Instructions to Authors

Mycotaxon is an international journal for articles on the taxonomy and nomenclature of fungi. Publication is open to everyone. The Editor-in-Chief receives publication-ready text documents and illustrations that have been reviewed prior to submission by two mycological experts. The author is responsible for providing potential peer reviewers with a full set of instructions and for preparing concise, well-formatted, error-free copy that accurately conveys the author's ideas in an economy of space.

No page charges are incurred for papers with fewer than one hundred (100) pages and containing one or fewer halftone plates per ten (10) pages of text. Excess halftones cost $40 each. (There are last-minute correction fees and modest fees for converting hard copy to digital formats, however.)

Mycotaxon submission involves three easy steps:

[1] Peer review, in which the authors send their final manuscript text and illustrations to two expert peer reviewers. (Peer reviewers return complete comments to the author and the expert review comments to the Editor-in-Chief.)

[2] Nomenclature & presubmission review , in which authors send their peer-reviewed master text clone (no graphics) to the Nomenclature Editor and, if the paper is in French, to the French Language Editor.

[3] Final submission, in which authors send all text and illustration materials together with their submission form to the Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief, who is available to answer questions at any time, will guide the authors through final submission to publication.

Our most recent Mycotaxon Author instructions can be downloaded as a comprehensive printer-friendly PDF. (Remember to download the free Acrobat Reader when needed.) This file, which provides the most complete information on Mycotaxon requirements & submission protocols, includs a sample manuscript. Authors should also download the Word, Legend, and Table Templates formatted to fit our custom journal page size and the Submission Form to be returned to the Editor-in-Chief with all final submission materials. These files are available as individual downloads and as a complete authoring kit on our file download page.

Authors who maintain datasets for regional checklists are encouraged to submit short summaries (up to 4 pages) for publication in the print journal and to post a lengthier database online, where it can be updated and easily searched. Please read the paragraphs entitled "About checklists" in our Author instructions.

All authors should read detailed information on illustrations from our press before submitting manuscripts with figures.

Authors are expected to provide prospective reviewers with copies of the Reviewer's Guidelines and ask that the peers should return the completed comments form to both Editor-in-Chief and authors. These Guidelines are also available from the file download page.