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Journal of the South African Veterinary Association

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General

The Journal of the South African Veterinary Association publishes articles of general and particularly of South African veterinary interest. In the interest of maintaining the international status of the journal, contributions in English are encouraged. Contributions in the other national languages may be submitted but an abstract must be provided in English. Arrangements can

be made to have contributions translated into English, if requested. Scientific articles, case reports, short communications and notes (research and clinical), review and continuing education

articles will be reviewed by at least two referees and the editor/editorial committee before acceptance for publication. Letters to the editor are welcomed and will not be refereed, but will be subjected to editorial correction where necessary. Summaries of material from workshops, conferences and symposia, abstracts and other informative material may be submitted and will be published if considered suitable by the editor/editorial committee.

Before submitting material for publication, a recent issue of the journal should be consulted to ensure that manuscripts conform with the norms and house rules of the journal. If in doubt, please consult the editor on tel. (012) 460-8787, fax (012) 346-6326, or e-mail: [email protected]  

Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted to:
The Editor, Journal of the South African
Veterinary Association, 7 Spiral Walk,
Menlo Park, Pretoria, 0081 South Africa.

Manuscripts must typed on one side of the paper only, double spaced, with 3 cm margins on all sides. Three copies must be submitted. Communications other than letters to the editor and certain types of informative material should include an abstract of not more than 250 words that concisely conveys the content. A list of not more than 10 key words must be provided.

Articles should be structured as follows:Introduction, Materials and methods(where applicable), Results/Observations,Discussion, Acknowledgements and References.

Short communications should not be divided into subsections.

Case reports, depending on length, will generally consist of: Introduction, Case history, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References. The use of subheadings should be minimised, with preferably not more than 2 subcategories below a main subheading such as Results. Illustrations may consist of linedrawings of good quality that will allow reduction to the width of 1 or 2 columns, or the width of a page. Photographs should have good contrast and should preferably be of the size required in print, i.e. the width of one column (6 cm), 1.5 to 2 columns (9–12 cm) or page width (18 cm). Lettering and numbering in figures are not provided by the printer; font sizes (preferably in Helvetica/Swiss) should be selected for uniformity, and legibility after reduction. Photographs will be printed in black-and-white unless the total cost of printing in colour is borne by the author/s. Tables and a list of captions to figures must be supplied on separate pages. Tables should be composed to fit the page horizontally.

After acceptance, the final manuscript must be submitted as a hard copy as wellas on computer disk in WordPerfect, Microsoft Word or ASCII. Illustrations generated electronically may be submitted as WordPerfect (WPG) or Windows metafile (WMF) graphics or in one of the following formats: CGM, CDR or TIF (preferablyin vector format).

Proofs

Page proofs are provided for the purpose of checking printer's errors, and not for author's corrections such as adjustments to language, style and punctuation. Author's corrections will be charged to the authors.

Offprints

Twenty-five offprints are provided free of charge. Orders for additional offprints must be placed when returning the page proofs.

Scientific names, units and symbols, products, statistics

Generic and specific names should be underlined (i.e. not in italics). Units and symbols: use SI units (Système International d'Unités). The decimal point instead of the comma should be used.

The trade name and manufacturer of a product used should be given in brackets after the reference to the product, e.g. oxytetracycline (Vetramycin 100 LP, Pfizer AH). When a statistician has been consulted, this should be clearly reflected in the aknowledgements.

References

References cited in the text are listed alphabetically and numbered at the end of contributions. They are cited in the text by the use of superscript numbers, usually at the end of the relevant

sentence. The text must be composed to minimise the citation of authors' names. Titles must be quoted in the language in which they were published. The following style is used in the list of

references:

Journal article
1. Bastianello S S, Fourie N, Prozesky L, Nel P W, Kellerman T S 1995 Cardiomyopathy of ruminants induced by the litter of poultry fed on rations containing the ionophore antibiotic, maduramicin. II.Macropathology and histopathology. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research62: 5–18

Book
1. Ganong W F 1985 Review of medicalphysiology (12th edn). Lange Medical Publications, Los Altos

Chapter in book
1. Thomson G R 1994 Foot-and-mouth disease. In Coetzer J A W, Thomson G R, Tustin R C (eds) Infectious diseases of livestock with special reference to southern Africa Vol. 1.
Oxford University Press, Cape Town: 825–852

Conference proceedings
1. Nielsen J P, Rosendal S 1994 Ciliostasis in the pathogenesis of atrophic rhinitis.
Proceedings of the 13th International PigVeterinary Society Congress, Bangkok, Thailand,
26–30 June 1994: 119

Thesis
1. Pini A 1977 Strains of African swine fever virus isolated from domestic pigs and from the tick Ornithodoros moubata in South Africa. DVSc thesis, University of Pretoria. Citations from unpublished papersmust be given as personal communications (see below), unless publication has reached a stage where the journal and volume number can be cited, when `(in press)' may be used, provided the author supplies the editor with written proof of acceptance for publication in that issue of that journal. Personal communications are cited in brackets in the text as follows: (L Prozesky, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, pers. comm., 1995), and are not numbered or listed in the References section.