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Instructions to authors

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Sending of manuscripts

Focus and Scope

Bonplandia is open to original articles on taxonomy, anatomy, morphology, physiology, genetics, cytogenetics, applied biotechnology and functional genomics, ethnobotany, palynology, floristics, ecology and other areas of plant biology, referring to all groups of plants and related organisms (cyanobacteria, algae, fungi and lichens), both extant and fossil. The editing process includes different stages: a preliminary evaluation of the manuscript (topic, quality and presentation) by the associate editors and the editor, then the evaluation of the content by two external referees (single blind refereeing) with the final decision of the editor. Proofreading is done by the assistant editor, proofreading by the author and the journal editors. Bonplandia declares its adherence to open access, all contents of Bonplandia Magazine are openly and freely available online prior to print publication. Bonplandia Magazine allows the author to retain his or her right of publication without restriction. Published works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Creative Commons license.

Peer Review Process

Bonplandia is a peer-reviewed academic journal that allows the quality of articles to be evaluated. Bonplandia follows the blind review process so that the manuscript and the review process remain confidential during and after the review process.

The evaluation process involves four different stages: a preliminary evaluation of the manuscript (topic, quality and presentation) by the associate editors and the editor, then the evaluation of the content by two external referees, then proofreading by the assistant editor, and finally the review of galley proofs by the author and the journal editors.

Peer review process: a guide for reviewers

Before an article is considered to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, it must undergo the following process:

Once the author of an article submits it to Bonplandia, the Editor-in-Chief forwards the article to experts specializing in the topic. These experts or reviewers must carefully evaluate the quality of the submitted manuscript and verify its accuracy and assess the validity of the methodology and research procedures. If necessary, they suggest revisions. If they find that the article lacks academic validity and rigor, they reject it.

Judgments should be objective and reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.

Reviewers should have no conflict of interest and should point to relevant published work that has not yet been cited.

Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript should notify the editors and excuse themselves from the review process.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest as a result of competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors or institutions related to the papers.

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Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement (PEMS)

The following text deals with the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement (PEMS) and involves every participant in publishing: author(s), Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, webmasters and even the staff of the institutions Bonplandia depends on.

Bonplandia’s Editorial Board

In Bonplandia journal, the role of the Editorial Board is crucial in the publishing process.  First, the Editor-in-Chief, and then board members are responsible for deciding which articles to publish and which to reject. Said decision must be based exclusively on the author’s academic merit and the reviewers’ decisions. Peer review eases the decision-making and, if in contact with the author, may also assist him/her in improving the paper. Members of Bonplandia editorial board should follow the below-mentioned ethical guidelines, which reflect the journal’s present editorial policies.

Members’ full names, affiliations and contact information are provided in the journal’s web site.

Ethics for Editors/Editorial Members

• An editor should assess scientific contents and merits of the manuscripts, without regard to the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, citizenship, or political ideology of authors.

Confidentiality Agreement and Conflict of Interest Disclosure

• Any manuscript received by the editorial members must be kept confidential. That is, the Editorial Board must not discuss or disclose any information about a submitted manuscript outside its author(s), reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate. In addition, editors must not accept the submission of any manuscript exhibiting conflicts of interest resulting from unprofessional relationships or connections (competitive, collaborative and the like) with any author or institution associated with the paper. If such is the case, editors must declare a conflict of interest.

• Editors must take ethical misconduct seriously, especially when there are claims of confidentiality infringement, plagiarism, not declaring conflicts of interest, inappropriate usage of confidential material, or peer review delay for competitive advantage.

• Editors must not use submitted unpublished information for their personal benefits without the author’s consent or approval.

• Editors should excuse themselves from considering publishing manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from an unprofessional relationship or connection (competitive, collaborative and the like) with any author, company or institution associated with the paper. In said case, editors must ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board to review and consider publishing the manuscripts. If needed, other appropriate actions, such as publishing a retraction, are to be taken by the editor.

Publication Ethics for Authors

Originality and Plagiarism. All manuscripts must be authors’ original production. That is, they must not be previously published, neither in printed nor digital format; otherwise, the previous publication will be considered evidence of plagiarism and such text or publication will be rejected on the first step of editorial evaluation. If the work and/or words of other author(s) are used, they are to be cited for the text to achieve the needed transparency.

Authorship Criteria. Authorship must be limited to those having contributed extensively to the reported study, whereas everyone who has made significant inputs/contributions will be considered co-author. Whenever there are other professionals who have participated in certain considerable aspects of the research project, they should be included in the acknowledgment section. Moreover, the paper must include a list of the contributor(s), information about authors’ access to data, conflicts of interest (including financial interests and relationships), and funding and economic support sources. The corresponding author of a paper must confirm the permission, obtained through the Authorship Form[MC1] . In addition, it is forbidden to publish the same research in more than one journal. Participation in obtaining financial funding or in data collection does not justify authorship. As regards the authorship naming order, it must be based on the relevance of the contribution to the study and the manuscript production, and cannot be modified without written consent of all contributors.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest and Financial Support. Authors must disclose or declare any financial conflict of interest –or other substantial kind of conflict– that may arise for authors when having financial interests that may influence their interpretation of the manuscript outcomes. Regarding all accepted manuscripts, authors must state such conflicts of interest at the end of manuscripts before they are published. Likewise, an author with no conflict of interests must declare so in a statement. However, it must be noted that editors should not reject manuscripts because the authors have a conflict of interest.

Peer-review Process: A Guideline for Reviewers

• Bonplandia is a peer-reviewed academic journal which allows the quality of papers to be assessed. Before a paper is considered for being published in a peer-reviewed journal, it must undergo the following steps:

• Once an author submits a paper to Bonplandia, the Editor-in-Chief forwards it to experts specialized in the field. These experts or reviewers must carefully assess the quality of the submitted manuscript evaluating its accuracy. They must also evaluate the validity of the methodology and procedures used in the research. If needed, reviewers suggest revisions. If they find the paper lacking academic validity and rigor, they reject it.

• Judgments should be objective and reviewed papers should be treated confidentially.

• Reviewers should have no conflict of interest and should point out relevant published work which has not yet been cited.

• Any selected reviewer who feels not qualified to review the research reported in a manuscript should notify the editors and excuse himself from the reviewing process.

• Bonplandia follows the blind review process so that the manuscript and the review process remain confidential during and after the latter.

• Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from unprofessional relationships or connections (such as competitive and collaborative) with any of the authors or institutions associated to the papers.

Publication Ethics

• Authors should submit papers only if the research has been carried out ethically and responsibly.

• When an author finds a significant mistake or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is his/her duty to notify the journal’s Editor-in-Chief or publisher and collaborate with the editor to make the necessary corrections.

Persistent identifiers

The journal makes use of digital object identifiers (DOI) for its articles through the membership that the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste has with PILA (Publishers International Linking Association, Inc.), through which the Crossref service is used for the assignment of codes.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).

• Name and surname, email, affiliation and ORCID of the author or authors will be provided
  CO-AUTHORSHIP: the corresponding author undertakes to notify the submission and keep the co-authors informed throughout the editorial process.

Author Guidelines

Bonplandia is a publication of the Institute of Botany of the Northeast (UNNE-CONICET) founded in the year 1960. It is a biannual journal (February-July and August-January), which is published the first fortnight of February and August. It is a journal open to original articles on taxonomy, anatomy, morphology, physiology, genetics, cytogenetics, applied biotechnology and functional genomics, ethnobotany, palynology, floristics, ecology and other areas of plant biology, referring to all groups of plants and related organisms (cyanobacteria, algae, fungi and lichens), both present and fossils. The articles of our journal are focused on the aforementioned disciplines covering the Americas. The editing process involves different stages:  a preliminary evaluation of the manuscript (originality, theme, quality and presentation) by the associated editors and the Editor-in-Chief; linear and simple blind arbitration: evaluation of content by two external referees. When the Editor-in-Chief receives the report of the referees, informs the author the opinion of the referees but does not detail the name of them; format references according to a specified journal's style by the assistant editor; the review the galley proof is in charge by the author and the editors of the journal. It should be clarified that although the referees decide on the work of their peers, the final decision is in the hands of the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

Declaration of adhesion to open access

• All the contents of the journal Bonplandia are available in an open and free online format before the printed publication.

General instructions

• Works written in Spanish, English or Portuguese are acceptable.

• The length of the manuscripts should not exceed 30 pages. If this extension is exceeded, should contact to the Editorial Committee before submitting the manuscript.

• The manuscripts must be submitted in A4 size page, with Times New Roman size font 12, double spaced, with 3 cm margins. All pages must be numbered. A word processor version compatible with Word should be used.

Style

• All text, including titles, should be left-aligned, no indents, no tabs, no justification. A single space should be placed between the words and at the end of each paragraph a single paragraph mark (enter).

• The diacritical signs of each language (diaeresis, accents, etc.) must be respected, even in capital letters.

• It is recommended not to start paragraphs with abbreviations or gerunds.

• All figures and tables should be cited in the text. For example: (Fig. 1A), (Table 1).

• Numbers will be written with Arabic characters, unless they are the beginning of a sentence or used to number more than one observation.

• Common names and words or phrases in a foreign language will be enclosed in quotation marks.

• Italics will be used only for Latin expressions (sensu lato, in vitro, loc. cit., etc.) and for the scientific names of genera and infrageneric categories. The names of families and above categories will be written in normal letter.

• Names of authors cited in the text will not be abbreviated.

• For footnotes, continuous numbering will be used. The number,Arabic, will be used as an exponent.

• Non-taxonomic works should include in Material and Methods the reference specimens alphabetically ordered by taxonomic category, and the complete data of them (place and date of collection, collector, herbarium in which they are deposited).

• The manuscript is divided into the following parts: 1) title and authors; 2) summary and resumen; 3) text; 4) references; 5) tables; 6) illustrations.

• The main style guidelines for each of these parts are summarized below. If in doubt, it is recommended to follow the style of the last volume of Bonplandia.

Title of work and Authors

• The title should clearly and briefly express the content of the work. It will be written in uppercase/lowercase  (with the first letter capitalized and the others lowercase), without underlining and without a full stop; in Spanish (or original language) and in English.

• If the name of a specific or generic taxon is included, add the upper taxonomic category in parentheses, not including acronyms.

• The names of the authors will be written the first full name and then the last name, below the title, all with uppercase/lowercase (with the first letter capitalized and the others lowercase). If there is more than one author, they must be written on the same line. Record the corresponding author.

All authors must include the ORCID digital identifier in the initial submission of the manuscript to be considered (https://orcid.org).

• Work place, address, e-mail, position in an institution, etc., should be recorded as footnotes.

• Include a short title "running title" for the heading of the odd numbered pages.

• Will include a maximum of 200 words each. They will be written in a single paragraph. 

• Key words and Palabras clave will be included in a separate paragraph. The words must be separated by commas and in alphabetical order (a maximum of six). The key words may not include words that are already in the title. The proper names and taxonomic categories will be written in uppercase/lowercase (with the first letter capitalized and the others lowercase).

• It is recommended to organize the text in the following titles: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, References. In taxonomic works dealing with numerous species, it is suggested to include Index of scientific names and Index of collectors. 

• Within each heading, up to levels of subheadings can be used. The first-level subheading is left-aligned in italics, has no a full stop, and the paragraph begins on a separate line. The second-level subheading is left-aligned  in italics and ends at a point and followed. 

• In taxonomic works, the titles that include additional information (geographical distribution, common names, phenology, etc.) must be followed by a colon (:)

• The units of measure or cardinal points should be abbreviated according to the international system, for example: m, cm, g, ml, μm, pm, etc.; N, S, E, W, NE, NW, etc. In the case of coordinates use W for west. The altitude will be indicated in "m" in the text and in the citation of materials it can be only "m" or "m  a.s.l." The acronyms will be all written in capital letters and without points (FAA, ADN, etc.).

• Notes on numerical expressions: n= 10, 2n, 30 °C, 100%.

Summary and Resumen

• They will contain a maximum of 200 words each. They will be written in a single paragraph.

• Keywords and Keywords will be included in a separate paragraph. The words must be separated by commas and ordered alphabetically (a maximum of six). An attempt will be made to include words that do not appear in the title. Proper names and names of taxonomic categories will be written in upper/lower case (with the first letter capitalized and the rest lower case).

General Text 

• It is recommended to organize the text in the following titles: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Bibliography. In taxonomic works that deal with numerous species, it is suggested to include the index of scientific names and the index of collectors.

• Up to two levels of subtitles can be used within each title. The first-level subtitle is left-aligned in italics, has no full stop, and the paragraph begins on a separate line. The second-level subtitle is left-aligned in italics and ends with a full stop.

• In taxonomic works, titles that include additional information (Geographical distribution, Common names, Phenology, etc.) must be followed by the punctuation mark two points (:).

•The units of measurement or cardinal points must be abbreviated according to the international system,
for example: m, cm, g, ml, pm, etc.; N, S, E, O, NE, NO. In the case of coordinates use W for west. The altitude will be indicated in "m" in the text and in the citation of materials it can be only "m" or "m a.s.l." The abbreviations "s.m." will not be added. nor "elev." Acronyms will be written entirely in capital letters and without periods. (FAA, ADN, etc.).

• Indications on numerical expressions: n= 10, 2n, 30 °C, 100%.

Text in Taxonomic Studies 

• The genera and species will be numbered consecutively within each family or genus with Arabic numbers.

Intraspecific taxa will be identified within each species with lowercase letters. 

• The keys will be dichotomous.

• The scientific name will have in the following line the reference of the figure(s): Fig. 1 

• In the case of taxa already described, the data of the type will be located after the bibliographic citation corresponding to each name. When the type material corresponds to an ancient species, it is recommended to transcribe the full citation that appears in the original diagnosis in quotation marks i. The examined material will be indicated with an exclamation mark, placed after the acronym of the corresponding herbarium.

• In the case of new species, the name of the taxon will be followed by the acronym and the abbreviation sp. nov. Illustrating these taxa is recommended.

• The text will begin with the diagnosis. Following the recommendation of the Nomenclature Code, the indication of the nomenclatural type should immediately follow the diagnosis and the Latin word typus or holotypusshould be used. The isotypes will be recorded following the holotype. The text will continue with the description in Spanish (or in the original language of the manuscript). 

• Additional material will be included under the title of Paratypus, following the description in Spanish/English (depending of the original language of the manuscript). 

• In the description of the taxon the measures of length and width of a character can be indicated as the following example:

8-13 × 4-5 mm

8-13 mm long, 4-5 mm wide 

• After the description of taxa already described, the rest of the material will be indicated under the subheading Material studied. 

• Information about common names ("in quotation marks"), chromosome number, phenology, geographical distribution and ecology, must be included before the Material studied. Geographical distribution and Material studied will always be place one after the other. 

• Finally, the Notes and Observations (Obs.) will be numbered with Arabic numerals only if case of being more than one. 

• In the scientific names index, valid names will be in bold. 

• In the collectors index, the numbers of each collector will be arranged in ascending order. The punctuation should follow the example: 

Krapovickas, A., 180 (6), 348 (5), 992 (5) 

Krapovickas, A. & C.L. Cristóbal, 14199 (11), 14362 (11), 23271 (6)

• For the abbreviation of the authors names of a taxon, it is recommend to search in: http://www.tropicos.org

• The names of the periodical publications must be cited in full, without abbreviations. 

• The acronyms of the authors of the taxa should be written only with the initial letter in capital letters. They are only indicated the first time the taxonomic categories are named in the text. 

• When citing herbarium material, the country should always be in bold capital letters. The political division that follows the country (State, Province, Department, etc.) must be in upper/lower case and bold. The name should not be preceded by the corresponding abbreviation (Est., Prov., Dep.). Minor political divisions may be preceded by the corresponding abbreviations (Mun., Dep., Pdo., Prov.). In the event that a part of the previous citation is repeated, the word ídem can be used. 

• When type material is cited, all data on the label will be literal transcribed, including all collectors with their initials.

• The specimens will be cited in alphabetical order by country, province, etc., respecting the specified punctuation: Material studied: ARGENTINA. Corrientes: Dep. San Miguel, Ea. Santa Julia, chacra Tres Camba, 28º 06´17´´S, 57º28´24´´W, 67 m, 11-XI-2012, Medina & Aparicio 268 (CTES). MÉXICO. Guerrero: Mun. La Unión, 8 km al N de la Unión, por la terracería a Coahuayutla de Guerrero, 13-XI-1983, fl, fr, Koch et al. 83121 (BM, CTES, TEX). Jalisco: Coastal plain near the highway to Autlán, 5 miles north of Bahia Navidad, 9-XI-1960, fl, fr, McVaugh 20882 (CTES, MICH).

• The bibliographic citations or references of the bibliography in the text, will follow  the international standard APA 7th edition which can be consulted at the following link: https://normasapa.com/como-referenciar-articulos-cientificos/

• Examples: (Rossow, 1993), (Rossow, 1993: 82), ... according to Rossow (1993); (Arriaga & Sánchez, 1981) or (Grosso et al., 1994) in the case of 3 or more authors. 

• In the References section, all the literature mentioned in the text, must be included, alphabetically ordered by authors and in chronological order when several works of the same author are cited.

• When the same author has several works in the same year, they will be distinguished by lower-case letters placed after the year (a, b, c, etc.). 

• In taxonomy works, the bibliography that accompanies the Latin names of species or genera will not be repeated in the References section, unless it is mentioned in the text.

• In the case of a book, state the publisher name and publication place. 

• If the work has a digital object identifier (DOI), it must be included at the end of the citation.

• The following is an example of the format to be followed:

References 

Botta, S. M., Múlgura De Romero, M. E. & Martínez, S. (1995). Proposal to conserve the name Junellia Moldenke. Taxon 44: 639-640. https://doi.org/10.2307/1223514

Harley, R. M. (2008). Lamiaceae. En Zuloaga, F. O., O. Morrone & M. J. Belgrano (eds.), Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur (Argentina, Sur de Brasil, Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay). Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 2362-2392.

Ferrucci, M. S., Cáceres Moral, S. A. & Galvany Casals, M. (2002). Las plantas trepadoras. En Arbo, M. M. & S. G. Tressens (eds.), Flora del Iberá, pp. 111-153. EUDENE, Corrientes.

Bartoli, A. & Tortosa, R. D. (1998). Estudios taxonómicos en Grindelia (Asteraceae). XXVI Jornadas Argentinas de Botánica, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, 22 al 27 de noviembre de 1998, p. 230.

Solís, S. M. (2011). Estudios morfo-anatómicos y ontogenéticos en flores de Paullinieae y su significado evolutivo. Tesis Doctoral, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. 184 pp.

The Plant List. (2013). A working list of all plant species. Disponible: http://www.theplantlist.org/ (Consulta 03/03/18).

Thiers, B. Index Herbariorum: a global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden's Virtual Herbarium, http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih

Whittaker, R. H. (1972). Evolution and measurement of species diversity. Taxon 21: 213-251. https://doi.org/10.2307/1218190.

Note

• The DOI should be included whenever available, on a separate line below the bibliographic reference. It can be obtained by registering with Crossref and uploanding your reference list to the available service (sign up for citation comparison, check in your email address and accept the terms, it allows you to search up to 5000 references per month): https://apps.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery

Tables

• When preparation illustrations, authors should bear in mind that the journal has a matter size of 15 cm × 21.5 cm, or the width of a column (7.2 cm). 

• Each table must be sent in an Excel file. 

• The tables will be numbered with Arabic numerals. 

• The legend should be located in the header of the table page; in Spanish (or the original language of the manuscript) and English.   

• Lowercase letters will be used for footnotes. 

Illustrations 

• All illustrations must be of good quality and made in black and white or grayscale, as appropriate. Publication of colour illustrations in print format has a mandatory charge for the authors; while in digital format it has no cost. 

• Drawings, photographs, maps, graphs, etc. are all considered as figures. They will be numbered consecutively in the text. 

•  All illustrations must be submitted digitally in TIFF format with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi. Ink drawings must be scanned in black and white (not grayscale), while maps and photographs must be scanned in gray scale. Do not insert the images into the text file. Name each file with the figure number (e.g. figure1.tiff, figure2.tiff, etc.) 

• When preparation illustrations, authors should bear in mind the matter size of the journal. If possible include the legend within that space. 

•  If the figure consists of several photos or drawings, capital letters will be used to indicate them. They will be placed where possible to the right and below each drawing or photo, keeping a horizontal ordering from left to right and vertical from top to bottom. The size of the letters should be such that, when reduced to the journal’s matter size, the body should not be less than 3 mm. 

• The maps should be framed by a box. They should include at least two latitude and longitude marks, and a scale in kilometers.

Legends of the figures 

• They will be written on a separate sheet attached to the text, in Spanish (or the original language) and English, as shown in the example:

Fig. 1. Galianthe longisepala. A: Planta. B: Vaina estipular con lacinias. C-E: Flor longistila. C: Flor. D: Hipanto, cáliz, estilo y estigma. E: Interior de la corola desplegada. F-H: Flor brevistila. F: Alabastro. G: Flor. H: Hipanto, cáliz, estilo y estigma. I: Interior de la corola desplegada. J: Fruto. K-L: Semilla. K: Cara dorsal. L: Cara ventral. A-D, J-L, Irwin 13307 (CTES); F-I, Irwin 25504 (SI).

Fig. 1. Galianthe longisepala. A: Plant. B: Stipulate sheath with fimbriae. C-E: Long-styled flower. C: Flower. D: Hypanthium, calyx, style and stigma. E: Interior of the corolla unfolded. F-H: Short-styled flower. F: Alabaster. G: Flower. H: Hypanthium, calyx, style and stigma. I: Interior of the corolla unfolded. J: Fruit. K-L: Seed. K: Dorsal face. L: Ventral face. A-D, J-L, Irwin 13307 (CTES); F-I, Irwin 25504 (SI). 

The acronyms of the authors of the taxa will not be included in the legends.

Graphical abstracts

After the acceptance of the manuscript, the authors must send a graphical abstract to be used in the dissemination of the article on social networks. The graphical abstract should be a figure specially designed, which conveys the core message of your paper, highlighting the major findings of it. Images of the text or others of their own may be used. This summary has no caption and should contain as little text as possible. The format must conform to the following properties: 800 x 800 pixels, high resolution (300 dpi), JPG format, RGB color, letters in Arial format, 14 font size, (scientific names of genera or lower range are written in italics). The graphical abstract will be published on Bonplandia website as well as on social networks: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Short communication

This contains original information which must be communicated the quickest to the scientist community. It is an article that does not exceed 4 pages printed including tables and figures (one page is nearly 600 words). The manuscript can follow this order: Title, authors, affiliations, key words, abstract, abbreviated text, acknowledgments, bibliography, figure legends. The rule for sending tables and figuresare specified in the section of Instructions for authors on the Bonplandia website.

 Proofs

• Once the paper is typeset, the proofs are sent by e-mail in PDF format. Authors can indicate the corrections in the same PDF or indicate in a text file: page, column, paragraph and line of each correction, and send that file to the same email that sent it. 

• If the authors make non-typographical corrections in the page proof, they will be responsible for the cost.

• Guide available in: http://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/bon/about/editorialPolicies

Publication costs

• Bonplandia does not charge the authors fees for uploading or processing. Only color illustrations and printed offprints requested by the authors are paid. 

The submission of the manuscript with its attached files can be done in two ways:

• Send to the following email account: Journal Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Myriam Carolina Peichoto mcpeichoto@gmail.com

• Online submission: https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/bon/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions