The Mediterranean Botany section on ethnobotany and ethnopharmacologyrequired standards for articles based on field research

  1. Guillermo Benítez 1
  2. Manuel Pardo de Santayana 2
  3. Diego Rivera 3
  4. Alonso Verde 4
  5. Airy Gras 5
  6. Rosario G. Gavilán 6
  1. 1 Department of Botany, University of Granada.
  2. 2 Department of Biology (Botany), Autonomous University of Madrid. Center for Research on Biodiversity and Global Change (CIBC-UAM).
  3. 3 Department of Plant Biology, Universidad de Murcia.
  4. 4 Laboratory of Systematic and Ethnobotany. Botanical Institute. Cas-tilla-La Mancha University.
  5. 5 Laboratory of Botany. Institute of Research in Biodiversity (IRBio), University of Barcelona.
  6. 6 Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany, Complutense University.
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Revista:
Mediterranean Botany

ISSN: 2603-9109

Año de publicación: 2022

Número: 43

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5209/MBOT.80432 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Mediterranean Botany

Resumen

In this new era of Mediterranean Botany, the editorial team opened the possibility of submitting manuscripts for evaluation to the ethnobotany/ethnopharmacology section of the journal. We present a compendium of the minimum standards that manuscripts based in field research should comply in order to positively pass to the review process, as a minimum quality requirement. We pay special attention to the contents that should be included in the method and results sections, which are often the ones that present problems of format, style or content. Without being in any way exhaustive in the listed standards, we believe that these recommendations will help authors to present their texts and reviewers to evaluate them.

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