Submissions

Author Guidelines

To submit, please register to the Hacquetia site as an author.  Make sure that corresponding box is checked.
https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/hacquetia/about/submissions

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUTHORS

Hacquetia is a scientific journal that publishes research papers in the fields of taxonomy, floristics, faunistics, vegetation ecology, biocenology and palynology. Hacquetia is not geographically restricted, but the editors encourage the submission of papers from southeastern Europe.

Submission of a manuscript implies that the work has not yet been published or otherwise submitted for consideration elsewhere.

Manuscripts should be uploaded to Hacquetia submission system (http://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/hacquetia/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions) or sent to the Editor- in-Chief (urban.silc@zrc-sazu.si) in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word format. Manuscripts should be written in English, in Times New Roman font CE, size 12, double-spaced and left-justified, with numbered lines and pages. All Latin names must be written in italics. Tables and figures should be enclosed separately. For more details on the format, see the current issue of Hacquetia.

Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least two appropriate reviewers. Authors are encouraged to nominate potential reviewers. The editors may or may not consider these suggestions during the review process. Manuscripts that require corrections are returned to the (first) author, who must insert the corrections according to the comments and suggestions of the editors, reviewers, and copy editors, using functions such as Track Changes.

The author uploads the corrected version of the manuscript to the journal’s manuscript system together with point by point responses to all the comments and suggestions. If the authors disagree with a reviewer, they must provide a clear response. The galley proofs are sent to the (first) author.

Upon acceptance for publication, the authors retain all copyright to the work published in this publication. The authors licence to ZRC SAZU the right to publish, reproduce, and distribute the article in ZRC SAZU's journals. The authors consent that ZRC SAZU is accorded the credit of the original publisher in case of reuse of the article, and to make the article available to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en.

The journal does not charge article processing charges (APCs) or article submission fees.

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER

Original Research Articles are full-length papers presenting thoroughly documented, original research. Submissions may report findings from observational or experimental studies, as well as methodological developments. Research may be based on field data, laboratory analyses, computational modeling, or purely analytical approaches. The text should be organized into all standard sections (see the Outline of the Manuscript below), unless a justified reason is provided for an alternative structure.

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Short communications may present preliminary results of exceptional significance, novel methods, important datasets, or focused case studies. They are ideal e.g. for reporting noteworthy findings of important species or new taxa for national or regional floras. Short communications should consist of not more than 4 single-spaced typewritten pages and a maximum of two tables and/or figures. The text should be organized into all standard sections (see the Outline of the Manuscript below), unless a justified reason is provided for an alternative structure. We may consider longer short communication with a compelling rationale in the cover letter.

REVIEW PAPER

Review papers provide comprehensive and critical syntheses of current knowledge on a defined topic within the scope of the journal. Reviews should offer balanced coverage of the relevant literature, identify emerging trends, highlight unresolved questions, and propose future research directions. Both systematic and narrative reviews are considered, provided they demonstrate scholarly rigor and clear relevance to the journal’s readership. The text should be organized into all standard sections (see the Outline of the Manuscript below), unless a justified reason is provided for an alternative structure.

Editors may suggest that authors change the category of their contribution.

OUTLINE OF THE MANUSCRIPT

Language: Hacquetia accepts manuscripts in English.

Authors are responsible for the quality of the language. In the case of foreign authors, Slovene-language translation of the required bibliographic elements (title, abstract, keywords, table and figure captions) will be provided by the editors.

Title: short and concise. Add also a shorter running title.

Author details: The institutions of all authors must be listed (institution, city, country). The corresponding author must be indicated and given an email address. Authors should also provide their ORCID number, which is freely available at https://orcid.org.

Abstract: The abstract must not exceed 1100 characters (including spaces). It should summarise the background, main findings and conclusion of the study. Do not refer to the text or cite literature.

Keywords: List a maximum of eight appropriate keywords without repeating words from the title. The abstract and keywords should be written in both Slovenian and English (foreign authors only in English).

Text: Follow the IMRAD structure (Introduction, Material and methods, Results, Discussion). Obligate chapters are also References, Funding, and Research data availability, where the location of the deposited research data is provided. Possible additional chapters are Conclusions, Acknowledgements and Author contribution statement. Individual chapters should be numbered. Indicate the position of tables and figures in the text. Avoid underlined, bold, and italic formatting (except for scientific names).

Figures: Figures should be numbered consecutively, placed in the text and also sent as separate files. The following file formats are accepted: TIF, GIF, JPG (300 pixels/inch or more) and EPS or PDF. Figures should be a maximum of 160 mm wide. Figure captions should be self-explanatory. In case of high number of figures, these can be published online as supplementary materials. Each Figure should be referred to in the text, e.g. (Figure 5A, Figure 6).

Tables: Tables should contain as few columns as possible. In phytosociological tables, only the vertical lines can be used to divide the different syntaxa. Tables should be submitted in XLS or XLSX file formats. Table captions should be self-explanatory. In case of high number of tables, these can be published online as supplementary materials. Each Table should be referred to in the text, e.g. (Table 2, Table 3).

References: Only works and research data cited in the text should be included in the list. Hacquetia uses the APA referencing style: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples).

For the in-text citations, provide the author and year of publication:

Dakskobler & Mayer (1992) or (Dakskobler & Mayer, 1992). If there are more than two authors, provide only the first author: Martinčič et al. (1999) or (Martinčič et al., 1999). In the References section, the entries should be arranged in alphabetical order based on the first authors' surnames. Information on DOI should be included for all references if it exists.

Some examples of reference entries according to APA citation styles:

Journal papers: Šilc, U., Aćić, S., Škvorc, Ž., Krstonošić, D., Franjić, J., & Dajić Stevanović, Z. (2014). Grassland vegetation of the Molinio-Arrhenatheretea class in the NW Balkan Peninsula. Applied Vegetation Science, 17(3), 591–603. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12094

Book: Dierschke, H. (1994). Pflanzensoziologie. Grundlagen und Methoden. Eugen Ulmer Verlag.

Book chapter: Bates, J. W. (2000). Mineral nutrition, substratum ecology and pollution. In A. J. Shaw & B. Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte biology (pp. 248–311). Cambridge University Press.

Research data: HUH-Index of Botanists (2013). Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries, Index of Botanist. Available from:

 https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_index.html (consulted September 2024).

Policy on the mandatory citation of research data

According to the Decree on the implementation of scientific research work in accordance with the principles of Open Science (Decree), the journal’s co-funder (Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency) requires the editorial board to provide open access to the research data used in the article prior to publication. The data must be prepared according to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). More information for authors on how to implement these requirements should be consulted at the following webpage:

https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/hacquetia/ResearchDataAvailability.

The data must be available to editors and reviewers at the time of manuscript submission, and to the public no later than the article’s publication. An embargo on data access is permitted only in exceptional cases and must be accompanied by appropriate embargo conditions and a reasoned explanation. Editors are responsible for assessing whether the article is based on research data (either the author’s own or third-party data), and authors are responsible for providing the data in the paper itself or in an appropriate repository. If editors determine that such data exist and have not been properly cited, they must ask the author to revise the article. The same applies to the journal’s reviewers.