Abstracts

Authors are invited to submit abstracts to the organizing committee. All abstracts submitted will be accepted for either an oral or poster presentation at the conference (to the limits of physical capacity). Abstracts will be collated into an electronic CD format and will be available for download from the conference website. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 16th November 2008 and no submission will be considered beyond that date.

Please submit abstracts via email in the format shown below and please indicate your preference for oral or poster presentation to the following email address:

humboldt@africaclimatescience.org

Page Setup: A4, Margins: 2.5 cm top, bottom, left, right, Font: Verdana.
Formatting:

• Title - all caps, 12pt bold, centred (followed by one 12pt blank line)
• Author(s) - initials (no periods) followed by surname, multiple authors separated by commas, "and" before initials of last author of list, superscript number after surnames to link to addresses for multiple authors with different addresses - mixed case, 11pt bold, left aligned (followed by one 11pt blank line)
• Addresses - one address per line, precede with superscript where required to link to author name(s) - mixed case, 10pt normal, left aligned (last address followed by one 10 pt blank line)
• Body Text - 10pt normal, justified. First line of a new paragraph is not indented, each paragraph is followed by one 6pt blank line.
• Figures should be black and white or greyscale (they will not be printed in colour).
• Figure captions should be 9pt bold, directly underneath the figure, and the same width as the figure.

N.B. the maximum abstract length is one A4 page in this format

Download a sample abstract which illustrates the formatting requirements.