How to apply for permission to publish a translation of the <i>Madrid Code</i>

The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Madrid Code) (Turland & al., 2025) will be published by the University of Chicago Press in July 2025. This is the official version of the Madrid Code, in English. Those wishing to publish a translation in another language must obtain permission from both the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the University of Chicago Press. This notice explains the procedure. You must first request permission from the IAPT, specifying the language of the translation, the translators, the publisher, and the estimated date of publication. It is desirable that at least one translator be a member of the Editorial Committee of the Madrid Code. It is a requirement that the translation be published within three years of the IAPT granting permission, or before the XXI International Botanical Congress (scheduled for July 2029), whichever is sooner. Decisions to grant permission will be made jointly by Mauricio Bonifacino, Secretary-General of the IAPT, Laurence J. Dorr, Editor-in-Chief of Regnum Vegetabile (the series in which the Madrid Code is published), and Nicholas J. Turland, Chair of the Editorial Committee of the Madrid Code. Your request for permission should be sent to Mauricio Bonifacino: [email protected]. After permission is granted by the IAPT, it is absolutely necessary that you also obtain permission from the University of Chicago Press. To request this, please write to Lucina Schell or Adriana Yochelson in International Rights at the University of Chicago Press: [email protected]. Only authorized translations that are approved by the IAPT and licensed by the University of Chicago Press may be published. For any authorized translations that will be published in an open-access format, the University of Chicago Press requires that the translation be hosted on a not-for-profit site, not a commercial social networking site such as ResearchGate. However, abstracts of, or links (e.g., a DOI) to, the full translation may be placed on such commercial sites. I thank Mauricio Bonifacino and Laurence J. Dorr for reading and commenting on an earlier version of this notice.