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Format of Ringing & Migration papers

This document lays out the standard formats and conventions for Ringing & Migration. Conventions are in Appendix 1. The types specs are in appendix 2. Further information is also given in ‘Guidelines for authors’, which is appendix 3 and also appears in Ringing & Migration once a year and is on the BTO Website. The layout for graphs and specifications for producing them in Sigmaplot are in Appendix 4.

1 Headers (NB headers and footers are set up in the template) i First of each paper The header on the first page of each paper should be in the following format: eg Ringing & Migration (2002), 21, 1-2

ii Rest of paper left hand pages On all left hand pages the format should be as follows; page number tab authors name(s) (authors name is in italics) NB if there are two authors both names should be shown with & in between, if there are three or more authors then the name of the first author and Aet al@ should be written. In this case Aet al@ should not be in italics as the rest of the line is in italics. Examples: F. Bloggs F. Bloggs & S. Smith F. Bloggs et al

iii Right hand pages On right hand pages the short title for the paper should be given in italics followed by the page number (the short title is supplied by the editor). Style Running head

2 Footers i First page of each paper © year British Trust for

ii Left hand pages 8 year British Trust for Ornithology, Ringing & Migration, Vol no, first page-last page eg © 2002 British Trust for Ornithology, Ringing & Migration, 21, 1-2

iii Right hand pages As for left hand facing pages but right adjusted Style Running foot

3 Paper title The title (and authors names and addresses and the abstract) has a right indent of 22 mm. Paper titles are given in normal script. The scientific name of any species mentioned in the title should be given after the common name and should be in italics. Style Headline

4 Authors names and addresses The name(s) of the author(s) should be in capitals, in normal script. If there is a second author the ‘and’ in lower case should be used between the two. If there are more than two authors then

Jacquie Clark 1/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc the earlier authors should be separated by with the word “and” given before the last author. Style Authors’ names

The address is given in capitals and in italics. If there is more than one address then there should be a superscript number placed after each author which relates to the addresses. The addresses do not start on new lines. If there is more than one address but two or more authors have the same address this need only be typed out in full once. Each of the authors with the same address should be given the same superscript number. If there are several addresses there should be two spaces between each of them (no commas, semi colons etc).

The country should always appear at the end of author’s addresses. There should be no after the country. The post code should be given after the county or city, there should be no before the postcode. Style Authors’ addresses

If an author is to be labelled as a correspondence author a superscript should appear after their name. If necessary this appears after the superscript number. At the bottom of the left hand (actually in the column, not below it) at the bottom of the page put a superscript asterisk and the ‘Correspondence author’. If a different address is given for correspondence this should also appear at the bottom of the left—hand column, as should an address, Correspondence author, different address (usually current address or address for correspondence) and email should all appear on separate lines. For example:

*Correspondence author Current address: BTO, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 2PU, UK Email: [email protected]

If either a correspondence address or the words correspondence author appear at the bottom of the left-hand column the bottom of the right hand column should be balanced to this rather than to the bottom of the text in the left hand column. Style Corres author

5 Abstract The abstract is in normal script. Any scientific names in the abstract should appear in italics. Style Abstract

6 Subheadings There are three levels of subheadings, although it will be unusual to use level 3. i Main subheadings are used for eg Methods, Discussion. In capitals. There should be two line spaces before and one after. Style Subhead 1

ii Secondary subheadings eg used to split up the Results section. In bold initial capitals. There should be one line before and none after. If a subhead 2 immediately follows a subhead 1 then there should be one line space between. Style Subhead 2

iii Third subheadings (occasionally used). There should be one line space before a third subhead and none after. Style Subhead 3

Jacquie Clark 2/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc 7 Tables & figures i Tables The table title should be placed above the table. Format: Table 1. Title. Any extra explanatory notes should appear at the bottom of the table in the footnotes style. Ensure that the table is a separate text block (ie it is not linked to any text). Tables should normally be either full page width or one column width. The lines on the tables are set up in the table styles. : always format the table text styles before setting tabs.

If the table has an exceptional number of tabs and cannot fit across one page then extend the width of the table to match the length of the page utilised normally (from and to the guidelines), set the style formats and then the tabs, ensure that the table is a separate text block (ie it is not linked to any text), (click on the table using the arrow key on the tool box), then use the rotate

(to move to a left hand page). The table can be edited once it is rotated, but it is difficult to see the whole table clearly. Hopefully, this should not be necessary with the current large format. Styles Table & Fig caption for the title Table for the body of the table and any footnotes Table column heads for top line of a table, tip: shift return (soft return) to keep headings under one line only Table last line for bottom line of table

ii Figures Figure titles should appear at the bottom of each figure. Format: Figure 1. Title.

Figure styles/conventions are as follows:

Authors are asked to supply paper copy of any figures and without lettering. This allows the unlettered graphic to be scanned and words/numbers to be added to it. Authors are also asked to supply electronic copies with a note of the package used to generated them. Note that resolution on graphics can be a problem with different packages. We request graphics in Excel or Sigmaplot with the data included so that they could be easily transferred to Sigmaplot to produce the final figure (see Appendix 4 for layout and specs in Sigmaplot). Also if maps have been generated we request them as JPEG or WMF files direct from the mapping package. Resolution is lost if a map is moved into, for example, a desk top publishing package and then a further JPEG or other format file is produced

Style Table & Fig caption

References to tables and figures in text should be as follows: Table 1 (Table 1). Fig 1 or (Fig 1)

Note: the second line of figure and table titles is not indented.

9 Body text There are no line breaks between within bodytext. The first of any section (after a main or secondary subheading) is not indented. Any following paragraphs are indented. Styles Body text no indent no indent for first paragraph Body text with an indent for all subsequent paragraphs

Jacquie Clark 3/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc 10 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements are as body text but 1 smaller. is also used for any appendices. Style: Ack/Appendix

11 References References are indented after the first line and the authors names are in bold so that each one can be seen clearly. An individual reference should not be split over two columns.

Format i Authors In initial capitals and bold. first, then a comma, followed by initial(s), full stop after each initial. For two authors ‘&’ between the two authors. For more than two authors separate by commas except the last one which will have an ‘&’ before it. No spaces between .

ii Year In after the author(s).

iii Books Title in italics. If there is an edition number, after the title and then eg 3rd edn in normal script then publisher, town.

iv Papers within a book Give title of the paper followed by a full stop and then the word In followed by the title of the book in italics and then in brackets the author or editors of the book, this should be followed by a comma then pp. first page-last page. Then the publisher, town. eg Siriwardena, G.M. (2002) European Goldfinch. In The Migration Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland (eds Wernham, C.V., Toms, M.P., Marchant, J.H., Clark, J.A., Siriwardena, G.M. & Baillie, S.R.) pp648-650. T. & A.D. Poyser, London.

v Paper title In normal script followed by a full stop, journal name should be in italics and be given in full. After the title a comma and then the volume number in bold then first-last page number followed by a full stop. For other examples see Guidelines for Authors in Ringing & Migration. eg Bloggs, F. (1998) List of recent Holarctic bird species. Ibis 115, 612-638.

Commonly used book references Baker, K. (1993) Identification Guide to European Non-passerines. BTO Guide 24. BTO, Thetford. Cramp, S. (ed) (1993) The Birds of the Western Palaearctic. Vol VII. , Oxford. Snow, D.W. & Perrins, C.M. (1998) The Birds of the Western Palearctic Concise Edition. Vol 1. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Svensson, L. (1992) Identification Guide to European Passerines. 4th edn. Svensson, Stockholm. Wernham, C.V., Toms, M.P., Marchant, J.H., Clark, J.A., Siriwardena, G.M. & Baillie, S.R. (eds) (2002) The Migration Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland. T. & A.D. Poyser, London.

Notes Migration Atlas – where a text is quoted:

Jacquie Clark 4/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc Bloggs, F. (2002) Species. In The Migration Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland. (eds Wernham, C.V., Toms, M.P., Marchant, J.H., Clark, J.A., Siriwardena, G.M. & Baillie, S.R.) pp **-**. T. & A.D. Poyser, London. NB except in the Ringing Report when we use Wernham et al on all occasions, otherwise we have a silly number of refs.

BTO Guides When guides were published whilst the BTO was in Tring the publication place should remain as Tring.

References in the text should be in the following format: (Baker 1993) (Cramp & Simmons 1977) (Peach et al 1995) Style References

12 Received and accepted date Placed centrally across two columns, as a separate text block and after the references. Format: (MS received 27 June 1998; MS accepted 5 September 1998) Style Received date

Short Notes Papers that will appear as less than three printed pages in the journal should be prepared as Short Notes.

They are headed SHORT NOTE top left. Style **** There is no abstract and few subheadings. Otherwise layout is as for normal papers.

Reviews Reviews are headed Reviews top left. The reference to the book is given in normal reference style (but full size type) and is followed by the price and details of how to obtain the book if appropriate. The review is in body text.

Ringing Report There are extra styles to layout the recoveries in the Ringing Report as follows:

Top line of recovery has name of species, scientific name, new longevity record (if any) or longevity record for all in a five-year report and recoveries by distance in five-year report only. Style: Longevity

The recovery tables in the five-year report have their own styles. Styles: Recs Tab Topline Recs Tab 2nd line Recs Tab botline Resc below botline

Recoveries first line and second line are different. Comments ate as first line. Styles: Recs below botline (used for first line of a recovery, comments and summary info below five-year tables) Recoveries (used for second line of recoveries)

Jacquie Clark 5/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc General notes General format eg not e.g. (no dots) ie not i.e. (no dots) x = 34" not Ax=34" (spaces around =) x > 34" not Ax>34" (spaces around >) 1998-1998 not 1998 - 1999 (no spaces around -) There is a gap between a number and for example mm or g for measurements eg 100 m, 20 ha, 114 g.

Single lines from one paragraph should not be in a new column wherever possible. This also applies to subheadings which should not be left with a just a single line.

‘corvid’ is English, so is never in italics and starts with a lower-case letter; the Latin name of a family (eg Corvidae), while being Latin, also is never in italics, but it starts with an upper-case letter.

P for probability is always in upper case italic.

Coordinates In papers coordinates should be written as: 51° 33’N 6° 22’W (ie spaces between degrees and minutes and spaces between northing and easting). In the recoveries section of the Ringing Report: 51°33’N 6°22’W and 51°33’N 6° 2’W (ie no spaces between degrees and minutes unless minutes is in single figures).

Jacquie Clark 6/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc Appendix 1 Ringing Unit conventions for publications

Text conventions

Numbers one to nine should be spelt out, unless they are presented with some kind of formal unit (eg ‘eight weeks’, ‘three measurements of 6 mm’). Numbers 10 and over should normally appear as figures, but terms such as ‘hundreds’, ‘a thousand or so’ or ‘half-million’ are better in words. Use commas to separate thousands, millions etc (‘2,183 pairs’, ‘11,500 km’).

Measurements should be metric and use standard abbreviations (as in ‘500 m’, ‘3.6 km’, ‘30 km/day’). Note the space between the number and the unit in these examples, but also ‘73%’ and ‘10oN’ where no space should be left.

Dates should be written as ‘14 May 1997’.

Abbreviations and contractions should be written without full stops (asl, BTO, USA), and Latin ones (et al, eg, ie) in italics where you have that facility.

Directions should be written without abbreviation (eg ‘south’, ‘central’, ‘eastern’, ‘northeast’, ‘southwestern’, ‘east-southeasterly’). If referring to a recognized regional or national name (eg ‘West Sussex’, ‘East Anglia’, ‘South Africa’) always use a capital letter.

Vernacular names of plant and animal species and races should automatically have capital letters (eg ‘Black- throated Diver’, ‘Common Frog’, ‘Scots Pine’), but collective terms (eg ‘buntings’, ‘frogs’, ‘poplars’, ‘oak woodland’) should not. Use the accepted vernacular names that cover whole species (eg Yellow Wagtail - includes Blue-headed Wagtail and other races).

Scientific names Refer to races as eg ‘the nominate race’, ‘nominate carbo’, or ‘the race sinensis’, rather than by giving full or abbreviated trinomials.

Political units Names of countries and geographical regions should be those now current. Newly independent nations should be referred to by name whenever possible but, where the individual units cannot be identified, terms such as ‘the former Yugoslavia’, ‘the former USSR’, and ‘the former Czechoslovakia’ are acceptable. Similarly, if reference is needed to East or West Germany as political units, authors should the name with ‘the former’.

Particular points of style and usage

! The term ‘Scandinavia’ is used to cover Norway, Sweden and Denmark only (not Iceland or Finland). Use ‘Fennoscandia’ for Scandinavia and Finland together.

! Words such as ‘Arctic’, ‘Holarctic’ and ‘Palearctic’ should be given capital letters when used as a noun, but not when used as an (eg ‘in the Arctic’, but ‘on the arctic tundra’ and ‘a holarctic distribution’).

! Use ‘trans-Saharan’, or ‘south of the Sahara’, but not ‘sub-Saharan’.

! Use the present tense for describing what birds do, but the past tense for describing the data that have been collected (eg ‘that -recoveries were mainly in Spain suggests that many birds go there’).

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Conventions for all text and captions: spellings, , hyphenation, specific cases

Use UK rather than US spellings where brood patch alternatives exist. brood-rearing x Acacia bubble floats a holarctic distribution (i.e. not an) Burma (use Myanmar) Afrotropical by-catch Afrotropics bypass(ing) age classes by-product age group age ratios c (not ‘ca’) agrochemical cf all-year presence (but present all year) cagebirds analyse (not ‘-yze’) cage trap Arctic Circle calendar year arctic Russia Canary Islands or Canaries asl (above sea-level) cannon net Atlantic islands but to cannon-net (verb) autumn passage cannon-netting Azores car park Carpathian Basin bag return catching net bag sample central (France) Baikal Central Scotland (if region only) baited line Channel Islands baited trap circumpolar Baltic States clear-felling Bardsey clifftop beechmast colonize (not ‘-ise’) benefited cold-weather movements between-winter y colour dye between-year x but to colour-dye (verb) biased colour-dyed Biodiversity Action Plan colour mark bill length but to colour-mark (verb) bird-catching colour-marking Bird Observatory (eg Copeland Bird Observatory) colour ring bird observatories but to colour-ring (verb) birds of prey colour-ringed bird of the year (avoid if poss to avoid confusion) colour-ringing bird table continental drift migrant birthplace continental Europe birth site (use natal site) continental shelf blanket bog the Continent (european mainland) body-mass cooperation body moult coordinate body-weight county bird report Bosphorus County Mayo (etc) breakwater cross-Channel migration breeding-season (recovery) i.e. adj. cross-country movement British List British- & Irish-ringed (not BTO-ringed) Darvic broad belt data (nb: this word is plural) broad front database broad-leaved data loggers broad-winged data set

Jacquie Clark 8/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc daytime flyway dazzle-trap focused decoy trap food plant diving duck force 8 gale (better rephrase e.g. strong gale) double-brooded foreign-ringed drag netting foreshore drift migrant forest cover duck decoy fresh water (n) duck-pond freshwater (adj) duck-trap fully fledged bird fully grown ear-covert full-winged (avoid if poss. ‘ jargon) East Africa funnel trap East Atlantic Flyway east-coast x the Gambia eastern/western seaboard gamebird eastern/westernmost gamekeeping ectoparasite garden feeders edge site garden shed eg gene-flow egg-laying glacial English Channel (Channel OK if obvious) grass-fire masse (not ital as accepted in ) gravel bank en route (not ital as accepted in English language) gravel-pit Equator gravel plains et al gravel shoal etc ground cover European grousemoor evergreen Guinea-Bissau eye-catching gunshot eye-ring the Faeroes hand-reared Faeroese head-dipping fall (to describe sudden influx of migrants) Helgoland Bight farmyard high Arctic fast-flowing x high-grade territory fat-load hightide fat score hightide line fat store highwater mark Fennoscandia hill stream first-summer (adj) Holarctic first-winter (adj) a holarctic distribution first-year (adj) hole-nesting x fish-farm home-bred bird fishing line home range fishing vessel human-related fishpond hybridize fish quay fishing net Iberian Peninsula fjord ice age fledglings ice-cap flight-line ice-cover flight-netted ice field flight-range ice-floe floodplain ie flyer (never flier) inbuilt

Jacquie Clark 9/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc in-depth study Middle East in litt (use pers comm) Middle-Eastern x inshore (adj) mid-latitude interbreeding midwinter interchange misrecorded intercolony intergrade but to mist-net (verb) interlinked mist-netting intermixing monel rings interplay moult site inter-regional mouse hole intersexual (don’t use – reword) mudflat interspecific multi-species intertidal intraspecific Named Basin Irish Sea Front Named Delta -ize (but –ise in verbs) Named Estuary Named Island lakeshore Named Ocean land-crossings Named Peninsula land drainage Named landfall Named Valley landfill site natal site (rather than birth site) land use Nearctic landowner/s nearshore lead poisoning neck-collar leap-frog nestbox leg ring nest hole life cycle nesting cavity life-stage nest record cards limestick nest site live captures nest-site density live- adults (avoid if poss. ‘ jargon) nest tunnel localized the Netherlands logging track newly colonized area long-distance migrant (i.e. adj.) night-scope long-term (studies) i.e. adj. night-time long term (in the) i.e. n. Nile Delta loop migration noose trap Low Countries non-breeders low-grade y North Africa low-lying x North Atlantic North Norfolk coast North Rona Mainland Shetland North Sea Man northern hemisphere man-made Northern Isles marking studies northern tropics mark-recapture mate-fidelity ocean crossing Mauritania offshore medieval offspring Mediterranean Basin oilfield metal ring oil rig microclimate oilseed rape micro-population oil spill Middle Atlas plateaux old-growth trees

Jacquie Clark 10/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc Old World (i.e. Eastern hemisphere) radio transmitter one-third rain-belt onshore (winds) rainforest open country rainwater open sea reappear open water recaptures organochlorine recaught outcrop recognize (not –ise) outflow recolonize outermost recolonization overestimate reedbed overfishing reedswamp overflying reforestation overgrazing refuelling overhead wire refuse-tip overland regrowth overnight reintroduce overseas re-laid (clutch) over-represented relocate oversummer/ing reoriented overwinter/ing repopulate resighted pack ice retrap data (not ring-trap data) paddyfield return movements Palearctic (not ‘Palae-’) Rhône Delta passage migrant ricefield peanut feeder ring recovery (avoid ringing recovery) peat bog ringing data pelagic Ringing Scheme Pennine Hillsphasing-out riverbank Pheasant release-pen riverside pie chart Rivers X and Y playing field roadside Po Valley rocket net pondweed but to rocket-net (verb) post-fledging rocket-netting post-glacial rock ledge post-mortem rooftop post-natal roost site post-nuptial rubbish-dump post-war (avoid if poss., which one?) rubbish-tip power line power station St Kilda pre-breeding saltmarsh predispose saltpan pre-layng sample size pre-migratory sand-dune pre-nuptial sand-eels prey species sand-pit primeval sand-spit satellite trackng radar-tracking satellite-transmitter radio tag savanna but to radio-tag (verb) Scottish-ringed radio-tagging Scottish Southern Uplands radio-telemetry seabird radio-tracking seaboard

Jacquie Clark 11/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc seacliff staging site sea-coast statistically significant difference (i.e. no hyphen) sea-crossing nest seaduck stop off (v.), stopover (n.) sea-ice stopover sea-level Strait of Gibraltar sea-loch study site seashore sub-adults sea wall subalpine sea-watch subantarctic (a) sea-watching sub-Antarctic (n) seed bait subarctic (a) seed-crop sub-Arctic (n) seed-eating bird subcontinent seed-eater subpopulation semicaptive sub-Saharan (avoid - re-word) semicolonial subspecies semi-desert subtropical seminatural sub-zero semipermanent swan-pipe semi-vegetated swan trap set-aside sewage-farm tag-sightings sewage outfall taiga sewage-works tail wind sex classes Taimyr sex ratio take-off (n) shelter belt tape lure shingle bank but to tape-lure (verb) shoreline tape-luring short-distance x tape-recorder single-brooded targeted site-faithful territory holders but site-fidelity territory-holding x (i.e. adj.) size range thicket stage snow-cover threefold snowfall through passage snow field timberline snow-free transatlantic snowline transequatorial snowmelt transoceanic songbird trans-Saharan song-post trap-shy song structure travelled Sous Plains tree cover Southeast Asia tree hole southern hemisphere tree-limit southern Pennines treeline Southern Uplands tree-nesting (a) southwesterly tree seeds species group treetop Spitzbergen (use Svalbard) tunnel trap spring-net two-thirds spring-sown/autumn-sown crop staging area the Ukraine staging point underestimate staging post under-record

Jacquie Clark 12/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc under-represented Yenisei understorey Zaire (& Democratic Rep. of Congo) under way (two words) use the Congo Basin underwing unpaired up-ending Ural Mountains Also: USA (or the USA) 20th century usable the years 1979-90 the winter of 1962/63 veldt 1980s (no ) don’t use < or ‘ (put into words) Wadden Sea Mid Wales South Wales x-x% watch-point (median’xx km, n’yy) waterbody (P5-95’x-xx km, n’xx) watercourse water hole 3-6 km water level x years old but one-year-old bird waterlogged x-year female (first-year, second-year etc.) water water meadow mid April watershed late April water table early April well-being well-known x (but x is well known) North Atlantic West Africa South Atlantic west-coast (colonies) i.e. adj. eastern Atlantic West Country western Atlantic Westman Islands western Europe Red/Amber List westernmost (one word) if “century” comes up clarify which! West Palearctic Fig 1 western Palearctic Figs 1 & 2 western Sahara (Western if political region meant) Figs 1a & b western Siberia Figs 1a, b & 2a, b wind strength wingbeat wing length wing-loading wing moult wing-patch wing tags wing-tagged bird wingtip winter quarters within-winter movement wood chippings World War II or Second World War world-wide year classes (from) year to year year-to-year (patterns) year-round

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Appendix 2 Ringing & Migration -Type Specification

Change entire document to ‘Normal’ style in Word.

DOCUMENT SET–UP

Page Size: 280 x 216 mm

Margins: top 33 mm; bottom 23 mm; inside 22 mm; outside 20 mm

Columns: 2, gutter 8 mm

Running head: 18 mm from top of page to top of text

Running foot: 13 mm from bottom of page to bottom of text

Title, authors, addresses and abstract: aligned with left–hand margin. Right indent 22 mm

Logo: 8 mm high x 13.48 mm wide. 18 mm from top, right aligned to right-hand column

Hyphenation: Manual only

ARTICLES

Headline: 16/19pt Futura Bold, aligned left

Authors’ names: 10/12.5pt Futura Book, aligned left (& Short Report)

Authors’ addresses: 10/12.5pt Futura Book, italic, aligned left

Abstract: 9.5/13pt Futura Book, justified, 4pt rule below last line 30% tint of black, offset 2mm, right indent 22mm

Body text no indent: 10.5/12pt Goudy, justified

Body text: 10.5/12pt Goudy, justified, first line indent 3.2mm

Corres author: 8/10pt Futura Book, aligned left

Running foot: 7pt Futura Book, aligned left on verso, right on recto

Running head: 8.5pt Futura Book, italic, aligned left on verso, right on recto

Subhead 1: , 9.5/11pt Futura bold, aligned left

Jacquie Clark 14/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc Subhead 2: 9.5/11pt Futura bold, aligned left, two line spaces before (only one after a Headline) and one after

Subhead 3: 9.5/11pt Futura, aligned left, one line space before and none after

Table & Fig caption: 8/10pt Futura Book, justified

Table column heads: 8/10pt Futura Book justified, 2pt rule above, 30% tint of black, Hairline rule below, black. Paragraph space 1mm before and 2mm after

Table: 8/10pt Futura Book, justified (& Table footnotes)

Table last line: 8/10pt Futura Book, justified, 2pt rule below, 30% tint of black

Reference authors: 7.5/10pt Futura, bold, justified, left indent 4.23mm, first line

References: 7.5/10pt Futura Book, justified, left indent 4.23mm, first line –4.23mm

Received date: 8/11pt Futura Book, centred

Ack/Appendix: 9.5/auto Goudy, justified

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General. Papers are accepted on the understanding that they are not been offered for publication elsewhere. Papers that will be less than three printed pages in the journal should be prepared as Short Notes. These differ from papers in having no summary or, usually, sectional headings. Submit three hard copies of the paper to the Editor and keep another copy for yourself. Electronic submission is also possible; please contact the editor by email for advice.

Electronic submission. It will greatly aid the Editor if the final accepted version is supplied not only as “hard copy” but also via email or on a computer disk as a word processor file (preferably MS Word but if you have not used this package please send your manuscript with a clear note of the name of the package); please also supply an ASCII or text file.

Layout. Print on one side of the paper only, double-space throughout, with wide margins, on approximately A4-sized paper. Number all the pages consecutively. Arrange the material in the following sequence, starting each item on a separate page: Title page, Summary, Text, Acknowledgements, References, Appendices, Tables, Legends to Figures, Figures. Underline nothing but generic and specific scientific names.

Nomenclature. Vernacular names should be used for birds, with the scientific name also given, but not in parentheses, when the species is first mentioned. If a species name appears in the title, abstract and text, the scientific name should be given once in each place. The same practice should be followed for other animals and plants for which there are well-established vernacular names, otherwise use scientific names throughout. Vernacular names of species but not of higher taxa should be capitalized, eg Blue Tit and Wych Elm, but tits and elms. For those species covered by them, the following should be used as sources of scientific names: Voous, K.H. (1973-77) List of recent Holarctic bird species. Ibis, 115, 612-638; 199, 223-250, 376-406 Corbet, G.B. & Southern, H.N. (1991) The Handbook of British Mammals. 3rd edn. Blackwell Science, Oxford. Stace, C.A. (1991) New Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press. Units, symbols, quantities. Use metric units, with the following abbreviations - length: mm, m, km, etc; mass: mg, g, kg; time: s, min, h, day, month, year. Time of day should be given in the form of 0630 hours. The time system used should be the zonal time closest to solar time (ie GMT, not BST, in Britain). Dates should be given in the form 17 November 2000. Statistical terms should be given in the 2 conventional manner: c , t, r, etc.; degrees of freedom as ‘df =’ or as a subscript, ‘t12’; standard deviation, standard error and probability as sd, se, P. Numbers greater than nine should be given in the text as numerals, not spelled out, except at the beginning of a sentence or where numerals would look absurd. Numbers larger than 999 should be divided into groups of three figures with a comma between each group; eg 12,592. Use a full stop (.) as the decimal separator; eg 3.14.

Title page. This must contain, in order, the title, the authors’ names and addresses, the short title and the name and full postal address and email address (if available) of the author will be responsible for correspondence with the editor. The title should be brief but informative. The short title will appear at the top of the right-hand pages in the published text: it should not contain more than 30 characters.

Summary. This will tell the reader the object of your study, the method used, the results obtained and your conclusions. It should not exceed 5% of the length of the text.

Acknowledgements. These should be as brief as is consistent with courtesy

Jacquie Clark 16/19 22/05/2012 14:00 C:\Users\nobesa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\9U3XK92T\RM Guidelines for authors.doc References. References should appear in the text thus: ‘...confirming earlier work (Brown & Smith 2002) or ‘Brown & Smith (2002) state that....’. The reference list should be in in the following format: Bennett, P. & Owens, I.P.F. (2002) Evolutionary Ecology of Birds: Life Histories, Mating Systems and Extinction. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Cowley, E. (2001) June broods are of greatest benefit to Sand Martins Riparia riparia. Ringing & Migration 20, 202-208. Peach, W.J. (1993) Combining mark-recapture data sets for small passerines. In Marked individuals in the study of bird populations (eds Lebreton, J.D. & North, P.M.), pp 107-122. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel.

Journal titles should be given in full. The titles of papers should be given in the original language, unless this uses a non-Roman alphabet, in which case an English translation of the title should be used, in square parentheses. Information that has been communicated to you personally should be referred to in the text as, eg ‘A.B. Smith, pers comm’ and must not be listed in the references.

Tables. Start each table on a new page, with the title at the top and any explanatory notes below. Minimise the use of lines. Use 0 for a zero reading, - for a missing value.

Illustrations. One good quality paper copy of each illustration with lettering/numbering and one without lettering/numbering should be submitted. All illustrations should have the authors’ names and figure numbers clearly marked on the back. Where there is any possibility of doubt, the upper margin of the illustration should be indicated. Colour should not be used. Authors may be requested to supply electronic copies of figures once a paper has been accepted. Graphs should all be in a four-sided box. Axis tick marks should be only on the left side and along the bottom axis of the graph. Maps should be in four sided boxes and can have tick marks all round if coordinates are to be illustrated. All tick marks should be external to the box. There should be no horizontal or vertical gridlines on graphs or maps. If a key is required it should be outside the box but it should preferably be incorporated into the figure title. Words lettering the axes should be in sentence style. Any units should be given in round brackets. On the y-axis the words should read from bottom to top and on the x-axis the words should read from left to right. If a graph needs to be labelled eg a, b, c, then this should be in lower case in the top left corner and should be bracketed on the right only eg a). The corresponding letter in the figure title should also be bracketed. A site map should not be included unless it is of particular relevance to the study. The co-ordinates of the study site should be given. The priority order for symbols on graphs and maps is filled circles, open circles, filled squares, open squares, filled triangles, open triangles, filled diamonds, open diamonds. Lines should preferably be solid. If there is more than one line present, then the priority order is solid line, continuous , continuous dots, dash . Bars on charts should not be filled unless distinguishing two types. If there are two types then they should be white and black, if a third style is required then it should be filled with one set of diagonal lines. Photographs may be used as necessary to illustrate papers. They should be supplied as unmounted glossy prints with two copies or electronically. Note that it will only be possible to reproduce high quality photographs. Please send copies, not the originals, of any artwork with your initial submission.

Statistics. Statistics are essential for proper interpretation of quantitative data. Authors who are doubtful about their statistical analysis are invited to consult the editor. To aid the reader, full details of the statistical methods used and the results obtained must be given. To aid readers further, they should be presented in ways that do not obtrude on the text, such as at the end of a sentence or paragraph, in the legends to tables or figures, or as an appendix. Parameter estimates should generally be provided with confidence limits (or standard errors) and sample size

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Reprints. Twenty-five reprints of each paper are supplied free. Additional copies may be purchased and should be ordered when the proofs are returned. Reprints of Short Notes and Reviews are not supplied.

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General  Graphs should all be in a four-sided box.  Tick marks should be only on the left hand side and along the bottom axis of the graph.  Maps should be in four sided boxes and can have tick marks all round.  All tick marks should be internal.  There should be no horizontal or vertical gridlines on any graphs or maps.  If a legend is required it should be outside the box but it should preferably be incorporated into the figure title.  Words lettering the axes of graphs and maps should be in sentence style.  Any units should be given in round brackets.  On the Y-axis the words should read from bottom to top and on the x-axis the words should read from left to right.  If a graph needs to be labelled eg a, b, c, then this should be in lower case in the top left hand corner and should be bracketed. The corresponding letter in the figure title should also be bracketed. All brackets used should be round and not square.  A study site map should not be included unless it is of particular relevance to the study. The co- ordinates of the study site should be given.

Symbols, lines and bars  The priority order for symbols on graphs and maps is black dots, white dots, black squares, white squares, black triangles, white triangles, black diamonds, white diamonds.  Lines should preferably be solid. If there is more than one line present, then the priority order is continuous dash, continuous dots, dash dot.  Bars on bar charts should not be filled unless distinguishing two types. If there are two types then they should be white and black, if a third style is required then it should be filled with one set of diagonal lines.

Specifications in Sigmaplot Graph taking up 1 column - Size 71.0 x 50.1 mm Axes 0.1 mm Lines on graph 0.2 mm Error bars length 0.2 mm cap width 1.5 mm Ticks length (inwards) 1 mm width 0.1 mm Symbol size 1.3 mm Axis labels (scale) 7pt Axis titles 8pt Legend on graph 6pt Type face Futura book

Save as 600 dpi PDF.

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