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Instructions to Authors (revised December 1986) GENERAL Contributiom mua be on& M y and pmcdy prclented in English, and must be robmittcd ercluridy to thc A d of Boruny. Both experimental and theoretical paprrs on an arpclr of plant sciaux arc wdarmc. Fd-length ppcn should not normrlly cracd I5 printed pgcr but ahort communications w%iA may be publbhcd mom quickIy must not naed four printed plgcr. A pgc of text am- about 6W-700 worb aad u rt in two wi- Thr& ccpia mua be submitted to Annals of Botany, E d i o d &, Dcpartmnt of Botany. Royd Holloway and Word New Collcgc, Egham, Surrey TW20 OM. MANUSCRIPTS Papcn mud be W, on om ddc only of white opaque ppcr, using doubk qehg throughout. with at Lon 40 mm rmrpin on all rider. For nylc of setting out titlcr. rubdidng thc text ad Laying out tabla. a - t copy of tk p u d shod be wnaulted. Numerid dts shoukl be mted cu T- or FWARB (Fm), not both. ad mud be numbed with uabic numrnL(T~~e 1.2 ctc. aod Fm. 1.2 ctc., the Lattcr huh4 be nurnbcrcd in rq- with pictorial 6gurrr). and crh submitted on wparnte beet. Delays can be avoided if the dctlils of format arc followed carefully. Words to be i t a h a d ahould be undcrlincd or typbd in irdiu. U u square bracket, to indudc curved bnckcts. TITLE Thc ti& should be concise and informative. Serially n u m b e d ppcrs with a wmmon tit* arc ncaptnbbe only d tbcy are to be published In thc samc o r w-tive issues. Plcnsc sum a short running tltk (ah to eight womb). ABSTRACT AU papm must have an abstract not c x d i n g 254 words for full papcn and 75 wonh for ahort communicntions, h a t e d after the ti& KEY WORDS A list of key words. indudlng thc wmpkte botanical namc and common name of the plant materid. mua be upplied Othr kcy words should lrrlude the topic lnvcstigated and rpsial techniques usd. The abstract and the key word$ should be informativc without rcfcrcna to thc m n text. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Plcasc be bncf. 'Wc thank.. . ' (not 'Tkc present authon would bkc to c x p m tbclr thanks to.. . *) SCIENTIFIC NAMES Tbc complete Latln namc (dcmu, specks and authority) ad cultivar or swain where appropriate. must be cited for evmy organism at the Brst mmtion Thc generic nrmc may be abbreviated to tk initial tbmdtm cxapt wbcrc rcfmm to otbcr gcncra could cam confunon. Vcra~cuhr nama may be used only when tkcy arc unnmhguous. CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL NOMENCLATURE The IUPAC-IUB rula on chid and biochemical nomeachturc should be followed. Tbcsc can be f o u d in thc Biochemical JoMnal193, 1-27 (1981) and 209. 1-27 (1983)-Pdicy of rlv Jmonnl ad Insrrucrim.~ to Aurhws. UNITS OF MEASUREMENT Tbc me& system and SI units shouM be used. Ddb of Sl umu arc given in the Royal Sodety publication pwvlrirks, Units and Symbolt (London. 1971) and in Ellis. G. (ed.), 1972, Units, Symbolt and Abbrmiarrau. 36 pp., The Royal S&y of Medicim, London If non-SI units have to be usd, the SI equivplcnu should be added in pamthm on the Arst mention. Somc SI cqui~lcnts arc Listed below. Units should be spclkd out exapt wbcn prradcd by a numeral. wbcn they should be abbrcnated: g, mg, ml, d, h, ctc. and not fdlowed by full stop. U r thc minus ink (m*. I - ' , h-') cxcept in the text where lhc unit is a plant or a culture vessel Use ' p r plant' (not plant-'). ABBREVIATIONS StnndPrd c hcal symbols and abbrcvutiona for long chcd - my be uud whcrc they arc wndv and widdy rcccpted. Use KH,FQ,, 'TO,. AT?, DNA, NADH. I M for exampk. but not H.O. 0, CO, ctc: except in Tnbkn and figs. A lut is given below and in Bimhemicd J-1 Xf9.1-27 (1983). Numbm up to ten should be given in words except whcn rcfming to measurements: I I upwards ar numerals except at tlx kghhg of a scntcaa. Fractions should be c x p d as decimaLr. Uu 'pcr ant' (not YJ in h text. Data should be cited thus: 31 Jan 1983. LITERATURE CITATION Citations in the 5 1 ahoukd take the form: Smith and Robn (1974). or (Jooer, 1978; Smith. 19824 b). Wbm ppen are by three authors use dl nnmer on a he first m t i o n but sutnequcnrly abbreviate to the i%m nnme cr d.. e.g. Street rr 01. (1974). Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/aob/issue/58/6 by guest on 22 July 2022
