bouteloua - Biblioteca digital del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid

Instructions to authorsAims and ScopeBouteloua is an international journal devoted to ornamental plants, gardens and other topics onbotanical, ecological or related scientific or technical aspects including ornamental plant species withinvasive behaviour. Not purely scientific or technical contributions may also be considering by theeditorial board. Please, contact for further details.Journal structure and sectionsResults of scientific research are published as ‘scientific papers’ and should include at least 2 printedpages.The sections include:1. “Short communications”, in which results of scientific work, descriptions of new species orwhatever other kind of information that merits publication may be included, without exceeding 2printed pages,2. “Cultivars”, in which commercialised cultivars are cited or described,3. “Historical botanical gardens”, includes articles referring to any aspects of historical gardens,4. “Book reviews”, in which reviews of historical or recent publications dealing with ornamentalplants or other topics that fall within the scope of the journal may be included,5. “Botanical drawings, Iconography”, in which previously unpublished illustrations of cultivatedplant species may be included.Review processThe editorial board, assisted by at least two specialised referees designed for each potentialcontribution, will decide whether to accept or reject a manuscript.Manuscript format and styleThe scientific papers should be processed in Microsoft Word, for Windows (in Times New Roman,10), and should be send to revistabouteloua@hotmail.com. The accepted languages are Spanish, Englishand French, and must include a running title, name (-s), address (-es) of author (-s), abstracts in Englishand Spanish (not exceeding 250 words), introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion,acknowledgements (if appropriate), and references. Citation of multi-author literature within the main textwill be provided in the following formats:*For two authors: Irish & Irish (2000), or (Irish & Irish, 2000).*For three or more authors: Rivera & al. (1997) or (Rivera & al., 1997) when appropriate.In the list of references only those that have been quoted in the text should be included. Fullreferences must be given, including author (-s), date in parenthesis, full title of the paper, full name ofperiodical in italic, volume and first and last page of the paper. Please, check that all the references citedin the text have been properly included in the list, and vice versa. Examples of citation:Books: FREIXA, C. (1993) Los ingleses y el arte de viajar. Una visión de las ciudades españolas en elsiglo XVIII. Ediciones del Serbal. Barcelona.Book chapters: VALDÉS, B. (2000) Tetragonolobus Scop. [nom. cons.] pp. 823-828 in CASTROVIEJO,S. (ed.): Flora iberica, vol. 7(2). Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC. Madrid.Papers in journals: LAGUNA, E. (2006) Las especies cultivadas y asilvestradas de grandes palmerasdatileras en tierras valencianas. Bouteloua (1) 6-12.New localities must be preferably cited in the following format:VALENCIA: 30SYJ2096, Serra, carretera a Portacoeli, 342 m, terreno inculto. D. Guillot. 4-V-2001.Papers or short communications dealing with alien plant species should include concise informationabout habitat, number of individuals that form the population described, existence of surrounding sourcesof propagules, etc.Illustrations: Figures will be numbered consecutively using arabic numerals. They will be cited “Fig.1”, or “Figs. 1-3”. Captions for figures must be included in separate pages.