Year: 2018
Type: editorial
Abstract: Rules and recommendations1 Systematic & Applied Acarology will require authors to use correctly formed and widely accepted acronyms for repositories, effectively from the first issue of 2019.When papers include primary type specimens, the location of the repository must be mentioned at least once in the paper as required by Art.16.4.2 of ICZN (1999): "a statement of intent that they will be (or are) deposited in a collection and a statement indicating the name and location of that collection".2. If an institution has no previously used acronyms, please formulate one using the initial components of the institution name (omitting definite article "the", preposition "of", conjunctions "and" etc), and ensure that the new acronym is unique (in the days of the internet, it is easy to search for previously used acronyms; e.g.http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/codens/).(A) When the institution has subunits, please use the main institution names rather than its subunits unless the subunit is institutionalized as a repository; e.g.AMU is the correct and preferred acronym for the Adam
Source: Systematic and Applied Acarology
Author: Zhi-Qiang Zhang
Institution: University of Auckland
Language: English
Topic: Study of Mite Species
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2907730348