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 in a Windows, Mac, or compatible format. Authors should include a completed Submission Checklist with the submission. Authors should include the approximate locations of tables and figures. Please note, authors writing monographs should include an Index to Numbered Collections at the end of their papers.

The next issue of Harvard Papers in Botany is scheduled for January 2026. Invited authors should expect to have their manuscripts submitted by July 15th. 

For further details about format and layout, see manuscript preparation.

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: Brett Fredericksen

Technical management: Jeannette Everritt

Nomenclature specialist: Kanchi Gandhi

Plant taxonomy specialist: David Boufford

 

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