Pan Africa News publishes articles, notes, reviews, forums, news, book reviews, letters to editor, and classified ads (restricted to non-profit organizations) on any aspect of conservation and research regarding chimpanzees and bilias. Contributors are requested to write in English and papers except forum and reviews should usually be 1,000 words or less. Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to: as an attachment of either text file(.txt), Microsoft-Word file(.doc) or RTF file (.rtf). Do not include photos and figures in the file. Instead they should be sent by air mail to:

T. Nishida, Dept. of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa- Oiwakecho, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan.

Publication will be made twice a year in June and December. Deadline for manuscripts is one month before publication (i.e. end of May and November).

References
In the text identify references by Arabic numerals (in parentheses). Do not alphabetize the list of references but number them in the order which they are first mentioned in the text.

Examples
(a) Papers published in periodicals:
Watts DP, Mitani JC 2002. Hunting behavior of chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda. Int J Primatol 23:1-28.

(b) Books:
Boesch C, Boesch-Achermann H 2000. The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

(b) Edited Books:
Nishida T, Hosaka K 1996. Coalition strategies among adult male chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania. In: Great Ape Societies, McGrew WC, Marchant LF, Nishida T (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.114-134.