Basteria: Guidelines to authors

1. Basteria, the scientific journal of the Malacological Society of the Netherlands publishes original papers in the field of malacology sensu lato, written in English or Dutch.

2. Manuscripts submitted to be considered for publication should follow the format of the journal (see a recent issue of Basteria and Notes 3-8). Doing so may result in faster publication. Tables and captions for figures should be added separately at the end of the manuscript.

3. Italics should be used only [!] for Latin names of genera and lower taxonomic levels.

4. Footnotes should be avoided.

5. Formatting on the disc should be minimal. Italics should be used, but do NOT try to make a 'copy ready' manuscript by imitating the style of Basteria in bold type and small text, a narrowed summary, indented lines, centralized headings, extra spacing, etc. The editor has to spend much time, removing all your codes, which have to be replaced by other ones to enable correct printing.
Correct is for example (a):
REFERENCES JANSSENS, H.K., 1983. On the phylogenetic relations of the species considered to belong to Helix L., 1758. – Basteria 67: 11-17. [Use a long –, or two --].
Closer to Basteria lay-out, but incorrect (b):
REFERENCES
JANSSENS, H.K., 1983. On the phylogenetic relations of the species considered to belong to Helix L., 1758. - Basteria 67: 11-17.
Thus, please submit your text like (a); it will be printed then like (b).

6. In the REFERENCES, authors are in capitals, initials not spaced.
More authors:
JANSSENS, H.K., & W. VAN BOOVEN, 1912.
JANSSENS, H.K., P. DUPONT & W. VAN BOOVEN, 1956.
Journals should be cited in full (not abbreviated), e.g.: Journal of Malacology 67: 11-17.
[NOT e.g.: J. Mal., 67, 11-17]
[NOT: , 67 (1): 11-17, unless each separate part of a volume starts again with page 1.]
Books: BOMMEL, J. VAN, 1992. The Mollusca: i-vii, 1-234. Leiden.
[NOT e.g.: : The Mollusca, 234 pp., 67 figs., 8 maps. Johansen Ltd., Leiden.]
or: BOOTSMA, J.W., 1982. The nicest Strombus species. In: W. MARKOV & J. SMITS, eds,
Attractive shells: 23-48. Rotterdam. One editor: ed. [NOT: eds.]
[NOT e.g.: The Nicest Strombus Species]

7. Citations and abbreviations in the text. - According to Smith (1982) or (1982: 47) if a particular page is cited. The page should always be cited if a text fragment is cited literally (if so, between brackets in the original language).
- The species is known from Dzjembakistan (Vrzjebaja, 1987: 12).
- Three or more authors, then: Janssens et al. (1991). [NOT: et al. (see Note 3)].
- Use: fig., pl., figs and pls, and pl. 7 figs 3-7, 11-12 [NOT pl. 7, figs].
- Do NOT use 'op. cit.'.
- A Latin species name should be combined with author[s] and year where it is cited for the first time. When cited in a paragraph for the first time, the genus should be written in full; if cited again in that paragraph it has to be indicated with the first letter (unless that would cause confusion). An epitheton should not be used without a generic name to indicate a species.
- Use spec. not sp., gen. not g.

8. The title of the article should include the molluscan class and family of the taxa dealt with. This, of course, is not always feasible for papers of a faunistic, ecological, etc. nature.

9. Printing is expensive and money should be used the best possible way: full synonymies should only be printed when necessary in the context; long lists with records should be summarized or replaced by distribution maps; etc.

10. Basteria does not discriminate between plates and text-figures. All illustrations are called figures.

11. Photographs are acceptable as high quality originals, mounted as plates; if reduced to page size, there should be place for the legends below. Illustrations are also acceptable in Photoshop or Linocolor, as follows:
photographs [266 dpi, greyscale]; black/white drawings [BITMAP, 800 dpi, grey identity]; coloured figures [300 dpi, CIELAB (if impossible, then CMYK, but no RGB), offset Euro pos U375 K85]. Consult the editor in advance to discuss financial aspects of coloured photographs, which are usually welcome if considered functional.

12. Three hard copies of both manuscript and illustrations [!] should be submitted. Text should be submitted also on disc (pref. in IBM, WORD; see Note 5!). If illustrations are summitted electronically, the hard copy should be of a reasonable quality at least. The approximate position of the illustrations in the text should be indicated in the manuscript.

13. Authors receive 25 reprints free of charge (to be shared in the case of more than one author).

14. For the editorial address, see our contact-page.

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