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Author Guidelines
Manuscript
Submissions should conform to the author guidelines for the journal Ecological Informatics, except as described below. Manuscripts are to be written in English. They should include title, author(s) and affiliations, abstract, as well as the text of the paper and references. Figures should be placed inline in the text for the initial submission. Please indicate whether the submission is an oral presentation in one of the special sessions or the general track or a poster presentation / demonstration in the poster track. Oral presentations will be organized into sessions by topic.
Papers should be organized as follows: Title (should be clear, descriptive and not too long), Authors and their affiliations, Abstract (one paragraph not to exceed 400 words), Keywords (four to six), introduction, methods and techniques results and discussion, conclusions, Acknowledgments, and References. Tables and Figures should be included inline at the appropriate points in the manuscript. All tables and figures should include a descriptive caption and should be referenced in the text of the article. SI units should be used throughout.
Abstracts
The abstract should be a clear summary of the work emphasizing the major results and conclusions. It should be no longer than 400 words and should not include any references or acronyms.
References
Citations in the text should use the (author date) style, including the author's last name and the year of the publication [e.g., (Jones 2001)]. Multiple cited works should be separated by commas [e.g., (Jones 2001, Smith 1999)]. Inline citations should refer in the text to the author's name (without initial) and year of publication. For example, "Since Smith (1999) has shown that ...". If a publication written by more than two authors is cited, list the name of the first author followed by "et al." [ for example, (Brown et al. 2005)].
All cited publications should be listed in the 'References' section, which should only include references that were directly cited in the text. Check spelling carefully to be sure that authors' names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in References. Do not abbreviate the titles of periodicals mentioned in the References. The references list should be formatted using the following style:
Articles:
Smith, M.U., 1999. Software for environmental workflows. Ecological
Informatics 2(3): 234-256. doi: 10.234/eismith-1999
Books and edited books:
Jones, S. and Brown, K. (Editors), 2004. Environmental decision making:
software and applications. Springer, London, 250pp.
Book chapters:
King, S.S., 2006. Sustainable development. In: C. Marks and F. Carvello
(Editors), Ecological Physical Chemistry. Princeton University Press,
Princeton, NJ, pp. 87-101.
Figures
* Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
* Produce images at the desired size of the printed version to reducing scaling issues during printing.
* Each figure must have a caption. A caption should include a brief title and a description of the figure and should explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
Copyright
All authors must license their paper under the Creative Commons 'Attribution 3.0 Unported' license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). This license enables us and others to redistribute and transmit your copyrighted work on the conference website and in other venues, and to remix and adapt the work, under the condition that the work is properly attributed to the author and cited. The full legal code of the license is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors should acknowledge all funding and any direct financial benefits
that could result from publication. Reviewers should disclose current or recent association with authors and other special interest in this work.
Submission Preparation Checklist
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another conference for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Director).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF document file format.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Conference.
Copyright Notice
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c) In addition, authors are encouraged to post and share their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) at any point before and after the conference.
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