Journal of Paleontological Techniques

Instructions for Authors

Journal of Paleontological Techniques is a peer-reviewed journal focus on the paleontological methods and techniques, including articles and notes on:

fossil preparation, technology-related techniques applied to paleontology, methods of collecting, digging, data-collecting, curation or any other topic of general interest to fossil preparators and paleontologists book reviews

Any professional, student or amateur palaeontologist or preparators is invited to submit their original manuscripts on the topic above.

All technical papers will be reviewed by professional paleontologists, preparators or technical personal, edited to be accessible to non-specialists, and published as HTML and PDF documents accessible to all with Internet connections via the website www.jpaleontologicaltechniques.org.

The Journal of Paleontological Techniques pretends to be a fast publication, therefore, each article has an independent number and is published with independent timing to any other article. Each article will be released once is ready and the periodicity depends on the articles submitted.

The Journal of Paleontological Techniques is published simultaneously on the World Wide Web (ISSN:1646-5806; http://www.jpaleontologicaltechniques.org) and on CD-ROM (ISSN:1646-5792).

Authors are encouraged to submit color illustrations, digital animations and other on-line tools.

There is no page limit for articles published in Journal of Paleontological Techniques (though all articles are edited to optimize their realized information content) and there are no page charges. These aspects of Journal of Paleontological Techniques are made possible because of the unique advantages of the digital format and because there is no analogue to the paper, typesetting, and distribution costs required by print-based publication. Each volume of Journal of Paleontological Techniques is available free-of-charge to all persons with access to the World Wide Web.

All manuscripts must be submitted in well-written English.

Reviewer anonymity will be maintained by the editorial staff; however, reviewers may choose to identify themselves in their reviews.

Authors should submit manuscripts in Microsoft Office Word format.

Submitting __________________________________________

The manuscripts should be sent by CD or email to the address:

Journal of Paleontological Techniques

Museum of Lourinhã

Rua João Luis de Moura

2530-157 Lourinhã

Portugal

rcastanhinha@gmail.com

omateus@museulourinha.org

If the manuscript and figures is bigger than 6 Mb, it should be sent by post mail on a CD-Rom or DVD. In all communication by email, the author should ask email receipt in order to confirm correct reception of the email. Hard copies are not accepted.

Rules_______________________________________________

1. The type letter is Times New Roman, 12pt. Please avoid formatting the text. Use as less indenting, Bolding, and title formats as possible.

2. Double space the entire manuscript, including abstract, text, references, as well as explanations of

figures, tables, and appendices.

3. Do not justify the right margin.

4. Figures, tables, and appendices must be cited in consecutive order in the text.

5. Do not use footnotes.

6. Use a separate title page. The title should be short and informative, left justified and should be typed

in capitals.

7. Names of authors are in capital and lowercase letters and left justified.

8. Addresses are in capitals and lowercase letters and left justified. Abbreviations are not used.

Abstract____________________________________________

An Abstract, no longer than 250 words, must be provided.

The abstract should provide pertinent details of the research and conclusions. Authors should avoid statements such as "will be discussed herein." Do not include references. An English abstract is must be provided, and other languages abstracts are encouraged.

The Text ____________________________________________

The paragraphs are not indented.

Journal of Paleontological Techniques uses three levels of text headings: First Order are all capitals, centered; Second Order are flush left, written in bold capital and lowercase letters, on a line of their own; and Third Order are as second order, but followed by a period and space, with the text continuing on the same line.

Example:

INTRODUCTION (FIRST ORDER)

Adhesives (Second Order)

Acid preparation (Third Order). Text continuing here...

Discussion (Fourth Order)

References citation _

When possible in citations, the page number should be given after the publication date. Whenever possible, use (Smith, 1973: 89), indicating the page rather than (Smith, 1973).

Single author: (Smith, 1973: 89).

Two authors: (Smith and Jones, 1973: 89).

Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 1973: 89).

In press reference: (Smith, in press).

Personal communication: (Smith, personal commun., 1995).

Reference to a quotation: (Smith, 1973: 16).

Portion of text written by a subordinate author: (Smith in Jones, 1973)

Communication cited in a previously-published paper: (Smith cited in Jones 1973)

Notes: Initials are used only if the same surname occurs more than once in the text, (e.g., A.A. Smith, 1973; Smith, B.M., 1984).

Article in journal:

MADSEN, J.H. (1973). On Skinning a Dinosaur. Curator. XVI (3): 225-266.

MATSUMOTO, Y. & HASHIMOTO, R. & SONODA, T. (2000). Report of Preparation Works for Mongolian Specimens in HMNS from March 1994 to December 1998. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin Vol.I, 113-127.

Article in an edited book:

DRESCHER, E. (2000). Preparation of vertebrate fossils from the Guimarota mine, pp: 137 – 142, in Martin, T. & Krebs, B. (eds.). Guimarota – A Jurassic Ecosystem. Pfeil, München.

Book (single author):

LEIGGI, P. & MAY, P. (1994). Vertebrate Paleontological Techniques, Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press.

Images______________________________________________

The images should be of good quality, with no less than 300 dpi, with no compression. The formats AI, JPEG, TIFF, PDF are accepted but the preferred format for figures should be jpg files with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.