ACTA ZOOLOGICA MEXICANA, nueva serie (new series) is a scientific publication issued by the Instituto de Ecología, A. C., every four months, yielding three issues per volume per year. AZM publishes original scientific research on terrestrial fauna of the World in the fields of behavior, ecology, physiology, genetics, morphology, systematics, and zoogeography. Languages allowed are Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese. Each submitted manuscript is peer reviewed by two scientific specialists on the subject. Final acceptance is responsibility of the journal’s Editorial Committee. Dates of manuscript receipt and acceptance determine order of publication.

      Manuscripts presented as several small contributions or serially numbered notes that could be published as one substantial paper will not be accepted. Based on the Editorial Committee’s criteria and the referee’s opinions, a manuscript might be modified for publication as a Scientific Note (see below). Taxonomic manuscripts must be presented according to the most recent edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Rejected manuscripts will not be reconsidered for publication in AZM.

      Text, figure captions and table legends must be typed, double-spaced (11-point Times New Roman in a Microsoft WORD file, in letter paper format, leaving 3 cm margins on all sides, and the text justified. Title and chapter subtitles should be written with capital letters, the text with upper and lower case letters. Please adjust all artwork to the smallest reasonably legible size, and avoid using different types or fonts (except essential italics). Only genus and species names, journal titles, and book names should be italicized. Figure captions and tables must be typed in Times New Roman as well, but type size may be adjusted if necessary.

      SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. Manuscript should not exceed 30 pages including figures and tables. Text should include, the TITLE in the original language and in English, a short running title in the original language, author(s)’ name(s), and institutional address(es) and e-mail(s) of each author. An ABSTRACT and key words in the original language is followed by an abstract and key words in English, then the INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, and LITERATURE CITED. The ABSTRACT should have a length proportional to the overall length of the text. Manuscripts written in English, French, or Portuguese should include a comprehensive summary (RESUMEN) in Spanish. References in the text are given as Reyes (1977) or (Reyes 1977), with two authors as Hernández & Lara 1999), and with three or more authors as Ayala et al. (1987) or (Ayala et al. 1987). LITERATURE CITED should be ordered alphabetically by author,  as follows. Journal article: O'Farrel, M.J. & N.A. Clark. 1986. Small mammal community structure in Northeastern Nevada. Southwestern Naturalist, 31:23-32. Book: Charlesworth, B. 1980. Evolution in age-structured populations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Book chapter: Michevich, M.L. & C. Mitter. 1981. Treating polymorphic characters in systematics: A phylogenetic treatment of electrophoretic data. Pp. 45-48. In: V.A. Funk and D.R. Brooks (eds).  Advances in cladistics, Proceedings of the First Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society. Botanical Garden, Bronx, N.Y.
Figures (maps, graphics, schematics, and photographs) should each be presented in separated files, consecutively numbered, providing scale indications.  Figure captions should be presented separately at the end of the text, with explanation of keys and/ abbreviations employed. Each table should have clear, concise, descriptive head, consecutively numbered according the order of presentation in the text.  Tables should also be presented separately from the text.  Do not use lines outside and within tables.  Both Figures and tables should have a 2 x 3 proportion; do not use landscape format.

      SCIENTIFIC NOTES Text should be no longer than four double-spaced pages, including all artwork. Text structure should be follows: Title in the original language and in English, followed by English Abstract if the text is in Spanish or other language or in Spanish if the text is in other language. The text should include Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Acknowledgments, without subtitles. LITERATURE CITED should be presented as in scientific paper instructions.  At the end of the text the author’s name(s), institutional address(es) and e-mail(s).

 

      DELIVERY.  Text, figures, and tables, for scientific papers and notes, should be sent in separate files, in WORD and PDF formats, without virus.  Photographs, maps, graphics, and figure schematics should be in high-resolution (300 dpi minimum) JPG or TIFF format.  Do not send tables as JPG or TIFF, but rather as WORD files.  Manuscripts that do not meet journal norms will be returned.

 

Manuscripts should be sent to:

 

Dr. Pedro Reyes Castillo, Editor
Acta Zoológica Mexicana
Instituto de Ecología, A. C.
Km 2.5 Carr. Ant. a Coatepec No. 351, Congregación El Haya
91070 Xalapa, Veracruz, MEXICO

pedro.reyes@inecol.edu.mx