• original text, not text already published
  elsewhere,
• in either British or American English; checked by a native speaker before submission if author is not a native speaker of English,
• total length of each paper should not exceed 20 type written pages including tables, figures and reference list,
• text in Times New Roman 12, with symbol font for Greek letters, double line spacing, margins 2.5 cm each side, left justified,
• all pages should be numbered consecutively, at the bottom.

1. Title page: Title of the paper; name of author(s) with first name and middle initials; institutional affiliation of each author; e-mail of the corresponding author; running title of no more than 40 character and spaces; acknowledgements.
2. Abstract of up to 200 words, followed by 4-6 key words
3. Text of the paper must be divided into
sections: Introduction; Materials and Methods; Results; Discussion; Conclusion;
References; Figure legends; Tables; Figures, graphs. Each section should have begun on a new page.

In the text, references should be cited by name and year, giving page reference if necessary; for example (Clahsen 1991:252), (Adams and Dickinson 1981) or as in Brown et al. (1991:288).
All references in the text should appear in the References section where should be listed alphabetically by first authors (including all co-authors) and chronologically for given author (beginning with the most recent date of publication). Where the same author has more than one publication in a year, lower case letter should be added after the date (e.g. 1999a, 199b, etc.). Examples:

Dennerstein, L., Dudley, E.C., Hopper, J.L., Guthrie, J.R., and Burger, H.G., 2000, A Prospective population-based study of menopausal symptoms. Obstetrics and
Gynecology, 96, 351-358.
Marsh, H. and Kasuya, T., 1984, Changes in the ovaries of the short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhychus, with age and reproductive activity. In: Perrin W.F., Brownell R.L., and DeMaster D.P. eds.
Reproduction in whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Cambridge, MA: Rep Int Whailing Comm. 311-335.

Figure legends should be numbered
sequentially as they appear in the text i.e.
Figure 1, Figure 2, etc., and a caption should appear directly below each figure. The figures in the text should be referred to as Fig. 1 and so on.
Tables should be numbered sequentially as they appear, i.e. Table 1, Table 2, etc. Brief title should be included above the table. Each table should be double spaced without vertical or horizontal lines. The tables in the text should be referred to as Table 1 and so on.
Figures, graphs may be *xls or TIFF format
Mathematical Equations may be created by using equation editor or may be prepared as an image, a TIFF file.
File naming - when naming your file please use your own surname and then add what appropriate: text, table, figure legends etc.
For example:
Smithtext.doc,
Smithtable1.doc,
SmithFig1.tiff