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PROCEEDINGS OF THE DESERT FISHES COUNCIL 1993 - VOLUME X,XV (;) to separate authors' names, and follow all commas and periods with single spaces. Place an asterisk after name of person presenting paper. Maximum allowable number of authors is six. 3. The third block contains the affiliations (Department and Institution or Agency and Office, but not full mailing address) of all authors, in the sequence given in the preceding block of text. Authors' affiliations are to be separated by a semicolon, but use authors initials where possible to indicate multiple authors with the same affiliation. 4. The fourth text block contains the title of the presentation. Use mixed case text, not upper case only. 5. The fifth block of text contains the actual abstract text. Be sure to always use full taxonomic names at least once for indexing purposes. Bracketed strings containing periods will be italicized, but not indexed. 6. The sixth block contains keywords that describe the research. These will be used to compile a combined subject and geographic index for the Proceedings. Begin this block with "KEYWORDS: ", followed by u;p to 10 keywords (or key phrases) separated by semicolons. There is no need to place taxonomic terms here for indexing since, if they are bracketed elsewhere in the abstract, they will be indexed in the Taxonomic index. 7. The seventh block identifies the type of presentation. Begin with "PRESENTATION: ", then "ORAL" or "POSTER". 8. The eighth block determines the session in which the presentation will be made. Begin this block with. "SESSION: ", then either the word "CONTRIBUTED" or "AGENCY". "AGENCY" refers to presentations made a individual designated by the office of a government or private agency to report on general activities of that office or complex of offices (e.g. a Region). "CONTRIBUTED" refers to reports on individual research: or management projects, and not office-wide activity reports, even if the work was done by an agency employee. 9. (Optional) If the presentation is to be considered for a student paper award, include a ninth block beginriing with "AWARD: " and either "HUBBS", "MILLER", or "BOTH". Eligibility requirements for these awards are given below. 1.0. (Optional) other text. Enter phone/FAX numbers and presentation needs here, but other information and comments are also welcome. Begin block with "OTHER: " then any text you wish. There is no need for ANY written communication (e.g. Post-it notes etc) with submissions - all such -extra communications should be entered here) ENGLISH/SPANISH - Abstracts will be accepted in either language or both. If submitting both, do so as a single abstract with English and Spanish versions of the title in the title block separated by " / " and with versions of the abstract separated by a blank line in the abstract text block (see sample abstract above). Your submissions will be translated and/or proofed by the Spanish Language subcommittee of the DFC Publications Committee, but please provide bilingual submissions if at all possible. FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS - Full length manuscripts of papers or posters presented at the meeting will be accepted for publication in the DFC Proceedings. These must be submitted (to the same address as abstracts) in electronic format (as ASCII files). The deadline for submission of manuscripts of papers presented at annual meetings is December 31 of the year of the meeting. Contact the editor before preparing your manuscript to discuss format for figures and graphs. Other format guidelines follow those of The Southwestern Naturalist. AWARDS - Competitors for the Carl L. Hubbs and Frances H. Miller student paper awards must be the sole author and presenter of the paper and enrolled as a student currently or during the 12 months prior to the presentation. The paper must be based on work done while a student. The Frances H. Miller award additionally stipulates that the recipient be a citizen of a Latin American country. Papers are evaluated by a panel of judges on basis of scientific rigor of research (40%), quality & style of presentation (30%), rigor of analysis and interpretation of data (15 and quality and use of visual aids (15 %). Copies of evaluation forms provided on request. 69