Presentation of manuscripts

Authors should provide their full names including their full first names. Manuscripts should be rather short and, if possible, divided into sections each with a title. Papers should have 1 to 7 printed pages but longer papers can be accepted based on their merits. Papers  should not be too technical since they must be understood by flowering scientists with various kinds of expertise. Authors are free to organize their manuscripts as they wish but we favor contributions (minireviews of research activities, research reports) in the form of a story on what is going on in the lab, what are the difficulties encountered and the results obtained (results still unpublished in a simplified presentation are quite attractive and, of course, this does not interfere at all with publishing the same data in their complete presentation in a "normal" scientific journal), who is doing what (give the full names of coworkers), what will be done in a foreseeable future, etc). Contributions in the form of a standard scientific paper are much less at­tractive to me because the FNL is not a "normal" scientific journal with the peer review system. Also, in a newsletter con­tributors might be more speculative than it is usually the rule in a standard paper.

Papers should contain a short abstract (which will be on the FNL web site) and may include tables, graphs and/or pho­tographs. Colour photographs are expensive to publish and contributors who wish to in­clude such photographs in their pa­pers will be charged about € 110 or US$ 135 for each colour plate.

At the end of the papers, the references should be numbered in alphabetical order and they should be quoted in the text, as much as possible, by their numbers.

Presentation of references should be as follows :
1.GREYSON, R.I. The Development of Flowers. Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1994.
2.HUIJSER, P., KLEIN, J., LONNIG, W-E., MEIJER, H., SAEDLER, H. and SOMMER, H. Bracteomania, an inflorescence anomaly, is caused by the loss of function of the MADS-box gene squamosa in Antirrhinum majus. EMBO J. 11: 1239-1249, 1992.
3.LYNDON, R.F. The environmental control of reproductive development. In Marshall, C. and Grace, J. (eds) Fruit and Seed Production, pp. 9-32. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1992.

Submission of papers

The FNL is published twice a year. All flowering scientists are welcome to submit a contribution at any time, but for the spring issue, the deadline for manuscript submission is mid May, for the fall issue the deadline is mid november. We appreciate to be informed in advance that a contribution is being prepared for the FNL.

Manuscripts, including illustrations, can be sent as electronic files to my e-mail address (see cover page) or on a diskette readable by a PC-compatible machine. The file format should preferably be Word 2000 for Windows 98. If you are using another word-processor, save your file using the option "text only" or as an RTF file to avoid conversion problems. For figures and photographs send preferably the files saved as .TIF or .JPG. Note that we can read Coreldraw 9.0, Powerpoint 2000, or Adobe Photoshop 5.0 original files.  If you are using a MacIntosh, transfer your files to a PC DOS diskette (We cannot read MacIntosh diskettes). When you send the diskette, label it with the name of the computer file, the software and version used to create the file.