Submissions

Author Guidelines

BIODIVERS is a scientific publication of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) Southeast Asian Regional Center for Tropical Biology (BIOTROP). As a popular scientific media publication, the BIODIVERS magazine is designed to raise awareness and literacy on latest issues on saving tropical biodiversity from “the Mountain to the Ocean” (MOTO). Thus, this magazine is a media for publication and promotion of the research results and capacity building for SEAMEO BIOTROP and other writers, such as academicians, practitioners, and researchers, nationally and internationally. The scope of BIODIVERS articles covers the current thrusts of the center, namely, (1) Ecosystem Restoration and Conservation, (2) Sustainable Use of Biodiversity, Bioenergy, Biotechnology for Food Security, and (3) Ecosystem Resilience in the face of global climate change. All academicians, researchers, and practitioners are invited to submit popular scientific articles to BIODIVERS Magazine.

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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Type of Publications

BIODIVERS magazine is a popular scientific publication, which means that the scientific part is still the main considered factor for accepting the manuscript to be published. BIODIVERS has the limit on the maximum length of manuscript, based on the type of publications, so that the text shall be concise and comprehensive. Full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be produced. As a note, BIODIVERS magazine targets vary beneficiaries, who might be not really expert on the topic, therefore, the use of words for this magazine is expected to be easy to understand.

The manuscript submission implies that it has not been submitted to other media and that, if accepted, will not be published elsewhere. The main article types are as follows:

• Research Article: These are original research manuscripts. The work should report scientifically sound experiments and provide a substantial amount of new information. The article should include the most recent and relevant references in the field. The structure should include an Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions sections, with a suggested word count of 4000 – 5000 words.
• Review: Reviews offer a comprehensive analysis of the existing literature within a field of study, identifying current gaps or problems. The article should contain the key issues at multiple scales (national and international), problem solving that is critical and constructive and provide recommendations for future research, as well as, key outcomes or potential benefits for the target beneficeries. No new, unpublished data should be presented. The structure can include an Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Relevant Sections, Discussion, Conclusions, and Future Directions, with a suggested word count of 4000 – 5000 words.
• Short Communication: A brief research articles with high-quality study, but that are not suitable for a full research article. Distinguishing between a full Research article and a short communication is therefore not a question of research quality, but rather depends on the amount of research done and the complexity of results. A Short Communication is expected to have no more than 2500 words in total (including Materials and Methods, a 150-word abstract, maximum of 20 references, and up to 4 figures/tables).

Submission Process

The manuscript should be submitted online at OJS System, journal.biotrop.org. All articles submitted for publication in BIODIVERS are evaluated by subject matter experts and will go through editorial revisions. BIODIVERS uses anonymous reviewing, in which the identities of contributors and reviewers are kept confidential. All forms of plagiarism will be processed in accordance with the existing national and international legislation on publication and violations thereof are at the contributor's risk.

Submitted File Formats

The submitted manuscript should be in Microsoft Word format. The article is typed 1 spaced on A4 paper, Times New Roman font 10. Authors are encouraged to use the Microsoft word template from BIODIVERS Magazine. Authors must insert any graphics, figures, schemes, etc, in the main text the after the paragraph in which it is first cited. You may, in addition, upload them during submission in a single zip archive and at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). Common formats are accepted; however, TIFF, JPEG, EPS, and PDF are preferred.

BIODIVERS uses APA reference format (7^th edition). The bibliography software package EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, Reference Manager are recommended.

 PREPARATION

Overview of BIODIVERS Article Format

• All article must have a specific and relevant title, author list, affiliations, abstract, and keywords in the front section, and Acknowledgments, Author Contributions, Conflict of Interest, and References at the back section.
• The main text of Research Article should comprise Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, and Supplementary Materials (optional).
• The main text of Review Article should comprise the review section which is a literature review organized logically within specific sections and subsections (optional).
• The main text of Shor Communication is not separated by section but the content should include Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, with maximum 20 references.
• Acronyms/Abbreviations/Initialisms should be defined the first time they appear in each of three sections: the abstract; the main text; the first figure or table. When defined for the first time, the acronym/abbreviation/initialism should be added in parentheses after the written-out form.

Manuscript Content

Research article submitted to BIODIVERS must follow the article structure. The article structure consists of:

• Title: The title should be concise, specific, and relevant. The title should be a total of about 14 words maximum. Please do not include abbreviated of short forms of the title.
• Author list: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. Please put an asterisk (*) for the corresponding author and a superscript symbol (†) for author who have contributed equally (Equal Contributions)
• Author Affilitation: Author Affiliation from University should comprise Department, Faculty, University/institutions, City, Postal Code, and Country. Author affiliation from institution should comprise name of center/division/laboratory, name of institution, city with postal code country. Please also provide the email address for the Coresponding Author.
• Abstract: The Absract should be a total of about 200 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. Include any relevant preregistration numbers, and species and strains of any animals used; 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. Specifically for Short Communication, Abstract should be a total of about 80 words maximum which comprise the general overview of the study.
• Keywords: Three to five pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. We recommend that the keywords are specific to the article, yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.
• Introduction: The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance, including specific hypotheses being tested. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the work and highlight the main conclusions. Keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists working outside the topic of the paper.
• Methods: They should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used and make clear whether computer code used is available. Include any pre-registration codes. The authors need for a subsection in the materials and methods on experimental design and statistical description. The authors should report enough details of the experimental design and statistical analyses so that an independent researcher could reproduce their research. Relevant information could include yet it is not limited to: experimental design, factors and levels, listing of fixed and random terms (with justification), number of replicates with experimental units clearly identified, correlation structure for repeated measures, as well as software with version and procedures or packages used.
• Results: Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn.
• Discussion: Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and limitations of the work highlighted. This section may be combined with Results.
• Conclusion: Summarry all the result and future research directions may also be mentioned.
• Supplementary Material (Optional): Describe any supplementary material published online alongside the manuscript (figure, tables, video, spreadsheets, etc.). Please indicate the name and title of each element as follows Figure S1: title, Table S1: title, etc.
• Acknowledgement: In this section you can acknowledge any support given to condcut the study. This may include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).
• Author Contribution: Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; AND has approved the submitted version (and version substantially edited by journal staff that involves the author’s contribution to the study); AND agrees to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and documented in the literature.
• Conflict of Interest: Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest."
• References: References cited in the text should be presented according to the APA style (American Psychological Association). The list of References should be given at the end of the paper. The references cited from journals should be preferably within the past five years but not more than ten years.

Preparing illustrations and figures

Illustrations should be embedded in the text file for clarity purposes. However, we also require contributors to submit separate JPEG or TIFF files of the illustrations and figures with a minimum size of 3 MB, minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher, as a supplementary file.

The graph should not contain gridlines.

All figures and tables should be embedded in the text, not being placed after the references section.

Figure legends

The legends should be included in the main article text file at the end of the document, rather than being a part of the figure file. For each figure, the following information should be provided: Figure number (in sequence, using Arabic numerals - i.e. Figure 1, 2, 3 etc.); short title of figure (maximum 15 words).