The Newsletter “Raptors Conservation” (Pernatie hishniki i ih ohrana) publishes announcements of new ornithological conferences, meetings, workshops, books, films, grants and others news in the world of the researching and conservation of birds of prey and owls, papers and short notes on the research and conservation raptors. The papers can be written in Russian or in English.

Manuscripts should be submitted in an electronic form on e-mail. Text should be clearly typed on the format of standard A4 size (21 x30 cm), a sheet containing no more than 42 lines 82 characters in each. All titles and subtitles should be spaced from the text by two lines.

Papers in electronic form should be in MS Word (6.0/95/97/2000) format. Submission of papers by e-mail as packed (*.zip) attached files is welcome.

The text of full papers should be written on 10 typed pages; the volume of short notes can range from 2 pages.

Full papers should contain Introduction, Materials and Methods, Region and Terms of Research, Results, Discussion, Conclusions (if any), Acknowledgments, and References.

All papers in English should be accompanied with the title, author(s) name(s) with full given name(s) and address(es) for correspondence (with e-mail address if available), abstract, key words, figure captions, and table titles and headings in Russian. Abstract should be informative and its size is not limited (2-3-page Russian abstracts can be written for particularly large papers).

Latin names of species (or other taxa) should be given in brackets with the first usage in the text and in the abstract. The authors of first descriptions should be mentioned only in specific reviews or if the problems of taxonomy are discussed. All Latin names of plants and animals should be italicized.

Tables and figures should be numbered separately with Arabic numerals. Lines should be distinct. Please avoid thin lines and extremely pale or solid shading. Letters and figures should be at least 3 mm high.

Computer-generated figures are strongly advised to be prepared in PCX-format and do not exceed 1920 x 1440 (recommendation: *.jpg, compression 8-12, 1500x1125 pixels, resolution 300 dpi). Figure captions should be prepared on separate sheets and in separate files. In many cases it would be of great help if computer graphs are supplemented with original data.

Tables should be also prepared on separate sheets and in their own files in MS Word or in MS Excel.

Please indicate the places of tables and figures in the text file.

The following date format should be used: 25 April 1999 or 25.05.2004, July 2003 in the 1950s, of 1990 s (XX century), in the end of XIX century, 1991-2001, times of day as: 08h30, 17h55 (24-hour clock), etc.

The units of square, volume, and fractional numerals should be presented as km 2 , cm 3 , 2/3, 42.3. Symbols of statistic indices must be given in Italic (n, SD, x, P, etc.).

Geographical coordinates should be given as 66, 125 N, 52,176 E.

References in the text should be made as follows: (Ivanov, 1999), (Ivanov, 1999; Ivanov, Petrov, 1999), (Ivanov et all., 1977), “after I. I. Ivanov (1999)”. Papers in press should be cited as " in press" and listed in References. Unpublished data are cited as "pers. comm" (personal communication) or " in litt." (in letter) and are not listed in References.

List of references should be prepared in alphabetical order according to the following standards:

Ivanov I. I. [The Steppe Eagle in the Orenburg District]. – Steppe Bulletin, 2004. No 15 P.19-26. [In Russian]

Ivanov I. I., Petrov P.P., Sidorov S.S. The Saker Falcon in Siberia. – Falco, 2004. 24. P.19-26.

Andreev А . А . [The Birds of Prey in the Irkutsk District]. M.: Nauka, 1988. 200 p. [In Russian].

Nikolaev N. N. The Peregrine Falcon. London: T & AD Poyser. 2002. 200 p .

Sidorov S. S. The Eagle Owl in the forest-steppe. – Raptors Conservation (eds. Ivanov I., Popov P.). London: T & AD Poyser. 2002. P.113-123.

Sidorov S. A., Andreev A. S. Rare bird of prey in Central Russia: some reasons for rarity and survival perspectives. – The Ring (Abstracts of the 2nd Meeting of the European Ornithologists Union and 3rd International Shrike Symposium), 1999. 21 (I). P.105.

Popov P. Peregrine Falcon expedition to the Yamal Peninsula. August 26 - September 12, 1996. Preliminary summary. Unpublished report, 1996. 37 p.

Titles of the journals should be abbreviated according to the World List of Scientific Periodicals.

All manuscripts are refereed and reviewed. No more than three full papers or three short notes by one author are published in each Newsletter “Raptors Conservation” (Pernatie hishniki i ih ohrana) volume. The number of papers prepared with co-authors is unlimited.