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The Beekeepers Quarterly - Guidelines for Authors
Beekeepers Quarterly (published in the UK) has an international focus with a wide range of articles on bees and beekeeping, conservation, bee science, international development and beekeeping, and bee-related literature and the arts. We often include special features; recent examples include: “trees and bees”, “the small hive beetle 10 years on”, and “spotlight on Scandinavia”.
We are always pleased to hear of any ideas you have for articles you may wish to submit.
Our UK and international readership comprises mainly well-informed beekeepers (usually not beginners), bee farmers, bee scientists, and educators. Our contributors include a wide-range of highly regarded beekeepers, scientists, podcasters, educators and outreach workers and volunteers drawn from across the world. Please write in a lively and informal style. If you are concerned about your written English, don’t worry, as we can help you.
Article lengths vary
- Feature articles should be around 600 to 1,600 words
- News items can be much shorter, around 200 to 600 words
Send separate files for the text and any images
- Text should be in MS Word (but we can use .pdf)
- Photos should be of good quality and high resolution at the original size of the image taken and not reduced in file size or cropped heavily. Please DO NOT embed them in the text you send (such files are compressed). Please number the illustration files and include captions in the text file.
- Please tell us who to credit for copyright of the images. Please do not use images with unknown copyright, or taken from the internet (unless they are clearly marked as Open Access or Creative Commons) or taken from books unless you have obtained copyright permission to use them
- For diagrams or tables from published works that have been redrawn, it is acceptable to say (after Name, Year).
Extracts from published works
Short extracts from other published works can be included in articles, but should be in quotation marks and italics, and a full reference of the source should be included.
References
- Please keep references / further reading to a minimum and refer only to books and articles that the reader can easily obtain (i.e. preferably Open Access and not those published in very obscure journals).
- Please DO NOT use electronic footnotes, automatic paragraph numbering etc., or reference management software, as these often get scrambled during editing and cause problems.
- We use a version of the system where the references are cited by author name and year in the body text; not footnotes or other number-based systems. Please list in alphabetical order by author. Please include doi and ISBN numbers where possible and ensure that any website links actually work! If you are unfamiliar with how to cite your references then we can help you.
This is an example of a multi-authored paper
Büchler, R., Andonov, S., Bienefeld, K., Costa, C., Hatjina, F., et al. (2013) Standard methods for rearing and selection of Apis mellifera queens. J. Apicult. Res., 52(1):1-30 https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.1.52.1.07
It is cited in the text as (Büchler et al., 2013)
Key contributors
Each issue features a mini highlight of key contributors, which includes a small headshot, affiliation and a couple of sentences (50 words) to describe them or their interests or work, for example:
Headshot photo (portrait)
Jane Smith
Associate Professor in bee conservation at Random University, US.
Jane’s passion is getting the habitat “right for bees”. She has 15 years of conservation experience in the Mid-West prairies, home to many rare bee species. Her team also investigates foraging, bee health, nutrition, and behavioural ecology, as well as planting to support bees.
Our publication dates are March, June, September and December
| Publication Dates | Copy Deadlines |
|---|---|
| 1 March | 15 January |
| 1 June | 15 April |
| 1 September | 15 July |
| 1 December | 15 October |
If you need further guidance, please contact us here
Thank you
Andrea Quigley and Norman Carreck
Joint Editors
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