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Author Guidelines

  1. Abstracts and presentations must be as simple as possible with no unexplained jargon. Do not assume the audience will have understanding of any technical issue. E.g., taxonomists should be able to understand presentations from computer scientists and vice versa.
  2. The submission is in English and adheres to the word limit for the presentation type (above). Word limitations do not include title, authors, affiliations or acknowledgements. Authors with English as a secondary language should, if needed, seek assistance with their abstracts before submission.
  3. All acronyms (except TDWG, GBIF, and file formats such as JPG, TIFF, and PDF) must be spelled out in the abstract the first time they are used.
  4. All abbreviations must be spelled out in the abstract at the time of first use (except GIS, HTML, WWW, URL, & XML)
  5. If a file is submitted, it should be in Text, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format. Headers, footers and footnotes are not permitted in abstracts.
  6. All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca) should be activated, tested, and ready to click. E-mail addresses provided as 'mailto:' links are permitted but please be aware that embedded e-mail addresses will appear on the website.
  7. 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.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

  1. Abstracts and presentations must be as simple as possible with no unexplained jargon. Do not assume the audience will have understanding of any technical issue. E.g., taxonomists should be able to understand presentations from computer scientists and vice versa.

  2. The submission is in English and adheres to the word limit for the presentation type (above). Word limitations do not include title, authors, affiliations or acknowledgements. Authors with English as a secondary language should, if needed, seek assistance with their abstracts before submission.

  3. All acronyms (except TDWG, GBIF, and file formats such as JPG, TIFF, and PDF) must be spelled out in the abstract the first time they are used.

  4. All abbreviations must be spelled out in the abstract at the time of first use (except GIS, HTML, WWW, URL, & XML)

  5. If a file is submitted, it should be in Text, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format. Headers, footers and footnotes are not permitted in abstracts.

  6. All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca) should be activated, tested, and ready to click. E-mail addresses provided as 'mailto:' links are permitted but please be aware that embedded e-mail addresses will appear on the website.

  7. 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.

 

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a) Authors retain copyright over their work, while allowing the conference to place this unpublished work under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely access, use, and share the work, with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and its initial presentation at this conference.

b) Authors are able to waive the terms of the CC license and enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution and subsequent publication of this work (e.g., publish a revised version in a journal, post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial presentation at this conference.

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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