlas: identification
of papermaking fibers. Springer Series in Wood Sciences. Springer-Verlag,
BerlinHeidelbergNew York. 400 p. Contents
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- Scientific
Names
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- Scientific names should be according to authoritative contemporary
sources. Scientific names should be in italics, except in the
list of references. Authors of scientific names should be given
only the first time a name appears but not in the manuscript
title. Contents
Procedure
after Acceptance
- Send the final manuscript and original figures to the editorial
office within one week from acceptance.
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- Text and tables are best submitted as MsWord or WordPerfect
files on a 3.5" diskette or 100Mb zip disk. Provide graphs
in EPS or TIFF formats plus in the original software format.
The cover letter or the diskette label should give the names
and versions of the software used. The diskette must be accompanied
by printouts of text and tables, and good quality prints of graphs.
On the text printout, indicate the desired positions of the figures
and tables. If the text contains any special characters that
may be lost in software conversion (Greek letters, mathematical
symbols, dots, squares, etc.), mark them clearly on the printout.
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- Photographs, but not other illustrations, will be returned
after the printing process is completed. Contents
Correcting
the Proofs
- The corresponding author will receive a pageproof for approval.
Extensive alterations to the original text may not normally be
made. Corrected proofs should be returned to the editors within
one week from receipt. Contents
Offprints
- Authors will usually receive 50 copies of the paper. They
may request extra copies from the publishers at a cost based
on the number of printed pages. Such extra copies must be ordered
at the latest when the page proofs are sent in by the author.
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METLA Editorial Office - TSal
- 9 Feb 98