INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS 
1. No paper shall be published unless it shall have been presented at an 
ordinary meeting of the Society and approved for printing by the Council. 
2. Upon publication, in whole or in part, the paper, including plates, maps, 
diagrams and photographs reproduced, and all copyrights thereof, become the 
property of the Society. 
3. Papers accepted for publication by the Society shall be as concise as 
possible, consistent with scientific accuracy, and shall be subject to the control 
of the Editor. 
4. The author of any paper shall be entitled to receive 30 frek copies of such 
paper, or in the case of joint authorship, 20 each if two authors, 15 each if three 
authors, and 10 each if four or more authors. Additional copies may be purchased 
provided the Editor is informed of the number required at the time of submitting 
the paper. 
5. All matter for publication shall be clearly typed, using double spacing, 
on one side of the paper only, and in a form ready for the printer. Illustrations 
should also be in a form ready for reproduction with the necessary reduction 
clearly indicated. The size for illustrations, after reduction, must not exceed a 
height of iy 2 inches and a width of 4.% inches. If legends are required under a 
X>late or full page text figure, then allowance for these must be made in fihe 
maximum height after calculating the size upon reduction. All text figures must 
be clearly draw r n in Indian Ink. Authors are required to pay one-half of the cost 
of preparation of blocks for illustrations. 
6. Uniformity must be observed throughout in the use of capital letters, 
italics, abbreviations, punctuation, etc., and the reference to publications should 
follow the World List of Scientific Literature. Bibliographical references should, 
for the sake of uniformity, follow the style: — Glauert, L. 1930. Contributions to 
the Fauna of Bottnest Island: Journ. Roy. Soc. W. Aust., Vol. XXV, pp. 37-46. 
7. All generic and specific names must be underlined, denoting italics. 
Generic names must begin with a capital letter, specific and varietal names with 
a small letter even where a proper name is used (an exception to this applies in 
the case of botanical names). 
8. Authors and authorities following a name in roman must be in italics; 
following a name in italics in roman. In the case of transference to another 
genus the name of the original author must be in parentheses. No punctuation 
is to be used between names and the name of the author. 
9. In the text the names of Australian States should be written in full. 
10. As far as possible a proof will be submitted to an author, who shall be 
permitted to make slight corrections without cost, but if these are deemed exces- 
sive by the Council, he may be called upon to pay for them. Proofs, together 
with the manuscript, should be returned to the Editor without delay. 
11. Coloured illustrations cannot be considered, unless the author is prepared 
to meet the extra cost thereof. 
12. Authors of papers on biological subjects should send in with their 
manuscript a short abstract suitable for publication in 1 * Biological Abstracts . r> 
