Author Guideline

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
The Journal of Wildlife and Parks accepts the submission of Full Article, Short Communications, Case Study Report, Checklist and Review written in English language.

LAYOUT FORMAT

The article should be formatted in one column with 1” margins on all sides. Manuscripts should be typewritten on A4 size paper, Times New Roman with 12-font size, double-spaced and pages should be numbered consecutively. Please note that any manuscript that does not adhere to the format will not be processed further and will be returned back to the submitting author.

FORMAT FOR FULL ARTICLE

In general, a full article should be organised as follows: Title, followed bythe name of authors(s), authors affiliation(s) / address(es), and contact details (email and phone no.) of the corresponding author, Abstract (should be less than 200 words), Introduction, Material & Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion (if appropriate), Acknowledgements (if any), and References. The Results and Discussion section may be combined.

Title: Running title should not exceed 60 characters, including letters and spaces. Author(s) should also provide a short title.

Authors: Submitted manuscript must contain names of all the authors, details of the institutions including address, corresponding author’s name and contact details (email address, phone, and fax number). This is very important for editorial board.

Abstract and keywords: Abstract should follow immediately after affiliation of author(s) and not exceeding 200 words. A maximum of five(5) keywords should be included below the abstract to explain the contents of the manuscripts.

Text: Full article should comprise Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion (if appropriate). The Results and Discussion section may be combined.

Tables: Should be prepared on separate page(s) with explanatory materials given in the table legends or footnotes.

Figures: Each figure should be submitted individually in a separate document preferably in TIFF format (.TIFF). Figure legend(s) should follow immediately after the References section

References: JWP general follow the APA Reference Style. In-text citations should be listed in alphabetical order, by the authors' last names. For the same author, or for the same set of authors, references should be arranged chronologically. In the text, references should be cited as Lim (1995), two authors as Mohsin and Ambak (1983), three or more authors as Lim et al. (1990). A series of references should appear in chronological order, e.g (Ryan & Esa, 2004; Esa & Ryan, 2005; RovieRyan et al., 2015). References to papers by the same authors in the same year are distinguished by letter a, b, etc. (e.g. Ryan, 2004a,b,c).

a. From Journals:
Mokbolhassan, H.K. (2014). Managing Tasek Bera: Department of Wildlife and National Parks and local community participation. Journal of Wildlife and National Parks, 27: 121-127.

Brady, S.G., Fisher, B.L., Schultz, T.R. & Ward, P.S. (2014). The rise or army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory dorylinae ants. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14(1): 93.

b. From Books:
Kottelat, M., Whitten, A.J., Kartokasari, S.N. & Wirjoratmodjo, S.(1993). Freshwater fishes of western Indonesia and Sulawesi. Singapore: Berkeley Book. Pte. Ltd.

Andersen, A.N. (2000). The ants of northern Australia: a guide to the monsoonal fauna. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.

c. From Edited Books:
Stepien, C.A. & Kocher, T.D. (1997). Molecular and morphology in studies of fish evolution. In Molecular systematics of fishes (Kocher, T.D. & Stepien, C.A., eds.), pp. 1-11. San Diego, California: Academic Press.

Malsch, A.K.F., Rosciszewski, K. & Maschwitz, U. (2003). The ant species richness and diversity of a primary lowland rain forest, the Pasoh Forest Reserve, West-Malaysia. In Pasoh: ecology of a lowland rain forest in Southeast Asia (Okuda, T., Manokaran, N., Matsumoto, Y., Niiyama, K., Thomas, S.C. & Ashton, P.S., eds.), pp. 347-373. Tokyo, Japan: Springer-Verlag.

d. From Internet:
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (2004). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication (Froese, R. & Pauly, D., eds.). Available from www.fishbase.org. (Version on September 2004).

AntWeb. (2014). AntWeb v5.36.3. Available from http://www.antweb.org. (Version on 25 October 2014).

FORMAT FOR SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

In general, Short Communications are new research findings written in a short and precise form (without headings e.g., Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion). Short Communications must be 5 printed pages or less, including all References, Figures and Tables. References should be less than 30. Format of references, font type, font size and line spacing are similar as full article.