This is a sample text illustrating style in Community Ecology

John Firstauthor1, William Secondauthor1,2 and Paola Thirdauthor3

1 Department of Specific Research, University of General Education, Street address, HJ-1092, Country. Fax: (with international code, optional), E-mail:

2 Present address: of the second author. All institute names translated to English!

3 Another address. Author responsible for correspondence, etc.

Keywords: Author, Instructions, Manuscript, Paper, WINWORD. (No more than ten)

Abstract: This sample paper illustrates how to prepare the first and especially the final submissions to Community Ecology. Please follow these guidelines precisely in order to ensure correct typesetting and fast processing of your manuscript. Provide the keywords in alphabetic order, and words not appearing in the title may be listed only. Abbreviations and nomenclature are optional items.

The abstract may be continued in a different paragraph, but please avoid the use of more than 3 paragraphs. It should not exceed 250 words altogether.

Abbreviations: CA-Correspondence Analysis, PCA-Principal Components Analysis.

Nomenclature follows: Cronquist (1984)

Introduction

In the main body of the text you can use first, second and third level headers, as exemplified above (Introduction) and below. No indentation or outdentation should appear, unless you want such an effect to be manifested in the printed text. You may use

  • bulleted text
  • bulleted text, 2

to emphasize a list. Spacing should be 1.5 or double.

Second-level header

Some text may be inserted here.

Third-level header. The text starts from here, in the same line as the header. Please do not use more than 3 header levels.

References to authors should follow the following style (by minimizing punctuation effort). Single authors are easy to refer to (Gray 1984, p. 145) or Brown (1999). Two authors are named as usual (Black and White 1974), whereas for many authors the usual structure should appear even for the first appearance (William et al. 1959), no italics for et al., e.g., or i.e. For multiple papers in the same year, use this (White 1977ab). A list of authors should look like (Red 1967, White 1977, Brown et al. 1998, pp. 123-156). Other references are possible, such as (Green, personal communication) or Black (in press). The latter one should appear in the list of references as well. Please do your best to check if all references in text appear in the list, if the list does not contain unreferenced items, and if all years are correct.

Avoid footnotes, especially with large amount of text. Footnotes with equations cannot be used.

Discussion

Use italics for taxon names (Platanus occidentalis) and for text to be emphasized. Use single quotation marks ('odd use') for a specific use of an otherwise well-known term, and apply double quotation marks ("for citation") for citing text from other sources.

Refer to all figures (Fig. 1) and tables (Table 4) in the text. In the manuscript, the first appearance of such a reference should appear in boldface (Table 1, Fig. 4). This facilitates easy positioning of this material. Table and figure captions should be self-explanatory, without repeating parts of the main text. Colour figures are not yet supported. The figures should be drawn to allow reduction to single column (7.5 cm) or double-column (15.5 cm) width. Use of very thin lines should therefore be avoided. Black and white photographs, if also available in electronic format, are accepted.

Mathematical symbols should appear in italics, p, and matrices and vectors in boldface, a, B. You can number the equations as follows

H = t log a(1)

What to send?

First submission

  • An electronic version of the manuscript (preferably PDF or WINWORD; consult the editor for other possible formats for which conversion is possible), sent via email as attachment or in a diskette. (All figures embedded in text.)

Final submission

  • Figures, each in a separate file (BMP, TIF, PCX, postscript and WMF formats preferred, consult the editor for other options) as email attachments (or on diskette).
  • A single hardcopy of the manuscript sent via airmail to J. Podani. Electronic version of the manuscript as email attachment (or on a diskette). WIN Word format is preferred, for other formats consult the editors.

Acknowledgements: This paragraph should appear right before the References. The text should be as short as possible.

References

Black, A. (in press) Use full name of less widely known journals. Applied Mycology and Sociology.

Black, J. and T.G. White. 1974. Abbreviate known journals. J. Ecol. 55:12-44.

Brown, H.G. 1999. Use italics for taxa in the ref list as well (Corvus corax). Taxon 78:23-33.

Brown, H.G., A. Q. White and S. Red. 1998. Title of the paper. Ecology 66:55-66.

Gray, L. 1984. Mathematical Ecology. Sunshine University Press, Clarksville.

Red, H. 1967. Title of the paper. Journal 5:34-37.

White, T.G. 1977a. Article from a book. In: U.K. Firsteditor and K.L. Secondeditor (eds), Applied Numerical Analysis. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, pp. 123-156.

White, T. G. 1977b. Second paper from same year. Ecology 66:44-55.

William, W.E., K. J. Tom and J.O. Smith. 1977. Manual to Scientific Terms. Blackwell, Oxford.