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Disclaimer All articles published in the Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Bulletin reflect the views of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the European and Mediterranean Cereal Rust Foundation or the institutions with which the board members are affiliated. The editor reserves the right to reject or accept papers for publication and to edit them for clarity and conciseness. Objectives and content The Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Bulletin provides a platform for discussion and a vehicle to quickly exchange information and opinions in the form of research articles, letters to the editor, notes and short communications, on any rusts or mildew pathogens of cereals. These will include all areas of research such as:
Only articles written in English are accepted. They must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere. They should present new information or opinions, be well organised, clearly written and illustrated with appropriate tables, images and figures. Numerical data should be fully statistically validated wherever appropriate. Authors are advised to have their articles critically reviewed by colleagues prior to submission.
Structure and format The title should be specific, concise and informative. The author line should have initials before surnames, followed by institution(s). The email address of the corresponding author name should be given before the main text. The Abstract should be consise and not refer to figures or tables in the text. The text of research articles should be divided into: Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References. It should omit tables, illustrations and footnotes. These should be appended as separate files. Letters to the editor, notes and short communications should follow an appropriate condensation of this format. Taxonomic names of organisms should follow the international rules of nomenclature. Cultivar names are either preceeded by 'cv.' or placed between single inverted apostrophies. For units or quantities SI units are preferred. Numbers preceding units should be written as numerals; those preceding other items up to nine should be spelt out; e.g. 8 cm, 2 days, nine fields, 10 leaves. Units should preferably be explicit, e.g. 1 g/l rather than 0.l% w/v. Pages should be numbered in sequence and references to figures or tables should be numbered in order of the first occurrence in the text. The length of a standard paper should be not more than approximately the equivalent of 12 double-spaced printed pages excluding tables, images, figures and references.
References References may contain already published papers or accepted papers. Manuscripts in preparation, unpublished data or personal communications should only be referred to in the body of the text. References in the text should be as: Landon (1993), Johnson & Landon (1993), (Landon, 1993) and Landon et al. (1993) if more than two authors are involved. More publications by one author in the same year should be listed as Landon (1993a, 1993b). Within the references for a particular
author, those with the author alone should precede those with two authors
and these should precede lists with more than two. Within each of these
groups the references should be listed chronologically. All journal
titles should be written out in full. Examples are given below. Journals:
Books and other monographs:
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