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Instructions for Contributors 1. Ethnobotanical Leaflets is an international online journal that
aims to promote the exchange of original knowledge and research in any area of
ethnobotany and to disseminate information and ideas that may help to
sustainable management of resources. 2. The journal will
cover the following areas: ethnobotany, ethnoecology, ethnopharmacology,
ethnomedicine, traditional medicine and healthcare, indigenous knowledge,
perception and practices, traditional technologies related to medicine
formulation as well as other related areas in nutritional, medicinal and
visual anthropology. 3. The journal
publishes original papers, review articles and short communications on all
aspects of ethnobotany and related fields. 4. Authors must accept
full responsibility for the contents and opinions expressed in the
manuscript. 5. All manuscript
submitted to the journal will be peer-reviewed. Editor will decide on whether
the manuscript should be: accepted, accepted after minor revisions, accepted
after major revisions or rejected. The final decision to accept or reject a
manuscript will be taken by the editor. 6. Submission of Manuscript All contributions must be
submitted in English and follow the specific submission requirement stated
below. ·
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Ethnobotanical Leaflets. ·
Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript, and
should not be submitted by anyone on their behalf. The submitting author
takes responsibility for the article during submission and peer review. ·
Each submission must be accompanied by a cover letter stating that the
paper contains original research and that the information has not been
published elsewhere. ·
Any manuscript submitted to the journal must not already have been
published in another journal or be under consideration by any other journal. ·
The minimum requirements for a manuscript to qualify for peer review
are that it has been prepared by strictly following the format and style of
the journal as mentioned below, and should
meet the Ethnobotanical Leaflets
standard. Submission may, however, be returned without review if, in the
opinion of the editor, is inappropriate for the journal, is of poor quality
or fails to follow the journal’s format/ style. ·
For research papers, the manuscript should consists of the following sections : 1. Title, author(s) and address(es) 2. Abstract 3. Keywords 4. Introduction or Background 5. Methods 6. Results 7. Discussion 8. Conclusion 9. Acknowledgement 10. References 11. 1. Title The title should
accurately reflect the contents of the paper and should be as brief as possible
followed by name(s) of author(s), institutional address and e-mail. The
corresponding author (only one) must be marked with an asterisk. 2. Abstract An abstract should be
included at the beginning of the manuscript and should not exceed 350 words.
This abstract should be factual, not descriptive and should present the
justification of the study, methods used, the main findings, and principal
conclusions with potential implications. Please minimize the use of data and
do not cite references in the abstract. 3. Keywords 3-6 keywords are to be
assigned by the authors. 4. Introduction or Background This section should
clearly state the background of the researches, justification and objectives
of the present work and the potential contribution to the related field. 5. Methods The method section
includes the design of the study, concise details of the methodology adopted
in field / lab. works, and the types of analysis used. 6. Results and Discussion Results and Discussion
may be combined into a single section or presented separately. In results,
tables, figures, or photographs can be used. But excessive use of tables,
diagrams, etc should be avoided.
Tables and figures must be referred to in the text in numerical order.
All illustrations are referred to as Figures. All units of measurement must
be reported via the metric system. Notes/footnotes are not allowed. Authors must check very
carefully nomenclature and authors of plants in their papers. Reviewers and
editors cannot be expected to spend time on checking names of plants. Ethnobotanical,
phytochemical and other data on plants must give proper reference of voucher
specimen i.e. name, collector, number, locality, accession number and name of
herbarium where specimens are deposited. 7. Conclusion This section states
clearly the main conclusions of the research and gives clear explanations of
their importance and relevance. 8. Acknowledgement Please acknowledge
anyone who contributed towards the study by making sustainable contributions
to conception, design, acquisition, data analysis and interpretation of data
or who are involved in drafting the manuscript or critically reviewing for
important intellectual content. 9. References Bibliography is not
allowed. Only references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the
paper without numbering. All references must be cited in the text with
author’s name and year of publication in parentheses; where there are two or
more papers by the same author in one year, distinguishing letters (a,b,c.d…….)
should be added to the year. Please avoid excessive referencing. All
references should be carefully cross-checked; it is the author’s
responsibility to ensure that references are correct. Unpublished articles,
abstract, unpublished data and personal communications should not be included
in the references. Examples of the Ethnobotanical Leaflets reference
style are shown below: Article within Journals Joshi,
A.R. and Joshi, Kunjani 2000.
Indigenous knowledge and uses of medicinal plants by local communities
of the Kali Gandaki Watershed Area, Complete Book: Joshi, A. R. and Joshi,
Kunjani 2005. Ethnobotany and Plant
Diversity of RubRick, Dassanayake, M. D. and Fosberg,
F.R. (eds.) 1980. A Revised Handbook to
the Flora of Published abstract Blackmore, S. and
Keeper, R. 2004. Plant Biodiversity in the 21st Century, (Abstract), Fouth National Conference on
Science and Technology (March 23-26), Article within conference
proceedings Rajbhandari, K. R., Bbhattarai, S. and
Joshi, R. 1999. Orchid diversity of Chapter, or article within a book: Cabelli,
V. J. 1979. Evaluation of recreational water quality, the EPA approach.
In James, A. and Evison, L. (eds.), Biological Indicators of Water Quality,
pp. 14-23. John Wiley & Sons, Ph. D. thesis Joshi, Kunjani 2001. Chemotaxonomic Investigation of
Dipterocarpaceae Using Flavonoid Aanalysis, Ph.D. Thesis, Link/ URL The Mouse Tumor Biology
Database (
http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/cancer_links.html) ----------------------------------------- Review Papers Reviews are full-length
state-of-the art articles. These papers should also cover recent initiatives
taken in the respected areas and identification of gaps in our knowledge and
recommendation for future study and other actions. Short Communications Short Communications
are mostly intended to allow concise reporting of the results of
ethnobotanical surveys on relatively small areas/tribal pockets. These would
not exceed 4 Journal pages including graphs, tables and figures.
General Submission Rules
Manuscripts dealing in research in all fields of
ethnobotany, in any reasonable length, biographical sketches, and critical
reviews and summaries of literature will be considered for web publication.
Casual notes and floristic lists will also be considered if the main focus
falls on plant species of economic interest. Advice on the suitability of
manuscripts will be solicited, if necessary, from qualified scientists. Although authors are not required to follow any
single style guide for their submissions, it is expected that the papers will
be well organized, written in grammatically correct English, and without
spelling errors. Whenever possible, papers should be proofed by someone well
familiar with English grammar and spelling. Although the body of the paper is
to be in English, abstracts in other languages are acceptable. Literature citations for books should include
the date and place of publication, as well as the publisher. Journal names
should be spelled out, rather than abbreviated. Scientific names should
include the authority. Binomials are italicized. Manuscripts should be prepared using MSWORD for
WINDOWS. We can not accept articles typed in Word Perfect, Adobe PDF or
Powerpoint. Do not number the pages. As each article will be printed on the
web exactly as received, the text should be in final form prior to
submission. All formatting (such as in the use of bold, underlining or
italicizing) remains the responsibility of the author. Use the "Times New Roman" font if
available. Body of manuscript should be 12 point type. Title is 16 point bold
and headings are 12 or 14 point bold. Figures and tables should be numbered and
inserted directly into the text. There is no charge for color graphs or
illustrations. Each and every author carries the right to print
out and distribute their own articles. Reprints are not furnished by the
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