PACHYDERM

GUIDELINES TO CONTRIBUTORS

Aim and scope

Pachyderm publishes papers and notes concerning all aspects of the African elephant, the African rhino and the Asian rhino with a focus on the conservation and management of these species in the wild. At the same time, the journal is a platform for dissemination of information concerning the activities of the African Elephant, the African Rhino, and the Asian Rhino Specialist Groups of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC).

Submission of manuscripts

All manuscripts should be submitted online at: www.pachydermjournal.org

If there are any questions or concerns regarding the submission process, please send an email to afesg@iucn.org or otherwise contact by post/phone:

The Editor, Pachyderm
IUCN/SSC AfESG
PO Box 68200
Nairobi 00200
Kenya
Tel: + 254 20 890 605-12
Fax: + 254 20 890 615

Preparation of manuscripts

Manuscripts are accepted in both English and French languages. Where possible, the abstract should be provided in both languages.Title and authors: The title should contain as many of the key words as possible but should not be more than 25 words long. Follow with the name(s) of the author(s) with insitutional affiliation and full postal and email address of the corresponding author, to whom proofs and editorial comments will be sent.

Research papers: Should be not more than 5000 words and be structured as follows: 1) Title page (as above), 2) Abstract of not more than 200 words (informative type, outlining information from the Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, but not detailed results), 3) Introduction, 4) Materials and methods, 5) Results, 6) Discussion, 7) Conclusions if appropriate, 8) Acknowledgements (optional, brief), 9) References, 10) tables, 11) figure and photo captions, 12) figures and photos. Papers may be reports of original biological research or they may focus more on the socio-economic aspects of conservation, including market surveys. Preferably provide figures and maps in their original form, for example, Excel files, maps as eps or tif files (17 x 15 cm, 600 dpi), when submitting in electronic form. Indicate clearly the author or source of figures and maps and the credit for photographs.

Review papers: Should be not more than 5000 words. A review paper is usually heavily referenced to give a historical basis for the review and to compare or contrast previous research findings. We encourage narrative style using the first person.

Field Notes: The journal welcomes notes from the field. They may contain figures and tables but should be brief, 1000 words or less.

Book reviews: Pachyderm invites reviews of newly published books, which should be no more than 1500 words long.

Letters to the editor: Letters are welcome that comment on articles published in Pachyderm or on any other issue relating to elephant and rhino conservation in the wild.

Journal conventions

Nomenclature

Use common names of animals and plants, giving scientific names in italics on first mention.Generally refer to animals in the plural form: rhinos, elephants.SpellingUse British spelling, following the latest edition of the Concise Oxford dictionary or the Oxford dictionary of English, using ‘z’ instead of ‘s’ in words like ‘recognize’, ‘organization’, ‘immobilized’; but ‘analyse’, ‘paralyse’.

Numbers

Use SI units for measurement (m, km, g, ha, h) with a space between the numeral and the unit of measurement. Give measurements in figures, for example 12 mm, 1 km, 3 ha, except at the beginning of a sentence.Spell out numbers under 10 if not a unit of measure-ment unless the number is part of a series containing numbers 10 or over, for example: 14 adult males, 23 adult females and 3 juveniles.

In the text, write four-digit numbers without a comma; use a comma as the separator for figures five digits or more: 1750, 11,750. The separator will be a full stop in French papers.

References

Use the author-year method of citing and listing references.

In the text, cite two authors: ‘(X and Y 1999)’ or ‘X and Y (1999)’; cite more than two authors ‘(X et al. 1996)’ or ‘X et al. (1996)’. Note that there is no comma between the author(s) and the year.In the reference list, cite publications as in the fol-lowing examples. List in alphabetical order. Write out journal titles in full.

Adams JX. 1995b. Seizures and prosecutions. TRAFFIC Bulletin 15(3):118.

Dobson AP, May RM. 1986. Disease and conservation. In: Soulé ME, ed., Conservation biology: the science of scarcity and diversity. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. p. 123–142.

Struhsaker TT, Lwanga JS, Kasenene JM. 1996. Elephants, selective logging and forest regeneration in the Kibale Forest, Uganda. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12:45–64.

Sukumar R. 1989. The Asian elephant: ecology and man-agement. Cambridge Studies in Applied Ecology and Resource Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Cite unpublished material as follows:

Tchamba MN. 1996. Elephants and their interactions with people and vegetation in the Waza–Logone region, Cameroon. PhD thesis, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. 142 p.

Woodford MH. 2008. [Title]. [Journal or publisher]. Forth-coming. [if publication date is known]

Woodford MH. [Title]. [Journal or publisher]. In press. [if publication date is not known]

Do not use as references papers in preparation or submitted but not yet accepted. Cite as pers. comm.‘Pers. comm.’ accompanied by name of the person and the date is cited in the text but not given in the reference list.