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- The following rules govern the Allee Award for best student paper presented in the Warder Clyde Allee session at the annual meeting:
- Any independent graduate student research (including, but not limited to, the doctoral dissertation) is eligible. The work presented may be part of a larger collaborative effort, but the student should have the principal responsibility for the conceptualization and design of the research, the collection and analysis of the data, and the interpretation of the results. (Revised at 1992, 2003 E.C. meetings.)
- The entrant cannot have completed defense of the doctoral dissertation before the preceding ABS annual meeting.
- An individual can enter the session only once per lifetime.
- Only single-authored papers are eligible for the session.
- Four copies of a written version of the paper must be submitted. The paper is to be in Animal Behaviour format and no more than 7 pages double spaced text pages in length. This limit does not include the abstract, references or acknowledgments. The combined number of tables and figures can not exceed 4. Papers exceeding these limits will be rejected (Revised at 1994 E.C. meetings.)
- The Allee Award Committee may, at its discretion, designate up to one Honorable mention when there are six to ten contestants and up to two Honorable Mentions when there are more contestants.
- If the number of contestants in the Allee Award session is greater than 14, a panel of judges appointed by the Chairperson of the Allee Award Committee will select the best 14 submitted papers. (Revised at 2007 E.C. meetings.)
- The Senior Member-at-Large will assume responsibility for the Allee Award session in case the Second President-elect cannot act in this capacity.
- The amount of the Allee Award shall be (U.S.) $250. (Enacted at 1983 E.C. meetings.)
- The Host is to provide each Allee participant with a banquet ticket. (Enacted at the 1987 E.C. meetings.)
- Membership of the Allee session judging committee shall not include graduate students or more than one member from the same institution. (Enacted at the 1986 E.C. meetings; revised at the 1999 E.C. meetings.)
- The chair of the Allee judging committee handles correspondence regarding rules, regulations and information. (Enacted at 1996 E.C. meetings.)
