Scope:

SALAMANDRA is a broadly based herpetological journal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde e.V. (DGHT). It publishes results of original research and review articles in all fields of herpetology, including phylogeny, systematics, ethology, ecology, physiology, conservation biology, and captive breeding, given a respective scientific relevance. Shorter contributions on faunistics and natural history, as well as species checklists are only accepted, if findings provide substantive new discernments.

Submission:

Manuscripts have to be submitted electronically to DGHT: salamandra@dght.de. Articles are exclusively published in English (preferably British English). If you are not a native speaker, it is recommended to consult a native speaker to review your manuscript prior to submission. Authors must suggest at least two potential referees accompanied by their e-mail addresses. These suggested persons should not be close collaborators and should not have participated in joint publications recently. Submitted manuscript files have to be in RTF or Microsoft Word format (1.5 lines spacing, Times, font size 12 pt, left justified). Upon submission, figures (low resolution) and tables should be added on separate sheets following the text body (not imbedded within the text). Figure and table captions should be consecutively numbered using Arabic numerals (combined figure plates should contain subdivisions using capital letters) and include all necessary information detailed enough for understanding without consulting the main text. Abbreviations used in tables, drawings, and graphs should be explained in the respective caption. When designing your figures, consider that these appear in black and white in the printed version but in colour in the PDF version of your article. Large tables must be considered and formatted as an electronic supplement (which will not appear in print). There is also the possibility to provide additional figures and video files as electronic supplement. These supplements must be mentioned in the manuscript.

Guidelines and format:

All manuscripts should have a title page with only title, author(s) plus address(es), and suggested running head. Major articles should include title, author(s), authors’ addresses, detailed abstract (at maximum about 10% of the length of text body), up to ten key words in addition to the title, and in the following order introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements, references (which can be followed by an appendix or appendices). The sections material and methods, results, and discussion can be combined or exchanged by other sections, if expedient. Start figure captions on a new page at the end of the manuscript. All scientific genus and species names must be in italics. Do not use italics in any other part of the text. Use small capitals for authors cited in text and in references. Do not use completely CAPITALIZED words or author names in any part of the text. Do not use any format of letters except of italics, bold, and Small Capitals. Avoid using footnotes. Do not use hyphenation. Throughout the manuscript never use tabs, nor double or more space typing. Only literature cited within the text shall be included in references. Multiple publications by an author or a team of authors within the same year should be indicated by a, b, c forth. Use “&” (not “and”) in the text when citing a reference by two authors and “et al.” when more than two authors are involved. Avoid comma between author(s) and year of publication except when author(s) of taxa is/are meant: e.g. Trichobatrachus robustus Boulenger, 1900 or Atelopus cruciger (Lichtenstein & Martens, 1856). Personal communications or unpublished data shall be cited as follows (examples): (W. Böhme pers. comm.) or (W. Böhme unpubl. data). Worldwide web sources have to be cited by author and year in references. Shorter contributions are also accepted and should include title, author(s), address(es), abstract, key words, main text body, acknowledgements, references, and if appropriate electronic supplement. Generally, the text of shorter contributions should follow the structure of major articles; however, do not include headings with the exception of acknowledgements and references. These shorter contributions will appear as so-called Correspondence in the issue. Molecular data submitted for publication to SALAMANDRA must be deposited at a recognised archive, such as the National Institute of Health’s GenBank (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI, USA). Representative voucher specimens must be deposited in scientific collections. Accession numbers for molecular sequences and voucher specimens must be provided in the manuscript.

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