PARKS Journal For protected area professionals

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

PARKS has an international circulation of 1,700, including most of the world's government bodies dealing with protected areas. The journal is aimed at professional managers dealing with both conceptual and practical issues, who seek ideas and information on approaches to similar problems elsewhere. Contributors should bear this is in mind when writing articles. The text should be clear, concise and, where appropriate, illustrated with maps, diagrams and photographs.

Each issue of PARKS is devoted to a particular theme:

2004

14 (1): War and Protected Areas (published)

14 (2): Global Change and Protected Areas

14 (3): Durban World Parks Congress

2005

15 (1): Island Protected Areas

15 (2): Categories

15 (3): Private Protected Areas

2006

16 (1): Planning for the Unexpected

16 (2): Community Conserved Areas

16 (3): Connections and Linkages in Managing Marine Environment

If you would like to submit a paper on any of these themes please send a summary in the first instance to: david.sheppard@iucn.org We may publish papers on other subjects, but please note that papers relevant to our themes will take precedence.

Notes for the Co-ordinating Editor

Each issue has a designated co-ordinator, who should collect all papers, maps and pictures from the authors and ensure that they are sent in the correct format and by the specified deadline. It is of paramount importance to submit your contribution on time. In order to keep costs for IUCN to a minimum, PARKS is produced according to a pre-booked schedule. If material is not ready on time, the production window will be postponed causing delay for the whole readership.

Submissions:

A table of contents must be included, and the order in which the papers are to appear. NB: Each issue consists of 5 or 6 papers that take up 42pp (Parks is 56pp total length inc. abstracts and advertising etc, more than 56 pages incurs over-budget production costs and is not really an option). Papers must be:

· submitted in English by e-mail or on disk using either Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format;

· headed by a title, with an abstract of about 200 words, and the author's title, full name, postal address and contact details as well as a brief note about the author's occupation to be used at the end of the article;

· not more than 4,500 words long; NB: Assuming that each of six papers has two pictures and one graphic, the total number of words the coordinating editor needs to supply is approx. 26,200. One picture is approx. equivalent to 300 words;

· written in a relatively simple style with a high degree of factual content;

· a caption and credit for each photograph must be provided at the end of the main text of the article.

Photographs/figures/maps:

· Articles must be accompanied by at least four original photographs (prints or transparencies). Originals are always preferred over electronic images. Please include a list of all originals submitted plus a return postal address.

· Please include a close-up portrait photograph of the editor.

· Disclaimer: Whilst every care will be taken, it should be noted that neither IUCN nor its contractee the Nature Conservation Bureau Ltd accept liability for any loss of or damage to photographic material. Photographs will be returned to IUCN or the author after use.

· High-resolution scanned originals may be submitted as jpgs or tiffs. Please scan images at 300 pixels per inch, and output size of least A5 (120 x 210mm) size. Any queries please e-mail Barbara Creed: design@naturebureau.co.uk

· Photographs embedded in Word documents are not usually of high enough quality, please submit as separate electronic files: tiffs or jpgs.

· An article concerning a particular locality should be accompanied by a neat map clearly indicating the geographic position of the locality within the country; a more detailed map of the locality itself may also be included. Boundaries and/or or territories depicted on maps must conform to UN cartographic and nomenclatural conventions. Maps and other line illustrations should normally be submitted in digital form (tiff/jpeg/bmp) scanned at a minimum of 300 dpi (dots per inch). Vector maps or figures should be supplied as an editable or printable eps, or in Adobe Illustrator 8, Corel 8 or Freehand 9. Artwork sent as hard copy should be in black on unfolded white paper, or as laser prints; high quality photocopies may be acceptable. Captions should be provided at the end of the main text of the article, clearly cross-referenced to the drawing concerned. Images that have been scanned from colour printed matter are not acceptable.

Nomenclature: Scientific names should be given in italics between brackets, e.g. "otter (Lutra lutra)", after the first mention of the vernacular name of the plant or animal. Common names should be given in lower case, unless they include a proper name e.g. kori bustard, Arabian bustard, great Indian bustard, Heuglin's bustard.

Place names: Use accepted Anglicised versions e.g. Rome, Moscow, Beijing, or follow the accepted English transliteration (see National Geographical Society maps or the Times Atlas).

Initials: do not use full stops in the initials of organisations like IUCN and Unesco, or countries like USA, UAE, UK.

Units: The SI metric system must be used, unless there is a compelling need to use another measurement system, in which case the SI equivalent must follow in brackets. Abbreviated unit names take lower case without full stops, for example cm, km, g, kg, ha; separate the unit name from the figure by one space. In prose, numbers are given in words from one to ten, in figures from 11 upwards (with commas to denote thousands), but use 'million' (e.g. 2.6 million, not 2,600,000) and 'thousand million' (not 'billion').

References

References, if used, should be cited in the text by using the authors name and year, in brackets e.g. (Brown, A. 1989), (Smith, A. and Brown, A. 1989); if there are more than two authors, use (Smith, A. et al. 1989). The reference list should be given at the end of the article, arranged in alphabetical order of the author's names, using the full name of any journals cited, in the following styles:

for a periodical:

Gee, E.P. 1956. Report on the status of the Kashmir stag. Journ. of the Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 62 (3): 379-393.

for a book:

Schaller, G.B. 1967. The deer and the tiger. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and New York.

for a collected volume of papers:

Packard, R.L. 1967. Octodontoid, Bathyergoid and Ctenodactyloid rodents. In: Anderson, S., and Knox-Jones, J. (eds.). Recent Mammals of the World. Ronald Press, New York. 273-290.

Proofs and reprints

Printers proofs are not returned to authors owing to short deadlines: queries are resolved at the manuscript stage. After publication, contributors receive two complimentary copies of the relevant issue of PARKS from IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. Further copies may be ordered at the cost price: please consult Barbara Creed (design@naturebureau.co.uk) before the issue goes to print if any additional copies are required.

Postal address: Parks, c/o NatureBureau, 36 Kingfisher Court, Hambridge Road, Newbury RG14 5SJ, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1635 550380 Fax +44 (0)1635 550230.

E-mail: parks@naturebureau.co.uk

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