期刊名称：BIRD STUDY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Bird Study is the official journal of the British Trust for Ornithology, a body which has been a prime contributor to ornithological research in Britain and Ireland for many years. Published since 1954, the journal is noted for its original papers on all aspects of field ornithology, especially distribution, status, censusing, migration, poulation, habitat and breeding ecology. These include the results of BTO surveys and occasional invited review papers; book reviews appear regularly. Although the journal concentrates on the birds of Western Europe, significant papers from elsewhere are welcomed. Bird Study caters for the professional and serious amateur alike and aims at the middle ground, eschewing both the frankly popular and the esoteric. |
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Instructions to Authors
General. The Editor is happy to advise you on the preparation of papers. You are strongly advised to follow the recommendations of M. O扖onnor (1991), Writing Successfully in?Science, Chapman & Hall, London.
Aim for a concise but readable style avoiding jargon and pomposity. Show your paper to friends for criticism before submitting it to the journal. Each paper will be acknowledged upon receipt and will be subject to review by the Editor, at least one member of the Editorial Board and at least one independent referee. Papers are usually accepted, returned for revision or rejected within two months of receipt. They are usually published in the order in which fully revised typescripts are received, subject to such constraints as the number of pages available in each issue of the journal.
Papers of less 2,500 words should be prepared as Short Reports with a one-sentence summary and no sectional headings. They may have up to two figures/tables, or one of each, but the word count should be reduced for each figure/table.
Papers are accepted on the understanding that they have not been offered for publication elsewhere.
Submit three copies of the paper and keep another copy for yourself.
Electronic copy. Papers are processed more accurately if the final accepted version is supplied on disk. When a paper is accepted you will receive instructions on the format required.
Word processing. Avoid using complicated features. Print on one side of the paper only, double-spaced, with wide margins, on paper of A4 or US letter size. Number all the pages consecutively. Arrange the material in the following sequence, starting each item on a separate page: Title page, Summary, Keywords, Text, Acknowledgements, Endnotes, References, Appendices, Tables, Legends to figures, Figures. Use italics only for generic and specific scientific names.
Nomenclature. Use vernacular names for birds and also give the scientific name (not in parentheses) when the species is first mentioned. For scientific names use The British List (published annually by the BOU). Follow the same practice for other birds, animals and plants for which there are well-established vernacular names: otherwise use scientific names throughout. Capitalize the first letters of vernacular names of species but not of higher taxa: e.g. Blue Tit and Wych Elm, but tits and elms. For those species covered by them, use the following as sources of scientific names:
Voous, K.H. 1973?7. List of recent Holarctic bird species. Ibis 115: 612?38; 199: 223?50, 376?06.
Corbet, G.B. & Southern, H.N. 1977. The Handbook of British Mammals, 2nd edn. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
Clapham, A.R. et al. 1981. Excursion Flora of the British Isles, 3rd edn. 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.
Give the time of day in the form of 06:30 hours. Use the zonal time closest to solar time (i.e. GMT, not BST, in Britain). Give dates in the form 14 January 1993. Give statistical terms in the conventional manner: c2, t, r, etc.; degrees of freedom as 慸f =?or as a subscript 憈33? standard deviation, standard error and probability as sd, se, P, etc. Spell out numbers up to and including ten, except when used with a scientific unit. Divide numbers larger than 9999 into groups of three figures with a space between each group; e.g. 12 592.
Title page. This must contain, in order, the title, the authors? names (including first names) and addresses, the short title, keywords and full contact details of the corresponding author (name, full postal address, telephone, fax and email). If the paper reports the results of a BTO enquiry then, under the authors?names and address, please type: A report to the British Trust for Ornithology.
Make the title brief but informative and include scientific names in addition to vernacular names. The short title will appear at the top of the right-hand pages in the published text: the maximum length is 30 characters. Select keywords for web searches and include items that may be of interest to someone from another discipline, e.g. techniques.
Summary. This should not exceed 5% of the length of the text and never more than 300 words. The first sentence (the capsule) should encapsulate the essence of the paper and will appear on the web page, together with the title. There should be four additional short paragraphs, headed: Aims, Methods, Results and Conclusion.
Acknowledgements. Make these as brief as is consistent with courtesy.
Endnotes. You are encouraged to annotate the text by the use of endnotes where it is felt that this would aid the reader. Endnotes might include additional technical information concerning methods or statistics, or lengthy statistical verification. In the text, indicate endnotes by a superscript letter. For example: ?..these regression models were both highly significant.d?List endnotes in the order in which they appear in the text: i.e. alphabetical order. The text of endnotes should be presented in the following format:
d. Y = a + bX, F = 123, df = 123, 456 P < 0.001 and Y = a + bX, F = 123, 456, P < 0.005.
References. Use the Harvard system, i.e. authors?names and year in the text and an alphabetical reference list. Within a sentence, cite as: e.g. Author & Author (1988, 1989) or Author et al. (2000). In parenthesis cite as: e.g. (Author 1975). Use the following format for the reference list:
Author, A.B., Author, C.D. & Author, E.F. 1996. Title of article. Abbrev. J. Name 20: 151?58.
Author, A.B., Author, C.D. & Author, E.F. 1997. [Title of article.] Abbrev. J. Name 12: 199?05 (in Russian).
Brown, A.B. & Author, C.D. (eds) 1990. Book Title, 4th edn. Publisher, Place.
Clark, A.B. 1955. Title of chapter. In Editor, A. (ed.) Book Title, Vol. 2: 21?7. Publisher, Place.
Cornish, A.B. 1996. Title of thesis. PhD Thesis, University of Durham.
Abbreviate journal titles according to Serial Sources for the Biosis Data Base. If in doubt, give the title in full. Give the titles of papers in the original language, unless this uses a non-Roman alphabet, in which case use an English translation of the title , in square parentheses.
Reference to web sites should only be made if the work is refereed or reliable and the link is likely to remain available over time.
Only cite PhD theses in exceptional circumstances and if readily available. Give full details in the reference list. Otherwise mention the work in the text only, as 憉npubl. data?or 憄ers. comm.?/p>
Verify references before submitting your paper. Check that all references are cited in the text and that all references cited appear in the list.
Tables. Type each table on a separate sheet, with a concise title at the top and short explanatory notes below. Please minimize the use of dividing lines. Place each variable being measured (with the unit of measurement) at the top of a vertical column unless this would make the table too wide to fit a page when printed. If this is the case, place each variable on a new line in the left-hand column. Check typed versions and proofs carefully. Use 0 for a zero reading, ?for a missing value.
Illustrations. Submit a master and two copies of each illustration. Write the following clearly on the back of each figure: the authors?names, figure number and the top margin of the figure. Indicate which figure is the master copy.
Make sure that symbols, lettering and numbering are of a quality suitable for reproduction and large enough to be read after reduction. Use a sans serif font (Helvetica not Times). Maps should show essential details and important reference points only.
Photographs may be used as necessary to illustrate papers. Supply them in black-and-white or colour as unmounted glossy prints with two copies. Colour photographs will be printed in black-and white but may appear in colour online.
Electronic versions of illustrations may be usable and, when a paper is accepted, you will receive detailed instructions. In general, files created in Photoshop and Illustrator can be used, as can some TIFF and EPS files.
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, you must give full details of the statistical methods used and the results obtained. To aid readers further, present the information 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 endnote or appendix.
In general, provide parameter estimates with confidence limits (or standard errors) and sample size.
Offprints. Fifty offprints of each paper are supplied free. Additional copies may be purchased and should be ordered when the proofs are returned
Editorial Board
Editor: John O扝alloran
Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, University of Cork, Ireland.
Editorial Board:
C J Bibby BirdLife International, UK
D Chamberlain BTO, UK
Will Cresswell EGI, Oxford
A A Dhondt Cornell University, USA
B S Ebbinge IBN-DLO, The Netherlands
R W Furness Glasgow University, UK
R E Green Zoology Department, Cambridge University, UK
D G C Harper Sussex University, UK
Ian Hartley Lancaster University UK
M P Harris ITE, UK
K J Norris Reading University, UK
G Siriwardena BTO, UK
J C Senar Zoology Museum, Barcelona, Spain
P Vickery Audubon Society, Massachusetts, USA
C Wernham BTO, UK
J D Wilson Oxford University and RSPB, UK
Managing Editor: Mary Fox
Fox Editorial, Blandford Forum, UK
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