Ethnobiology Letters Style Guide

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STYLE GUIDE

Contents

Description of Journal

Ethnobiology Letters invites manuscripts concerning ethnobiology, the study of the relationships between humans and environments in diverse spatial and temporal contexts.  Article types are:

  • Research communications: short case studies that include description of methods, results, and brief discussion of the implications of results (Word limit: 5000 words, 30 cited references, two figures, and one data table)
  • Perspectives: essays about informed opinions, scholarly memoirs, and instructive stories relevant to Ethnobiology (Word limit: 5000 words, 30 cited references, two figures, and one data table)
  • Book reviews: evaluations of texts and assess their value within ethnobiology and related disciplines (Word limit: 1000)
  • Data, Methods & Taxonomies:innovative approaches and/or communicate ethnobiological data, such as plant taxa and linguistic notes (Word limit: 5000 words, 30 cited references, two figures, and one data table)

Format

Send all manuscripts to ethnobiologyletters@gmail.com
Use Times New Roman font, 12 pt.
Double space text, tables, figure captions, and references cited. 

Examples of References Cited

Books

Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, D. L. Lane, J. P. O’Neill and T. A. Parker. 2007. Birds of Peru. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Edited Books

Wilson, D. E. and D. M. Reeder, eds. 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.

Chapter in Edited Books

Au, T. K., and L. Romo. 1999. Mechanical Causality in Children’s Folkbiology. In Folkbiology, edited by D. C. Medin and S. Atran, pp. 355-402. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Journal Articles

Boster, J. S. and J. C. Johnson. 1989. Form of Function: A Comparison of Expert and Novice Judgments of Similarity among Fish. American Anthropologist 91:866-889.

Electronic Only Journal Articles

Angelsen, A., ed. 2008. Moving Ahead with REDD: Issues, Options, and Complications. Bogor, Indonesia: CIFOR.  Available at: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/Books/BAngelsen0801.pdf. Accessed on August 30, 2010.

Journal Articles with a DOI

Setalaphruk, C. and L. L. Price. 2007. Children’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Wild Food Resources: A Case Study in a Rural Village in Northeast Thailand. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3:33. Doi:10.1186/1746-4269-3-33.

Master’s Thesis

Karst, A. 2005. The Ethnoecology and Reproductive Ecology of Bakeapple (Rubus chamaemorus Rosaceae L.) in Southern Labrador. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Doctoral Dissertations

Wolverton, S. 2001. Environmental Implications of Zooarchaeological Measures of Resource Depression. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.

Multiple References by Same Author

Driver, J. C. 1985a. Prehistoric Hunting Strategies in the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 9:109-129.

Driver, J. C. 1985b. Zooarchaeology of Six Prehistoric Sites in the Sierra Blanca Region, New Mexico. Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan Technical Report 17.

Driver, J. C. 1992. Identification, Classification and Zooarchaeology. Circaea 9:35-47.

Electronic Audio Files/Podcast

Pyne, S. 2011. Fire and Life. Interview by Dr. Biology. Ask a Biologist Podcast. Available at: http://askabiologist.asu.edu/podcasts/fire-and-life.  Accessed on August 12, 2011.

Conference Presentations

Hovsepyan, R. 2010. Preliminary Data on the Prehistoric Agriculture of the Southern Caucasus (The Main Phases of Development). Paper Presented at the 15th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany. Wilhelmshaven, Germany (www.nihk.de).

Citation of References In Text

Instructions: Do not use a comma after the last name before the date (1). Quotations use a colon after the date with no space between the colon and the page number (2). Two author citations are separated with “and”(3). Texts with more than three authors use “et al.” not followed by a comma, not italicized (4). Citations are listed in alphabetical order. Citations by different authors are separated by semi-colons (4, 5). Citations within parenthetical statements are bracketed (6). Multiple citations by the same author are separated with a comma. Citations by the same author and from the same year are distinguished by lower case letters (7).

  1. This information is considered important for the management and conservation of marine habitats (Drews 2005).
  2. In one of the best descriptions of the protocol I have found, paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson (1942:144) noted that one first assumes “that the bones of different [taxa] have characteristic forms, more or less constant for any one [taxon].”
  3. Compact bone is most often used as an ivory substitute (Espinoza and Mann 2000).
  4. Regional approaches comparing faunas from multiple sites analyzed by diverse research teams are becoming more common today (Barberena et al. 2009; Martinez and Gutiérrez 2004; Otaola 2010; Santiago and Vázquez 2011).
  5. In the early history of zooarchaeology, it was paleontologists and zoologists who identified archaeo-logically recovered faunal remains to taxon (e.g., Gilmore 1949; Merriam 1928; White 1953). 
  6. Paleontology has had, virtually since it became a distinct science (roughly 200 years ago at the hands of Georges Cuvier [Rudwick 1976]), a standard protocol for reporting identifications.
  7. My PhD had taken a regional approach to a valley in the northern Rocky Mountains (Driver 1981, 1985a, b; Lyman 1986).

Endnotes

Footnotes use Arabic numbers, sequentially ordered. Format endnotes using superscript and place outside punctuation. The text accompanying endnotes appears in the “Notes” section which follows the References Cited section.

Figures: Charts and Images

Charts and images should be 600 dpi tiff files for final submission and should be sent as separate files.

Identification of Living Organisms

Authors should identify a living organism by its full scientific name the first time it is mentioned in the article. Full scientific names include the following in order: Genus species Authority Family. As an example, upon the first mention of bobcat in an article, the author ought to write: "Lynx rufus Schreber Felidae."  The second time an author mentions a living organism, identify it by the first initial of the Genus and the full species term only or by the common English name. For example, if an author has already cited the Madagascar girdled lizard once and mentions it again, write "Madagascar girdled lizard" or "Z. madagascariensis."

Authors may choose to include the vernacular name of a living organism or the foreign term for other key concepts. The vernacular name of a living organism ought to appear prior to the scientific name. Format the vernacular name in bold face italics with no initial capital (unless it appears at the beginning of a sentence). For example, to cite the vernacular name of the coqui frog upon the first mention in the article, write: coqui Eleutherodactylus coqui Thomas Leptodactylidae. Upon mentioning it subsequent times, refer to it as “coqui” or “E. coqui.”

Location of Voucher Specimens

The locations where voucher specimens have been deposited for curation should be put in a note or in the acknowledgements.

Contacts

Journal Homepage: http://ethnobiology.org/publications/ethnobiology-letters

Editors

Steve Wolverton – University of North Texas
Cissy Fowler – Wofford College
David Cozzo – Western Carolina University

Editorial Board

Amber VanDerwarker – University of California, Santa Barbara
Valentina Savo – Roma Tre University
James Welch - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro
Eugene Morin – Trent University
Nicholas Hellmuth – Foundation for Latin American Anthropological Research

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