GENERAL GUIDELINES
The biannual journal Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología is a scientific journal that publishes articles, notes, and Book reviews. All submissions must be previously unpublished and should deal with arthropods (taxonomic, faunistic, biogeographical, evolutionary, applied, or conservation studies). Scientific news submitted by members or scientific organizations may also be published. All manuscripts must be in the format described in these General Guidelines and the Guide to Good Scientific Practices.
An Article is defined as a scientific work of more than five journal pages, presented in sections. A Note is a work that is not divided into sections and has a recommended maximum length of five pages (which could include illustrations). A Book review is a review of a book that has been recently published. The opinions expressed are entirely the responsibility of the author(s).
The rules of the last edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature should be followed and if possible, its recommendations. All animal taxa at the level of genus and species that are mentioned in the text should, at least in the first mention, give the name of the author in regular case and the year of its appearance in the biological literature (e.g., (García, 2019), or Torres, 2021). In the Abstract, the authors of the taxa will not be included. If a list or table is presented with all taxa mentioned in the manuscript, it will be sufficient for the above data to be given in the list or table, and not in the main text. The Latin names of these taxa whether complete or abbreviated should be in italics.
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature now provides for an Official Register of Zoological Nomenclature (with ZooBank as the online version, http://zoobank.org/). The registration of new scientific names and nomenclatural acts in Zoobank is required for publication in the Boletín (since the Boletín is published in both online and printed versions). The journal can provide advice on registering new scientific names and nomenclature.
Type specimen deposits: Articles that include the description of a new taxon at the rank of species should explicitly mention the scientific institution in which at least one type specimen has been deposited, following Recommendation 16C of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
Authors should send their submissions by electronic mail to one of the members of the editorial board: javier.qnt.boletin@gmail.com, apmartinez@cieco.unam.mx or torralbaantonio@uniovi.es. The file must be in Microsoft Word or similar and should be typed in Times New Roman or similar font, double spaced on A4 pages, with margins of 3 cm.
Submissions may be in Spanish, Portuguese or English. If the article is not in the authors´ native language, they should certify that the article has been reviewed by a native speaker of that language.
Submissions will be sent to external reviewers selected by the Editorial Committee on the advice of the Scientific Committee. Articles will be published in strict order of their acceptance. If more than one article by an author (alone or in collaboration with others) appears in the same issue, the articles will not appear consecutively but will be separated by two articles by other authors.
Article processing charges (APC): Articles by members of the Spanish Association of Entomology are published free of cost. Authors who are not members of the Spanish Association of Entomology must pay for publication rights at the established price of €80. Any person, specialist or amateur, can join the AeE and enjoy the advantages of membership. Manuscripts that are necessarily very extensive can be sent to Supplements to the Bulletin of the Spanish Association of Entomology.
Authorship: It is the responsibility of the first author to guarantee that their submission to the Boletín has not been published previously, has not been submitted for publication anywhere else, and that submission of the manuscript to the journal has been approved by all authors. It is the responsibility of the authors to seek copyright permission to reproduce any tables and figures that have been previously published elsewhere. This must be indicated when submitting the work for evaluation to the journal.
The Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología is open access. All of its issues, including articles, are now available without registration, subscription, or payment requirements. The only restriction on the distribution and reproduction of articles is that the author has control over the integrity of his or her work and the right to be properly recognized and cited. The reference of the journal must be indicated (CC BY 4.0 license). Authors are therefore allowed to deposit the final version (publisher´s version) in open access institutional or thematic repositories.
Accepted articles will be published in a fixed online PDF version at the journal website. Final pagination of scientific notes and other types of published documents will be carried out in the printed version (also available online). If there are changes after publication of the work, they must be submitted and published as errata.
GUIDELINES FOR ARTICLES
Each article should be composed of the following elements in this order:
1. Title in the language of the text, in sentence case, with the Latin names of genera and species in italics and with their reference (author and year), and taxonomical levels of family or higher separated by commas (e.g., Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). Also, a translated title should be given. If the manuscript is in Spanish or Portuguese, the alternative title should be in English. If the article is in English, the alternative title should be in Spanish.
2. A short title in the main language of the paper should be added to the page header.
3. Name(s) of author(s) with the full name used by the author and one or two full surnames; e.g., Mark Johnson, Jane Smith & Antonio García-Fuentes. In a separate paragraph, affiliations should be added with full addresses, ORCID identification number (https://orcid.org/register) if applicable, and email address for each of the authors.
4. Abstract in the language of the text, concise, maximum 12 lines.
5. Keywords in the language of the text, maximum 10, arranged in alphabetical order, separated by commas, and constituting a separate section from the Abstract.
6. Translated Title, Abstract, and Keywords. Abstract and keywords in English (if the text is in Spanish or Portuguese), or in Spanish (if the text is in English), presented in a similar way to that indicated for Sections 1, 3 and 4.
7. A third Title, Abstract and Keywords section may be added in any of the other co-official languages in Spain.
8. Text of the Article should be structured into the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements (including funding sources and project number(s)), Bibliography, and Appendix, and should abide by the criteria set by the Editorial Committee. The main section titles (in capital letters) and subsection titles (regular case) should be justified to the left margin.
Regarding the material studied, long series of capture data of trivial or ubiquitous species should be avoided. Group these data by countries, provinces/states, and localities, with capture items ordered chronologically, and by number and sex of the specimens as well as collector. The use of UTM coordinates or MGRS of the sampling locations is recommended. For measurements and scales, the metric decimal system and international units system should be used.
Bibliographical citations in the text should include the last name of the author in upper case (not using small caps), followed by the year in parenthesis. Some examples: "...as indicated by AKRIMI (1986)" or "...according to KOTTELAT & FREYHOF (2007)", using & if there are two authors. Or "...in subsequent works (BARAUD, 1975)" or "...in later studies (TOBIAS & TOBIAS, 2007)". When there are more than two authors, the abbreviation et al. should be used (e.g., GARCÍA et al., 1987). If more than one publication by the same author from the same year is cited, they should be distinguished by lower-case letters placed immediately after the year (e.g., LÓPEZ, 1987a). After the author and between dates of different publications by the same author a comma (,) should be placed, while a semi-colon (;) should separate different authors (e.g., LÓPEZ, 1987a; CALLE et al., 2000, 2002, 2003a, b, c). References to personal communications should be abbreviated as follows: (OSORIO, pers. com., 1987). Species authorship should be done using "&": Epirrhoe galiata (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775).
9. References should include only references cited in the text and should adhere to the following format:
a) For an article:
One author:
YUS-RAMOS, R., 2023. Sobre los caracteres taxonómicos de los Bruchidius Schilsky, 1905 ibero-baleares y canarios del grupo foveolatus (Coleoptera, Bruchidae). Boletín Asociación española de Entomología, 47 (3-4): 139-149.
More than one author:
BORDERA, S., J. SELFA & R. JIMÉNEZ, 1987. Contribución al conocimiento del género Enicospilus Stephens, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, 11(2): 221-233.
The name of the journal should be given in full (not abbreviated) and in italics. The issues of the annual volumes are given in parentheses following the volume number.
b) For a book or non-periodic publication:
COBOS, A., 1979. Fauna ibérica de coleópteros Buprestidae. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Madrid. 364 pp., 60 lám.
Doctoral theses need to have been published, at least, in public digital repositories, having persistent identifications (ISBN, DOI, Handle); unpublished theses do not constitute a publication and therefore should be avoided as bibliographical references.
c) For a book chapter:
BERGSTROM, J., 1969. Morphology of Fossil Arthropods as a Guide to Phylogenetic Relationships. In GARCÍA, A.P., P. SÁNCHEZ & J.A.P. SORIANO (eds.): Arthropod Phylogeny: 3-56. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. New York.
In all cases, if an author´s name has two initials they should be written together without a space (e.g., MAGURRAN, A.E.).
The inclusion of the doi of a work is mandatory, when it exists, at the end of its reference, in the form of a URL link, in order to facilitate its location:
MARTÍNEZ, J.G., O. MIRA, C.B. SÁNCHEZ?PRIETO, J.M. BAREA?AZCÓN & A. TINAUT, 2018. Population size and genetic variability of a relict population of an endangered butterfly, Parnassius apollo filabricus. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 11(3): 294-304. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12276
The titles of articles or books that originally were not written in the Latin alphabet should be written in English or Spanish, indicating the original language of the title in brackets.
10. Appendix, if there is one, should be numbered with Arabic numerals (e.g., Appendix 1). It is recommended, in faunistic works, to include an appendix indicating the localities mentioned and their UTM or MGRS coordinates if possible.
11. Illustrations and tables. Drawings, graphs, maps, or photographs will be published as figures. In the text, figures referred to in parenthesis should be abbreviated "Fig." (Figs., if more than one) followed by Arabic numerals (e.g., Fig. 1). Tables should be accompanied by Roman numerals. Figures and tables should be numbered in the order in which they are first referred to in the text.
Drawings, diagrams, or graphs should be in a standard graphic format (TIFF, JPEG) with a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi for figures in black and white, or 300 dpi for photographs. These can be grouped into plates with a size equal to that of one page of the journal (c. 19.5 × 13.0 cm), leaving space for the legend.
Neither photos nor figures in colour can be published in the printed version, unless the author pays the expenses involved. Colour will be published at no additional cost in the electronic version.
Each abbreviation used in an illustration, table, or appendix should be explained in the legend.
Tables that occupy more than 2 pages of text will be transferred to the Appendix section.
12. Legends for illustrations and tables should be written in the language of the article with a translation into English (or into Spanish if the article is in English). This translation should be written in a separate paragraph.
GUIDELINES FOR NOTES
Similar to those for articles but notes should contain only of parts 1, 2, 3, 8, and 9, with bibliographical references separated in different lines. An accompanying illustration may be included. The names of the authors, with their complete addresses, should go at the end of the text. The title should be translated into English or, if the note is in English, into Spanish as well as a short title in the main language of the manuscript.
GUIDELINES FOR BOOK REVIEWS
Similar to those of articles and should be composed of:
Last revision of this guidelines may 2024.