Acknowledgement alone is not sufficient. Authors should exercise customary professional courtesy in acknowledging intellectual properties such as patents and trademarks. Tables are frequently overused in scientific publications, and the first step in constructing a table should be to decide if it is needed. Presenting all data collected is rarely necessary, and printing tables is very costly. Tables should not duplicate information in the text or data presented in graphic forms and should stand alone without reference back to the text, as they are often reprinted.
Tables have at least three columns, and the center and right columns refer back to the left column.
All columns should have brief headings that accurately describe the entries listed below. Make titles short and concise and place explanatory matter such as nonstandard abbreviations in the footnotes, grouping when possible. Identify footnotes with superscript, lower-case letters. Double-space all information in tables, and place each table on a separate sheet of paper after the text. Number tables using consecutive Arabic numerals and place the corresponding author's name on the back of each page.