Guideline for Authors

The following guidelines should help guide authors in the preparation of their work for submission as a Mammal Communication, in order to be considered for publication:

Presentation

• Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout with margins of 25 mm.
• Text should be 12 point Times New Roman font.
• Tables and figure legends should be at the end of the manuscript, and footnotes should be avoided.
• Pages and lines should be numbered.

Submission of papers

• Please email media@themammalsociety.org with the heading ‘Mammal Communications Submission’
• All elements (tables and figures) should be contained in a single file (.doc or .docx only). Files will be converted to PDF for upload to the website.
• All files should be formatted to minimize memory use to facilitate transmission by email and be no larger than 3Mb except by prior arrangement with the Editor. Graphics can be compressed using standard software before being pasted into documents as pictures or .jpg rather than .tif or .bmp.
• The title of the file should include the correspondence author’s surname and one or two keywords.

Scope

• Short research papers on European Mammals or any aspect of mammal research to investigate or evaluate innovative surveys and research techniques are particularly welcomed.
• Contributors are urged to make their subject matter as concise as possible.
• Articles should be no longer than 2000 words plus references and tables.
• All submissions should include a title page and a list of references.

Title page

• The title should include the name and address of all authors.
• The correspondence author should be clearly identified and should give an email address.
• The title should be concise and informative.
• The total word count including all text, references and tables, should be provided.

Conventions

• All scientific names should be italicized.
• Names of families and orders are not italicized.
• Normal, lower case typescript should be used for common names.
• Numbers should be spelled out up to nine where they are used to qualify an object; otherwise, and for numbers above nine, they should be given as numerals.
• Units of measurement may be spelled in full, or spelled in full on the first usage and then consistently abbreviated.
• Line numbers should be provided.

References

• All cited sources should be listed at the end of the manuscript, before figures and tables, ordered alphabetically by author.
• Due to space restrictions please keep to key references only.
• For joint authors ‘&’ should be used in both text and references.
• For two authors, names should be spelled out in full at the first mention and thereafter the first name and et al. should be used.
• Where more than two authors are responsible use et al. in the text but give all the authors in the references.
• Reference to papers in the text should be as (Jones, 1972) or ‘Jones (1972) said‘.