GUILDE FOR AW THORS 
Aims and scope. ‘The Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural 
History) Zoology, was established specifically to accommodate 
manuscripts relevant to the Collections in the Department of Zoology. 
It provides an outlet for the publication of taxonomic papers which, 
because of their length, prove difficult to publish elsewhere. Prefer- 
ence is given to original contributions in English whose contents are 
based on the Collections, or the description of specimens which are 
being donated to enhance them. Acceptance of manuscripts is at the 
discretion of the Editor, on the understanding that they have not been 
submitted or published elsewhere and become the copyright of the 
Trustees of the Natural History Museum. All submissions will be 
reviewed by at least two referees. 
Submission of manuscripts. Initially three clear, complete cop- 
ies should be submitted in the style and format of the Bulletin. The 
text must be typed double-spaced throughout, including references, 
tables and legends to figures, on one side of A4 paper with 2.5 cm 
margins. All pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning 
with the title page as p. 1. SL units should be used where appropriate. 
Whenever possible a copy of the text, once the paper has been 
accepted, should also be provided on floppy disc (see below). Discs 
should only be sent after final acceptance, as papers generally need 
revision after refereeing. If it is impossible to provide an appropriate 
disc please ensure that the final typescript is clearly printed. 
Authors are requested to ensure that their manuscripts are in final 
format, because corrections at proof stage may be charged to the 
author. Additions at proof stage will not normally be allowed. Page 
proofs only will be sent. 
Word-processor discs. Please follow these instructions. 
1. Ensure that the disc you send contains only the final version of 
the paper and is identical to the typescript. 
2. Label the disc with the author’s name, title of the paper and the 
word-processor programme used. Indicate whether IBM or Apple 
Mac (IBM preferred). 
3. Supply the file in the word-processor format; if there is a 
facility to save in ASCII please submit the file in ASCII as well. 
4. Specify any unusual non-keyboard characters on the front 
page of the hard copy. 
5. Do not right-justify the text. 
6. Do not set a left-hand margin. 
7. Make sure you distinguish numerals from letters, e.g. zero (0) 
from O; one (1) from | (el) and I. 
8. Distinguish hyphen, en rule (longer than a hyphen, used 
without a space at each end to signify ‘and’ or ‘to’, e.g. the Harrison— 
Nelson technique, 91-95%, and increasingly used with a space at 
each end parenthetically), and em rule (longer than an en rule, used 
with a space at each end parenthetically) by: hyphen, two hyphens 
and three hyphens, respectively. Be consistent with rule used paren- 
thetically. 
9. Use two carriage returns to indicate beginnings of paragraphs. 
10. Be consistent with the presentation of each grade of heading 
(see Text below). 
Title. The title page should be arranged with the full title; name(s) 
of author(s) without academic titles; institutional address(es); sug- 
gested running title; address for correspondence. 
Synopsis. Each paper should have an abstract not exceeding 200 
words. This should summarise the main results and conclusions of 
the study, together with such other information to make it suitable 
for publication in abstracting journals without change. References 
must not be included in the abstract. 
Text. All papers should have an Introduction, Acknowledge- 
ments (where applicable) and References; Materials and Methods 
should be included unless inappropriate. Other major headings are 
left to the author’s discretion and the requirements of the paper, 
subject to the Editors’ approval. Three levels of text headings and 
sub-headings should be followed. All should be ranged left and be in 
upper and lower case. Supra-generic systematic headings only 
should be in capitals; generic and specific names are to be in italics, 
underlined. Authorities for species names should be cited only in the 
first instance. Footnotes should be avoided if at all possible. 
References. References should be listed alphabetically. Authori- 
ties for species names should not be included under References, 
unless clarification is relevant. The author’s name, in bold and lower 
case except for the initial letter, should immediately be followed by 
the date after a single space. Where an author is listed more than 
once, the second and subsequent entries should be denoted by a long 
dash. These entries should be in date order. Joint authorship papers 
follow the entries for the first author and an ‘&’ should be used 
instead of ‘and’ to connect joint authors. Journal titles should be 
entered in full. Examples: (i) Journals: England, K.W. 1987. Certain 
Actinaria (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Red Sea and tropical Indo- 
Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 
Zoology 53: 206-292. (ii) Books: Jeon, K.W. 1973. The Biology of 
Amoeba. 628 p. Academic Press, New York & London. (iii) Articles 
from books: Hartman, W.D. 1981. Form and distribution of silica in 
sponges. pp. 453-493. In: Simpson, T.L. & Volcani, B.E. (eds) 
Silicon and Siliceous Structures in Biological Systems. Springer- 
Verlag, New York. 
Tables. Each table should be typed on a separate sheet designed to 
extend across a single or double column width of a Journal page. It 
should have a brief specific title, be self-explanatory and be supple- 
mentary to the text. Limited space in the Journal means that only 
modest listing of primary data may be accepted. Lengthy material, 
such as non-essential locality lists, tables of measurements or details 
of mathematical derivations should be deposited in the Biological 
Data Collection of the Department of Library Services, The Natural 
History Museum, and reference should be made to them in the text. 
illustrations 
DRAWINGS — Figures should be designed to go across single (84 mm 
wide) or double (174 mm wide) column width of the Journal page, 
type area 235 x 174 mm. Drawings should be in black on white stiff 
card with a line weight and lettering suitable for the same reduction 
throughout, ideally not more than 40%. After reduction the smallest 
lettering should be not less than 10 pt (3 mm). Tracing paper should 
ideally be avoided because of the possibility of shadows when 
scanned. All artwork must have bulletin, author and figure number 
included, outside of the image area, and must be free of pencil, glue 
or tape marks. 
PHOTOGRAPHS — All photographs should be prepared to the final size 
of reproduction, mounted upon stiff card and labelled with press-on 
lettering (eg Letraset). They can be mounted on white or black 
background; a black background must be evenly black all over; any 
background must be free of all pencil and glue marks within the 
image area. All figures should be numbered consecutively as a single 
series. Legends, brief and precise, must indicate scale and explain 
symbols and letters. Photos, when components of figure-plates 
should be abutted, trimmed as regular rectangles or close trimmed 
up to edge of specimen. Joins etc. can be removed at the scanning 
stage but at extra cost. Cropping instructions, if any, should be 
indicated on an overlay or marked on a photocopy of the figure. 
SIZE — Maximum size of artwork for use of flatbed scanners is A3. 
Larger artwork has to be reduced photographically prior to scanning, 
therefore adding to expense. 
Symbols in text. Male and female symbols within the text should 
be flagged somehow within curly brackets to enable setter to do a 
swift global search. 
Reprints. 25 reprints will be provided free of charge per paper. 
Orders for additional reprints can be submitted to the publisher on 
the form provided with the proofs. Later orders cannot be accepted. 
