SUBMISSION

1. Submission of a manuscript requires that it has not been published before or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

2. Maximum length of a manuscript is limited to that of a single issue (approximately 130 printed pages).

3. The manuscript must be written in clear, concise English. It is strongly recommended that authors with a native language other than English have their text be examined by a native speaker before submission.

4. All papers are refereed by at least two external reviewers. Authors may suggest the names of suitable referees.

5. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via e-mail as an attachment (the most preferred way) or by regular mail on a CD or 3.5’ diskette. The manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter signed (or sent electronically, in the case of submission via e-mail) by the senior or corresponding author of multi-authored papers who is responsible for the fact that each author has read the manuscript and has accepted responsibility for its contents. Authors are also requested to provide e-mail and postal address for communication. If after being reviewed or edited, the manuscript (in electronic or printed form) is returned to the author for revision; the author should re-submit a full electronic version of the revised manuscript within two months.

ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION

Email: Voltzit@zmmu.msu.ru.

Postal address: Dr. O.V. Voltzit, Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya str. 6, Moscow 125009, Russia.

PAGE CHARGE

No page charges.

PAGE PROOFS

Page proofs (pdf-files) will be sent to the corresponding author and must be returned to the editor-in chief within one month.

REPRINTS

The corresponding author will receive a PDF and 20 reprints free of charge. Authors may print out the PDF, store it on their personal media, send copies to individual colleagues for non-commercial purposes, and post the PDF on their personal website.

MANUSCRIPT TEXT PREPARATION

The electronic version of the manuscript including tables (but not figures) must be prepared as a single file by means of a word processing program such as Microsoft Word ’97 or later version, or other programs compatible with MS Word. When preparing the text, authors must follow these formatting options: font type — Times New Roman; font size — 12; line spacing — 1.5; for Greek symbols it is recommended that the font Symbol, Times New Roman CE, or Greek be used. Paragraphs should be separated by an extra line space and their starting lines should not begin with tabs.

Systematic manuscripts: Authors must strictly follow the latest edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. First occurrence of each species in the manuscript should include author's name and year of the description: e.g. Gastronyssus bakeri Fain, 1955.

For multi-authored taxa the last author must be separated by the Latin conjunction “et”: e.g. Myocoptes squamosus Fain, Munting et Lukoschus, 1969.

If the manuscript contains descriptions of new taxa of the species group, the author should indicate the museum or the institutional collection where the type or the type series are deposited and, if possible, the registration numbers of the type specimens.

Names of species or genera and setal abbreviations should be given in italic. The authors should make their intention to describe a new taxon or propose a new change in nomenclature explicit by using appropriate Latin abbreviations (e. g., sp. n., gen. n., syn. n., comb. n.), when such actions or judgments are first proposed.

Specific examples are given here. Authors must strictly follow this form of presentation.

Spelling of geographical names should be verified using The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) database ( http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp ). If the name of a geographic locality is not unique within the 1^st level administrative region (province, state), then it should be accompanied by its geographic coordinates. Authors should explicitly state whether geographic coordinates were acquired from GPS or from the above online source.

REFERENCES

All citations in the text and references should be given in the modern Latin alphabet.

Citations in the text should be given in parentheses as follows:

One author — Homsher (1995) or (Homsher 1995);

Two authors — Homsher and Robbins (1999) or (Homsher and Robbins 1999);

Three or more authors — Homsher et al. (1998) or (Homsher et al. 1998).

Papers by the same author(s) in the same year should be distinguished by the letters a, b, c, etc. If papers have the same senior author and the same year of publication but different sets of two or more junior authors, they should also be marked with letters a, b, c, etc. in the text and in the reference paragraph, for example Homsher et al. (1998a, 1998b) or (Homsher et al. 1998a, 1998b). In cases of multiple citations, papers must be arranged chronologically and alphabetically within the year (Homsher et al. 1998; Alekseev 2005; Mironov et al. 2005). Papers may be cited “in press” only if proof has been produced. Papers that have not been accepted for publication (submitted papers or reviewed papers) may not be included in the list of references and must be cited either as “unpubl.” or as “pers. comm.”; in such cases the citation is indicated in the following style: (S.V. Mironov, pers. comm.). Examples of references for various kinds of publications are given here.

Reference Examples

1. Papers in periodicals:

Lange, A.B. and Sokolova, T.V. 1992. [Parasitism of the itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei (Acariformes)]. Parazitologiya, 26: 281–295. [In Russian]

Rudd, J.A. 1997. Effects of pesticides on spin down and webbing production by the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae). Experimental and Applied Acarology, 21: 615–628.

2. Monographs and books:

Roberts, F.S.H. 1970. Australian ticks. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization, Melbourne. 267 pp.

Balashov, Yu.S. 1998. Iksodovyye kleshchi — parazity i perenoschiki infektsionnykh bolezney [Ixodid ticks — parasites and vectors of infections]. Publisher: Nauka, Saint Petersburg, 287 pp. [In Russian]

3. Book chapters:

Zachvatkin, A.A. 1953. [Study of morphology and postembrional development of tyroglyphids (Sarcoptiformes, Tyroglyphoidea)]. In: E.S. Smirnov (Ed.). A.A Zakhvatkin. Sbornik nauchnykh rabot. Moscow State University, Moscow, p.19–120. [In Russian]

Hoogstraal, H. and Kim, K.C. 1985. Tick and mammal coevolution, with emphasis on Haemaphysalis. In: K.C. Kim (Ed.). Coevolution of parasitic arthropods and mammals. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, pp. 505–568.

4. Abstracts of presentations at congresses and symposia:

Balashov, Yu.S. 1998. [A place of ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) in forest ecosystems]. In: G.S. Medvedev (Ed.). Problemy Entomologii v Rossii. Sbornik nauchnykh Trudov XI S’ezda Russkogo entomologicheskogo obshchestva (23–29 September 1997, Saint Petersburg, Russia). Abstracts. Zoological Institute RAS, Saint Petersburg, p. 28. [In Russian]

Walter, D.E. 2002. A plethora of questions, but only a modicum of answers: the Australian acarofauna of tropical forests. In: J.B. Morales-Malacara and G. Rivas (Eds.). XI International Congress of Acarology (8–13 September 2002, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico), Program and Abstracts. UNAM, Mexico City, p. 94.

5. Theses:

Kurey, W.J. 1976. Ectoparasitic Acarina (Analgoidea) from non-passeriform birds of North America. MS thesis. Youngstown State University, Youngstown. 60 pp.

6. Thesis abstracts:

Kivganov, D.A. 1996. Klishchi pir'yanogo pokryvu ta gnizd kryachkiv (Laridae, Sterninae) pivdnya Ukrainy [=Feather mites from the plumage and nests of terns (Laridae, Sterninae) of the south of Ukraine]. Abstract of the Candidate of Biological Sciences thesis. Kiev. 21 pp. [In Ukrainian]

Mironov, S.V. 1998. Per’evie kleshchi semeystv Avenzoariidae i Alloptidae (sistematika, filogeniya i koevolutsionnye otnosheniya s ptitsami [=Feather mites of the families Avenzoariidae and Alloptidae (Systematics, phylogeny and co-evolutionary relationships with birds)]. Abstract of the Doctor of Biological Sciences thesis. Publisher: TzOP SPBGU, Saint Petersburg. 46 pp. [In Russian]

7. Special issues (series of Fauna of the USSR and Fauna of Russia):

Dubinin, V.B. 1951. Per’evie kleshchi (Analgesoidea). Chast’ I. Vvedenie v isuchenie. [=Feather mites (Analgesoidea). Part I. Introduction to study]. Fauna of the USSR, Paukoobraznyye 6 (5). Publisher: Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 363 pp. [In Russian]

8. Computer programs:

Sorenson, M.D. 1999. TreeRot. Version 2. University of Boston, Boston.

TABLES

Each table should have an Arabic numeral (e.g. “Table 1”) and start on a new page. Width of tables should be adjusted to fit the A4 (21 x 29.7 cm) page format with left and right margins not less than 2.5 cm; a smaller font size (as small as 9) is allowed in tables.

ILLUSTRATIONS

All illustrations should be of excellent quality, black-and-white (line drawings, maps, graphs) or grey scale (for photographs), and identified in the text as “Fig.” or “Figs.” depending on the number of figures to which reference is being made. They should be numbered according to the sequence of their citation in the text. The following modes of numbering are acceptable: Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3 …or Fig. 1A, B, C… or Fig. 1a, b, c…). Combining line drawings and photographs or line and half-tone drawings in a single figure is unacceptable.

All illustrative materials should be submitted electronically, in a form completely ready for publication. Each drawing, photograph, or block of photographs should be submitted as a separate file (LZW-compressed tif, psd, or jpg). Only bitmap mode is allowed for line drawings. The file name should contain a figure number, for example, “Fig1.tif”. The print size of a drawing, photo, or block of photos should not be larger than 16 ‘ 24 cm. The resolution for line drawings should be at least 1200 dpi, and that for photographs not less than 600 dpi. Uniting several illustrative objects into a single file is unacceptable. Graphs and diagrams should be prepared as a single file by means of MS Excel. Colored graphs or diagrams are not acceptable.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright of all accepted articles belongs to the publisher (KMK Scientific Press). No article or parts of articles may be adapted or reproduced without the written permission of the publisher.