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Author Guidelines
This format offers much greater flexibility in terms of content. Colour photographs and plates can be incorporated into articles, as can animations, model simulations, direct access to raw data and links to World Wide Web sites. Authors are strongly encouraged to exploit the capabilities of electronic publishing in their submissions. Innovative use of sound, streaming video, animated simulations and other technologies are strongly encouraged.
REFERENCES CITED
Citations in text must concur exactly to the list of references cited, and vice versa (the'&' sign instead of `and', no commas or semicolons for citations within text). The names of all journals should be given in full. Cite literature in the text by the name-and-year system, e.g. (Nielsen 1994), Hubbs et al. (2002), Nielsen & Fountain (1999). Use et al. when there are three or more authors. Use a, b, etc. to distinguish papers by the same authors with the same date, e.g. Skulason (1996a). Arrange all references alphabetically, by surname(s) of the author(s), then chronologically. List single authored papers first than list co-authored papers where the same author is listed as first-author. Arrange multi-authored references having the same first author chronologically. Be sure to double-space all citations. Use 'in press' only when formal acceptance has been granted. Titles in non-Roman characters (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian) should be given in English, with the original language given in parentheses. The accuracy of the references cited is the responsibility of the author.
Submitted papers, technical reports, briefs, abstracts, and any such writings not obtainable via regular library channels (i.e. the gray literature), should not be quoted as references cited but, as unpublished data or personal communications in the text or as footnotes. Footnotes, with consecutive superscript numbers should be arranged on the bottom of the pages on which they are first cited. Examples of such footnote citations would be as follows:
1 Dunham, J. B., M. M. Peacock, J. L. Nielsen, C. R. Tracy & G. L. Vinyard. 1999. Extinction risk assessment: Integrating genetic information. Conservation Ecology [on line] 3(1):2 Available from the Internet URL http://www.consecol.org/vol3/iss1/art2
2 Nielsen, J. L. 1996. Anadromous Fishes of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary web site address: http://color.mlml.calstate.edu/www/mbnms/docs92/fish.html
The following examples illustrate the style and format required for references in GIR:
Fry, F. E. J. 1971. The effect of environmental factors on the physiology of fish. pp. 1--98. In: W. S. Hoar & D. J. Randall (ed.) Fish Physiology, Volume 6, Academic Press, New York.
Hubbs, C. L.., R. J. Edwards & G. P. Garrett. 2002. Threatened fishes of the world: Gambusia heterochir Hubbs, 1957 (Poeciliidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 65: 422.
Kristjansson, B. K., S. Skulason & D. L.. G. Noakes. 2002. Rapid divergence in a recently isolated population of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.). Evolutionary Ecology Research 4: 659 - 672.
Nielsen, J. L. (ed.) 1995a. Evolution and the Aquatic Ecosystem: Defining Unique Units in Population Conservation. American Fisheries Society Monograph Series No. 17. 435 pp.
Nielsen, J. L. 1995b. Variation in individual life history strategies in coho salmon from northern California. pp. 40 -- 41. In: J. Duncan-Vaughn (ed.) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Salmonid Restoration Federation Conference, Santa Rosa, CA.
Noakes, D. L. G., F. W. H. Beamish & A. Rossiter. 1999. Conservation implications of behaviour and growth of the lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, in northern Ontario. Environmental Biology of Fishes 55: 135 - 144.
Scott, W. B. & E. J. Crossman. 1973. Freshwater Fishes of Canada. Bulletin 184, Fisheries Research Board of Canada. Ottawa. 966 pp.
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