Information for contributors

Lectures
Posters
Language
Publication possibilities

Lectures

Plenary lectures will be presented by invited speakers. Others speakers will be selected by the Scientific Committee on the basis of the information content of the submitted abstracts. See detailed program for timing.

Time allocated for speakers are as follows:

Plenary speakers: 40 min presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion

Session speakers: 15 min presentation plus 5 minutes for discussion.

All speakers must keep strictly to time and should not use the discussion period to complete their talks. Session convenors will be instructed to stop speakers at the end of their allocated time.

Lecture halls are equipped with slide projectors for 35 mm slides and overhead LCD projectors. Please contact the secretariat if you would need other equipment or if you intend to use parallel projections. Projectors for previewing slides will be available for use by delegates throughout the Conference.

If you intend to prepare a Power Point presentation, in order to avoid inconveniences, the organisers would like to receive the files 2 weeks prior to the Conference. Please send your presentation to bijou@katki.hu or by snail mail on CD to Altagra Business Services, Gödöllő, Pf. 417, 2100 Hungary. The presentations will be copied to CDs to avoid technical problems.

During the Conference, the possibility of pre-viewing slides will be provided in a separate room.

Posters

Poster sessions will be grouped by theme, numbered and listed in the printed program. Authors are requested to present their posters during the session assigned to them in the final program. There will be no parallel scientific sessions during the poster presentations. For those who present a poster, the maximum size of posters is of 90 cm width and 150 cm length. All equipment will be provided for setting up posters.

(Posters will be mounted over the 3 days)

Language

The official language of the conference will be English. No translation facilities will be available.

Publication possibilities

After the very successful conference of Budapest the time is now to write your papers. As organising committee we have negotiated with relevant journals to publish special issues and we are glad to be able to offer you several publication possibilities (see below).

Please take care of the following points:

• All authors with accepted abstracts can send in a manuscript on the basis of their contribution to the conference. This holds true both for oral presentations and for posters.
• The papers have to be prepared according to the instructions to authors of the particular Journal (can be downloaded from the internet links below).
• The authors may choose the journal themselves but they should be aware that their contribution must fit within the scope of the particular journal.
• Manuscripts have to be sent to the editorial office of the chosen journal. You should inform the guest editors (see below) of your contribution by sending them an e-mail so that they can keep track of the manuscripts, if necessary.
• The manuscripts will go through the normal handling procedures of the journal. This normally means that anonymous external referees will judge the papers. For details on procedures you should check the web sites of the journals.
• The deadline for the submission of papers is 31 January 2003.
• The chief editors of the journals will make the final decisions on the acceptance or rejection of papers.

The following Journals have expressed their interest in publishing a special issue for the Budapest conference:

1. Journal for Nature Conservation;

http://www.urbanfischer.de/journals/frame_template.htm?/journals/jnc/jnc.htm

Guest editor: Jim Harris (j.a.harris@cranfield.ac.uk)

2. Applied Vegetation Science;

http://www.opuluspress.se/

Guest editor: Rudy van Diggelen (r.v.diggelen@biol.rug.nl) and Rob Marrs (calluna@liverpool.ac.uk)

3. Community Ecology;