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PREPARING FOR SUBMISSION
Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the work has not been published before, is not considered for publication elsewhere and has been read and approved by all authors. Animal experimentation methods reported in the journal should meet ethical standards of animal treatment. The submission of the manuscript by the authors means that the authors automatically agree to assign exclusive copyright to Taylor & Francis if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication.

The work shall not be published elsewhere in any language without the written consent of Taylor & Francis.

SUBMISSION
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as e-mail attachments to the editorial office. All pages incur a charge of USD 80 per page, which will be charged to the author (s) after publication of the article. Please also print out the submittal form , fill in and attach to the email.

Layout
Manuscripts should be in English; typed, double spaced on A4 paper with page and line numbering and consisting of:
Title which should be concise and informative but as short as possible.
Authors' names and name(s) and addresses of department(s)/institution(s) to which the work is attributed.
Abstract with surname(s) and initials, name(s) and addresses of department(s)/ institution(s) in brackets, title of manuscript, and name of journal, abbreviated as in the reference list. The abstract should not exceed 150 words.

Keywords in alphabethical order, 6-10 words which are not used in the title.

Text. The text should normally be divided into: Introduction, Data, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References.

Reference to sources in the text should be written: Smith & Jones (1988); Hansson et al. (1990) if more than two authors; or (Smith & Jones 1988; Hansson et al. 1990).

Abbreviations, symbols and style. Use only international standard abbreviations. In decimals, use the decimal point, not the comma. Use no Roman numerals. Foreign words, Latin names of genera, species, mathematical symbols, etc. should be italicized indicated by single underlining. Personal names after Latin names should not be italicized.

References should be kept to a pertinent minimum. In the text, references are identified by authors' names, not numbers. Titles of journals should be abbreviated following Biological Abstracts. If in doubt, give the title in full. Do not refer to unpublished material and avoid use of non-English publications. The reference list should be arranged in alphabetical order according to the name of the first author, see examples below:

Standard journal article:

Illustrations. All graphs, drawings and photographs are considered figures and should be kept to a minimum, numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. All figures should be labeled on the back with the number, author's name and indication of orientation. Any colour illustration must be paid for by the author (USD 750 per page). Figure legends should be typed on a separate page. Please use high resolution files, and if images are supplied please provide in format TIFF or EPS.

Tables. If results are already given in graphs or diagrams, tables should not be used. Each table should be typed on a separate page, numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, and have a self-explanatory title.

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