Autori môžu podať textovú časť rukopisu v súbore MS Word (as .doc or .docx) alebo vo formáte RTF, prípadne TXT. Súbor PDF nebude akceptovaný.

Ak rukopis obsahuje rovnice, treba zabezpečiť, aby sa dali editovať (nesmú byť vložené ako obraz).

Spôsob prípravy tabuliek a ilustrácií je opísaný nižšie.

Editori majú právo urobiť drobné zmeny v rukopis v súlade s inštrukciami bez schválenia autormi.

Všetky citácie uvedené v článku musia byť uvedené v kapitole Literatúra a aj každá položka v zozname musí byť zmienenná v texte.

Citácie v texte treba písať Kapitálkami, napríklad:

• Šumpich 2011 alebo Šumpich (2011) - nepíšte čiarku medzi autorov a rok vydania.

• Huemer & Tarmann 1993 alebo Huemer & Tarmann (1993) - používajte ampersand (&) ak sú dvaja autori citovanej práce.

• Elsner et al. 1999 alebo Elsner et al. (1999) - ak má práca viac ako dvoch autorov, použite "et al.", ale nie kurzívou.

• Reiprich 1992, 2000 - pri citovaní dvoch prác jedného autora

• Nieukerken 1990, Nieukerken et al. 1996

Multiple references should be cited as (Smith 2000; Smith & Jones 2002; Jones et al. 2001). References published in the same year by more then two authors and containing the same first author’s surnames should be differentiated as follows: ‘Smith et al. (2000a)’, ‘Smith et al. (2000b)’. In the references list, the same convention (letters a, b, c, etc.) should be used. Use chronological order for in–text citations.

Nabádame autorov, aby aplikovali zásady vhodného citovania v taxonómii: the authors who want their citations of taxonomic names to be considered as references (and consequently to appear in the references list) should formally cite the taxonomic papers where they originate in their articles.

• For example, instead of writing "Chlamydotheca Saussure, 1858 was first described from South America", write: "Chlamydotheca was first described from South America (Saussure 1858)".

• In the latter case, the reference "(Saussure 1858)" is a real reference and citation (name and date not separated by a comma), in the former it is the authorship of the taxon (name and date separated by a comma).

Mention, there is no letter in italics in citations, e.g., "(Smith 2001a,b)" or "Smith et al. 2012".

Information about the chapter References is below.

Čísla

Ak veta zašína číslovkou, treba ju uviesť v slovnej podobe (napr. "Dvadsať druhov…").

Používajte arabské číslice:

• Ak je číslo nasledované jednotlou miery (napr. 9 mm; 30°C).

• Ak číslo uznačuje poradie alebo vymenovanie (napr. "Lokalita 2").

• Ak je číslo oddelené pomĺčkou napr. v rozpätí hodnôt (napr. "2–3 štetiny").

Štvorciferné čísla by nemali byť rozdelené medzerou (napr. 5280).

Čísla s viac ako štyrmi ciframi by mali byť v slovenskom texte rozdelené nedeliteľnou medzerou (napr. 15 280) ale v anglickom texte čiarkou (napr. 15,280).

Čislovaný zoznam v texte treba treba uzavrieť zátvorkami; napr. (1), (2), (3); ale nie 1), 2), 3).

Vo FFS je možné publikovať príspevky bez ohľadu na ich dĺžku (nie sú žiadne obmedzenia v počte slov alebo príloh), nabádame však autorov, aby ich text bol stručný, hutný a čitateľný.

Rukopis by mal mať nasledné časti:

• Nadpis

• Autori

• Pracovisko (adresa) autorov

• Abstrakt (po anglicky) = Abstract

• Kľúčové slová (po anglicky) = Key words

• Úvod

• Materiál a metódy

• Výsledky

• Diskusia

• Závery (nepovinné)

• Poďakovanie

• Literatúra

• Komentáre k obrázkom

• Tabuľky

Članký možno v prípade potreby usporiadať aj iným spôsobom.

Obrázky sa nevkladajú do textového súboru rukopisu. Každý obrázok treba odovzdať ako samostatný grafický súbor, návod ako pripravovať obrázky je nižšie.

Používajte čo najmenej skratiek, vysvetlite ich prip rvom použití v texte. Neštandardné skratky používajte len ak sa v texte objavia minimálne tri krát.

Rukopisy pripravované v anglickom jazyku treba upraviť podľa anglickej verzie návodu a dôrazom na odlišnosti používania interpunkcie a ďalších špecifických požiadaviek. Vhodná je kontrola anglickej gramatiky a štýlu človekom, ktorý má angličtinu ako materský jazyk.

4. Príprava štandardných častí rukopisu

V rukopise nie je vyžadvaný špecifický font ani veľkosť písma (okrem textu v obrázkoch), ale odporúčame vhodný serifový font veľkosti 12 bodov (e.g. Cambria, Times, Georgia).

Ak používate symboly zo špeciálnych fontov, zlúčte ich s textovým súborom (nastavenie Vlastnosti v programe MS Word).

Kurzívu používajte výlučne pri menách taxónov rodu a nižších úrovní.

Vypnite automaticke delenie slov vo svojom textovom procesore.

Nadpis

Plný názov práce by mal mať menej ako 150 písmen. It should be specific, descriptive, concise, and comprehensible to readers outside the subject field. Avoid abbreviations if possible. Where appropriate, authors should include the species or higher taxon name. Do not include authors and year of taxon description in the title (except of taxonomic revision, species descriptions etc.).

V nadpise taxonomických a faunistických prác by mala byť zahrnutá informácia taxóne vyšej úrovne, napr. "Moths (Lepidoptera, Momphidae) from Western Carpathians".

Skrátený anglický nadpis (do 50 písmen) bude uvedený v záhlaví PDF súboru. V rukopise uveďte len nadpis v plnom znení; skrátený nadpis vložte do on-line formulára pri podávaní rukopisu.

Pri príspevkoch písaných v slovenskom a českom jazyku bude treba v online registričnaom formulári vložiť aj anglický nadpis zhodný so slovenským/českým.

Autori a ich pracovisko (adresa)

All author names should be listed in the following order:

• First names

• Middle names

• Last names (surname, family name)

Each author should list an associated department, university, or organisational affiliation and its location, including city, zip code, state/province (if applicable), and country.

All researchers, who qualified to authorship by e.g., influencing the conception and design of the work, data acquisition, or analysis and interpretation of data should be listed. Those who contributed to the work but do not qualify for authorship should be listed in the acknowledgments.

One author should be designated as the corresponding author.

Corresponding author should inform coauthors about the manuscript prior to its submission (to avoid unintended double–publishing).

Abstrakt

Abstrakt musí byť napísaný v zrozumiteľnej a gramaticky správnej angličtine. Treba pritom dať pozor na odlišnosti v používaní desatinných bodiek, úvodzoviek a pod.

The abstract should:

• Describe the main objective(s) of the study.

• Explain how the study was done without methodological detail.

• Summarize the most important results and their significance.

• Full names of taxons at species and genus level (including authors and years of description) should be listed, if mentioned.

• Should not exceed 300 words.

Abstracts should not include:

• Citations (except of authors of species and genus names).

• Abbreviations.

Key Words

Kľúčové slová sú v angličtine, mená taxónov v odbornej terminológii, regionálne geografické termíny netreba prekladať. V kľúčových slovách treba každé slovo alebo frázu oddeliť bodkočiarkou, nepoužívajte poťiatočné veľké písmená

Úvod

Úvod by mal:

• Provide background that puts the manuscript into context and allows readers outside the field to understand the purpose and significance of the study

• Define the problem addressed and why it is important

• Include a brief review of the key literature

• Note any relevant controversies or disagreements in the field

• Conclude with a brief statement of the overall aim of the work and a comment about whether that aim was achieved

Materiál a Metódy

This section should provide enough detail to allow suitably skilled investigators to fully replicate your study.

Specific information and/or protocols for new methods should be included in detail. If materials, methods, and protocols are well established, authors may cite articles where those protocols are described in detail, but the submission should include sufficient information to be understood independent of these references.

Detailed information on the research sites should include name of sites, geographic coordinates (or mapping grid squares of DFS et least), and orographic units.

Dates of sampling should be listed.

Observational and field studies which require permits and approvals (e.g. research at protected areas or of protected species) for the work should should include the full name of the authority that approved the study. If permits were required for any aspect of the work, details should be given of all permits that were obtained, including the full name of the issuing authority. This should be accompanied by the following statement: "All necessary permits were obtained for the described study, which complied with all relevant regulations.". If no permits were required, please include the following statement: "No permits were required for the described study, which complied with all relevant regulations.".

Výsledky, Diskusia (prípadne aj závery)

These sections may all be separate, or may be combined to create a mixed Results and Discussion section. These sections may be further divided into subsections, each with a concise subheading, as appropriate.

These sections have no word limit, but the language should be clear and concise.

Together, these sections should describe the results, the interpretation of these results, and the conclusions that can be drawn. Authors should explain how the results relate to the hypothesis presented as the basis of the study and provide a succinct explanation of the implications of the findings, particularly in relation to previous related studies and potential future directions for research.

Redundancy of data should be avoided.

The Discussion will consider the findings of the paper in the context of the wider literature and indicates progress made within the field.

Poďakovanie

People who contributed to the work but do not fit the criteria of authorship (see above) should be listed in the acknowledgments, along with their contributions. You must ensure that anyone named in the acknowledgments agrees to being so named.

Use initials instead of first names for individuals.

Funding sources may be included in the acknowledgments.

Literatúra

All citation mentioned in the article must be listed in the chapter References and vice versa, all listed references must appear in the text.

Only published or accepted manuscripts should be included in the reference list. Manuscripts that have been submitted but not yet accepted should not be cited (mention them as "personal communication" or "unpublished data" in hte text).

References must be listed at the end of the manuscript and sorted alphabetically.

You can use a style sheet of FFS reference style in style if you use the Reference manager software.

Proper formatting of the references is crucial, manuscripts not applying this style will be rejected.

Generally:

• "et al." should not appear in references.

• Do not italicize names of species and genus level taxa in references.

• Do not write full stops after initials or spaces between initials of author.

• Transliterate titles in cyrillics following standard rules (e, ë, э = e, ж = zh, й = y, х = kh, ц = ts, ч = ch, ш = sh, щ = shch, ь, ъ = ’, ю = yu, я = ya).

• Translated titles should be in square brackets [ ] and list the language in brackets at the end of reference.

• Journal name should not be abbreviated.

Examples of references are shown below:

• Published papers: Hou WR, Hou YL, Wu GF, Song Y & Su XL, 2011: cDNA, genomic sequence cloning and overexpression of ribosomal protein gene L9 (rpL9) of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). Genet Mol Res, 10: 1576–1588.

• Paper in a journal, with a doi (Digital Object Identifier) reference: Bremer B & Manen JF, 2000: Phylogeny and classification of the subfamily Rubioideae (Rubiaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution, 225: 43–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00985458
  (Note: Use of a DOI number for the full–text article is acceptable as an alternative to or in addition to traditional volume and page numbers).

• For online–only journals, follow the format for typical journal papers but also provide the URL for the article: O’Donnell RP & Rayburn AP, 2011: Biases in the protection of peripheral anuran populations in the United States. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 6: 91–98. http://www.herpconbio.org/Volume_6/Issue_1/ODonnell_Rayburn_2011.pdf.

• Article in a thematic volume of a journal: Guyot M, 2000: Intricate aspects of sponge chemistry. In: Vacelet J (ed.): Porifera 2000: Volume in honour to Professor Claude Lévi. Zoosystema, 22 (2): 419–431.

• Accepted, unpublished papers: Same as above, but “In press” appears instead of the page numbers.

• Electronic journal articles, websites: Huynen MMTE, Martens P & Hilderlink HBM, 2005: The health impacts of globalisation: a conceptual framework. Global Health, 1: 14. Available: http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/1/1/14. Accessed 25 January 2012.

• Books: Bates B, 1992: Bargaining for life: A social history of tuberculosis. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. 435 pp.

• Book chapters: Hansen B, 1991: New York City epidemics and history for the public. In: Harden VA & Risse GB (eds): AIDS and the historian. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda. pp. 21–28.

• Contribution in a Proceedings book, Conference report, etc.: Shandra P & Mirad D, 1999: On the taxonomy of carabids (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from mountain forest in Zimbabwe. In: Merger T, Formsfield J & Brooke D (eds): Insect diversity in southern Africa. Proceedings of the first international symposium on African insect diversity, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren. pp. 117–128.

• Thesis: DeRijk P, 1995: Optimisation of a database for ribosomal RNA structure and application in structural and evolutionary research. PhD thesis, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

• User’s manual for a software: Swofford DL, 2002: PAUP*: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (*and other methods), v.4. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland.

Komentáre k obrázkom

Figure legends should be placed after the References in your manuscript. Figure legends should describe the key messages of a figure.

Legends should have a short title of 15 words or less. The full legend should have a description of the figure and allow readers to understand the figure without referring to the text. The legend itself should be succinct, avoid lengthy descriptions of methods, and define all non–standard symbols and abbreviations.

Tabuľky

Tables should be included at the end of the manuscript.

All tables should have a concise title. Footnotes can be used to explain abbreviations. Citations should be indicated using the same style as outlined above.

Tables occupying more than one printed page should be avoided, if possible.

Larger tables (more then 5 × 5 cells) should be submitted as separate files in formats of MS Excel.

Title and Footnotes

Each table needs a concise title of no more than one sentence, placed above the table with the table number (e.g., Table 1). The legend should be placed as separate sentence between the table title and the table body. Footnotes may be used to explain abbreviations.

Tables with varying numbers of columns should be divided and renumbered as separate tables.

In the published version, tables will be formatted in FFS own style (including alternate row shading, data aligning in cells, borders etc.) so any format of tables applied by authors in manuscripts will be removed.

Tables must:

• Be cell–based (e.g., created in MS Word with Tables tool or in MS Excel)

• Be editable (i.e., not a graphic object).

• Have heading/subheading levels in separate columns and rows.

• If possible, be no larger than one printed page.

Tables must not:

• Use returns or tabs within a cell.

• Have colour or shading.

• Use lines, rules, or borders.

• Contain spaces within cells to align text.

• Have vertically merged cells; horizontally merged cells should be applied warily.

• Have inserted text boxes or pictures.

• Have tables within tables.

• Include empty columns, rows, or cells to create spacing.

• Include hyperlinked text.

If submitted table contains any of these elements, it will be returned for adjustments.

5. Obrázky

Figures should not be included in the manuscript text file, but submitted in separate graphic files instead.

Titles and legends (captions) for figures should be included in the main article file after the references but before tables, not as part of the figure files themselves.

Do not include author names or the article title within the figure files. Instead, list the following information for each figure at the end of the article file:

• Figure number (in sequence, using Arabic numerals: Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, etc.)

• Short title using a maximum of 15 words.

• The figure title should be bold type, using sentence case ending with a period (.). For example: Figure 1. Clogmia albipunctata, habitus.

• A detailed legend of 300 words maximum can follow the figure title.

• Each panel (if illustration consists of panels) should be described in the legend.

Recommended graphics software

Several graphics software packages are available to help you create, improve and compose a high–quality graphics:

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe Illustrator

• PowerPoint (MS PowerPoint is a presentation program, used to display information, normally in the form of a slide show. While it is not designed to create artwork for publication, there are simple workarounds that will allow you to submit your PowerPoint figures).

• CorelDraw

• GIMP (freely distributed at www.gimp.org)

• Inkscape (freely distributed at www.inkscape.org)

• MS Word is not recommended to adjust image size (Word automatically down–samples figures and embeds them in the document at 72 ppi, so the images may be at a lower resolution and quality than is acceptable).

Figures like charts, graphs, or histograms generated from cell data created in MS Excel should be submited with all data in file. Other than creating charts, graphs, or histograms, Excel should be only be used to make tables (see Table Guidelines for more information on formatting tables).

MS Paint does not create files at higher than 96ppi resolution, so we strongly recommend that you never use it in creating your figures.

Príprava obrázkov

• File Size – Individual figure files should not exceed 10 MB.

• Figure Quality – A figure that looks good on screen may not be at optimal resolution. Test your figures by sizing them to their intended dimensions and then printing them on your personal printer.

• The online version should look relatively similar to the personal–printer copy: it should not look fuzzy, jagged, pixilated, or grainy at the intended print size.

• Colour Mode – Figures containing colour should be saved in either Grayscale or RGB (millions of colours), rather than Indexed Colour, CMYK or any other colour space.

• Grayscale or RGB files should be saved with a bit depth of 8 bits per channel, not 16.

• Monochrome images are not acceptable.

• Layered TIFFs TIFF files with multiple layers are not an accepted format for figures. Please make sure you provide us with a flattened version of your file.

• TIFF files with multiple pages are not an accepted format for figures.

• Background Colour of figures should be white or transparent

• Lines, rules, and strokes should be at least 0.5 point and no more than 1.5 point in order to reproduce well in a PDF file or web format (in relation to the final width of illustration – see table below).

• Each figure should be closely cropped to minimize the amount of white space surrounding it. Cropping figures improves accuracy when the figure is placed among other elements during production of the final published article.

• Text within figures – Figure text must be in Arial font, between 8 and 12 point (when figure scaled the page width or column width). Make sure that the visual information is readable at the size you select. Figure text that requires a font family other than Arial (math symbols, etc.) must have the font information embedded in the figure file, or be converted to outlines.

• Multi–panel figures (those with parts A, B, C, and D) should be submitted as a single file that contains all parts of the figure. Label the figure itself with capital letters, Arial bold font, 12 points. Any TIFFs with layers must be flattened.

Veľkosť (rozlíšenie) obrázkov

Figures for publication will be sized to fit 1 or 2 columns of the final printable PDF of the article (7,8 or 16 cm). Please follow the sizing recommendations below for your original submission to create high–quality, appropriately sized figures. See table below for sizing information of figures for articles (at resolution of 300 DPI):

	cm	pixels
Width for 1–column figures	7,8	922
Width for 2–column figures	16	189
Height maximum for all figures	25,2	2977

 

Typy súborov s obrázkami

• Line Art – sharp, clean lines and geometrical shapes against a white background. Line art is typically used for charts, graphs, and gene sequences. You can use a program like Illustrator to create high–quality line art. A minimum resolution of 300 ppi will maintain the crisp edges of the lines and shapes.

• Grayscale figures contain varying tones of black and white. They contain no colour, so grayscale is synonymous with "black and white." The gray scale is divided into 256 sections with black at 0 and white at 255.

• Halftones (the best example of a halftone is a photograph, but halftones include any image that uses continuous shading or blending of colours or grays, such as micro– and macrophotographs, photos of habitats and sites, gels, stains, microarrays, brain scans, and molecular structures).

• Figures for publication must only be submitted in high–resolution TIFF or EPS; Minimum Resolution: 300 ppi (see table above).

• JPG files (commonly used method of lossy compression for digital photography) significantly reduce the colour depth and image quality. JPG files with medium or high colour compression are rejected. Set up you camera correctly to record photographs in the highest resolution and in TIF or RAW file format instead if JPG.

Multimedia files will be rejected.

6. INé typy publikácií

Články o softvéri

Manuscripts describing software should provide full details of the algorithms designed.

Describe any dependencies on commercial products or operating system. Include details of the supplied test data and explain how to install and run the software.

A brief description of enhancements made in the major releases of the software may also be given.

Authors should provide a direct link to the deposited software from within the paper.

Články o databázach

For descriptions of databases, provide details about how the data were curated, as well as plans for long–term database maintenance, growth, and stability.

Authors should provide a direct link to the database hosting site from within the paper.

Nové taxóny živočíchov a prvokov

For proper registration of a new zoological taxon, we require two specific statements to be included in your manuscript.

In the Results section, the globally unique identifier (GUID), currently in the form of a Life Science Identifier (LSID), should be listed under the new species name, for example:

• Anochetus boltoni Fisher sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B6C072CF–1CA6–40C7–8396–534E91EF7FBB

Authors are required to register newly described taxon in Zoobank according to recent amendments of ICZN.

Please also insert the following text into the Methods section, in a sub–section to be called "Nomenclatural Acts":
"The electronic edition of this article conforms to the requirements of the amended International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, and hence the new names contained herein are available under that Code from the electronic edition of this article. This published work and the nomenclatural acts it contains have been registered in ZooBank, the online registration system for the ICZN. The ZooBank LSIDs (Life Science Identifiers) can be resolved and the associated information viewed through any standard web browser by appending the LSID to the prefix "http://zoobank.org". The LSID for this publication is: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub: XXXXXXX. The electronic edition of this work was published in a journal with an ISSN, and has been archived and is available from the following digital repositories: DFS [author to insert any additional repositories]." All articles published in FFS are deposited also in the Databank of Slovak Fauna (DFS).

Descriptions and redescriptions of taxa should be concise and uniform throughout the paper. Use standardized abbreviations in the text: gen. nov., sp. nov., ssp. nov., syn. nov., comb. nov., stat. nov., stat. restit.

Type material deposition should be specified.

Faunistické správy

Štruktúra faunistických správ, ktoré poskytujú informáciu o jednom alebo niekoľkých nálezoch jediného alebo viacerých druhov, môže byť redukovaná na nasledovné časti:

• Nadpis

• Autori

• Adresa autorov

• Abstract

• Key words

• kapitoly Úvod a Materiáp a metódy (vrátane opisu lokalít) je možné zlúčiť dohromady; táto kapitola nemusí mať nadpis.

• Výsledky a diskusia; nadpis kapitoly nie je vyžadovaný.

• Poďakovanie.

• Literatúra.

• Obrázky.

Faunistické správy by mali byť doplnené obrázkami dokladujúcimi nález.