SPNHC Connection Newsletter
The SPNHC Connection newsletter is published each March. It contains reports from the Society’s officers and committees, and other news items of interest to our membership.
The deadlines for report submission is February 1st.
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Newsletter Guidelines for Authors General formatting guidelines:
Please include a title page with author name, affiliation and contact information, along with any co-authors and their affiliations.
Length should be within 1000 words (longer articles may be submitted for publication in the Collection Forum)
Single-spaced – entire document including tables, figure captions, appendices (This may seem weird, but it’s easier for me when copying to inDesign)
Standard 12 point font for text (Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times New Roman)
Use a single space after colons and periods.
Do not use right-justified text; do not hyphenate words at right margin; do not use footnotes.
Send Tables as separate Word or multiple sheet Excel documents, labeled Table_#
Send Figures as separate, individual jpg, or tiffs with a minimum resolution of 300 ppi
Vector based line drawings are also accepted as .ai files.
Be sure to include figure captions and photo credits
Style and Abbreviations:
Literature Cited: Literature cited includes only references cited in the manuscript. List references alphabetically by author names in the following respective formats:
Brokerhof, A.W., R. Morton, and H.J. Banks. 1993. Time-mortality relationships for different species and development stages of clothes moths (Lepidoptera: Tineidae), exposed to cold. Journal of Stored Products Research 29(3): 277-282.
Jones, E.M. and R.D. Owen. 1987. Fluid preservation of specimens. Pp. 51-64 in Mammal Collection Management (H.H. Genoways, C. Jones, and O.L. Rossolimo, eds.). Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas. 219 pp.
Thomson, G. 1986. The Museum Environment, 2nd ed. Butterworth’s, London, England. 293 pp.
