THE DUNDEE CONFERENCE
CROP PRODUCTION IN NORTHERN BRITAIN 2018
Instructions to Contributors for Publication of Proceedings
Please keep to the following deadlines:
1 October 2017: Final date for receipt of Draft Paper by Session Organisers, with final title and list of all authors.
1 December 2017: Closing date for receipt of final electronic version by Proceedings Compiler (see below).
All papers must be written in English with a summary of not more than 150 words, and should include Key Messages for both the scientists and the practitioners in the audience.
Presentations at the Conference are either Platform Presentations (generally referred to as “Paper Presentations”), or Poster Presentations. Both carry equal weighting in the Published Proceedings.
Offered Papers and Posters are limited to 6 pages, including tables, illustrations and references. Invited, “Keynote Papers”, specified by Session Organisers, must not exceed 8 pages. Final papers should ideally be presented as even numbers of pages i.e. 2, 4, 6, 8.
Draft Versions of your manuscript should be sent to your designated Session Organiser, who will correspond directly with you. On acceptance of a Final Version, this should be sent, as a Word File, to the Proceedings Compiler, Tim Heilbronn, no later than 1 December 2017. This can be e-mailed, or sent on a CD to:
Tim Heilbronn
CPNB Administrator
74a Errol Road, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5AF
e-mail: Tel: 07754 271562
It is essential that you follow the style shown on the following pages. It is recommended that the “electronic version” of the Specimen Pages is used as a template.
PART A: INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
TOP PRIORITY!!! To enable collation of all the various Papers from different authors, it is essential that all Papers are compatible. Please do not use “Heading Styles”. Everything should be formatted as “Normal”, with Italics, Bold, Centre etc. options applied as necessary.
1. Typing
Papers must be typed using a standard word processing package, with Microsoft Word being the preferred package. These Instructions and the Specimen Pages that follow will be provided electronically by your Session Organiser, or can be downloaded from the Website at www.sipr.ac.uk/CPNB/presenters.php
The paper size is A4, with margins set at:
Top: 28 mm
Bottom: 28 mm
Left: 24 mm
Right: 24 mm
Once final, minor editorial changes have been made by the Proceedings Compiler, the Printers will work directly from electronic versions of the manuscripts, after these have been converted to .pdf files.
Please note that the Proceedings are printed in A5, reduced from the A4 originals. It is imperative that all text should be typed in Arial font, 11 point size, single spaced and fully justified. This font size should also be used in all Figures and Tables. Remember to ensure that this includes legends and the numbers / wording on axes. Line thickness in Figures / Tables should be a minimum of 1½ point (0.5 mm).
If in doubt, use an appropriate photocopier to reduce the size of your Manuscript by half, and consider whether or not everything is legible! CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS CONFERENCES: The Proceedings will be printed in full colour!
2. Layout
Follow exactly the format shown in the Specimen Pages.
HEADER: on the first page only, type the following “header”, within the normal margins (i.e. 28 mm from the top of the page):
Proceedings Crop Production in Northern Britain 2018
The header should be in upper (capitals) and lower case, not bold, justified to the right margin.
PARAGRAPH SPACING ETC: There should be a two line spacing before MAIN HEADINGS with a one line space between paragraphs, above and below authors’ names and addresses, sub-headings, figures and tables. Text must not be indented at the start of a new paragraph.
TITLE: Leave 2 lines below the header. Type the title in UPPER CASE, bold, fully justified. Do not end title with a full stop.
AUTHORS: Leave one line between the title and names of the authors. Use capitals for initials and the first letter of authors' names, otherwise use lower case. Do not use full stops. If Authors are from more than one Organisation, use superscript numbers to identify locations, as shown in the Specimen Pages.
ADDRESSES: On the next line, type the Author(s) address in italics. Use upper and lower case. One e-mail address may be added for the first or principal author. Ideally, an address should occupy no more than one line of text. If authors have different addresses, type the address of the next author one line below the address of the first, using superscripts as shown in the Specimen Pages.
SUMMARY: Leave two lines between the last author's address and the summary. Indent the whole summary, including the title, 5 spaces (1 cm) from left and right margins of remainder of text. Start with the word Summary: and follow immediately with the text, which should be fully justified. Remember to include Key Messages for both the scientists and the practitioners in the audience.
HEADINGS:
1st order headings: in UPPER CASE, BOLD, flush left. The following are those most likely to be required: INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, DISCUSSION, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, REFERENCES.
2nd order headings: lower case, bold with initial capitals, one line above and below. Flush left.
3rd order headings: lower case with initial capitals, flush left, one line above. Text to be continued on next line. (Avoid tertiary order headings if at all possible).
TABLES: Tables must be clearly set out and as concise as possible. They must be kept within the margins and centred. Apart from a horizontal line at the top and bottom of the titles and the bottom of the table, lines should be kept to a minimum. Leave one line above and below each table.
Tables should be designed so that they fit onto a page in normal, “Portrait” format, rather than “Landscape”.
Tables should be numbered and titled above the Table as follows, with the (fully justified) title indented 1 cm from left and right margins, and a tab and hanging indent set at 3.5 cm:
Table 1. The seasonal incidence of parasitism of Cnephaenia infuscana by Blastomastix rivulata in 1995.
Month Range in number of larvae Overall percentage
examined per site parasitism
May 190-251 4.1
June 270-350 71.4
July 185-198 80.2
August 98-111 68.9
September 201-309 0.8
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Where appropriate, line drawings, graphs and histograms should be imported into the MS Word document using the relevant software. If possible, please check that your Final Version can be converted to a .pdf file, using Adobe Distiller, without any faults occurring. (Note, however, that the file must be provided to the Proceedings Compiler as a Word File, so that minor editorial changes, and additions of page numbers can be made.) Ensure that all illustrations are kept within the margins.
Arial font must be used in all Figures and Tables, and the size, after any scaling to fit during insertion into your Word document, should be 11 point, so that all text is legible after final reduction. Line thickness should be a minimum of 1½ point (0.5 mm), after scaling, to allow for further reduction. Do not use bold for axis titles or numbers etc.
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS CONFERENCES : YOU CAN USE COLOUR IN YOUR FIGURES:
Please note that reproduction will be in full colour for the first time.
Figures must be clearly set out and as concise as possible. They must be kept within the margins and centred. Leave one lines above and below each Figure. Figures should be numbered and titled as follows, with the title below the Figure, indented 1 cm from left and right margins, and a tab and hanging indent set at 3.5 cm, and followed immediately by any caption:
Figure 1. / Regional distribution of fields surveyed in England. Pre-sowing n = 80 fields and GS 21-31 n = 90 fields. Numbers in parentheses are fields sampled at GS-21-31.The reproduction method will be suitable for photographs.
NOMENCLATURE
CHEMICALS: Use British Standards Institution (BSI) Approved Common Names. A trade name may be used only once in a paper or poster and NEVER in the title.
CROP PLANTS: Use common English names for crops. Use the decimal (Zadoks) key for cereal growth stages. Growth stage keys are also available from BCPC Publication Sales for oilseed rape, peas, beans, potatoes and annual broadleaf weeds.
DISEASES, PATHOGENS, PESTS and WEEDS: Scientific names are preferred. Where common names are used, they must be followed at the first mention in the abstract and text by the scientific name of the organism in italics and surrounded by brackets ( ), e.g. grey mould (Botrytis cinerea), black bean aphid (Aphis fabae), cleavers (Galium aparine). Subsequent use should be abbreviated e.g. A. fabae. Names of viruses should be given in italics, e.g. Potato mop top virus.
REFERENCES:
In the text: Give names of author(s) and year of publication in brackets, e.g. (Smith & Jones, 1997; Brown, 2004) with an additional letter a, b, c, etc. when more than one paper by the same author(s) in one year is included. If more than two authors, give name of first author followed by et al.
Reference List
The following style of references should be used. Punctuation has been kept to a minimum, with no use of bolds for volumes, or italics for Book or Journal titles. References should be listed alphabetically, with no line in between references. Within the references for a particular author, those with the author alone should precede those with two authors and these should precede lists with more than two. Within each of these groups, the references should be listed chronologically. All journal titles should be written out in full. This section must be fully justified but with the second and following lines of each reference indented by 10 mm from the left hand margin. Examples are given below, and in the Specimen Pages.
Journals
Standard journal article
Jones CS, 1980. A forecasting system for leaf blight of tomato. Phytopathologische Zeitschrift 49, 460-9.
No author given
Anonymous, 1947. The measurement of potato blight. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 31, 140-1.
Journal supplement
Grylls NE, Waterford CJ, 1976. Transmission of the causal agent of chloris striate mosaic disease by insect injection and membrane feeding. Australian Plant Pathological Society Newsletter 5(Suppl. 1), 89.
On-line journal
Gibbs MJ, Ziegler A, Robinson DJ, Waterhouse PM, Cooper JI, 1996. Carrot mottle mimic virus (CMoMV): a second umbravirus associated with carrot motley dwarf disease recognized by nucleic acid hybridization. Molecular Plant Pathology On-line [http://www.bspp.org.uk/mppol] 1996/1111gibbs.
Books and other monographs
Personal author(s)
Sutton BC, 1980. The Coelomycetes. Kew, UK: Commonwealth Mycological Institute.
Editor, compiler, chairman as author
Palti J, Kranz J, eds, 1980. Comparative Epidemiology. A Tool for Better Disease Management. Wageningen, the Netherlands: Centre for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation.
Chapter in a book
Jones CS, Smith N, Brown RS, 1979. Biology of diseases caused by Botrytis spp. In: Smith N, Brown RS, eds. Diseases of Vegetables. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 40-49.
Published proceedings paper
McIntosh RA, 1992. Catalogue of gene symbols for wheat. In: Miller TE, Koebner RM, eds. Proceedings of the Seventh International Wheat Genetics Symposium, 1987. Cambridge, UK: IPSR, 1225-323.
Monograph in a series
Allen PJ, 1976. Control of spore germination and infection structure formation in the fungi. In: Heitefuss R, Williams PH, eds. Physiological Plant Pathology. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 51-78. (Pirson A, Zimmermann MH, eds. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology New Series; vol. 4.)
Agency publication
Harvey JM, Pentzer WT, 1960. Market Diseases of Grapes and Other Small Fruits. Washington, USA: United States Department of Agriculture: USDA publication no. 189. (Agriculture Handbook Series.)
Dissertation or thesis
Lenné JM, 1978. Studies of the Biology and Taxonomy of Colletotrichum Species. Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne, PhD thesis.
ABBREVIATIONS
Following the Specimen Pages is a list of abbreviations that can be used without definition. Please note that litre(s) should be used in full, rather than l, which can be confused with the numeral 1.
Use the following Specimen Pages as a guide
Proceedings Crop Production in Northern Britain 2018
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RESPONSE OF WINTER WHEAT TO HERBICIDE RATE AND TIMING
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A J Weeding1, D H K Ologist1 and A N Other2
1Crop Health Department, SRUC Edinburgh, Bush Estate, Penicuik EH26 OQE
2The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA
E-mail:
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Summary: A short summary in English, not exceeding 150 words in length. Indent 5 characters (1 cm) both sides. Draw attention to the salient points including results, and Key Messages for the scientists and the practitioners in the audience. The summary should be intelligible without reference to the paper itself. Please justify all paragraphs in all sections.
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INTRODUCTION (1st order heading)
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The aim of the investigation should be given and also a brief statement of previous relevant work with references.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS
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These should be clearly stated in sufficient detail to permit the work to be repeated if desired. Only new techniques need to be described in detail, but known methods should have adequate references.
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Efficacy Trials (2nd order heading)
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Trials were undertaken over three seasons......
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Year 1 (3rd order heading)
This season was particularly typical with a cold dry May followed by......
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RESULTS
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These should be presented concisely using small tables, graphs or illustrations for clarity. Adequate indications of the level of experimental error and the statistical significance of results should be given.
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Table 1. The seasonal incidence of parasitism of Cnephaenia infuscana by Blastomastix rivulata in 1995.
Month Range in number of larvae Overall percentage
examined per site parasitism