CAPITULUM: The International Compositae Alliance Newsletter

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, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Consult a recent issue of CAPITULUM and follow these instructions. Language for submission is English. Use Times NewRoman/Arial typography size 12. Provide a title and if needed, a subtitle. Include names of all authors, their ORCIDs, their professionalaffiliations and emails. Include a list of 5–6 keywords in alphabetical order.

Provide an abstract of up to 250 words. There is no set structure on how to organize your text; however most cases will adapt wellto the classic I-M&M-R-D plus Acknowledgements and Literature Cited; Tables; Appendices; and Figure Legends.

Monographic worksshould include proper citation of names including types. Morphological descriptions, notes when needed, additional specimensexamined (country, political division, political subdivision, locality, collector, collector #, date, herbarium code). Keys should beindented. Each couplet should be numbered 1a and 1b, 2a and 2b, etc. All scientific names at the rank of tribe or inferior should include authorship the first time they appear in the text, following Brummitt & Powell, Authors of Plant Names (Kew, 1992; info included in the International Plant Names Index [IPNI]).

In text, a single space must follow a period, colon, semi-colon, or comma. Molecular phylogenetic and systematic studies should clearly state the sampling strategy including all details related to the sequencing and data analysis. Phylogenetic trees should have support values plotted. Sequence data should be accessioned with NCBI and include links to the data, the sequence read archive, or similar.

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.