(These instructions are adapted from those for the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.)
Manuscripts that do not conform to the instructions given below may be returned to the author for correction before consideration. Manuscripts must be submitted initially in triplicate (on paper) to the section editor (graduate student instructor). One copy should have the coverpage checklist form as its first page. The entire manuscript, including title page, tables, and figure legends, must be double-spaced, with 12-point type and margins of at least one inch all around. Manuscripts containing single-spaced or 1.5-spaced material will be returned to the author immediately, without review. Double-sided photocopying is encouraged but not required. Each copy of the manuscript should be stapled and should not be enclosed in any plastic or cardboard cover.
Following review and revision, the final draft of the paper should be submitted with the following materials:
The cover page of one copy of the manuscript must consist of the signed coverpage checklist form (will open as separate window). In the initial submission, the name of the author and any collaborators should appear on no other page of the manuscript (including the acknowlegments section) to preserve the author's anonymity to the outside reviewers. On final submission of the revised manuscript, the author's name, address, and institutional affiliation should be included, and collaborators may be acknowleged.
The title page should include the following information, in order: title, author (omit from initial submission), institutional affiliation, and author's mail and E-mail addresses (omit from initial submission).
The abstract should summarize the findings concretely; sentences indicating that a particular subject is discussed should be omitted. The abstract should not contain abbreviations that will be recognized only by an expert on the subject, and it should not contain quotations from or citations of the literature. In general, the abstract should be a single paragraph of no more than 200 words.
The main body of the text should be divided into sections headed Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, and Discussion, followed by Acknowledgments and Literature Cited. These headings should be in bold face with no indentation from the left margin. Primary subheadings should be italicized and also set with no indentation from the left margin. Each paragraph should be indented. Secondary subheadings should be italicized and followed by a period, with no indentation from the left margin. The text should begin on the same line. Footnotes should not be used except as necessary in tables.
Tables should be included in the main body of the text to save space. (Most journals require figures and tables to be printed on separate sheets following the Literature Cited section.) A brief but descriptive title should appear at the top of each table. Any additional explanatory information should be included as a note at the bottom of the table. In the text, tables should be cited as Table 1, Table 2, and so on.
Figures should be included in the main body of the text to save space. Figures must be numbered with arabic numerals and cited consecutively in the text as Figure 1, Figure 2, and so on. A legend below the figure should include a title, followed by explanatory material and experimental conditions in complete sentences.
Literature should be cited in the main body of the text by author name(s) and four-digit year of publication, with no comma separating the two. Multiple citations within a parenthesis should be made in chronological, not alphabetical, order, and separated by a semicolon. If two publications by the same author(s) appeared in the same year, the first should be designated by a lowercase a, the second by b, and so on, following the date. Papers by one or two authors should be cited in the text by one or two names; papers by three or more authors should be cited by the first author's name followed by "et al.," for example, Smith and Jones (1994a), but Johnson et al. (1995) for three or more authors.
Bibliographic information should be given under Literature Cited, beginning on a new page and immediately following Acknowledgments. The listings should be double-spaced and arranged in alphabetical order. Publications by a single author should precede those by the same author with coauthors. Each reference should begin with the first author, name inverted, with no comma separating last name and initials, followed by the other authors, with names not inverted. After the first line of each reference, succeeding lines should be indented.
Snyder G.K. 1973. Erythrocyte evolution: the significance of the Fahraeus-Lindqvist phenomenon. Respiration Physiology 19:271-278.
Mangum C.P. and D.W. Towle. 1977. Physiological adaptation to unstable environments. American Scientist 65:65-77.
Davison I.G., G.M. Wright, and M.E. DeMont. 1995. The structure and physical properties of invertebrate and primitive vertebrate arteries. Journal of Experimental Biology 198:2185-2196.
Smith A.B. 1995a. The rise in blood glucose during hibernation of the golden headed plover Dickus birdus. Journal of Avian Metabolism 20:19-21.
Smith A.B. 1995b. The fall in blood glucose during hibernation of the golden headed plover Dickus birdus. Journal of Avian Metabolism 20:22-23.
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