The manuscript must be sumitted in the correct format of the journal (see below, and also previous issues at the journal webpages at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/ebbsoc/ejb). We now only accept manuscripts submitted electronically by email, as a single MSWord document.

Journal papers should have a concise and informative title, followed by the names and addresses of all authors. Indicate the author to whom all correspondence is to be sent, and provide their telephone, fax and email.

The sequence of material must be: Title, Authors(s), Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References, Figures (each numbered and with an informative legend), Tables (each numbered and with an informative heading), and Appendices (if any). Please do not use any other subheadings at all. Keywords should contain terms not already in the title.

Please note that there must be separate Results and Discussion sections, and that the Figures and Tables must not be integrated within the text until the paper has been finally accepted. Please do not use any of the formatting templates of MSWord. Papers not conforming to these requirements will be returned for reformatting.

Final acceptance is contingent on the final version of the paper being submitted in the correct format for the journal.

There are no charges for publishing papers in either journal.

Membership of the Society costs LE 30 for the first year of membership, LE 20 for each subsequent year.

Reprints of each paper (10-15 copies) can be provided on request only to authors at a cost of LE 25 per page.

Abstracts should not be too long. They should be between 50-120 words only, and should summarise just the main take-home messages of the paper. No methodological details should appear in the Abstract.

Please pay attention to the number of references used, which should not be disproportionately large: over-referenced papers will be returned for revision. It should be unusual to cite papers more than 15 years old, and this should happen only with a very good reason. Papers should only be cited that have actually been read by the authors: i.e., papers should virtually never be cited secondarily, i.e. taken from other papers.

It is customary in Egypt to use many subheadings in the Methods and Results sections: such subheadings should not be necessary at all, and our journals dispense with them entirely. Please do not use any subheadings.

Methods should not be referred to by author only (“protein was determined according to the method of X...”), but brief details of what was involved should be provided for people from outside the immediate field who are interested in the techniques used.

Results and Discussion should always be separate sections. The Discussion section should not restate the results, but should discuss them in the light of what is already known, and their implications.

Repetition of data in the text that are already in tables and/or figures is to be avoided: data should only appear once, usually in a table or a figure. Any papers with such repetition will be returned for revision.

Statistical analyses are usually essential. especially in laboratory experiments that have a replicated design, and that involve quantitative data. If quantitative data are being presented, but there are no statistical analyses, there will need to be a strong argument about why such statistical analyses are not appropriate. All figures reporting mean values must have standard errors: these are required for all replicated data.

Please include an Acknowledgements section to say who helped in the work.

Please indent the beginnings of all paragraphs.

There should be no brackets around the numbers of the Tables and Figures ! Thus “Table 1 shows that...”, not “Table (1) shows that...”.

The phrases “Moreover,” “In contrast,” “Also,” “In addition,” and “On the other hand,” at the beginnings of sentences seem to be vastly overused in Egyptian scientific writing. They are usually unnecessary or meaningless, and (for balance!) they should never be used in papers submitted to our journals.

Please don’t use any of the preset Styles or Formats of word-processors such as Word. They just cause endless problems later.

“and” should never appear in a list of papers cited in the text. Lists of papers should be separated either by a comma (Johns 1981, Stanley 1982) or by a semi-colon (Johns, 1981; Stanley, 1982). Two-author papers should be “X & Y” rather than “X and Y”.

Please avoid using acronyms, which introduce a significant barrier of understanding to the reader. Acronyms and technical jargon should not be used unless absolutely essential, which it rarely is. Clear simple description is what is required, so that your paper is readable by all scientists, not just a small group of specialists. This is particularly true of molecular studies.

In the Discussion, please avoid statements such as ‘The results of the present study agree with author X...’. Instead, interpret what the results mean, and cite author X.