All talks presented at the 2005 National Cave and Karst Management Symposium will be published in the Proceedings. Submission of Abstracts. Abstracts may be submitted until September 15, 2005. Any abstract pertaining to cave and karst management, use or study is invited.
All talks presented at the 2005 National Cave and Karst Management Symposium will be published in the Proceedings.
Mike Warner is Chairman of the 2005 NCKMS. He should be cc'd on all abstract and paper submissions.
Abstract Coordinator Vince Kappler is responsible for assembling abstracts for publication and scheduling.
Proceeding Coordinator Steve Stokowski is responsible for collecting final version of all papers presented at the Symposium for publication in the 2005 NCKMS Proceedings. The deadline is December 31, 2005 for this publication. Steve will be in contact with authors regarding outstanding papers.
Guidelines for Abstracts:
No More than 250 words in length.
The abstracts should be informative summaries that include the conclusions, and not lists of topics that "...will be discussed." Bibliographies and references should not be given in the abstracts.
In addition to the text, abstracts should contain the title of the paper, and the name(s) and address(es) of the author(s).
Guidelines for Publication:
Text:
* Text must be submitted in any modern word processor format however Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect is preferred. Paragraph formatting and fonts can be at your discretion. Bold face and italics will carry over.
* The first page of the paper must include: full name of paper; name, address, phone number and e-mail of all of the authors in the order that they should appear; and the topic of the session where it will be presented.
* Short biographies of each author may be included at the end of the paper.
* End-note works cited and place the notes at the end of the paper just before any author biographies.
* Authors are asked to conform to the Publications Style Guide of the NSS Special Publications Committee. Papers will be edited consistent with this Guide and to conform to standard American English, including:
o Date format: Month day, year.
o Periods and commas always placed inside quote marks.
o Comma before the "and" in a series. It always makes meaning clearer.
* Avoid acronyms and abbreviations, except those that are so universal that they have become words (such as GPS.) Most government agencies do not fit into this category.
* Avoid Latin abbreviations (eg, ie, etc, cf). Use English (for example, that is, compare to).
Graphics:
* Graphics must be submitted as files separate from the paper's text. Do not submit them embedded in the Word or WordPerfect document. Preferred placement of figures or photos can be indicated in the hard copy, but do not imbed them into the digital copy.
Photos
&Mac183; Preferred format: TIFF with a resolution at least 300 dots per inch.
&Mac183; Also acceptable: JPEG files from digital cameras that are at least two megapixels.
&Mac183; Do not submit compressed JPEG files or a JPEG file that has been converted to TIFF.
&Mac183; Do not submit the only copy of graphics as a Power Point program. Sometimes complex drawings do not extract properly.
Maps and Line Art
&Mac183; Line art (no shades of black) preferred format: PMT, TIFF, laserprint or clean photocopy. If the art was drawn on the computer, we can most likely work with the original source file, which will result in the cleanest printing.
General:
* Submit papers on a 3 1/2-inch floppy disk, CD-ROM, or 100 megabyte Zip Disk. Older Bernoulli disks up to 250 megabytes are also acceptable.
* Be sure to write the first author's name and paper's title on the disk. Multiple articles by the same author may be saved on the same disk, however this must be indicated on the disk.
* Include a hard copy of the paper to help us reproduce illustration placements as closely as the format of the book will allow.
* Refer to the Proceedings for 2001 or 2003 NCKMS to see the format in which your paper will be published.
* Submit your paper promptly. Production of the Proceedings must progress and it does neither you nor your organization any great honor to be represented by an abstract only.
Contact :
If you have any questions about formatting, please contact Tom Rea, Proceedings Editor, < tomrea@ccrtc.com >, Telephone: 765 653-4423