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Presentation of Works

Papers Presentation

For papers to be accepted, authors must be registered at the Conference and have completed payment of the corresponding fee.
Contributions can be presented as Posters or as Oral Presentations.
An abstract of the paper should be submitted in one of the two official languages of the conference before (date).

The Scientific Committee will assess the abstracts received and decide upon the final form of presentation.
The Scientific Committee will select papers within about a month of the closing date for submission of abstracts.
Authors will be notified of the acceptance or not of the paper and the subject area in which it has been included.

Abstracts

Abstracts and Papers should be prepared in line with the following:

• The title authors and address should be included.
• The text shall have a maximum of 400 words, 5 key words, and the subject area to which it corresponds should be specified.
• The following subject areas and workshops are proposed:
• The text shall be written in Times New Roman 12, with interlineal 1.5 spacing, DIN A4 paging, and with margins not less than 2.5cm, and shall cover no more than one DIN A4 page.
• Documents shall be submitted in Word format.
• Scientific genus and species names shall be in Italics. Common species names shall be in lower-case and the first time they are used in the text, accompanied by the scientific name.
• All units used shall be as listed in the International System.
• Abstracts should be sent to (email)
• The abstracts received will be printed in a booklet to be distributed issued as conference material at the start of the conference.

Publication of Papers

• On receipt of notification of acceptance of the paper from the scientific committee, authors wishing to do so may send papers to the following e-mail address: (email)
• Papers may be of any length, although we recommend a maximum of 25 pages, including tables, figures and attachments.
• The following layout is recommended:
  
  • Title, authors (initials followed by surname(s), in small capitals; for example:
    • J.M. PÉREZ and P. FANDOS), authors� address, key words (to a maximum of 5 and in alphabetical order), abstract (between 200 and 300 words), introduction, area of study, material and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements, bibliography, table and figure footnotes, tables, figures and attachments. Should the authors consider it appropriate, some of these sections may be united or subdivided.
  • Section headings should be in small capitals, bold print and centrally aligned.
  • The text should be justified on both sides.
  • Tables should be given on separate pages together with the relevant footnotes.
  • All figure footnotes should be included on the same page; each figure is given on a separate page.
  • Attachments shall use the same format as tables.
  • Tables, figures and attachments are ordered with Arabic numerals.
  • The font type is Times New Roman 12, interlineal 1.5 spacing, A4 page size, margins not less than 2.5cm, and pages numbered consecutively (centre bottom of page.) 
  • Scientific genus and species names shall be in Italics.
  • Common species names shall be in lower-case and the first time they are used in the text, accompanied by the scientific name.
  • Decimal figures are expressed using a comma, not a full-stop.
  • All units used shall be as listed in the International System.
  • Figures shall be submitted in jpg or tiff format.
  • Figures are only accepted in black and white.
  • Bibliographic references in the text are quoted as follows, for example:
    
    • Navarro (1991), P�rez y Belmonte (2000), Granados et al. (2001), (Fandos, 1991; Pérez y Cadenas, 2000; Granados et al., 2001.)
  • In the bibliography, quotations are given in alphabetic order according to the surname of the first author and date (using a, b, c... where necessary) as shown below:
  • For articles
    • FANDOS, P. y VIGAL, C.R. 1988. Body weight and horn length in relation to age of the Spanish wild goat. Acta Theriologica, 33: 239-242.
  • For books
    • SCHALLER, G. 1977. Mountain monarchs. Wild sheep and goats of the Himalaya. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 425 pp.
  • For chapters of a book
    • FANDOS, P. 1994. Los ungulados de montaña. En: Argali, Cacerías de Alta montaña. Ed. Agualarga, Madrid, 261-314 pp.
  • For doctoral theses
    • GRANADOS, J.E. 2001. Distribución y estatus de la cabra montés (Capra pyrenaica, Schinz 1838) en Andalucía. Tesis Doctoral, Universidad de Jaén, 567 pp.
  • For articles, the name of the journal should be given in full.
  • If the quoted information is not published, use �obs. pers.�, �com. pers.�, �in prep.� or �in press�, as appropriate.

Poster Session

• Posters may be hung in the Hall of the Conference Centre, in the space reserved, between 18:00 on 10 November and 10:00 on 11 November.
• There will be specific sessions in which authors may defend their work.
• Authors may collect from the Conference Centre Secretary the necessary material required for its installation on the panels provided.
• The measurements of the posters are 120cm (long) by 80cm (wide.)