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Author guidelines

General informations

  1. Fragmenta Naturae (formerly Nature Journal) publishes original scientific articles and short communications in the natural sciences, as well as reports, reviews, and biographical materials.
  2. All submitted manuscripts are first evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief and Subject Editors. They are then reviewed by at least one anonymous reviewer. The final decision on acceptance is made by the Editor-in-Chief.
  3. The journal accepts papers written in Polish, as well as papers written in English with a Polish summary. Short communications are published only in Polish and must include an equivalent title in English.
  4. All articles are published online on the journal website as soon as they are ready. Publication in Fragmenta Naturae is free of charge. All published papers are freely available on the journal website.
  5. Manuscripts should be submitted only electronically to the e-mail address of the Editor-in-Chief. If the total size of attachments is larger than 25 MB (photographs, figures, etc.), the files should be sent using publicly available online services. We recommend Google Drive or WeTransfer.

Guidelines for preparing the text of manuscript:

  • All manuscripts should include the title in both Polish and English. For manuscripts written in English by foreign authors, the Editorial Board will translate the title and summary into Polish.
  • Each author must provide an affiliation or correspondence address, together with an e-mail address. In papers with several authors, one author should be indicated as the corresponding author. If no corresponding author is indicated, the Editorial Board will consider the first author to be the corresponding author.
  • The manuscript must include a concise abstract in English and key words in English. This requirement does not apply to short communications.
  • Authors should provide a short running title of no more than 50 characters, including spaces.
  • All figures, photographs, and other graphic materials should be submitted as separate files. Figure captions should be placed at the end of the manuscript.
  • Tables, together with their captions, should be submitted in a separate text file.
  • The manuscript should be prepared in a format compatible with Windows, as a .doc or .docx file.
  • Photographs and figures should be submitted as .jpg or .tif files without compression.
  • The manuscript should be prepared using Times New Roman, 12-point font, with 1.5 line spacing.
  • All taxonomic names at genus level and below should be written in italics. Please do not use any other text formatting or emphasis in the manuscript.
  • All taxonomic names at family level and below should be given at least once in full, including the author and year of description.
  • All works cited in the text must be included in the References, except in short communications (see below).
  • The sources of photographs and figures must be cited. We do not recommend using graphic materials taken from the Internet unless the author has obtained direct permission from the copyright owner to use them.
  • The Editorial Board of Fragmenta Naturae is not responsible for any unauthorised use of materials by authors of submitted manuscripts.
  • The Editorial Board reserves the right to correct language errors and shorten texts. If the manuscript contains serious language problems requiring substantial rewriting, the author is responsible for language correction after consultation with the Editorial Board.

    Citation format

    • All authors of a cited publication should be listed in the References.
    • Citations in the text should be presented in chronological order and separated by commas, for example: Nowak 1998, Iksiński 2000.
    • For a paper with two authors, use the conjunction “i” in Polish texts or “&” in English texts, for example: Mazur i Jasiński 2000 or Mazur & Jasiński 2000. For papers with three or more authors, use the following form in the text: Nowak et al. 2001.
    • The References must include all works cited in the manuscript. References should be arranged alphabetically and, in the case of several publications by the same author, chronologically.
    • Several publications by the same author published in the same year should be distinguished by lowercase letters placed after the year, for example: Trojan 1987a, 1987b.

    The format of references should be as follows:

    Journal articles

    Masłowski A. 2010. Materiały do znajomości chrząszczy (Coleoptera) okolic Opola. Full journal title, 14 (5): 25–36.

    Masłowski A., Bednarski O. 2003. Wpływ ruchu drogowego na stężenie metali ciężkich w glebach leśnych. Full journal title, 8 (5): 15–21.

    Books

    Szujecki A. 1983. Ekologia owadów leśnych. PWN, Warszawa.

    Chapters in books

    Mroczkowski M., Stefańska J. 1991. Coleoptera – chrząszcze, In: Razowski J. (Ed.), Wykaz zwierząt Polski. T. III, cz. XXXII / 22, 23: 1–56. Krakowskie Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Kraków.

    Online-first publications available only with a DOI

    For papers published online before assignment to a regular journal issue, the date of online publication should be included:

    Cordero-Rivera A. 2017. Phenotypic variability in Hemiphlebia mirabilis (Odonata: Hemiphlebiidae): insights into the origin of the discoidal cell in odonates. Austral Entomology. First published: 25 January 2017, DOI: 10.1111/aen.12262

    Online publications with a website address

    For online publications, provide the website address, the date of the last update, and the date of access:

    Borowiec L. & Świętojańska J. 2002-2024. Cassidinae of the world – an interactive manual (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). https://www.cassidae.uni.wroc.pl/katalog%20internetowy/index.htm (updated: 12.02.2023, accessed: 15.07.2025)

    Short communications

    Short communications do not include a separate References section. Full references should be given directly in the text, for example:

    “In Poland, more than 1,000 species of beetles belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea have been recorded so far (Wanat M., Mokrzycki T. 2005. A new checklist of the weevils of Poland (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Genus, 16 (1): 69–117). The species presented below represents…”

    Publications written in non-Latin alphabets

    Publications written in alphabets other than the Latin alphabet, such as Cyrillic, Sanskrit, Persian, or Asian writing systems, should be presented in the References in a romanised form or in an English version, if such a version was provided in the original publication. The original language should be indicated at the end of the reference:

    Ter-Minassian, M. E. 1988. Zhuki-dolgonosiki podsemejstva Cleoninae fauny SSSR. Kornevyje dolgonosiki (triba Cleonini). Nauka, Leningrad, 234 pp. (original in Russian)

    Sanaei E., Seiedy M. 2015. Faunistic study of the family Apionidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in Taleghan City (Alborz Province) with introducing of three new records for Iran. 1st Iranian International Congress of Entomology, 29–31 August 2015, p. 126. (original in Persian)

Rules for the review of submitted papers:

  • Each manuscript is reviewed by at least one anonymous reviewer.
  • Reviewers are selected by the Editorial Board.
  • The standard review period is four weeks from the date on which the reviewer accepts the manuscript for review.
  • The final decision on acceptance of a manuscript for publication is made by the Editor-in-Chief.

Manuscripts should be submitted to: milosz@uni.opole.pl

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