期刊名称：SMALL RUMINANT RESEARCH
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Small Ruminant Research has risen to 21st in the 2002 Agriculture, Dairy and Animal Sciences ISI category with an impact factor of 0.396, from 28th position in the 2001 listing.
Small Ruminant Research publishes original, basic and applied research articles, technical notes, and review articles on research relating to goats, sheep, deer and the New World camelids llama, alpaca and vicuna.
Topics covered include nutrition, physiology, anatomy, genetics, microbiology, ethology, product technology, socio-economics, management, sustainability and environment, veterinary medicine and husbandry engineering
Instructions to Authors
Types of contribution
1. Original Research Papers (Regular Papers)
2. Review Articles
3. Technical Notes
4. Letter to the Editor
5. Book Reviews
Original Research Papers should report the results of original research. The material should not have been previously published elsewhere, except in a preliminary form.
Review Articles should cover subjects falling within the scope of the journal which are of active current interest.
A Technical Note is a concise, but complete, description of a limited investigation, which will not be included in a later paper. Technical Notes should be as completely documented, both by reference to the literature and description of the experimental procedures employed, as a regular paper. They should not occupy more than 6 printed pages (about 12 manuscript pages, including figures, tables and references).
Letters to the Editor offering comment or useful critique on material published in the journal, within 4 months preceding the most current issue, are welcomed. The decision to publish submitted letters rests purely with the Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief also reserves the right to edit or shorten submitted letters that are accepted for publication. It is hoped that the publication of such letters will permit an exchange of views which will be of benefit to both the journal and its readers.
Please submit the original letter and one copy directly to the Editor-in-Chief:
Dr David M. Sherman
Editor-in-Chief
Small Ruminant Research
46 Roundwood Road
Newton, MA 02464
USA
Book Reviews will be included in the journal on a range of relevant books which are not more than 2 years old. Book reviews will be solicited. Unsolicited reviews will not usually be accepted, but suggestions for appropriate books for review may be sent to the Editor-in-Chief.
Submission of manuscripts
Submission of an article is understood to imply that the article is original and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Submission also implies that all authors have approved the paper for release and are in agreement with its content. Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the author(s) will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the Publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
Papers for consideration should be submitted in triplicate to the:
The Editorial Office of Small Ruminant Research
P.O. Box 993
1000 AZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Fax: +31 20 485 3881
E-mail: health-eo@elsevier.com
Authors should indicate for which section of the journal (Genetics; Health; Nutrition; Lactation; Physiology; Production) they would like the manuscript to be considered.
Preparation of manuscripts
1. Manuscripts should be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are recommended to seek the help of an English speaking colleague before submitting their manuscripts.
Authors in Japan please note: Upon request, Elsevier Japan will provide authors with a list of people who can check and improve the English of their paper (before submission). Please contact our Tokyo office: Elsevier Japan, 1-9-15, Higashi-Azabu 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044; Japan; Tel. (+81) 3-5561-5032; Fax: (+81)3-5561-5045; E-mail: info@elsevier.co.jp
2. Submit the original and two copies of your manuscript. Enclose the original illustrations and two sets of photocopies (three prints of any photographs) and two return address labels.
3. Manuscripts should be typewritten, typed on one side of the paper (with numbered lines, not to exceed 25 lines per page), with wide margins of 3-4 cm and double spacing throughout, i.e. also for abstracts, footnotes and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc. should be numbered in the upper right-hand corner. However, in the text no reference should be made to page numbers; if necessary, one may refer to sections. Avoid excessive usage of italics to emphasize part of the text.
4. Manuscripts in general should be organized in the following order:
Title (should be clear, descriptive and not too long)
Name(s) of author(s)
Complete postal address(es) of affiliation/s
Full telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the corresponding author
Present address(es) of author(s) if applicable
Complete correspondence address (including postal or zip code) and e-mail address to which the proofs should be sent
Abstract
Keywords (maximum 5). Please refer to the cumulative indexes (Vol. 25, Issue 3).
Introduction, including previous literature and purpose of study
Material studied, area descriptions, methods, techniques, description of animals, climate in field studies, statistical analyses
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements and any additional information concerning research grants, etc.
References
Tables
Figure captions
5. In typing the manuscript, titles and subtitles should not be run on within the text. They should be typed on a separate line, without indentation. Use lower-case lettertype.
6. SI units should be used (international metric standards).
7. If a special instruction to the copy editor or typesetter is written on the copy it should be encircled. The typesetter will then know that the enclosed matter is not to be set in type. When a typewritten character may have more than one meaning (e.g. the lower case letter l may be confused with the numeral 1), a note should be inserted in a circle in the margin to make the meaning clear to the typesetter. If Greek letters or uncommon symbols are used in the manuscript, they should be written very clearly, and if necessary a note such as ''Greek lower-case chi'' should be put in the margin and encircled.
8. Elsevier reserves the privilege of returning to the author for revision manuscripts and illustrations which are not in the proper form given in this guide.
Electronic manuscripts
Electronic manuscripts have the advantage that there is no need for the rekeying of text, thereby avoiding the possibility of introducing errors and resulting in reliable and fast delivery of proofs.
For the initial submission of manuscripts for consideration, hardcopies are sufficient. For the processing of accepted papers, electronic versions are preferred. After final acceptance, your disk plus two, final and exactly matching printed versions should be submitted together. Double density (DD) or high density (HD) diskettes (3.5 or 5.25 inch) are acceptable. It is important that the file saved is in the native format of the wordprocessor program used. Label the disk with the name of the computer and wordprocessor package used, your name, and the name of the file on the disk. Further information may be obtained from the Publisher.
Abstracts
1. All articles should start with an abstract in English. The abstract should be clear, descriptive and not longer than 400 words.
2. The abstract should state briefly and specifically what the paper reports, summarize conclusions, point out new information and indicate the relevance of the work. The abstract should be able to stand as an independent entity.
Tables
1. Authors should take notice of the limitations set by the size and lay-out of the journal. Large tables should be avoided. Reversing columns and rows will often reduce the dimensions of a table. Tables should be as simple and as few as possible.
2. If many data are to be presented, an attempt should be made to divide them over two or more tables.
3. Drawn tables, from which prints need to be made, should not be folded.
4. Tables should be numbered according to their sequence in the text. The text should include references to all tables.
5. Each table should be typewritten on a separate page of the manuscript. Tables should never be included in the text.
6. Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title.
7. Column headings should be brief, but sufficiently explanatory. Standard abbreviations of units of measurement should be added between parentheses.
8. Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Leave some extra space between the columns instead.
9. Any explanation essential to the understanding of the table should be given as a footnote at the bottom of the table.
Illustrations
1. All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) should be submitted separately, unmounted and not folded.
2. Illustrations should be numbered according to their sequence in the text. References should be made in the text to each illustration.
3. Each illustration should be identified on the reverse side (or, in the case of line drawings, on the lower front side) by its number and the name of the first author. An indication of the top of the illustrations is required in photographs of profiles, thin sections, and other cases where doubt can arise.
4. Illustrations should be designed with the format of the page of the journal in mind. Illustrations should be of such a size as to allow a reduction of 50%.
5. Lettering should be in Indian ink or by printed labels. Make sure that the size of the lettering is big enough to allow a reduction of 50% without becoming illegible. The lettering should be in English. Use the same kind of lettering throughout and follow the style of the journal.
6. If a scale should be given, use bar scales on all illustrations instead of numerical scales that must be changed with reduction.
7. Each illustration should have a caption. The captions to all illustrations should be typed on a separate sheet of the manuscript.
8. Explanations should be given in the typewritten legend. Drawn text in the illustrations should be kept to a minimum.
9. Photographs are only acceptable if they have good contrast and intensity. Sharp and glossy copies are required. Reproductions of photographs already printed cannot be accepted.
10. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable colour figures, Elsevier will ensure that these figures appear free-of-charge in colour in the electronic version of your paper, regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. Colour illustrations can only be included in print if the additional cost of reproduction is contributed by the author: you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please note that because of technical complications which may arise by converting colour figures to ?grey scale? (for the printed version, should you not opt for colour in print), you should submit in addition usable black and white prints corresponding to all the colour illustrations.
11. Advice on the preparation of illustrations can be found at the following URL: http://www.authors.elsevier.com/artwork .
Preparation of supplementary data.
Elsevier now accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit the journal's home page and click on the left-hand side link to the Author Gateway.
References
1. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of author's names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list.
2. In the text refer to the author's name (without initial) and year of publication, followed - if necessary - by a short reference to appropriate pages. Examples: "Since Peterson (1988) has shown that..."; "This is in agreement with results obtained later (Kramer, 1989, pp. 12-16)".
3. If reference is made in the text to a publication written by more than two authors the name of the first author should be used followed by "et al.". This indication, however, should never be used in the list of references. In this list, names of the first author and all co-authors should be detailed.
4. References cited together in the text should be arranged chronologically. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by first authors' names, and chronologically per author. If an author's name in the list is also mentioned with co-authors, the following order should be used: publications of the single author, arranged according to publication dates - publications of the same author with one co-author - publications of the author with more than one co-author. Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be listed as 1974a, 1974b, etc.
5. Use the following system for arranging your references:
a. For periodicals
Greyling, J.P.C., van der Nest, M., Schwalbach, L.M.J., Muller, T., 2002. Superovulation and embryo transfer in South African Boer and Indigenous feral goats. Small Rumin. Res. (43) 45-51.
b. For edited symposia, special issues, etc. published in a periodical
Morand-Fehr, P., Richard, A., Tessier, J., Hervieu, J., 2002. Effects of decoquinate on the growth and milk performance of young female goats. In: Robinson, A., Sherman, D. (Eds), Sheep and Goat Diseases and Productivity. Small Rumin. Res. (45) 109-114.
c. For books
McDowell, L.R., 1992. Minerals in Animal and Human Nutrition. Academic Press, London, 524 pp.
d. For multi-author books
Beynen, A.C., Festing, M.F.W., van Montfort, M.A.J., 2001.Design of animal experiments. In: Van Zutphen, L.F.M., Baumans, V., Beynen, A.C. (Eds), Principles of Laboratory Animal Science, Revised Edition, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 219-249.
6. Abbreviate the titles of periodicals mentioned in the list of references in accordance with BIOSIS Serial Sources, published annually by BIOSIS. The correct abbreviation for this journal is: Small Rumin. Res.
7. In the case of publications in any language other than English, the original title is to be retained. However, the titles of publications in non-Latin alphabets should be transliterated, and a notation such as "(in Russian)" or "(in Greek, with English abstract)" should be added. In the case of Latin alphabets other than English (French, German, Spanish, etc.) an English translation should be given between parentheses after the original title.
8. Work accepted for publication but not yet published should be referred to as "in press".
9. References concerning unpublished data and "personal communications" should not be cited in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text.
Formulae
1. Formulae should be typewritten, if possible. Leave ample space around the formulae.
2. Subscripts and superscripts should be clear.
3. Greek letters and other non-Latin or handwritten symbols should be explained in the margin where they are first used. Take special care to show clearly the difference between zero (0) and the letter O, and between one (1) and the letter l.
4. Give the meaning of all symbols immediately after the equation in which they are first used.
5. For simple fractions use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line.
6. Equations should be numbered serially at the right-hand side in parentheses. In general only equations explicitly referred to in the text need be numbered.
7. The use of fractional powers instead of root signs is recommended. Also Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp.
8. Levels of statistical significance which can be mentioned without further explanation are *P< 0.05,**P< 0.01 and ***P< 0.001.
9. In chemical formulae, valence of ions should be given as, e.g. Ca2+ , not as Ca++.
10. Isotope numbers should precede the symbols, e.g. 18O. 11. The repeated writing of chemical formulae in the text is to be avoided where reasonably possible; instead, the name of the compound should be given in full. Exceptions may be made in the case of a very long name occurring very frequently or in the case of a compound being described as the end product of a gravimetric determination (e.g. phosphate as P2O5).
Footnotes
1. Footnotes should only be used if absolutely essential. In most cases it will be possible to incorporate the information in normal text.
2. If used, they should be numbered in the text, indicated by superscript numbers, and kept as short as possible.
Nomenclature
1. Authors and editors are, by general agreement, obliged to accept the rules governing biological nomenclature, as laid down in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria, and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
2. All biotica (crops, plants, insects, birds, mammals, etc.) should be identified by their scientific names when the English term is first used, with the exception of common domestic animals.
3. All biocides and other organic compounds must be identified by their Geneva names when first used in the text. Active ingredients of all formulations should be likewise identified.
4. For chemical nomenclature, the conventions of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the official recommendations of the IUPAC-IUB Combined Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature should be followed.
Copyright
1. Authors, when quoting from someone else's work or when considering reproducing an illustration or table from a book or journal article, should make sure that they are not infringing a copyright.
2. Although in general authors may quote from other published works, they should obtain permission from the holder of the copyright if they wish to make substantial extracts or to reproduce tables, plates, or other illustrations. If the copyright-holder is not the author of the quoted or reproduced material, it is recommended that the permission of the author should also be sought.
3. Material in unpublished letters and manuscripts is also protected, and must not be published unless permission has been obtained.
4. A suitable acknowledgement of any borrowed material must always be made.
Proofs
One set of proofs will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author as given on the title page of the manuscript. Only typesetter's errors may be corrected; no changes in, or additions to, the edited manuscript will be allowed.
Elsevier will do everything possible to get your article corrected and published as quickly and accurately as possible. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Subsequent corrections will not be possible, so please ensure that your first sending is complete.
Author enquiries
For enquiries relating to the submission of articles (including electronic submission where available) please visit the Author Gateway from Elsevier. The Author Gateway also provides the facility to track accepted articles and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an articles' status has changed, as well as detailed artwork guidelines, copyright information, frequently asked questions and more.
Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided after registration of an article for publication.
Offprints
1. Fifty offprints will be supplied free of charge (100 for Review Articles).
2. Additional offprints can be ordered on an offprint order form, which is included with the proofs.
3. UNESCO coupons are acceptable in payment of extra offprints.
Author Services
Authors can also keep a track of the progress of their accepted article, and set up e-mail alerts informing them of changes to their manuscript's status, by using the "Track a Paper" feature of Elsevier's Author Gateway.
Small Ruminant Research has no page charges.
Editorial Board
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Editor-in-Chief:
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D.M. Sherman, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Health, Department of Food and Agriculture, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston MA, USA
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Associate Editors:
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E.S.E. Galal, (Genetics), Cairo, Egypt
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J.P.C. Greyling, (Physiology), Bloemfontein, South Africa
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M.S.A. Kumar, (Health), North Grafton, USA
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G.F.W. Haenlein, (Nutrition), Newark, USA
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J.N.B. Shrestha, (Production), Quebec, Canada
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N. Silanikove, (Lactation and Nutrition), Bet-Dagan, Israel
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Editorial Advisory Board:
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E.A. Adebowale, Ibadan, Nigeria
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R.K. Agarwal, Bethesda, MD, USA
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E.A. Amoah, Fort Valley, GA, USA
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M. Ashraf, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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H. Ben Salem, Ariana, Tunisia
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I. Boujenane, Rabat, Morocco
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G. Caja, Cerdanyola, Spain
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S.W. Coleman, El Reno, OK, USA
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A. Duncan, Aberdeen, UK
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H. El Shaer, Cairo, Egypt
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J.A. Erasmus, Glen, South Africa
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M.H. Fahmy, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada
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V.R. Fajt, Pueblo, CO, USA
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G. C. Fthenakis, Karditsa, Greece
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M. Galina, Colima, Mexico
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C. Genchi, Milan, Italy
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A.L. Goetsch, Langston, OK, USA
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C. Hansen, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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J.E. Huston, San Angelo, TX, USA
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W.J. Koops, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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S.Y. Landau, Bet-Dagan, Israel
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P.C. Lefevre, Paris, France
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G. Leitner, Bet Dagan, Israel
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J. Madrid Sanchez, Murcia, Spain
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B.A. McGregor, Werribee, Vic., Australia
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C. McSweeney, Queensland, Australia
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M. Mellado, Saltillo, Mexico
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G. Molle, Olmedo, Italy
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J. Mukherjee, North Grafton, MA, USA
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D.R. Notter, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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Y.W. Park, Fort Valley, GA, USA
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W.A. Phillips, El Reno, OK, USA
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I. Politis, Athens, Greece
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W.E. Pomroy, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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M.R. Sairam, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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S. V. Singh, Mathura, India
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