Little details in your proposals

Dear all,

I am writing to remind you the little details about the text of the proposal and Project I. Please take note and take actions accordingly.

a) Use the correct citation technique. If you fail to do this, this will be the first bomb that smashes your marks to ashes - no matter how good you write in the rest of the text.

b) Write taxonomical text correctly: spelling must be precise, italics are done whenever is needed. Taxons above genus must be written scientifically - you need to read scientific articles and look at how these are done. e.g. :

Taylor, JA, Webb, GWJ and Magnusson, WE. 1978. Methods of Obtaining Stomach Contents from Live Crocodilians (Reptilia, Crocodilidae). J. Herpetol. 12 (3):415-417

The word "and" is usually used in the list of references, NOT "&"

See how the Class and Family is written. In this case the name of the species is not mentioned because workers were working of several species within the Family.

See how the numbers for Volume [12], Number [3] in parentheses, and pages [:415-417] are written.

c) Be consistent throughout

d) I want you guys to produce a good map of your stations/area. I don't want to see you reproduce a map from the internet or to show pictures from google earth. Those are not maps. You MUST show the map of Sabah and the detail map of your study area. Redraw the map just as what your geography teachers taught you in school. many computer programs can help on this one and you need to be creative.

I have not seen any of you guys (those under my supervision) that came to see me and discuss about the scientific papers that you guys have recently read. Why? Did you understand them all? Or you have not read them? Or they are not there?

These are some of the reminders that I remembr to write this time.

Hamid.