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Instructions to Authors The journal “Arachnologische Mitteilungen” publishes scientific pa- pers about Western Palaearctic arachnids (excluding mites and ticks) in German or British English. Manuscripts should be written double-spaced, in 12-point font and submitted to either of the two editors as digital and/or hard-copy version (three printed copies). They will be sent out to at least two peers for review . The author(s) themselves are wholly responsible for the contents of the article. The publisher accepts no responsibility for the correct- ness, accuracy or completeness of the article, or for taking into ac- counts the rights of third parties. The editors reserve the right to make changes as they see fit. Separata will be made available to the authors in a digital form (PDF-format, preferably sent by e-mail). Articles are available for download on the website of AraGes ( OpenAccess ). Authors may also make their pdf-files available online. Form of the manuscript Title, author line, main text, all headings, legends, etc. should be left- justified without indents, bold, in normal text. Spaces between para- graphs are used only to separate major topics. Generic and species names must be italicised! All personal names in normal text, also in literature citations and the literature list. Country names in material lists in capitals. Please do not use sym- bols to separate numbers in the thousands. Figures and plates should be submitted grouped together and num- bered consecutively (Fig. 1, 2 a, b, c, 3 …). In the case of submitting solitary figures their arrangement must be obvious in the legends. For tables (one or more pages) it is very important that they fit in the type area (14.5 cm, vertical format) and that they are e a s i l y r e a d a b l e . Legends should be arranged in normal text above the tables ( Tab. 1: …) and beneath the figures ( Fig. 1: …). Footnotes cannot be accepted. Literature citations: In the text, if there are three or more authors only the first author is cited (Schulze et al. 1969), citations are sepa- rated by comma (Koponen 2000, 2008, Huber 2010). In the litera- ture cited the citations are arranged alphabetically by author and journal names are not abbreviated. Papers with the same author(s) and years are identified by a, b, c, etc. Examples: Broen B von 1993 Nachweise selten gefundener oder gefährdeter Spinnen (Araneae) in der Mark Brandenburg. – Arachnologische Mitteilungen 6: 12-25 Chatzaki M 2008 A critical review of the spider family Gnaphosidae in Greece. In: Makarov SE & Dimitrijevic RN (eds.) Advances in arachnol- ogy and developmental biology. Pensoft, Sofia. pp. 355-374 Clayhills T, Rinne V & Koponen S 2008 On insect and spi- der fauna of Jungfruskär in Houtskär, 2007. Unpublished report to the Finnish Forest and Park Service, Turku. 80 pp. (in Finnish) Lindgren L 2000 Island pastures.Metsähallitus and Edita Ltd. Helsinki. 203 pp. Merkens S 2000 Die Spinnenzönosen der Sandtrockenrasen im norddeut- schen Tiefland im West-Ost-Transekt – Gemeinschaftsstruktur, Habi- tatbindung, Biogeographie. Dissertation, Univ. Osnabrück. 165 pp. Nentwig W, Blick T, Gloor D, Hänggi A & Kropf C 2013 araneae – Spi- ders of Europe, version 1.2013. – Internet: http://www.araneae.unibe.ch (4.1.2013) Platnick NI 2012 The world spider catalog, version 13.0. – Internet: http:// research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/catalog (15.9.2012) Doi-Links should be given. Example: Kovblyuk MM & Marusik YM 2012 First description of the female of the theridiid spider Robertus golovatchi (Araneae: Theridiidae). – Arachnol- ogische Mitteilungen 44: 17-19 – doi: 10.5431/aramit4405 Structure: Following a concise title, the next line is the author(s) full name(s) (Prename Surname), the last author linked by &. After this comes an Abstract. … briefly summarising the main results. Next come a few precise Keywords: …, sorted alphabetically, which sup- plement the title and abstract (for the purposes of bibliographic da- tabasing). A short title should be provided.The text is to be arranged in an introductory chapter (without title), Material andmethods (or Study area , Methods , etc.), Results and Discussion . An Acknowl- edgements comes before the References . For the authors address block give the full name (Prename SURNAME), address(es) and e-mail. Advice for electronic formats The manuscript should be submitted by e-mail in a Microsoft- compatible format, preferably as a WORD- (name.doc) or a Rich- Text- (name.rtf ) document. All MS Office tables can be embed- ded in the WORD document or delivered as separate files, which is preferred for figures. It is important to note that EXCEL-graphs should be sent together with their ‘.xls’-files, as the original data- table is needed for formatting. Photographs will be printed in black and white half-tone (8bit), but should be submitted in colour (RGB, 4-5 Megapixel), so that they can be embedded as coloured images in the digital separata. All drawings, both half-tones and line drawings, should be submitted as 8bit half-tone images (each 4-5 Megapixels, TIFF- or PSD-file format). Colour fotos can be submitted as JPG- files (e.g. originals from the digital camera). They will be arranged according to their legends along with all other figures submitted with the manuscript. Alternatively the author(s) can submit ready- formatted digital figures.However, in such cases authors should con- sult the editors with respect to file formats, etc .