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Using the Nuytsia style template
When you click open the Nuytsia style template, a new Word document is created. This
document contains a sample paper to help you format your paper correctly. You can
simply replace this text with your own. Alternatively, you can import the Nuytsia styles into
an existing document (see separate instructions below).
To familiarise yourself with the Nuytsia styles, open ‘Styles and Formatting’ from the
‘Format’ menu (Word 2003) or click the small arrow at the bottom right corner of the
‘Styles’ toolbar on your ‘Home’ view (Word 2007). A styles panel will appear to the right of
the document. The Nuytsia styles are all prefaced by a lowercase ‘n’ as follows:
nTitle
nAuthor
nAddress
nHeading (for major headings e.g. Abstract, Introduction, Methods etc.)
nBody (the bulk of the text and any left-aligned minor headings
n01Key (the first key couplet), n02Key (the second couplet), and so forth.
nReferences
nFigureCaption
Applying styles
To change the style of a block of text, place the cursor somewhere in the text and simply
click the name of style you want to apply in the styles panel. A style can also be applied to
numerous highlighted paragraphs.
Tip: use the shortcut keys ‘Ctrl Y’ to repeat a style application to a different block of text.
All text in your paper should have one of the Nuytsia styles applied to it and any
superfluous tabs and paragraph returns should be deleted.
Text should be in the typeface (bold, italic) in which it will be published. Occasionally
italicised or bolded text is lost when a style is applied, so check each style application
before you do another. If this happens, then undo the style application using the ‘Edit’
menu, and move the cursor to a different part of the paragraph and try again.
Formatting keys
For bracketed keys, use the n01Key style for all couplets.
For indented keys, use the n01Key style for the first couplet, the n02Key for the second
couplet, and so forth. Note that the nKey styles are correlated with the position of each
couplet on the page rather than the actual couplet number. For example, in the following
key, couplets 2 and 4 are both positioned at n02Key and couplets 3 and 5 are both
positioned at n03Key.
Press the tab key once to correctly position a taxon name at the right margin. Ensure that
the taxon name and couplet number is in bold face.
Do not try and make your key look like the final product by inserting extra paragraph
marks or hard spaces. The text of the couplets will run all the way to the right margin, but
this will be corrected during desktopping. Your key will look something like this:
Key to scale-leaved Mirbelia in Western Australia
1. Indumentum, where present, comprising peltate, white and/or golden hairs; bud apices acuminate to acute,
occasionally obtuse, not apiculate; upper calyx lobes fused only at base or to less than half their length
2. Spreading sub-shrubs with true leaves and scale leaves; calyx lobes in buds valvate; flowers coral-pink to
apricot-pink (W.A.: Kalbarri area) ........................................................................................ M. corallina
2: Erect shrubs with scale leaves only; calyx lobes in buds imbricate; flowers yellow or yellow and red
3. Flowers yellow and red; ovules 11–16; pods cymbiform, deeply concave on adaxial edge, abaxial
septum more developed than adaxial septum (W.A.: Shark Bay to E Kalbarri) .............. M. balsiformis
3: Flowers yellow; ovules 4; pods obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, convex and deeply grooved on adaxial edge,
abaxial septum absent, adaxial septum very well developed (W.A.: Eremaean and Northern Botanical
Provinces; N.T.; Qld) ......................................................................................................... M. viminalis
1: Indumentum, where present, comprising ±basifixed, translucent to white hairs; bud apices obliquely
rounded to obtuse with a small to prominent apiculus; upper calyx lobes fused for half their length or
more into a lip
4. Ovules 2; stipe c. 3 mm long; pods deeply grooved along both sutures, veins sunken, stipe exserted
beyond persistent calyx (W.A.: Meekatharra to Laverton) ..................................................... M. stipitata
4: Ovules 4–30; stipe 0.4–1.5 mm long; pods not to shallowly grooved along abaxial suture, scarcely to
moderately deeply grooved along adaxial suture, veins raised, stipe not exserted beyond persistent calyx
5. Branchlets not spinescent, not 3-forked; bracts and bracteoles acuminate, 1.7–3.1 mm long, caducous
before anthesis; ovary with long hairs along the abaxial suture, covering the apex and extending along
the style (W.A.: Yilgarn BIF ranges) .................................................................................. M. ferricola
5: Branchlets usually spinescent, infrequently to frequently 3-forked; bracts and bracteoles obtuse to acute,
0.4–2 mm long, usually persistent beyond anthesis; ovary and style usually glabrous
6. Plants large, tangled shrubs with slender, subtly striate, infrequently 3-forked stems; ovules 8–10
(W.A.: sand dunes E Carnarvon) ............................................................................ M. sp. Carnarvon
6: Plants variable in height, stems slender to robust, subtly striate to prominently sulcate, infrequently to
frequently 3-forked; ovules 2–30 (WA: South-west and Eremaean Botanical Provinces; NT) ....... M.
ramulosa s. lat.
Sometimes there is not enough space for the taxon name at the end of the line (see
couplet 6: above). This doesn’t matter for review purposes since it’s quite clear what is
meant; however, you can insert a hard space (shift enter) to force the couplet onto a new
line, for example:
6: Plants variable in height, stems slender to robust, subtly striate to prominently sulcate, infrequently to
frequently 3-forked; ovules 2–30 (WA: South-west and Eremaean
Botanical Provinces; NT) ...................................................................................... M. ramulosa s. lat.
The more hard spaces there are, the more difficult it is to desktop your paper, so please
use these sparingly.
To apply the Nuytsia style template to an existing manuscript
The simplest and quickest approach is to open the styles template and to cut and paste
text from your existing manuscript into the styled document. You then apply the styles to
each block of pasted text following the instructions above, removing any superfluous tabs
and paragraph returns as you go. Alternatively, you can import the styles into your existing
document using the following steps. First, save the Nuytsia styles template to your
computer and open a new copy of your existing manuscript.
In Word 2003
Open ‘Page Setup’ under the ‘File’ menu. Under ‘Margins’, change the top, bottom and
right margins to 2 cm and the left to 1.5 cm. Under ‘Paper’ and ‘Paper size’, select ‘custom
size’ at the bottom of the drop down menu and set the width to 17.6 cm and the height to
25 cm. Click OK.
Select ‘Templates and Add-Ins’ from the ‘Tools’ menu.
Select ‘Add’, then navigate to the folder with the Nuytsia styles template and select it (it
will appear under ‘Global templates and add-ins’).
Click the ‘Organizer’ tab on the bottom left of the ‘Templates and Add-Ins’ panel.
In ‘Normal’ (the right hand panel), click on ‘close file’ then on ‘open file’ and again navigate
to the folder with the Nuytsia styles template and open it. The Nuytsia styles should
appear in the right hand panel (they are prefaced by a small ‘n’, e.g. nBody, nTitle, etc.).
Select the Nuytsia styles in the right hand panel and use the copy tab to transfer them to
into the left hand panel (your manuscript). Close the ‘Template and Add-Ins’ panel.
The styles should now exist in your Word document. Select ‘Styles and Formatting’ from
the ‘Format’ menu. A ‘Styles and Formatting’ panel will appear to the right of the
document. You may need to scroll down this list to find the Nuytsia styles, depending on
how much superfluous formatting is already in the document.
In Word 2007
Click on the ‘Page Layout’ toolbar and go to ‘Margins’. Change the top, bottom and right
margins to 2 cm and the left to 1.5 cm. Under ‘Paper’ and ‘Paper size’, select ‘custom size’
and set the width to 17.6 cm and the height to 25 cm.
From the Microsoft Office Button
select ‘Word Options’.
Select ‘Add-Ins’.
From the ‘Manage’ drop down menu, select ‘Word Add-ins’, and then click ‘Go’.
In the ‘Templates’ tab, click ‘Add’, then navigate to the folder with the Nuytsia styles
template and select it (it will appear under ‘Global templates and add-ins’).
With the Nuytsia style template highlighted under ‘Global templates and add-ins’, click
‘organiser’.
In ‘Normal’ (the right hand panel), click on ‘close file’ then on ‘open file’ and again navigate
to the folder with the Nuytsia styles template and open it. The Nuytsia styles should
appear in the right hand panel (they are prefaced by a small ‘n’, e.g. nBody, nTitle, etc.).
Select the Nuytsia styles in the right hand panel and use the copy tab to transfer them to
into the left hand panel (your manuscript). Close the ‘Template and Add-Ins’ panel. The
styles should now exist in your Word document. To bring up the ‘Styles’ panel, click the
small arrow at the bottom right of the ‘Styles’ toolbar on your ‘Home’ view.