Difference between revisions of "Annotating Publications"

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Introduction

This section contains procedures and conventions used for annotating taxonomic acts within publications.

All annotation text must be in lowercase except for proper nouns and taxonomic names or after certain special cases where periods are used. The first letter of an annotation is not capitalized
The page number used for an annotation is the first page on which a taxonomic act appears
- An original description begins with the header containing the newly described name of a descriptive block

Taxonomic Act	Annotation Text	Comments
original description of a species	original description
original description of a genus	monotypy \| subsequent designation by {author} ({year})}

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-== Procedures ==
+== General Notes ==
+# All annotation text must be in lowercase except for proper nouns and taxonomic names or after certain special cases where periods are used. The first letter of an annotation is not capitalized
+# The page number used for an annotation is the first page on which a taxonomic act appears
+#* An original description begins with the header containing the newly described name of a descriptive block
-=== Sorting Individual Drawers ===
-# Remove a drawer from cabinet one. Make sure it is a drawer that has been sort to genus, not just to family.
-=== Annotation Text Reference ===
+== Annotation Text Reference ==
+{|
+!Taxonomic Act
+!Annotation Text
+!Comments
+|-
+|original description of a species
+|''original description''
+|
+|-
+|original description of a genus
+|''original description. Type: {type species w/ author}, by {original designation | monotypy | subsequent designation by {author} ({year})}''
+|
+|}