1 Title
1.1 Title in Chinese
The following factors should be considered in giving the title in Chinese.
1) Being short and concise, highlighting the innovation of articles, and generally not exceeding 20 characters;
2) Avoid using the words of “method” ”research” ”discussion” ”first exploration” ;
3) Avoid using acronyms, but a few of common acronyms in this field may be used;
4) Subtitle: it should be separated with the title by a dash when must use the subtitle, but do not use it as much as possible.
1.2 Title in English
The following factors should be considered in giving the title in English.
1) Normally expressed by phrase, especially by the noun phrases, which is composed of one or several nouns with the front or rear attributive;
2) Statements are seldom used in title;
3) The question mark in a title may be used only in case of commentary, overview and contention, but generally not used;
4) The less the number of words is, the better is, under the premise of accurately reflecting the specific content of the article. And article words are generally not used;
5) Capitalize the first letter and the rest lowercase (except English grammar required);
6) Separate the main title and vice title by a colon.
2 Author(s) signature and affiliation(s)
1) The Chinese pinyin of the Chinese author's name adopts the format of SURNAME First name, the letters of the surname are capitalized, the first letter of the first name is capitalized, the double names are consecutive, the first name and last name cannot be abbreviated;
2) Separate the names of multiple authors with a comma ",". Authors of different affiliations should add an Arabic numeral serial numbers to the upper right corner of their names;
3) The affiliation of an author should include the full name of the affiliation, the postal code and the name of the province and city where it is located, and each item should be separated by a comma ",", and the entire data item is enclosed in parentheses "()". The name of an affiliation in multiple authors is preceded by the Arabic numeral serial number that is corresponding to that of the author's name, and the affiliation are separated by a semicolon ";" .The English translation of the author's affiliation should also add ", China" after the name of the province or city;
4) For graduate students, tutor(s) must be as the corresponding author(s), and introduce the first author and corresponding author simultaneously in the footnotes of the first page;
5) Both Chinese and English should be fully corresponded.
3 Footnote content of the home page
1) The project funding introduction should include the funding organizations , full name and the project number；
2) The brief introduction of first author and corresponding author should include the name(year of birth - ), gender, degree(or degree in reading), job title, major research direction, and E-mail;
3) Please don’t write the author’s birthplace, telephone and other content here.
4 Abstract
1) The length of Chinese abstract is generally within 300-400 words;
2) English abstract can be generally a little longer than Chinese , and not less than 450 words. With the principle of accurately reflect all the information in Chinese abstract, no need to translate word by word, but should write as much as possible.
3) Original research articles are required to use the reported (or descriptive) abstract, which should include research purpose, location, method, results and conclusions.
4) The abstract of review articles are required to be written as reports: indicative abstract. State the innovation or higher value information part in the form of reports’ abstract, and others in the form of indicative abstract;
5) The research site can be omitted in theoretical articles, and others the same as original research article.
6) An abstract should be accurate, independent, concise and specific, the not evaluative, consecutive and readable, clear and logical.
5 Key words
Usually there are 3 to 8 proper key words. Both the English and Chinese key words should correspond with each other.
6 Main contents
Main content generally contains the following 5 sections.
6.1 Introduction
1) The introduction must answer the four following aspects:
① Review domestic and international research status in pertinent works;
② Explain what problems at present, what aspects need to improve or what has not yet been studied, and so on;
③ State what method will be used to solve some of these problems (keep to the point)
④ State objectives of your results;
2) The introduction part generally do not need the title and number.
6.2 Summary of experiment field (research field)
This part should include the experiment field’s geographical location (administrative areas, geographical coordinates), altitude, landform, soil, climate, vegetation and so on. The plant’s Latin names should be listed when occurred at the first time in article.
6.3 Materials and methods
1) Explain the source of results of the research data, the phenomenon, and so on;
2) Provide the name, type, manufacturer, measurement accuracy, etc. of the instrument and equipment used in experiment;
3) Experiment design in detail;
4) The observation method, the duration of the experiment, and the repetition frequency, etc. of the test data;
5) Statistical methods or models, etc. (Pay attention to the definition of variable, and the distinction between the normal and italics).
6.4 Results and analyses
1) List the results through the above methods (Generally present by tables or figures);
2) State the phenomenon, qualitative and quantitative analysis of the results (table or figure), to illustrate the inevitability of experiment results;
3) The figures and tables should be concise. Do not represent the same information in tables and figures by text;
4) The figure’s size should be suitable, and the resolution should meet the printing requirements;
5) Use three line table. Put variable with unit in the first line 1, and the noun without unit in the first column. Not limited to 3 lines, plus auxiliary line when necessary.
6.5 Conclusions and discussion
1) The conclusion is that authors draw based on the study results of this article, which is not the same as results;
2) The conclusion should be refined, avoiding repeated research significance, purpose, method, etc.;
3) Pay attention to distinguish “abstract” and “conclusion”.
7 Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people and funds should be placed in a separate section after finishing the text. Please thanks the people who gave valuable opinions or suggestions, or helped collection, sorted out information, or provided funds or other support by brief words.
8 References
The references are listed with the order of alphabetic number [1], [2] ……[N]. The format of different types of literature are based on the national stands in China, currently GB7714-2015 Information and documentation – Rules for bibliographic references and citation to information resources
1) Books
Format:[serial number]author 1, author 2, author 3, ect. Title [document type logo]. Place of publication: publisher name, year: inclusive pages.
Example: [1] MAGURRAN A E. Ecological diversity and its measurement[M]. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988: 2-10.
2) Journal articles
Format: [serial number] author 1, author 2, author 3, ect. Article title[document type logo]. Journal title, year, volume number(issue): 1st page of inclusive pages.
Example: [1] MENG Q F. Discussion on effects of plantation on biodiversity conservation[J]. World Forestry Research, 2006, 19(5):1.
3) Collection of articles
Format: [serial number] author 1, author 2, author 3, ect. Title[document type logo]. // Editor-in-chief. The name of articles collection. Place of publication: publisher name, year: inclusive pages.
Example: [1] LIU J G, MA S J. Niche theory extension[M]// Ma S J. Modern ecology perspective, Beijing: Science Press, 1990: 72-89.
4) Academic dissertations
Format: [serial number] author 1, author 2, author 3, ect. Title[document type logo].The place of keeping: the people of keeping, year: inclusive pages.
Example: [1] WANG S S. Study on forest health based on forest vegetation succession in mountain area of northern China[D]. Beijing: Beijing Forestry University, 2005.
5) Proceeding articles
Format: [serial number] author 1, author 2, author 3, ect. Title[document type logo]. Conference name, place, year.
Example: [1] HUI M J, WU D H, LIU B K, ect. The development of austenitic-bainite ductile iron[C]. The national society austenitic cast iron-bainite ductile iron professional academic conference, Wuhan, 1986.
6) Online documents
Format: [serial number] author 1, author 2, author 3, ect. Title[document type logo/ literature carrier logo].(The date of publication or update)[Reference date]. Access path.
Example: [1] LIU N. To speed up the pace of the western water loss and soil erosion control[R/OL]. [2006-09-26]. http://www.gov.cn/zwhd/2006-09/26/content_399195.htm
Note: [R/OL] means reports can found on the net;[EB/OL] means electronic bulletin can found on the net.
7) Technical standards
Format: [serial number] Corresponding author of the draft. Standard Code Standard serial number-publish year standard name [document type logo]. Place of publication: publisher name, year: pages number.
Example: [1] Quantities and Units in the National Standardization Technical Committee. GB 3100-3102-93 Quantities and units[S]. Beijing: China Standards Press, 1994.
8) The literature of newspapers
Format: [serial number] author. Title[document type logo]. Newspaper’s name, year-month-day (edition).
Example: [1] State Council Information Office. Grain problem in China[N]. People Daily, 1996-03-25(2).
9) Patent literature
Format: [serial number] Patent Applicant. Patent title [document type logo]: patent nation, patent number. Publish date.
Example: [1] WANG X S. A kind of warm outside, chitin preparation methods[P]: China, 881056073. 1996-03-25.
10) Internal documents: (Can be also labeled by footer)
Format: [serial number] The name of writer or organization. Document title. The place of storing it: the people of storing, publish year: number of pages.
Example: [1] WANG X S. XXXX report. Beijing: The library of Chinese Society of Water and Soil Conservation, 2001.
