Submit papers in triplicate to Professor M.L. Rosenzweig,
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Uni-
versity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Do not
submit original artwork until requested. In the reviewing
process, an editor often writes on manuscript copies;
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authors to the editor to place any editorial comments
directly on his/her copy. Authors should therefore keep a
clean copy of the manuscript. Editors, at their discretion,
may retain two of the three copies submitted, and may
duplicate the manuscript as much as is required by the
reviewing process.
The Journal will attempt to maintain a rapid publication
schedule by restricting its backlog. Therefore, in unusual
circumstances, no appropriate editor may be available to
process a manuscript and we shall return it without
review.
Review process
Full length manuscripts
The review process is serial. If the Editor-in-Chief
determines that the subject matter of the paper falls within
the scope of the Journal, he sends it to an editor for
review. Occasionally, editors may contact an anonymous
reviewer to deal with sections of a paper for which they
desire technical advice. The editor decides whether and in
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are final.
Comments
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comments on a paper which has recently been published
in the Journal. Submit them promptly in duplicate. They
may contain small amounts of supporting data, further
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aspect of it. We shall not return copies in any case. Each
issue of the Journal will probably contain only a few
pages of comments, and in no case more than 15 pages.
Shorter comments therefore have a higher probability of
publication. The Editor-in-Chief may decide to treat
longer comments as full-length papers and submit them to
an editor for review.
The manuscript
Language and style
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available for editing manuscripts (in English) received
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passive voice wherever possible. The pronouns I, me and
my should be used wherever they are accurate.
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the paper, the name(s), affiliation and address of the
author(s), a running title of not more than 75 letters and
spaces, the name and full address of the corresponding
author, and keywords for indexing.
Abstract
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successful abstract presents the major results and conclu-
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possible. It should be brief. Avoid statements which
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review sections in Introductions and Discussions unless
the review is absolutely necessary for comprehension of
the new material.
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very commonly used. Number all equations
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References
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be quoted in the following manner for single, two or more
than two authors respectively: Koday (1935), Beethoven
and Mozart (1803), Vivaldi et al. (1704). Multiple papers
referred to together in the text should be given in
chronological order.
The references should be listed alphabetically at the end
of the paper. The journal titles should be abbreviated to
conform to the style of Index Medicus.
The layout should be as follows:
for journals ...
O'Dowd, D. J. (1982) Pearl bodies as ant food: an
ecological road for some leaf emergences of tropical
plants. Biotropica 14, 40-9.
for books ...
Holldobler, B. and Wilson, E. 0. (1990) The Ants.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
for chapters in books ...
Nepstad, D., Uhl, C. and Adilson Serrao, E. (1990)
Surmounting barriers to forest regeneration in aban-
doned highly degraded pastures: a case study from
Paragominas, Para, Brazil. In Alternatives to De-
forestation: Steps Towards Sustainable Use of the
Amazon Rainforest (A. B. Anderson, ed.), pp.215-29.
Columbia University Press, Columbia.
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sequential list in the traditional manner. They will also
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the text itself.
Acknowledgements
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