Checklist for authors

✓ Have you noticed the SALAMANDRA regulations concerning publication fees and do you agree with these?

✓ Is the content of the manuscript covered by the journal scope?

✓ Has the English language been checked by a native speaker or professional?

✓ Have you suggested at least 3 potential and suitable reviewers for the peer-review process, which are not very close collaborators?

✓ Does the chosen text format agree with either the Major Article category or the Correspondence category as required by Salamandra?

✓ Has only one corresponding author been labelled?

✓ Do the key words provide additional information to the title, not a repetition of it?

✓ Are headings and subheadings properly indicated?

✓ Are all scientific species and genus names in italics, but no other words?

✓ Have large tables or extensive data been formatted and presented as supplementary files?

✓ Is all literature cited in the text listed in "References" and vice versa?

✓ Does the format of your reference list correspond with the style and standards you have identified from a current SALAMANDRA issue?

✓ Are collection numbers and localities of voucher specimens mentioned properly?

✓ Have necessary permits been mentioned and listed in acknowledgements?

✓ In case of taxonomic novelties or changes involved, has the work been pre-registered at ZooBank and the LSID been provided?

✓ Do figures appear in order 1, 2, 3, 4… throughout the text (not 1, 2, 4, 3…)?

✓ Is text within the figures and graphs large enough and still readable even when reduced to column width?

✓ Did you save all figures in the required minimum size and resolution (minimum 170 mm width at 300 dpi)?

⇒ Provide a MS Word file of the manuscript in *.docx format

⇒ Use 1.5 lines spacing, Times, font size 12 pt

⇒ Use 2.5 cm space at all margins

⇒  Use British (preferred) or American English, but be consisten with one of the two options

⇒  Do not use syllabifications

⇒  Do not use double or more spacing between words and after sentences

⇒  Do not capitalize first letters of words in title, headings and subheadings

⇒  Use Small Captitals for authors' and person names – if you do not have an option for small capitals, use usual types only (NEVER use CAPITALS)

⇒  Never use numbers or abbreviations in the beginning of a sentences: “Twenty”, not “20”; “Lacerta”, not “L.”.

⇒  If you use special characters (e.g. from other languages) or symbols, these shall be indicated on the first manuscript page

⇒  Do not use a comma between author(s) and year in citations, except when they are author(s) of a taxon

⇒  Do not use academic titles (e.g. Dr., Prof.) in Acknowledgements

⇒  At initial submission, do not submit figures as separate files, but include them in low resolution in the manuscript file

⇒ In References, spell out full journal titles, no abbreviations please