Harvard Papers in Botany

Harvard Papers in Botany (HPB) is a refereed, invite-only, journal that welcomes longer monographic and floristic accounts of plants and fungi, as well as papers concerning systematic botany, molecular phylogenetics, plant physiological ecology, the history of botany, and relevant and significant bibliographies, as well as book reviews. Harvard Papers in Botany is open to all who wish to contribute and accepts submissions in both English and Spanish. Potential authors may propose their papers by following our Proposal Guidelines and sending the proposal to papers@oeb.harvard.edu 

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Manuscript Submission

Once your proposal is accepted, manuscripts, including tables and figures, should be submitted via email as attachments.

The text should be in a major word-processing program and submitted as a .docx. Authors should carefully review the Manuscript Preparation and Submission Guidelines on the For Authors page and include a completed Submission Checklist with their manuscript. 

Please note, authors writing monographs should include an Index to Numbered Collections at the end of their papers.

Editor-in-Chief: Jeannine Cavender-Bares

Managing Editor: Brett Fredericksen

Subject Editors:

• Steven Augustine: plant physiological ecology and biogeography
• Daniel Sánchez Mata: geobotany and plant systematics
• Sydne Record: statistical ecology, modeling and remote sensing
• Rachel Swenie: fungal systematics and macroevolution
• Dawson White: plant systematics and ethnobotany
• Amity Wilczek: plant quantitative genetics, plant evolutionary ecology

Copy Editor: Carla Barger

Production Editor: Carla Barger

Technical management: Jeannette Everritt

Nomenclature specialist: Kanchi Gandhi

Plant taxonomy specialist: David Boufford

For questions or comments, please contact: papers@oeb.harvard.edu