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BM I-II GUIDE FOR AUTHORS
Behavioural Processes 72 (2006) I–II
Guide for Authors Types of contribution The journal publishes papers reporting results of Original research, Review papers, Short reports (< 2000 words), Book reviews, Conference abstracts and Announcements. On-line submission to the journal prior to acceptance Authors should submit their article as a LaTeX, Microsoft® (MS) Word®, WordPerfect®, PostScript or Adobe® Acrobat® PDF document via the ‘‘Author Gateway’’ page of this journal (http://authors.elsevier.com), where you will also find a detailed description on its use. The system generates an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article which is used for the reviewing process. Authors, Reviewers and Editors send and receive all correspondence be e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary. Note: compuscripts submitted are converted into PDF for the review process but may need to be edited after acceptance to follow journal standards. For this an ‘‘editable’’ file format is necessary. See the section on ‘‘Electronic format requirements for accepted articles’’ and the further general instructions on how to prepare your article below. Also note that contributions may be either submitted online or sent by mail. Please do NOT submit via both routes. This will cause confusion and may lead to your article being reviewed and published twice! Submission of contributions Typescripts should be submitted to either: F. Cézilly, Behavioural Processes, Université de Bourgogne, Equipe Ecologie Evolutive UMR CNRS 5561, Biogéosciences, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, F-21000 Dijon, France; E-mail: [email protected] (papers on ethology and behavioural ecology). or C.D.L. Wynne, Behavioural Processes, University of Florida, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 112250, Gainesville, FL 32611-2250, USA; E-mail: [email protected] (papers on behaviour analysis, comparative cognition and experimental psychology). The original typescript plus two photocopies need to be supplied (three prints of any photographs). If the paper is by more than one author, the author to whom correspondence should be addressed must be indicated. Language The official language of the journal is English. Prospective authors whose mother tongue is not English should have their work checked for style, syntax and grammar by someone well versed in the language. Language Polishing For authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission please visit http://www.elsevier.com/wps/ find/authorshome.authors/languagepolishing or contact [email protected] for more information. Please note Elsevier neither endorses nor takes responsibility for any products, goods or services offered by outside vendors through our services or in any advertising. For more information please refer to our Terms & Conditions http://www. elsevier.com/wps/find/termsconditions.cws_home/termsconditions. Typescript layout and preparation The preferred medium of final submission to the accepting editor is on disk with accompanying reviewed and revised manuscript (see ‘‘Electronic manuscripts’’ below). Typing. The entire text should be typed with double spacing, filling as much as possible the maximum type width of 16 cm without word-breaks (maximum type length: 24 cm), on plain, white A4-size paper. Word-breaks at the end of a line should not be used. Typing must be of high quality: a black carbon typewriter ribbon (or a NEW fabric ribbon) or letter-quality printer must be used. DO NOT use a dot-matrix printer. Texts transmitted by telefax are unacceptable. Handwritten annotations cannot be recognised by OCR; corrections, if any, should be made in the same typeface and on the same type of paper as the page, then cut out and pasted over the error, or should be typed over uniformly applied correction fluid, taking care to avoid blurring. Use of italics and boldtype should be avoided. Words that should appear in italics should be underlined. Any special symbols that are not on your typewriter/printer must be drawn carefully in BLACK ink, and an explanation of what the symbol is written in the margin in RED ink. Layout The title should not be capitalized. It should be brief, not exceeding two lines, and should use significant words that best express the nature of the study. The authors’ names should appear following at least one line space, initials preceeding surnames (not capitalized).
doi:10.1016/S0376-6357(06)00117-3
The authors’ addresses (name of the institute, location) should appear after a line space. Superior letters should be used to identify addresses with respect to authors when there are more than two. If the address of the author(s) at the time of when the paper will appear is other than the institute in which the work was carried out, it may be given in a footnote as Present address: ... Every paper should include an abstract of < 200 words; this should be understandable without reference to the paper. The heading Keywords: should appear after a line space, followed by 3–6 key words (taken from Index Medicus), singular and in alphabetical order, separated by semicolons. The text should be organised into sections under the following headings: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion (may be combined with Results), Acknowledgements, References. The start of each paragraph should be indented 3–4 spaces. Use abbreviations with restraint. If abbreviations are used, the first mentioned should be spelled out in full. Abbreviations should be avoided in the title. SI units should be used and biological nomenclature should follow the accepted international codes. In formulas, symbols, not acronyms, should be used. All Tables and Figures should be mentioned in the text. Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals. References in the text should be cited as the name of the author(s) followed by the year of publication. The reference list should be in alphabetical order. Periodicals, books and multiauthor-edited books should accord with the following examples: Brown, R.E. and Douglas, S., 1991. The behaviour of adult Long-Evans rats Rattus norvegicus towards pups of different ages. Behav. Process., 23, 89–102. Gray, J.A., 1987. The Psychology of Fear and Stress. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 422 pp. Rodgers, R.J., 1981. Drugs, aggression and behavioural methods. In: Brain, P.F., Benton, D. (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to Aggression Research, Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 325–340. All questions arising after acceptance of a typescript by the editors, especially those relating to proofs, publication and reprints, should be directed to Elsevier Ireland Ltd., Elsevier House, Brookvale Plaza, East Park, Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland; Tel.: +353-61-709600; Fax: +353-61-709100. Elsevier will do everything possible to get your article corrected and published as quickly and accurately as possible, both online (ScienceDirect) and in print. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Subsequent corrections will not be possible, so please ensure your first sending is complete. Electronic manuscripts Electronic manuscripts have the advantage that there is no need for the rekeying of text, thereby avoiding the possibility of introducing errors and resulting in reliable and fast delivery of proofs. Please do not split the article into separate files (title page as one file, text as another, etc.). Ensure the letter ‘l’ and digit ‘1’ (also letter, ‘O’ and digit ‘0’) have been used properly, and structure your article (tabs, indents, etc.) consistently. Characters not available on your wordprocessor (Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc.) should not be left open but indicated by a unique code (e.g., gralpha, @, #, etc., for the Greek letter ). Such codes should be used consistently throughout the entire text. Please make a list of such codes and provide a key. Do not allow your wordprocessor to introduce word splits and do not use a ‘justified’ layout. Please adhere strictly to the general instructions on style/arrangement and, in particular, the reference style of the journal. It is very important that you save your file in the wordprocessor format. If your wordprocessor features the option to save files ‘‘in flat ASCII’’, please do not use it. Format your disk correctly and ensure that you submit only the relevant file. Also, specify the type of computer and wordprocessing package. After final acceptance, one, final, printed and exactly matching version (as printout) should be submitted together to the accepting editor. It is important that the file and the printout are identical. Bothwill then be forwarded by the editor to Elsevier. Further information may be obtained from the Publisher.
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Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all Authors and tacitly or explicity by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be publish. Upon acceptance of an article, Authors will be asked to transfer copyright (for more information on copyright see http://authors.elsevier.com). This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding Author confirming receipt of the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the Author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by Authors in these cases: contact Elsevier’s Rights Department, Oxford, UK: phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail: permissions@ elsevier.com. Requests may also be completed online via the Elsevier homepage (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions). US National Institutes of Health (NIH) voluntary posting (“Public Access”) policy Elsevier facilitates author posting in connection with the voluntary posting request of the NIH (referred to as the NIH “Public Access Policy”, see http://www.nih.gov/about/ publicaccess/index.htm) by by posting the peer-reviewed author’s manuscript directly to PubMed Central on request from the author, after formal publication. Upon notification from Elsevier of acceptance, we will ask you to confirm via e-mail (by e-mailing us at [email protected]) that your work has received NIH funding (with the NIH award number, as well as the name and e-mail address of the Prime Investigator) and that you intend to respond to the NIH request. Upon such confirmation, Elsevier will submit to PubMed Central on your behalf a version of your manuscript that will include peer-review comments, for posting 12 months after the formal publication date. This will ensure that you will have responded fully to the NIH request policy. There will be no need for you to post your manuscript directly to PubMed Central, and any such posting is prohibited. Individual modifications to this general policy may apply to some Elsevier journals and its society publishing partners. Authors’ rights As an author you (or your employer or institution) may do the following: – make copies (print or electronic) of the article for your own personal use, including for your own classroom teaching use – make copies and distribute such copies (including through e-mail) of the article to research colleagues, for the personal use by such colleagues (but not commercially or systematically, e.g., via an e-mail list or list server) – post a pre-print version of the article on Internet websites including electronic pre-print servers, and to retain indefinitely such version on such servers or sites
– post a revised personal version of the final text of the article (to reflect changes made in the peer review and editing process) on your personal or institutional website or server, with a link to the journal homepage (on elsevier.com) – present the article at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies of the article to the delegates attending such a meeting – for your employer, if the article is a ‘work for hire’, made within the scope of your employment, your employer may use all or part of the information in the article for other intra-company use (e.g., training) – retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any processes or procedure described in the article – include the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially) – use the article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of your works, such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication of your article in the journal) – prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal Book Reviews All information related to Book reviews should be sent to M.I. Cherry, Behavioural Processes, Department of Botany & Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa. Tel.: 27-21- 808-3233; fax: 27-21-808-2405; e-mail: [email protected] Reprints 25 reprints will be supplied free of charge. Additional reprints may be ordered by filling in and returing to the publishers the order form sent to the authors on acceptance of their paper. Reprints ordered after the article has been printed will be charged for at a substantially higher price than that quoted on the order form. Author enquiries For enquiries relating to the submission of articles (including electronic submission where available) please visit Elsevier’s Author Gateway at http://authors.elsevier.com. The Author Gateway also provides the facility to track accepted articles and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article’s status has changed, as well as detailed artwork guidelines, copyright information, frequently asked questions and more. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided after registration of an article for publication. There will be no submission or page charges. The instructions can also be found on the World Wide Web: access under http://www. elsevier.com/locate/behavproc
Guide for Authors Types of contribution The journal publishes papers reporting results of Original research, Review papers, Short reports (< 2000 words), Book reviews, Conference abstracts and Announcements. On-line submission to the journal prior to acceptance Authors should submit their article as a LaTeX, Microsoft® (MS) Word®, WordPerfect®, PostScript or Adobe® Acrobat® PDF document via the ‘‘Author Gateway’’ page of this journal (http://authors.elsevier.com), where you will also find a detailed description on its use. The system generates an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article which is used for the reviewing process. Authors, Reviewers and Editors send and receive all correspondence be e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary. Note: compuscripts submitted are converted into PDF for the review process but may need to be edited after acceptance to follow journal standards. For this an ‘‘editable’’ file format is necessary. See the section on ‘‘Electronic format requirements for accepted articles’’ and the further general instructions on how to prepare your article below. Also note that contributions may be either submitted online or sent by mail. Please do NOT submit via both routes. This will cause confusion and may lead to your article being reviewed and published twice! Submission of contributions Typescripts should be submitted to either: F. Cézilly, Behavioural Processes, Université de Bourgogne, Equipe Ecologie Evolutive UMR CNRS 5561, Biogéosciences, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, F-21000 Dijon, France; E-mail: [email protected] (papers on ethology and behavioural ecology). or C.D.L. Wynne, Behavioural Processes, University of Florida, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 112250, Gainesville, FL 32611-2250, USA; E-mail: [email protected] (papers on behaviour analysis, comparative cognition and experimental psychology). The original typescript plus two photocopies need to be supplied (three prints of any photographs). If the paper is by more than one author, the author to whom correspondence should be addressed must be indicated. Language The official language of the journal is English. Prospective authors whose mother tongue is not English should have their work checked for style, syntax and grammar by someone well versed in the language. Language Polishing For authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission please visit http://www.elsevier.com/wps/ find/authorshome.authors/languagepolishing or contact [email protected] for more information. Please note Elsevier neither endorses nor takes responsibility for any products, goods or services offered by outside vendors through our services or in any advertising. For more information please refer to our Terms & Conditions http://www. elsevier.com/wps/find/termsconditions.cws_home/termsconditions. Typescript layout and preparation The preferred medium of final submission to the accepting editor is on disk with accompanying reviewed and revised manuscript (see ‘‘Electronic manuscripts’’ below). Typing. The entire text should be typed with double spacing, filling as much as possible the maximum type width of 16 cm without word-breaks (maximum type length: 24 cm), on plain, white A4-size paper. Word-breaks at the end of a line should not be used. Typing must be of high quality: a black carbon typewriter ribbon (or a NEW fabric ribbon) or letter-quality printer must be used. DO NOT use a dot-matrix printer. Texts transmitted by telefax are unacceptable. Handwritten annotations cannot be recognised by OCR; corrections, if any, should be made in the same typeface and on the same type of paper as the page, then cut out and pasted over the error, or should be typed over uniformly applied correction fluid, taking care to avoid blurring. Use of italics and boldtype should be avoided. Words that should appear in italics should be underlined. Any special symbols that are not on your typewriter/printer must be drawn carefully in BLACK ink, and an explanation of what the symbol is written in the margin in RED ink. Layout The title should not be capitalized. It should be brief, not exceeding two lines, and should use significant words that best express the nature of the study. The authors’ names should appear following at least one line space, initials preceeding surnames (not capitalized).
doi:10.1016/S0376-6357(06)00117-3
The authors’ addresses (name of the institute, location) should appear after a line space. Superior letters should be used to identify addresses with respect to authors when there are more than two. If the address of the author(s) at the time of when the paper will appear is other than the institute in which the work was carried out, it may be given in a footnote as Present address: ... Every paper should include an abstract of < 200 words; this should be understandable without reference to the paper. The heading Keywords: should appear after a line space, followed by 3–6 key words (taken from Index Medicus), singular and in alphabetical order, separated by semicolons. The text should be organised into sections under the following headings: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion (may be combined with Results), Acknowledgements, References. The start of each paragraph should be indented 3–4 spaces. Use abbreviations with restraint. If abbreviations are used, the first mentioned should be spelled out in full. Abbreviations should be avoided in the title. SI units should be used and biological nomenclature should follow the accepted international codes. In formulas, symbols, not acronyms, should be used. All Tables and Figures should be mentioned in the text. Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals. References in the text should be cited as the name of the author(s) followed by the year of publication. The reference list should be in alphabetical order. Periodicals, books and multiauthor-edited books should accord with the following examples: Brown, R.E. and Douglas, S., 1991. The behaviour of adult Long-Evans rats Rattus norvegicus towards pups of different ages. Behav. Process., 23, 89–102. Gray, J.A., 1987. The Psychology of Fear and Stress. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 422 pp. Rodgers, R.J., 1981. Drugs, aggression and behavioural methods. In: Brain, P.F., Benton, D. (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to Aggression Research, Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 325–340. All questions arising after acceptance of a typescript by the editors, especially those relating to proofs, publication and reprints, should be directed to Elsevier Ireland Ltd., Elsevier House, Brookvale Plaza, East Park, Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland; Tel.: +353-61-709600; Fax: +353-61-709100. Elsevier will do everything possible to get your article corrected and published as quickly and accurately as possible, both online (ScienceDirect) and in print. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Subsequent corrections will not be possible, so please ensure your first sending is complete. Electronic manuscripts Electronic manuscripts have the advantage that there is no need for the rekeying of text, thereby avoiding the possibility of introducing errors and resulting in reliable and fast delivery of proofs. Please do not split the article into separate files (title page as one file, text as another, etc.). Ensure the letter ‘l’ and digit ‘1’ (also letter, ‘O’ and digit ‘0’) have been used properly, and structure your article (tabs, indents, etc.) consistently. Characters not available on your wordprocessor (Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc.) should not be left open but indicated by a unique code (e.g., gralpha, @, #, etc., for the Greek letter ). Such codes should be used consistently throughout the entire text. Please make a list of such codes and provide a key. Do not allow your wordprocessor to introduce word splits and do not use a ‘justified’ layout. Please adhere strictly to the general instructions on style/arrangement and, in particular, the reference style of the journal. It is very important that you save your file in the wordprocessor format. If your wordprocessor features the option to save files ‘‘in flat ASCII’’, please do not use it. Format your disk correctly and ensure that you submit only the relevant file. Also, specify the type of computer and wordprocessing package. After final acceptance, one, final, printed and exactly matching version (as printout) should be submitted together to the accepting editor. It is important that the file and the printout are identical. Bothwill then be forwarded by the editor to Elsevier. Further information may be obtained from the Publisher.
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Guide for Authors
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all Authors and tacitly or explicity by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be publish. Upon acceptance of an article, Authors will be asked to transfer copyright (for more information on copyright see http://authors.elsevier.com). This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding Author confirming receipt of the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the Author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by Authors in these cases: contact Elsevier’s Rights Department, Oxford, UK: phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail: permissions@ elsevier.com. Requests may also be completed online via the Elsevier homepage (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions). US National Institutes of Health (NIH) voluntary posting (“Public Access”) policy Elsevier facilitates author posting in connection with the voluntary posting request of the NIH (referred to as the NIH “Public Access Policy”, see http://www.nih.gov/about/ publicaccess/index.htm) by by posting the peer-reviewed author’s manuscript directly to PubMed Central on request from the author, after formal publication. Upon notification from Elsevier of acceptance, we will ask you to confirm via e-mail (by e-mailing us at [email protected]) that your work has received NIH funding (with the NIH award number, as well as the name and e-mail address of the Prime Investigator) and that you intend to respond to the NIH request. Upon such confirmation, Elsevier will submit to PubMed Central on your behalf a version of your manuscript that will include peer-review comments, for posting 12 months after the formal publication date. This will ensure that you will have responded fully to the NIH request policy. There will be no need for you to post your manuscript directly to PubMed Central, and any such posting is prohibited. Individual modifications to this general policy may apply to some Elsevier journals and its society publishing partners. Authors’ rights As an author you (or your employer or institution) may do the following: – make copies (print or electronic) of the article for your own personal use, including for your own classroom teaching use – make copies and distribute such copies (including through e-mail) of the article to research colleagues, for the personal use by such colleagues (but not commercially or systematically, e.g., via an e-mail list or list server) – post a pre-print version of the article on Internet websites including electronic pre-print servers, and to retain indefinitely such version on such servers or sites
– post a revised personal version of the final text of the article (to reflect changes made in the peer review and editing process) on your personal or institutional website or server, with a link to the journal homepage (on elsevier.com) – present the article at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies of the article to the delegates attending such a meeting – for your employer, if the article is a ‘work for hire’, made within the scope of your employment, your employer may use all or part of the information in the article for other intra-company use (e.g., training) – retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any processes or procedure described in the article – include the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially) – use the article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of your works, such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication of your article in the journal) – prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal Book Reviews All information related to Book reviews should be sent to M.I. Cherry, Behavioural Processes, Department of Botany & Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa. Tel.: 27-21- 808-3233; fax: 27-21-808-2405; e-mail: [email protected] Reprints 25 reprints will be supplied free of charge. Additional reprints may be ordered by filling in and returing to the publishers the order form sent to the authors on acceptance of their paper. Reprints ordered after the article has been printed will be charged for at a substantially higher price than that quoted on the order form. Author enquiries For enquiries relating to the submission of articles (including electronic submission where available) please visit Elsevier’s Author Gateway at http://authors.elsevier.com. The Author Gateway also provides the facility to track accepted articles and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article’s status has changed, as well as detailed artwork guidelines, copyright information, frequently asked questions and more. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided after registration of an article for publication. There will be no submission or page charges. The instructions can also be found on the World Wide Web: access under http://www. elsevier.com/locate/behavproc