Instructions for Authors 137
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and place them in the context of the broader
scientific field. Where appropriate, resulting
recommendations,
e.g.
for future management or
research, should be clearly set out.
Acknowledgements
– should be concise and
appropriate.
References
– when mentioned in the text,
references should be listed in chronological
order, separated by a semi-colon. Citation of
work by one or two authors should be in full
(Owen 1980; Bannister & Walker 1998), but
where there are more than two authors, the
citation should be abbreviated to
et al
. (Worden
et
al
.) in the text. When different groups of
authors with the same first author and date
occur, they should be cited as (Thomson
et al.
1991a, b).
In the reference list, the references should be
given in alphabetical order, all authors’ names
being quoted, with the journal name in full and in
italics. For example:
Baldassarre, G.A. & Bolen, E.G. 1994.
Waterfowl Ecology
and Management
. Wiley & Sons, New York, USA.
Béchet, A., Giroux, J.-F., Gauthier, G., Nichols, J.D. &
Hines, J.E. 2003. Spring hunting changes the
regional movements of migratory Greater
Snow Geese.
Journal of Applied Ecology
40: 553–
564.
Follestad, A. 1994. Background for a management plan
for geese in Norway.
NINA Utredning
65: 1–78. [In
Norwegian with English summary.]
Frederiksen, M., Fox, A.D., Madsen, J. & Colhoun, K.
2001. Estimating the total number of birds using a
staging site.
Journal of Wildlife Management
65: 282–
289.
Nudds, T.D. 1992. Patterns in breeding waterfowl
communities.
In
B.D.J. Batt, A.D. Afton, M.G.
Anderson, C.D. Ankney, D.H. Johnson, J.A. Kadlec
& G.L. Krapu (eds.),
Ecology and management of
breeding waterfowl
, pp. 540–567. University of
Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, USA.
Owen, M. 1980.
Wild Geese of the World
. B.T. Batsford,
London, UK.
Wetlands International. 2002.
Waterbird Population
Estimates, 3rd edition
. Global Series No. 12,
Wetlands International, Wageningen, The
Netherlands.
Worden, J., Mitchell, C.R., Merne, O.J. & Cranswick,
P.A. 2004. Greenland Barnacle Geese
Branta
leucopsis
in Britain and Ireland: results of the
international census, spring 2003. Unpublished
report to JNCC, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust,
Slimbridge, UK.
When referring to articles written in a language
other than English, give the title in the original
language. If the article is in a language other than
English but contains an English summary, this
should be stated in parentheses at the end of the
citation, as shown for the Follestad (1994) paper
above. References should be cited as “in press”
only if the paper has been accepted for
publication. Work not yet submitted for
publication may be cited in the text and attributed
to its author as “full author name, unpublished
data”.
Tables
Each table should be on a separate page,
numbered and titled. Table headings should be
concise and tables should be numbered
consecutively in the text as Table 1,
etc
. Data
should not be duplicated in both figure and table
form. Footnotes should be listed as letters not
numbers.
Horizontal rules should be used in the tables
themselves; use vertical rules only when
absolutely necessary. The horizontal lines should
be kept to a minimum, ideally limited to single
horizontal lines before and after column headings
and at end of table (
e.g.
Simple 1 format in
Microsoft Word), with blank rows used to
separate information presented within a table
where needed to help interpretation. Keep tables
in portrait format if possible, to fit one column
(width: 6 cm) or 1 page (width: 13 cm) of
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