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1. Submission. Submissions should be made to one of the Editors-in-Chief. Electronic submission is encouraged and most types of word processing packages are acceptable, however pdf files are preferred in the first instance. If electronic submission is not possible, 4 hard copies should be sent by ordinary mail.
   
   
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   (a) Title page showing the full title, a running title (maximum 50 characters), the names, addresses and affiliations of all authors, full postal and email address, telephone and fax number of the corresponding author; (b) Up to five keywords or phrases; (c) An abstract of not more than 200 words; (d) Introduction; (e) Methods; (f) Results; (g) Discussion; (h) acknowledgments, if any (i) References. Where appropriate Results and Discussions may be combined.
   
   
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4. Tables. Each table must be supplied on a separate sheet, numbered consecutively and provided with a brief title. Tables should be comprehensible without reference to the text but repetition of methods that have been described in the text are not necessary. Explanatory material should be presented as a footnote to the table. When results are expressed as percentages, the absolute value(s) corresponding to 100% should be stated. Statistical measures of variation should always be identified.
   
   
5. References. The Harvard system of references is used. References in the text should be cited thus: Jones (1991) or (Jones, 1991); two authors: Jones and Smith (1991) or (Jones and Smith, 1991); three or more authors, Jones et al. (1991) or (Jones et al., 1991). References to papers by the same author(s) in the same year are distinguished in text and reference list by the letters a, b etc.
   
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