INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS 



The Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science is a medium of 

 publication for original investigations in science. Also as the official organ of the 

 Kentucky Academy of Science, news and announcements of interest to the member- 

 ship are published therein. These include programs of meetings, titles, abstracts of 

 papers presented at meetings, and condensations of reports by the Academy's officers 

 and committees. 



Papers may be submitted at any time to the editor. Each manuscript will be 

 reviewed by one or more editors before it is accepted for publication, and an at- 

 tempt will be made to publish papers in the order of their acceptance. Papers are 

 accepted for publication with the understanding that they are not to be submitted 

 for original publication elsewhere, and that any additional printing shall be at, a 

 later date and shall be designated in an appropriate credit line as a -reprint from 

 the Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science. 



Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, with wide margins, on paper of 

 good stock. The original and one carbon copy should be submitted, and the author 

 should retain one additional carbon copy. It is desirable that the author have his 

 colleagues read the manuscript for clarity of expression and typographical or other 

 errors. 



Titles must be clear and concise, and provide for precise cataloging. Textual 

 material should be in clear, brief, condensed form. Footnotes should be avoided. 

 Tables and illustrations are expensive and should be included only to give effective 

 presentation of the data. Articles with an excessive number of tables or illustra- 

 tions, or with poorly executed tables or illustrations, may be returned to the author 

 for modification. 



Line drawings and half-tones will appear as text-figures. Drafting should be 

 carefully done (hand lettering generally is not satisfactory). Photographs should 

 have good contrast and be printed on glossy paper. Text-figures are to be numbered 

 consecutively and independently; on the back of each its number and the author's 

 name should be written lightly in pencil. Each text-fiure must be referred to speci- 

 fically in the text and must be provided also with a legend, the latter to be supplied 

 as typed copy separate from the figures. Figures should be arranged into groups 

 whenever possible and the legend for each group written as a separate paragraph. 

 The amount of reduction desired should be indicated and should be consistent with 

 the page dimensions of this journal. Indications of magnification should apply to 

 the reduced figure. 



The aim of the paper should be made clear in the introductory portion. If the 

 paper is of more than a few pages it should contain a brief "Summary," which 

 should be lucid without recourse to the rest of the article. In the interest of biblio- 

 graphic uniformity, arrange all references under a "Literature Cited" heading, 

 alphabetically by author and date, unnumbered, with textual citation by parenthetic 

 insertion of author and date, as (Jones, 1940), or Jones (1940). Use initials for given 

 names. Titles must be included. Abbreviate names of journals, using the form 

 employed by Chemical Abstracts or Biological Abstracts. Separate the volume num- 

 ber from page numbers by a colon. References to books should include also the 

 place of publication and the publisher. 



The author is responsible for correcting the galley proof. Extensive alterations 

 from the original are expensive and must be avoided or paid for by the author. 

 Galley proofs must be returned promptly. Blanks for reprint orders will be supplied 

 with the galley proof. 



