Instructions to authors

       
       Vidalia publishes original scientific articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish, with emphasis in the areas of Botany and Conservation Biology, related to the Bromeliaceae. All articles must be submitted to the editor by conventional or electronic mail, to the address indicated. If conventional mail is used, three copies (original article + two copies) plus illustrations must be sent, besides a diskette containing the respective attachments in Word for Windows compatible software, version 6.0 or higher.
       By submitting an article to Vidalia journal the author(s) make(s) the commitment of not submitting or having submitted the same article to any other journal.
       Manuscripts must be typed on A4 size paper (210 x 297 mm) (standard 216 by 279 mm paper is also acceptable), double space, without hyphenation, underlines or boldface, with top, bottom, left and right margins of approximately 2.5 cm, source Times New Roman 12, and with a maximum of 20 pages, including tables and figures. Only scientific names should be typed in italic. Acceptance of papers more than 20 pages will be analyzed separately. Articles, notes and reviews should begin with: a) title of the paper and name(s) of the author(s). Footnotes appearing on the first page, text and tables should be indicated by numbers.
       Tables and Figures must be typed on separate sheets attached to the text and numbered with Arabic numerals, indicating their location in the text. The figure captions must be on the bottom of the pages, preceded by the word Figure. Photographs must indicate on the reverse side the name of the author(s), title of the article and figure number. Photos and figures will be reproduced in black and white; hence they should present sufficient contrast to allow a precise identification of the object. The use of color photographs, if requested by the author(s), will exclusively depend on the Editor’s approval, with the cost prepaid by the author(s).
       Text organization should have the following sequence: 1-Title; 2-Abstract (in English) with key words; 3- Abstract (in Portuguese or Spanish), with key words;
4- Introduction; 5-Material and Methods; 6- Results and Discussion; 7-Conclusion; 8-Acknowledgements; and
9- Literature Cited.
       The abstracts in English and Portuguese/Spanish must contain concise information on the main objectives,
methodology, results and conclusions, and constitute a single sequence of phrases, with a maximum of 200
words.
       The literature cited must follow the examples below:

       Title abbreviation in the Literature Cited must comply with BPH and BPH/S recommendations.