Mires and Peat

an online journal jointly published by imcg and ips

Invitation: Special Volume “Wind Farms on Peatland” 

A special volume of the journal Mires and Peat will be published in conjunction with the symposium “Wind Farms on
Peatland”, to be held in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) from 27 to 30 April 2008. The special volume will contain
the full peer-reviewed research papers upon which presentations at the symposium will be based, together
with review and synthesis items. Authors interested in submitting a paper to the special volume should download the instructions for authors.

Instructions to Authors 

Papers must be written in English. Author(s) are referred to the Tips for Authors (especially those who are not native English speakers. Those whose first language is not English are strongly advised to have their manuscripts checked by a proficient third party before submission.

Please note that papers arising from postgraduate theses and commissioned research reports will usually require substantial re-writing in order to convert them into a format that is suitable for journal publication.

Papers should not, as a rule, exceed 6,000 words or 20 printed pages, including Figures and Tables. Papers exceeding this limit should be discussed with the Editor. Each manuscript will normally be reviewed by two referees. 

If it is accepted for publication, the author(s) will automatically transfer copyright to the Journal.

Arrangement

Manuscripts should follow this sequence: Title; Authors(s); Summary; Keywords (up to 5); Introduction (ending with a concise statement of the purpose of the paper); Materials and Methods; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References.

Technical Data

Manuscripts should be provided in Word (PC) format; please do not use autoformatting. They should be double-spaced in 12 pt Times Roman characters on page size A4 (21 x 29.7 cm), with generous margins to either side. The first line of each paragraph should be indented UNLESS it follows a section or sub-section heading, and there should be only one character space between each pair of sentences. Pages should be numbered consecutively, including those containing Acknowledgements, References, Figures and Tables.

The title page should contain the initials, surnames and affiliations (including countries) of the author(s). One ‘corresponding author’ should be nominated, and his/her full postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address should be given at the end of the manuscript. Please see papers already published in Mires and Peat for detailed examples.

There should be a Summary of 200 words maximum, reporting concisely on the purpose and results of the paper.

Three headings may be used: PRINCIPAL HEADING (in upper case), First subheading (in sentence case) and Second subheading (in italics, sentence case).

Please observe also the following points when drafting:

• Units of measurement should comply with international standards (SI units).
• Please use standard abbreviations (mm, m, Ma, t, oC, NW-SE, Pb, etc.).
• Use the word-ending ‘ise’ rather than ‘ize’ where both are available, e.g. ‘minimise’.
• ‘Circa’ should be abbreviated to ‘ca.’
• Use long hyphens [Ctrl+Fn+;(semicolon)] for ranges e.g. “pp. 237–261” and short hyphens to divide and connect words, e.g. “half-baked”.
• Mires and Peat does not use the abbreviations “Fig.” and “Tab.” for Figures and Tables.

Citations

References in the text to other articles should merely indicate the name of the author (followed by an ampersand and the name of the second author when there are two or by “et al.” in italics when there are more than two) and the publication date of the article in parentheses. If the paper refers to two articles by the same authors from the same year, they should be distinguished by ‘a’, ‘b’ etc. appended to the date. For example: Robert & Kelly (1987a), Köppel (1983), Basto Neto et al. (1991) or (Robert & Kelly 1987a) etc. Where two or more citatations are listed together, they should be presented in date order (earliest first) and separated by commas, e.g. (Köppel 1983, Robert & Kelly 1987a, Basto Neto et al. 1991).

List of References

The References should include all the citations quoted in the text and only those citations, listing the authors alphabetically and then chronologically when several references by the same author(s) are given. Quote journal names in full, NOT abbreviated form. References should be cited as “in press” only if already accepted for publication, in which case the journal name, volume number and year must be stated.  Book and journal titles should be in italics with upper case initial letters. For books, please give the place of publication and either the total number of pages or the page range for the material cited. Where a reference is published in a language other than English, a translation of the title should be given in parentheses and the language of publication indicated. For items that are available both on paper and via the internet, “online at:” and a web address may be appended in the reference list. References that are exclusively available by internet should be listed under the name of the author or owner of the web site. Where the reference is in a language that is written in non-Roman characters, the ‘international standard’ Roman transliteration of the citation should be used.

Examples:
Williams, S.T. & Gray T.R.G. (1974) Net primary production of the dominant bryophytes in a Sphagnum-dominated wetland in West Virginia. Bryologist, 86, 280–286.

Turbridy, M. (ed) (1984) Creation and management of a heritage zone at Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly, Ireland. EEC Final Report, Environmental Science Unit, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 206 pp.

Finney, H.R., Gross, E.R. & Farnham, R.S. (1974) Limnic materials in peatlands of Minnesota. In: Stelly, M. (ed) Histosols: Their Characteristics, Classification and Use. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin, Special Publications No. 6, 21–31.

Schuch, M. (1991) Moorforschung und Moornutzung sowie die landwirtschaftliche Niedermoornutzung und ihre Bedeutung für den Naturschutz in Bayern (Peatland research, peatland use and the agricultural utilisation of fens and their importance for nature conservation in Bavaria). Telma, 21, 19–126 (in German).

Naucke, W. (1990) Chemie von Moor und Torf (Peatland and peat chemistry). In: Göttlich, K. (ed), Moor und Torfkunde (Peatland and Peat Science). E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, 237–261 (in German).

Bragg, O. & Lindsay, R. (eds.) (2003) Strategy and Action Plan for Mire and Peatland Conservation in Central Europe. Publ. No. 18, Wetlands International, Wageningen, 93pp. Online at: http://www. wetlands.org/pubs&/CEPP.htm.

NLP Jasmund (2006) Nationalpark Jasmund: Klima und Böden (Jasmund National Park: climate and soils). http://www.nationalpark-jasmund.de/ (Das Gebiet/ Klima und Böden) (in German).

DWD (2006) Deutscher Wetterdienst: Mittelwerte der Periode 1961 bis 1990 (German Weather Service: mean values for the period 1961–1990). http://www.dwd.de/de/FundE/Klima/KLIS/daten/ online/nat/index_mittelwerte.htm (in German).

Tsinzerling, Yu.D. (1938) Rastitel'nost' bolot / Rastitel'nost' SSSR. T.1. Moskva-Leningrad. (Vegetation of mires / Vegetation of USSR. 1. Moscow-Leningrad). Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 355–428 (in Russian).

For languages written in non-Roman characters, a subsidiary reference list giving the non-Roman references cross-referenced to the transliterated items in the main reference list may (optionally) be included where authors feel that this is necessary to facilitate readers to locate the material; see Mires and Peat Volume 2 (2007) Article 01 for an example.

Figures and Tables

Tables, Figures and other illustrations should be incorporated into the Word document initially submitted, either near the text that refers to them or grouped together at the end of the file.  Figures and Tables are referred to in the text as (Figure 1) and (Table 1), and their legends should be complete and understandable in their own right. The resolution of illustrations included in this document should be sufficiently high to make them clear on the reviewer’s computer screen, but excessively high resolutions should be avoided in order that the total size of the document submitted for review will remain manageable. If at all possible, keep the size of this document below 1 MB to ensure that most reviewers will be able to receive it electronically.

Figures and photographs should also be provided as individual .jpg or .tif files, at a resolution of at least 300 dpi.  Black-and-white or colour photographs may be included.

Submission

Electronic submission is required. If possible, send your manuscript as an e-mail attachment to the Editor, Dr Olivia Bragg o.m.bragg@dundee.ac.uk, who can normally receive fairly large (e.g. 3+ MB) attachments. If you experience difficulty sending several large files attached to one message, try sending several messages with fewer files attached to each. If the files cannot be sent by e-mail, they should be sent by post on floppy or compact disk(s). Please note that compact disks should be packed adequately to avoid breakage in the post. The address for postal submissions is:

Dr Olivia Bragg
Mires and Peat
Department of Geography
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
United Kingdom

Revised 05 January 2007
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Last update: 11.02.2008		www.mires-and-peat.net
Key title: Mires and Peat	ISSN 1819-754X	Abbreviated key title: Mires Peat