Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Published on behalf of the Royal Entomological Society

Edited by:
Allan D. Watt, Hefin Jones and Barbara Ekbom

Print ISSN: 1461-9555
Online ISSN: 1461-9563
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 12 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 17/72 Entomology
Impact Factor: 1.377

TopAuthor Guidelines

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Agricultural and Forest Entomology aims to provide a natural home for the best papers on entomological research in agroecosystems and managed forests. It welcomes high quality original research papers on the biology, population dynamics, impact and management of insect and other arthropod pests of forest, agricultural and horticultural crops. All cropping systems within these sectors are of interest; including forest plantations, semi-natural forest stands, seed orchards, fruit orchards, agroforestry systems, grassland, arable and horticultural field and protected crops.

Agricultural and Forest Entomology will also publish papers on the management of agroecosystems and managed forests for the diversity of insects and other arthropods, particularly where this is relevant to pest management.

Papers from any region of the world will be welcome.

Agricultural and Forest Entomology will publish original research, review articles on topics of current relevance and a series of short critical commentaries. These short papers and review articles form an integral part of the journal but are usually commissioned. Potential authors should contact the Editors before submitting them.

We aim to provide rapid publication and speedy responses to authors, with all papers being critically reviewed by at least two independent referees. The peer review process will ensure that articles are both rigorous and readable.

All correspondence should be addressed to:

Dr A.D. Watt
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Bush Estate
Penicuik
Midlothian
EH26 0QB, UK
Tel:+44 (0)131 4454343
Fax +44 (0)131 4453943
email: adw@ceh.ac.uk

Papers should be as concise as possible, compatible with clarity and completeness, and should occupy between 2 and 10 printed pages (1400-7000 words). Only complete reports will be published; preliminary communications will not be considered. A numbered abstract of up to 250 words should be provided. The text should normally be divided into Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion sections. Please examine recent issues for details of acceptable style and format. See below for further details. Manuscripts which do not conform to the standards outlined will be returned to the author(s) with a request that they are edited to meet these standards prior to submission.

Short critical reviews - Issues in Agricultural and Forest Entomology - and longer review articles will be published. These will usually be commissioned, and potential authors should contact the Editors before submitting them.

Submission of Manuscripts
Submission of the manuscript by e-mail is preferred. Please provide:
- A covering letter including your full contact details and those of any co-authors
- A Word file containing your text, figure legends, tables and any figures embedded at the end. You may need to use low resolution figures (GIF/JPG) to keep the total file size small enough to e-mail- as a guide, the file sould be 2Mb or less.

All papers should be sent to Dr A.D. Watt. If you are unable to submit by e-mail, please contact the Editor for details of submitting as hard copy.

Every effort will be made to ensure rapid publication. Authors will normally receive reviewers' comments within 6 weeks of submission. The decisions of the Editors are final. No page charges will be levied. Papers must be submitted exclusively to Agricultural and Forest Entomology and are accepted on the understanding that they have not been, and will not be, published elsewhere. If accepted, papers become the copyright of the Journal. Authors must give signed consent to publication in a letter sent with the paper, but permission to use material elsewhere (e.g. in review articles) will normally be granted on request.

Preparation of electronic artwork
We would like to receive your artwork electronically in addition to hard copy. Please prepare your figures according to the publisher's Electronic Artwork Guidlines. Although low quality images (GIF/JPG) are adequate for review purposes, print publication requires high quality images (TIFF/EPS). The Editorial Office will request that high-quality electronic figures and one good-quality hard copy of the figures are provided once your paper has been accepted.

• Create EPS files for images containing lineart. EPS files should be saved with fonts embedded (and with a TIFF preview if possible). The following packages can be used to create EPS files: Adobe Illustrator 7.0 and above, Deneba Canvas 6.0 and above, CorelDRAW 7.0 and above, SigmaPlot 8.01 and above. Other programs may also be able to create EPS files - use the SAVE AS or EXPORT functions. EPS files can be produced from other applications (e.g. PowerPoint, Excel) BUT results can be unpredictable (e.g. fonts and shading not converted correctly, lines missing, dotted lines becoming solid).

• Create TIFF files images containing half-tones/photographs. For scanned images, the scanning resolution (at final image size, see above for a guide to sizes) should be as follows to ensure adequate reproduction: lineart, >800 d.p.i.; half-tones, >300 d.p.i. Figures containing both halftone and line images, >600 d.p.i. The following programs can be used to create TIFF files: Adobe Photoshop 4.0 and above, Adobe Illustrator 9.0 and GraphPad Prism 3. Other programs may also be able to create TIFF files - use the SAVE AS or EXPORT functions.

• Black and white images should be supplied as 'grayscale'; colour images should be supplied as CMYK.
• Multipart figures should be supplied in the final layout in one file, labelled as (A), (B) etc
• Supply figures at final size widths if possible: 19 picas (single column) or 40 picas (double column)
• Use sans serif, true-type fonts for labels if possible, preferably Arial or Helvetica, or Times (New) Roman if serif fonts required.
• Ensure all lines and lettering are clear.

Presentation of Manuscripts
The text should be double-spaced and, where appropriate, figures and table should be provided with each copy of the manuscript.

The title page should include the author's name(s), affiliations and the address to which all correspondence and proofs should be sent. A telephone number, fax number and e-mail address should also be supplied. Present addresses of authors should appear as a footnote. A running title of not more than 50 characters, including spaces, should be provided and five to ten key words for indexing purposes.

All papers must include an Abstract not exceeding 250 words which should be made as far as possible intelligible to a more general audience. The Abstract should be presented as a series of factual, numbered statements. The main text should normally be subdivided into Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. The Results and Discussion sections can include additional subheadings.

All pages must be numbered consecutively. Line numbering should also be used. Tables, figures, figure legends and acknowledgements should be submitted on separate pages following the main text. The preferred position of tables and figures should be indicated in the margin of the text. Footnotes should not be used.

Give the scientific name of each species in full, together with the authority for its name where appropriate, at first mention in the main text. Do not give authorities for species cited from published references. Where a scientific name follows its common name, it should not be separated by a comma or brackets.

After an analysis of variance, further simultaneous testing of treatment means should not be done, except for specific comparisons planned prior to the experiment. Results of statistical analysis should always be presented in full with statistical results (e.g. F values), degrees of freedom and P values (e.g. PTables and Figures
Original drawings or photographs should be supplied for reproduction. Figures will be reduced to single column width (80 mm), two-thirds page width (110 mm) or full page width (169 mm) and should be planned accordingly.

Photographs should be provided as glossy prints. Line diagrams should be drawn in black ink on tracing paper or white card or supplied as glossy prints. All illustrations should be labelled clearly on the reverse with the figure number and the author's name in soft black pencil, identifying the top edge. Colour plates will be published by special arrangement with the Editors and Publishers.

Colour work agreement forms
It is the policy of Agricultural and Forest Entomology for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of their colour artwork. Therefore, please note that if there is colour artwork in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, Blackwell Publishing require you to complete and return a Colour Work Agreement form before your paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as a PDF* from the internet. If you are unable to access the internet, or are unable to download the form, please contact the Production Editor at: afe@wiley.com and they will be able to email or FAX a form to you. Once completed, please return the form to the Production Editor at the address below:

Fionna de Guzman
Production Editor
Journal Content Management
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley Services Singapore Pte Ltd
600 North Bridge Road
# 05-01 Parkview Square
Singapore 188778


Any article received by Blackwell Publishing with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned.
*To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this program, this is available as a free download from the following web address: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

References
Authors should use the Harvard system. Only full articles which have been published or are 'in press' (i.e. accepted for publication) may be included in the reference list. In the text, unpublished studies should be referred to as such, or as a personal communication with the author's initials and surname. It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission from colleagues to include their work as a personal communication. In the text, references should be inserted in parentheses, as follows: (Martinez, 1985; Martinez & Lawrence, 1985; Martinez et al., 1988). The reference list should be in alphabetical order according to the authors. All authors' names and the title of the article must be included. Journal titles should be given in full.

Proofs
The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a web site. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Hard copy proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available. Excessive changes made by the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be charged separately.

Page proofs will be available about 6 weeks after acceptance of papers and should be corrected and returned within 3 days of receipt. Only corrections and essential changes should be made at this stage. The cost of extensive changes will be charged to the authors. The Editors reserve the right to make minor modifications to manuscripts that do not conform to accepted standards. Such alterations will always be submitted to the authors for approval at the proof stage.

Author material archive policy
Please note that unless specifically requested, Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy or electronic material submitted 2 months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the Editorial Office or Production Editor as soon as possible if you have not yet done so.

Offprints
The corresponding author will receive a PDF file of the article free of charge. Additional offprints may be ordered be contacting offprint@cosprinters.com

Cover Photographs
Photographs suitable for the cover of Agricultural and Forest Entomology are welcomed by the Editors. It is not essential that these should be related to submitted papers.

Exclusive Licence Form
Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. (Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various medium/circumstances (please see the form for further details). To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office.

For all papers, please use this form

Author Services
Online production tracking is now available for your article through Wiley-Blackwell's Author Services. Author Services enables authors to track articles--once they have been accepted--through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated emails at key stages of production so they do not need to contact the production editor to check on progress. Visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/ for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including faqs and tips on article preparation, submission, and more.

OnlineOpen
OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With OnlineOpen the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley InterScience, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For the full list of terms and conditions, see http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/authorresources/onlineopen.html#OnlineOpen_Terms.

Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/afe_oof.pdf

Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.