General

"Basic and Applied Dryland Research" (BADR) is an annual peer-reviewed international journal. It publishes original scientific and technical research articles, written versions of contributions presented at scientific meetings and conferences, and selected review articles. "Basic and Applied Dryland Research" is focussed on all aspects of dryland research, including e.g. ecology, botany, vegetation science, ecophysiology, geomorphology, soil science, socio‑economy, remote sensing, and social sciences. Generally, BADR is an open-access on-line journal. Future special issues may also be available as printed versions.

Please send your manuscript to the editors (editors@badr-online.de) in electronic version (rtf-formatted; rich-text-format).

Reviewing process

After submission, the editors will decide on the acceptance for reviewing. If accepted for reviewing, all manuscript will be reviewed at least by one, normally by two independent reviewers. The author can suggest two possible reviewers. The reviews are the basis for the decision of the editors to accept the manuscript for publication. They may decide to have a revised version reviewed a second time.

Copyright

The author is responsible for the correct use of citations. When using already published material (e.g. illustrations in books or journals), it is the author’s responsibility to follow legal requirements concerning their copyright.

Form of the Manuscript

The manuscript can be written either in German or in English (double space, at least 3 cm margin on both sides, pages numbered). The submission of a manuscript in a language other than German or English needs the prior permission of the editors. The manuscript must be linguistically correct. If the manuscript is not written in the mother language of the author, its correctness should be double-checked by a native speaker. Names of taxa up to below family level are to be set in italics (for example Silene vulgaris ssp. vulgaris, Caryophyllaceae). Names of authorities NOT in Small Caps.

Structure of the manuscript:

1. Short and precise heading
2. Name(s) and working addresse(s) of the author(s), E-mail of each author
3. German (Zusammenfassung, optional) and English abstract (each up to 300 words)
4. Up to 5 key words (do not repeat words already appearing in the heading) in German (Schlüsselbegriffe, optional) and English
5. Manuscript text, normally divided into Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion
6. Acknowledgements (if necessary)
7. List of references (References)

Citations in the text are ordered chronologically: Vigo & Ninot (1987), Wilmanns (2001) or in brackets (Wilmanns 2001), two or more citations in brackets are separated by comma (Vigo & Ninot 1987, Wilmanns 2001). When a citation is attributed to three or more authors, only the first is cited, his name being followed by “et al.“: Tutin et al. (1993) or (Tutin et al. 1993). Authors are arranged in alphabetical order; citations of the same author are arranged in chronological order. Examples:

Mathes, U., Feige, G.B., 1983. Ecophysiology of lichen symbiosis. In: Lange, O. L., Nobel, P.S., Osmond, C.B., Ziegler, H. (Eds.), Physiological plant ecology. II. Responses to the chemical and biological environment. Encyclopedia of plant physiology. New Series, vol. 12C, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, pp. 423-467.

Méndez, M., Staffan Karlsson, P., 2004. Between-population variation in size-dependent reproduction and reproductive allocation in Pinguicula vulgaris (Lentibulariaceae) and its environmental correlates. Oikos 104, 59-70.

Takhtajan, A., 1959. Die Evolution der Angiospermen. G. Fischer, Jena.

Zotz, G., Patiño, S., Tyree, M.T., 1997. CO₂ gas exchange and the occurrence of CAM in tropical woody hemiepiphytes. J. Exp. Biol. 192, 143-150.

8. Name and complete working address of the author(s), including email addresse(s) of the (all) author(s).

Tables and Figures

Please provide (numbered) tables and figures on separate sheets (NOT embedded in the text). Tables and figures are mentioned in the text in numeric order. At the manuscript margin, the author must mark clearly where to insert tables and figures. Figures need to be provided in digital version (jpg, eps or tif-format, at least 300 dpi resolution). The print of colour illustrations / photos is possible after consultation with the editors, however the extra printing costs have to be paid by the author(s) (currently, a colour page costs about 30 Euros).

Table headings and figure legends are to be provided on a separate sheet in numeric order.

Proofs

Proofs are sent to the corresponding author once. They need to be returned immediately.

Reprints

After publication, the corresponding author will get a pdf-file of his article free of charge.