FR AB - Science Reference

ut not yet accepted for publication should not be
numbered references but should be cited parenthetically
in the text. (eg, Jones SA, personal communication,
April 1998). If there are up to six authors, all
should be listed; if there are more than 6 authors, the
first three should be listed, followed by et al. Journal
titles should be abbreviated as in Index Medicus. References
should conform the following style:
Journal Article: Doe HT, Smith MA, Jones SA, et al.
Subjective evaluations of proteases and mass
spectrometry. N Engl J Med 1998;25:311–322.
Book: Williams DW. Molecular Weight Markers, 2nd
ed, vol 1. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1997:113–
215.
Chapter in Book: Brown PG, Miller FB. Equilibration
of the first dimension. In Williams DW (ed):
Molecular Weight Markers, 2nd ed, vol 1. Philadelphia:
WB Saunders, 1997:216–228.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Four sets of camera-ready, high-quality illustrations
should be provided. Label each piece of art on the
back with the first author’s name, abbreviated title,
figure number, and an arrow indicating the top of the
piece. Any lettering on the art should be large enough
to be legible after necessary reduction. Shading
should be used sparingly in line art and should not be
dark. For computer-generated graphics, provide highquality
original laser output. Legends should be supplied
on a separate typewritten sheet at the end of the
manuscript.
Black and white illustrations will be reproduced
without charge. The cost of reproduction of color
illustrations may be charged to the author; an estimate
will be provided to the author for approval
before the article enters production. There is no
charge for converting color illustrations to black and
white. The publisher reserves the right to establish a
reasonable limit on the number of illustrations in
each article.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS
The preferred storage medium is a 3 1 /2-inch disk in a
PC format; however, files in a Macintosh-compatible
format will also be accepted. Files should be submitted
in a standard word-processing format such as
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Microsoft Word or WordPerfect. Although we can convert
from other word-processing formats, the vagaries
of the conversion process may introduce errors, especially
with special characters (eg, Greek or accented
letters). Do not submit ASCII text files.
Each submitted disk must be clearly labeled with
the name of the first author, abbreviated article title,
journal title, type of equipment used to generate the
disk (PC or Mac), word-processing format (including
version number), and filename used.
It is imperative that the file submitted on disk be
the final corrected version of the manuscript and
agree with the final accepted version of the submitted
paper manuscript. The disk submitted should contain
only the final version of the manuscript. Delete all
other material from the disk.
Because we will typeset directly from the electronic
version, it should not contain any extraneous
formatting instructions. For example,
Use hard carriage returns only at the end of paragraphs
or display lines (eg, titles, heads).
Do not use an extra hard return between paragraphs.
Do not use tabs or extra spaces at the start of a
paragraph or for list entries.
Do not indent runover lines in references.
Turn off hyphenation and justification.
Do not specify page breaks or headers.
Do not specify typeface.
Take care to correctly enter “one” (1) and lower
case “el” (l).
Take care to correctly enter “zero” (0) and capital
“oh” (O).
Do not embed references in footnote functions of
your word-processing program.
Nonstandard characters (eg, Greek letters, math symbols)
should be coded consistently throughout.
Tables will be typeset from author-provided files
and should be submitted in word-processing format;
do not provide graphics files for tables. Illustrations
will be shot from hard copy; do not include them on
the disk. For computer-generated graphics, provide
high-quality original laser output. Figure legends
should be included at the end of the electronic manuscript
file.
REPRINTS
All contributors will be offered the opportunity to
purchase reprints of their articles when they receive
proofs. Reprints are offered in 100-copy increments.