期刊名称：ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
First published in 1953, Animal Behaviour is a leading international publication and has wide appeal, containing critical reviews, original papers, and research articles on all aspects of animal behaviour. Book Reviews and Books Received sections are also included.
Growing interest in behavioural biology and the international reputation of Animal Behaviour prompted an expansion to monthly publication in 1989. Animal Behaviour continues to be the journal of choice for biologists, ethologists, psychologists, pysiologists, and veterinarians with an interest in the subject.
Research Areas Include:
Behavioural ecology
Evolution of behaviour
Sociobiology
Ethology
Behavioural psychology
Behavioural physiology
Population biology
Sensory behaviour
Navigation and migration
Instructions to Authors
Prospective authors should consult these instructions carefully before preparing manuscripts for submission. The Editorial Offices may decline to review manuscripts that do not comply with the requirements for content and format and papers that are accepted but incorrectly prepared may be subject to delays in the press. The Editorial Offices will edit papers in accordance with the house style and will help authors to communicate effectively, particularly where the author's first language is not English. Authors may find recent articles in Animal Behaviour to be useful models for the instructions outlined below.
General Information
Article types
Research papers. Animal Behaviour publishes original papers relating to all aspects of the behaviour of animals, including humans. Papers may be field, laboratory or theoretical studies. Preference is given to studies that are likely to be of interest to the broad readership of the journal and that test explicit hypotheses rather than being purely descriptive.
Reviews. These should address fundamental issues relating to behaviour and provide new insights into the subject(s) they cover. Original interdisciplinary syntheses are especially welcome. Reviews should be no longer than 6000 words (excluding references) and should include an abstract of up to 250 words. In the first instance, a preliminary outline of up to 600 words should be sent to the US or UK Editorial Office according to the geographical location of the author (see Submission below). The decision as to whether to proceed to a full review then rests with the Executive Editors or invited advisers. Contributions submitted on this basis will be subjected to the same refereeing process as normal manuscripts.
Commentaries. The Commentaries section of the Journal provides an opportunity to raise issues of general importance to the study of behaviour, including statistical analysis, theory, methodology and ethics. Unless there are clearly broader implications for the study of behaviour as a whole, critiques of particular papers or issues of more local interest should be reserved for the Forum section (see below). Decisions as to whether borderline submissions are more appropriate to the Commentaries or Forum section rest with the Executive Editors. Contributions should be brief, normally not more than six printed pages, and should not contain an abstract. Methodological contributions may be longer, subject to the discretion of the Executive Editors. The initial decision as to prima facie merit rests with the Executive Editors or invited advisers. Contributions with prima facie merit are subjected to the same refereeing process as normal manuscripts but responses or complementary articles may be solicited by the Executive Editors at their discretion. Other contributions are returned unrefereed to the author(s).
Forum. The Forum section is published on the journal Web site http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sap/AnimalBehaviourForum/forum.htm with contributions listed in the contents of the relevant hardcopy issue and cited as indicated in References below. The section accepts critiques of published papers relevant to the areas of interest of the Journal, and provides an opportunity for constructive exchanges on issues surrounding particular fields of study. In the case of critiques of published papers, the covering letter should confirm that the author(s) of the target article have been contacted and trivial points of difference or misunderstanding resolved prior to the submission of the critique. Rebuttals to papers published in Animal Behaviour should be submitted to the Office (US or UK) where the original article was published (the manuscript numbers of papers processed in the US Office have the prefix A). Submission, review and acceptance procedures are as for Commentaries (see above), but there is no word limit.
More general correspondence on matters relating to behavioural research is published, unrefereed, in the newsletters of ASAB and ABS. Such correspondence should be sent to the newsletter editors: G. Roberts, Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, U.K. (fax: (0)191 222 5622; email: gilbert.roberts@ncl.ac.uk) for ASAB; M. R. Morris, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, U.S.A. (fax: (740) 593 4527; email: morrism@oak.cats.ohiou.edu) for ABS.
Submission
Authors may post the final PDF version of their published paper on their personal or university web sites. However, authors who are unable to submit online may still send manuscripts by post to the appropriate Editorial Office (depending on their geographical location, as indicated above); paper manuscripts (two copies) must be accompanied by a copy of the manuscript and cover letter on disk. The address of the US office is: Lori Pierce, Managing Editor, Animal Behaviour Editorial Office, 2611 East 10th Street, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408-2603, U.S.A. (fax: (812) 856 5542, email: lopierce@indiana.edu). Correspondence about book reviews handled through the North American office should be sent to Dr P. Loesche, Department of Psychology, Box 351525, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, U.S.A. (fax: 206 616 4794; email: loes@u.washington.edu). The address of the UK office is: Dr A.K. Turner, Managing Editor, Animal Behaviour Editorial Office, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K. (fax: (0) 115 951 3249, email: angela.turner@nottingham.ac.uk).
Together with the manuscript, authors should submit a cover letter (see below for points to include in the letter), any abstracts and other published, in press or submitted material that overlaps or duplicates the submitted manuscript, and any letters of permission to reproduce published material.
Doctoral theses are usually not written in a style suitable for publication in Animal Behaviour. Chapters from theses will therefore normally need to be condensed, reformatted and revised substantially before being submitted as manuscripts. References in journal manuscripts should usually not be cited as exhaustively as they are in doctoral dissertations. Prior to submission, inexperienced authors are especially advised to give a manuscript to friends and colleagues for comment.
Use active voice whenever feasible, and write in the first person.
Use British spelling and grammar conventions throughout, except in non-British quotations and references.
File formats
For online submission the following file formats are acceptable for the initial submission: Word or Wordperfect, RTF, LaTeX2e, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, Postscript, PICT, bmp, Excel, Powerpoint or EPS. For the final accepted and revised version of the manuscript, graphics must be in TIFF or EPS. Please do not submit material (initially or for the final version) as PDF, Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator files.
For manuscripts submitted as hard copy and on disk any version of Word is preferred. (WordPerfect files on disk are not acceptable but may be sent to the appropriate Editorial Office as an email attachment.) For graphics, Excel, TIFF, GIFF, JPEG and Powerpoint are acceptable for the initial submission. Send graphs created in Excel as a separate Excel document. For the original submission, include figures and tables in the same file as the main text of the manuscript, if possible; for the final version of the manuscript, tables, figures and figure captions should be in separate files and good-quality versions of the figures should be submitted as high-resolution TIFF or EPS files or hard copies. Please do not submit material (initially or for the final version) as PDF files.
Please note that the Publishers cannot accept electronic copies of manuscripts in LaTex2e. Although this format is acceptable during peer review, final versions of manuscripts should be converted to another format. If this is not possible, the Editorial Offices may request hard copies of the manuscript, with double line spacing.
Ensure that the document is in the following order: title; authors; affiliation; running head; address for correspondence; abstract; introduction; methods; results; discussion; acknowledgments; references; appendices; tables; figure legends.
If possible, include an ASCII version of the disk with the word-processed version.
Ensure that the files are not saved as read-only.
Ensure complete compatibility between the final version of the hard copy and the file on disk. If there are differences, we shall use the hard copy.
Label disks with the following information: file name, article reference number, author name(s), and the operating system and word-processing software used to generate the disk file (e.g. DOS/WordPerfect). If UNIX, also note the method of extraction.
Do not include copyright material such as word-processing software or operating system files on the disk, because this can create difficulties with Customs clearance.
Package floppy disks to avoid damage in the post.
Copyright
Papers are accepted on the understanding that they are subject to editorial revision and that they are contributed only to this journal. Copyright in the article, including the right to reproduce the article in all forms and media, shall be assigned exclusively to the Journal. The transfer of copyright to the Journal takes effect when the manuscript is accepted for publication.
The Publishers will send the author a copyright transfer agreement and offprint order form by email shortly before the paper proofs are ready. The author must complete these forms and return them to the Publishers via mail or fax. The author will receive 50 offprints free of charge and may purchase additional offprints. The author may post the final PDF version of their article on personal and/or institutional Web pages after it has appeared in the journal.
Proofs
The author will receive a PDF proof by email and should return corrections to the appropriate editorial office within 24 hours.
Digital Object Identifiers
Academic Press assigns a unique digital object identifier (DOI) to every article it publishes. The DOI appears on the title page of the article. It is assigned after the article has been accepted for publication and persists throughout the lifetime of the article. Owing to its persistence, it can be used to query Academic Press for information on the article during the production process, to find the article on the Internet through various Web sites, including ScienceDirect, and to cite the article in academic references. Further information may be found by clicking on the "Cite or Link using DOI" query at the top of every abstract page of each article on ScienceDirect.
Author enquiries
For enquiries relating to articles that have been accepted by the journal and forwarded to the Publishers, Elsevier Science, please visit the Author Gateway from Elsevier Science at http://authors.elsevier.com. The Author Gateway also provides the facility to track articles at the Publishers and set up email alerts to inform authors when an article's status has changed, as well as detailed artwork guidelines, copyright information, frequently asked questions and more. The Editorial Offices will inform authors when an article is sent to the Publishers and contact details for questions arising about an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided after its receipt at Elsevier Science.
Disclaimer
No responsibility is assumed by the Publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the journal. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made. Although all advertising material is expected to conform to ethical (medical) standards, inclusion in the journal does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement of the quality or value of such a product or of the claims made of it by its manufacturer.
Cover Letter
A cover letter by the corresponding author should accompany the manuscript and should provide the following information.
A statement that the material has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
Explanation of any overlap with other articles published or in press in journals, books or conference proceedings, or in preparation. Animal Behaviour will not consider submissions that have been published elsewhere, nor will it republish data found in other publications, unless the data are re-evaluated to provide new information not found in the original. Abstracts that both appear in published conference proceedings with ISBNs or ISSNs, such as special editions of journals, and provide explicit quantitative summaries of the key results, are considered as prior publication. Overlap between submitted manuscripts and published abstracts containing qualitative descriptions of the manuscript will be allowed, provided that such abstracts are not verbatim reproductions of the abstract contained within the submitted manuscript. Include all abstracts and other published materials with the submitted manuscript.
Confirmation that all co-authors know that the manuscript has been submitted for publication.
Confirmation that the author has adhered to the Guidelines for the Use of Animals in Research (updated in each January issue of the journal and on the journal Web site, www.academicpress.com/anbehav, the legal requirements of the country in which the work was carried out, and any institutional guidelines. If ethical considerations arose in the course of the study, the author should describe in the manuscript (see Methods) how those considerations were addressed. For example information may need to be provided on the following areas: housing and general maintenance, disposal of animals including release of wild-caught animals, culling of litters, techniques causing desertion, aggression, predation, use of live animals as food, parasitism, techniques or manipulations (e.g. physiological, pharmacological, genetic, blood and tissue sampling, use of anaesthetics and restraints, plumage alterations), trapping, marking, radiotagging, food or water deprivation, manipulation of diets and access to food, social deprivation, brood manipulations, environmental manipulations, conservation implications, details of licences/permissions obtained for the study. If authors fail to include relevant information, we shall request a revision and resubmission of the paper before we send it out to review. In exceptional cases, where unresolved ethical questions remain, the manuscript may be sent to the ABS Animal Care Committee or the ASAB Ethical Committee for additional refereeing.
Suggestions for referees. Authors are encouraged to suggest referees for their papers; however, the Editors reserve the right to choose referees other than, or in addition to, those suggested.
In the case of Forum articles that are critiques of published papers, the cover letter should confirm that the author(s) of the target article have been contacted and trivial points of difference or misunderstanding resolved prior to submission of the critique.
Cover letters for revised or resubmitted manuscripts should include a detailed explanation of how the author has dealt with each of the reviewer's and editor's comments.
Formatting of Text
Type all manuscripts with double line spacing and aligned left, including the abstract, references, figure legends and tables.
Use a font size of 11 or larger.
Print pages on one side only for editing purposes.
Manuscripts should have line numbers, page numbers and wide margins throughout (including the abstract, references, figure legends and tables).
Indent each new paragraph, except for the first paragraph of the main text and the paragraph immediately after each main heading.
Use consistent punctuation; insert only a single space between words and after punctuation.
Type text without end-of-line hyphenation, except for compound words.
Use initial capitals only for proper names (e.g. names of people, places or proprietary products), not for animals or for words such as 'experiment' or 'group'. Initial capitals may be used to label categories of behaviour or specifically defined measures. Do not use italics for these, for emphasis or for foreign words.
Use two returns to end headings and paragraphs.
Do not use lower-case 'l' (el) for '1' (one) or 'O'(oh) for '0' (zero); they have different typesetting values.
Headings
Headings in the body of the manuscript should be brief. The usual main headings for Research papers are: Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments and References (Introduction is not used). Papers should not be forced to fit into this pattern of headings, however, if they do not naturally do so. Type main headings in capitals on a separate line and centre them on the page (note that Commentaries and Forum articles lack this heading type). Type subheadings at the left of the page and on a separate line, and begin the main words with a capital letter. Start sub-subheadings on a new line, aligned full left, and underline them. Start the text on a new line after subheadings and sub-subheadings. When presenting multiple experiments, authors may use main headings for the titles of each experiment, with the Methods and Results of each experiment listed as subheadings. Try to keep subheadings short enough to fit within a single column.
Parts of the Manuscript Arrange manuscripts in the following order: title page, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, appendices, tables, figure legends, figures.
Title page The title page must include the following information.
Title. This should be brief and informative, and should not exceed 120 characters. Avoid abbreviations, as well as part numbers unless the papers are to be published consecutively in the same issue of the journal.
Running headline. Provide a short title that does not exceed 50 spaces, including the author's name(s) (using 'et al.' for three or more authors) and all punctuation marks.
Authors' names (in capitals) and academic affiliations below the title. Affiliations should not include street, box number, postal (zip) code, country (when that is obvious) or city, state, province, etc., when that is redundant with the University name.
Correspondence. At the bottom of the page, give the full postal address and email address (if desired) of the corresponding author and the present postal addresses of all authors.
A word count for the text.
Abstract
The Abstract should describe the purpose of the study, outline the major findings and state the main conclusions. It should be concise, informative, explicit and intelligible without reference to the text. Abstracts should usually be limited to 250 words. Use both common and scientific names of animals at first mention in the Abstract unless they are given in the title. Avoid using references; if used, give the journal name, volume and page numbers.
Introduction
The Introduction should be brief, not normally exceeding two manuscript pages. It should explicitly state the aims of the study and place it within the context of existing work. Keep references to a minimum by citing reviews rather than primary research papers where appropriate.
Methods
The Methods should be sufficiently detailed to allow someone else to replicate the study. Repetition of methodological details can sometimes be avoided by referring to previous studies, however. Always state sample sizes (the number of animals used in the study) and the age, sex, breed/strain and source of animals. Full details of testing or observational regimes should be given. If captive animals were used, include details of housing conditions relevant to the study (e.g. cage size and type, bedding, group size and composition, lighting, temperature, ambient noise conditions, maintenance diets) both during the study and during any period before the study that might bear on the results. The Methods section may also contain a description of the kinds of statistics used and the activities that were recorded.
Ethical note. Where ethical considerations arise from the study, these should be addressed in the Methods, either in the main Methods section itself (where the additional discussion is relatively minor), or in a separate subsection of the Methods headed Ethical note. Any ethical implications of the experimental design and procedures should be identified, and any licences acquired to carry out the work specified. Procedures that were taken to minimize the welfare impact on subjects, including choice of sample sizes, use of pilot tests and predetermined rules for intervention, should be described. Any steps taken to enhance the welfare of subjects (e.g. through 'environmental enrichment') should also be indicated. If the study involved keeping wild animals in captivity, state for how long the animals were captive and whether, where and how they were returned to the wild at the end of the study.
Results
This section should include only results that are relevant to the hypotheses outlined in the Introduction and considered in the Discussion. The text should complement material given in Tables or Figures but should not directly repeat it. Give full details of statistical analysis either in the text or in Tables or Figure legends. Include the type of test, the precise data to which it was applied, the value of the relevant statistic, the sample size and/or degrees of freedom, and the probability level. Number Tables and Figures in the order to which they are referred in the text.
Discussion
It is often helpful to begin the Discussion with a summary of the main results. The main purpose of the Discussion, however, is to comment on the significance of the results and set them in the context of previous work. The Discussion should be concise and not excessively speculative, and references should be kept to a minimum by citing review articles as much as possible.
References
For references in the text, give full surnames for papers by one or two authors, but only the surname of the first author, followed by 'et al.' for three or more (note that 'et al.' is not underlined). Check that all references in the text are in the reference list and vice versa, that their dates and spellings match, and that complete bibliographical details are given, including page numbers, names of editors, name of publisher and full place of publication if the article is published in a book. Check foreign language references particularly carefully for accuracy of diacritical marks such as accents and umlauts.
Cite references in the text as, for example, Fagen & Young (1978) or, if in parentheses, as (Murton 1963). Do not use commas to separate the author's name from the date. Use lower-case letters to distinguish between two papers by the same authors in the same year (e.g. Packer 1979a). List multiple citations in chronological order (e.g. Zahavi 1972; Halliday 1978; Arnold 1981a, b), using a semicolon to separate each reference. Cite references in the reference list in alphabetical, and then chronological, order according to the authors' surname and date. To help readers locate 'et al.' citations with the same first authors in the reference list, list references with three (or more) names after those with two, by date, as in the following sequence:
Marin & Silva 1992 Marin, Silva & Lopez 1986 Marin, Lopez & Silva 1989 Type references in the following form: Bailey, N. J. 1981. Statistical Methods in Biology. 2nd edn. London: Unibooks. Emlen, S. T. 1978. The evolution of cooperative behaviour in birds. In: Behavioural Ecology (Ed. by J. R. Krebs & N. B. Davies), pp. 245-281. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific. Robinson, M. H. & Robinson, B. 1970. The stabilimentum of the orb web spider, Argiope argentata: an improbable defense against predators. Canadian Entomologist, 102, 641-645. Smith, J.K. 1985. Investigations on a freshwater crab. Ph.D. thesis, University of Durham. Forum articles should include volume and part number and Web site address and be cited as: Johnson, A.R. 1999. Scent marking in hyaenas: reply to Jones. Animal Behaviour, 57, F41-F43: http://www.academicpress.com/anbehav
Because of the ephemeral nature of many Web sites, other Web citations will be reviewed by the Editors to ensure they are appropriate to an archival journal.
For papers in the course of publication, use 'in press' to replace the date and give the journal name in the references. Cite unpublished manuscripts (including those in preparation or submitted), talks and abstracts of talks in the text as 'unpublished data' following a list of all authors' initials and surnames. Do not include these in the reference list.
Digital Object Identifiers
To facilitate cross-referencing of articles on the Web, the digital object identifier (DOI) for papers in Academic Press journals will now be included in their reference citation as follows:
Bradbury, J. W. & Vehrencamp, S. L. In press. Economic models of animal communication. Animal Behaviour, doi: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1330.
Jirotkul, M. 1999. Population density influences male-male competition in guppies. Animal Behaviour, 58, 1169-1175. doi: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1248.
The DOI of a cited paper can be found at the top of its title page. If authors are aware of a paper's DOI, it would be helpful if authors could include it in their citation list.
Tables
Keep Tables as simple as possible and make them understandable without reference to the text. Type each table on a separate page. In addition:
Use Arabic numerals to number Tables.
Give brief titles above the table with no punctuation at the end.
Give extra information (e.g. the results of statistical tests) as a footnote below the table.
Do not divide tables into two or more parts.
Tables should not contain vertical rules, and the main body of the table should not contain horizontal rules.
Large tables should be narrow (across the page) and long (down the page) rather than wide and short, so that they can be fitted into the column width of the journal.
Figures
A figure and its legend should be sufficiently informative that the results can be understood without reference to the text. Figure legends should not appear on the same page as figures.
The publisher will allow one page of free colour per article for colour figures, where its use is integral to useful illustration of the data.
Figures should be large enough to allow for reproduction but not larger than A4 size, and should be designed with the widths of the columns in the journal in mind.
The preferred point symbols are open circle, open square, open triangle, filled circle, filled square, filled triangle. The preferred shadings are black, white and bold hatching. Avoid stippling, which does not reproduce well.
Ticks should be drawn inside the figure axes; they should not be extended to form lines across the whole figure.
Give keys and other explanations either in the legend or on the figure itself.
Number figures consecutively in Arabic numerals.
Abbreviate 'Figure' to 'Fig.' and 'Figures' to 'Figs' except when starting a sentence.
The Publishers will redraw and label figures as necessary to conform with the Journal's house style. Artwork will be destroyed shortly after the paper is published unless the author requests otherwise.
Electronic supplementary material
Material that aids in the understanding or clarification of the printed article, such as video clips (AVI or MPEG), colour photographs (GIF or JPEG), sound recordings (WAV), or large data tables, may be posted on ScienceDirect with electronic access details provided in the text. Instructions regarding supplementary material can be found in the Artwork Instructions menu - colour, multimedia, etc., on the Author Gateway page. Supplementary material should be sent separately to the appropriate Editorial Office, as CD ROMs (four copies), when the manuscript is uploaded to Editorial Manager. The material will be considered to be part of a manuscript and will be reviewed as such.
Footnotes
Use footnotes only to add information below the body of a Table.
Numerals
Write numbers of 10 or more as numerals except at the beginning of a sentence. Write the numbers one to nine in words, unless they precede units of measure or are used as designators. Quote times of day using the 24-hour clock without a break or point in the middle and followed by 'hours'; e.g. '1515 hours'. Give years in full; e.g. '1986-1987' and dates as 1 January 2000.
Abbreviations
Units and abbreviations should conform to the Systeme International d'Unites. Avoid acronyms.
Statistical conventions
Means and standard errors/standard deviations (and medians and interquartile ranges/confidence limits), with their associated sample sizes, are given in the format X+/-SE=10.2+/-1.01 g, N=15, not X=10.2 g, SE=1.01 g, N=15.
For significance tests, give the name of the test followed by a colon, the test statistic and its value, the degrees of freedom or sample size (whichever is the convention for the test) and the P value (note that F values have two degrees of freedom). The different parts of the statistical quotation are separated by a comma.
If the test statistic is conventionally quoted with degrees of freedom, these are presented as a subscript to the test statistic. For example:
ANOVA: F1,11=7.89, P 0.02 Kruskal-Wallis test: H11=287.8, P=0.001 Chi-square test: X22=0.19, NS Paired t test: t12=1.99, P 0.05
If the test is conventionally quoted with the sample size, this should follow the test statistic value. For example:
Spearman rank correlation: rS=0.80, N=11, P 0.01 Wilcoxon signed-ranks test: T=6, N=14, P 0.01 Mann-Whitney U test: U=74, N1=N2=17, P 0.02P values for significant outcomes should be quoted as below a threshold significance value (e.g. P 0.05, 0.01, 0.001) or as an exact probability value. Departure from a significance threshold of 0.05 should be stated and justified in the Methods. Nonsignificant outcomes should be indicated as NS or exact probability values, not as P>0.05. Marginally nonsignificant outcomes can be indicated as exact probability values or as P 0.1. State whether a test is one tailed or two tailed (or specific or nonspecific in the case of Meddis' nonparametric ANOVAs). One-tailed (or specific) tests should be used with caution. Their use is justified only when there are strong a priori reasons for predicting the direction of a difference or trend and results in the opposite direction can reasonably be regarded as equivalent to no difference or trend at all. Authors are referred to Kimmel (1957, Psychological Bulletin, 54, 315-353).
Do not quote decimals with naked points, for example quote 0.01, not .01, or normally to more than three decimal places (the exception being P values for significance tests, which may be quoted to four decimal places where appropriate, e.g. 0.0001).
Regressions and analyses of variance. The significance of regressions should be tested with F or t but not the regression coefficient r. However, it is helpful to quote R2 with both regressions and parametric analyses of variance.
Multiple range tests. Unplanned multiple range tests following ANOVA should be avoided unless their appropriateness for the comparisons in question is verified explicitly. Authors are referred to the review by Day & Quinn (1989, Ecological Monographs, 59, 433-463).
Power tests. Where a significance test based on a small sample size yields a nonsignificant outcome, explicit consideration should be given to the power of the test (or, if appropriate, to equivalence testing) for accepting the null hypothesis. Authors are referred to Thomas & Juanes (1996, Animal Behaviour, 52, 856-859) for guidance on the appropriate use of power analysis.
Transformations. Where data have been transformed for parametric significance tests, the nature of the transformation and the reason for its selection (e.g. log x, x2, arcsine) should be stated.
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Editorial Board
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Executive Editors:
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J.R. Lucas, Purdue Univeristy
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L.W. Simmons, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
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Editors:
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M.D. Breed, University of Colorado, USA
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N.S. Clayton, University of Cambridge
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P.R. Green, Heriot-Watt University
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M.D. Greenfield, University of Kansas
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M.J. Hatcher, University of Bristol
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A.V. Hedrick, University of California, Davis
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D.K. Hews, Indiana State University
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K.E. Holekamp, Michigan State University
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B. Kempenaers, Max Planck Society
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D.W. Leger, University of Nebraska
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J.C. Mitani, University of Michigan
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A.J. Moore, Univeristy of Manchester
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L. Ratcliffe, Queen's University
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B.C. Sheldon, University of Oxford
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G.W. Uetz, University of Cincinnati
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Managing Editors:
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K. Bruner, Indiana University
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L. Pierce, Indiana University
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A.K. Turner, University of Nottingham
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Ethics Editor
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S. Taylor, International Veterinary and Animal Welfare Consulting
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Editorial Assistant
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