26th Annual Conservation Tillage Conference for Sustainable Agriculture

Raleigh, North CarolinaJune 7-9, 2004
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PUBLICATION INFORMATION

March 1, 2004

TO: Participants at the Southern Conservation Tillage Conference for Sustainable Agriculture

FROM: David Jordan, Planning Committee Chair

Please note that if you are presenting a paper or poster you will need to submit your manuscript in electronic format by April 1, 2004.  Directions for paper development and submission can be found under 'Publication Guidelines' below.  Please note that your paper has been assigned a new number and is provided in the attached program listing.  This is also found on the web site.  Please use the new number when saving and submitting your manuscript electronically.  Full papers will be required for the all posters and for the oral presentations in the afternoon.  For those speakers who were invited to participate in the morning session entitled “Conservation Tillage Production in North Carolina ”, full papers are encouraged.  However, these presentations may not be associated with a specific scientific experiment that is easily written in manuscript form, especially for presentations made by Cooperative Extension agents and farmers.  Summaries will be accepted for these presentations, and the format and directions for preparation of the summaries are listed in the enclosure.  However, all participants with the exception of speakers in the morning session must submit full papers.

We will certainly provide a proceedings for the meeting with either an official experiment station bulletin number.  However, whether or not we provide a full printed copy of the proceedings at the meeting or a cd copy will depend on the funding we receive.  We are hoping to keep the registration fee as low as possible, and the amount of funds received will dictate whether or not we provide a printed or cd version of the proceedings.  We most likely will provide the abstract for each paper in the program we hand out at the meeting.

Poster size will be no more than 4’ by 4’ and will be attached a corkboards.  Space is limited for the poster session, and therefore posters larger than 4’ by 4’ will not be permitted.

Oral presentations will be made using LCD projection.  Files cannot exceed 25 MB and must be saved in PowerPoint 97-2000 format for MS Windows.  Because we have a very tight schedule in the technical program, all presentations will need to be received by June 3, 2004 for loading on the computer.  Please send presentations via cd to my address: David Jordan, Box 7620, NC State University, 4207 Williams Hall, 100 Derieux Place, Raleigh, NC 27695-7620.  Please bring a copy of your presentation on cd just in case there is a problem with our equipment.  Presentations can be e-mailed or sent on CD-R technology.  Please include your name and paper number when submitting the cd or e-mail.

Thank you for your participation at the conference and thank you in advance for your timely submission of manuscripts and power point presentations.  Please feel free to call me at 919-515-4068 or contact me via e-mail if you have questions (david_jordan@ncsu.edu).

Publication Guidelines
“Full Papers”

Electronic versions are due by April 1, 2004

Directions for Submission of Papers for the Proceedings of the 26th Southern Conservation Tillage Conference for Sustainable Agriculture

  1. Title Page: Text should be centered at the top of the page in bold lettering, followed by a blank line. Names of the authors should be centered directly below the title, with the address of the research location and the corresponding author’s e-mail address following.
  2. Page Size: 8.5 by 11 inches
  3. Margins: 1 inch on all sides
  4. Page numbering: No page numberings or headings (other than those listed under 'Content')
  5. Line spacing: Single
  6. Units of measure: English
  7. Font: Times New Romans, size 12
  8. Length: Not to exceed 10 pages including references, figures, and tables
  9. Abstract: Length not to exceed 250 words, required for all papers
  10. Content: Include Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, and Reference sections. Center these headings in boldface type.
  11. References: Use author-year citation system in body of text in parentheses. Include all authors, year, complete title, publication, volume, and page numbers. For books, cite all authors, year, complete title, page numbers, editors, book title, and publisher.
  12. Text: Rich text format (rtf extension). Use the following procedure for saving: Save as Mxxxtext.rtf, where xxx is the number of the manuscript assigned to your contribution. Save figures as separate files.
  13. Tables: Number tables consecutively. Create tables using WORD or WordPerfect table generators.
  14. Figures: Send separately from tables and text.Save as Mxxxfigurey.ext where y is the figure number (in consecutive order as discussed in the paper) and xxx is the number of the manuscript. Electronic files or digital images, figures and/or photographs should be sent separately from manuscript text files. Black and white images only. Images must be Windows compatible (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PICT).
  15. Format: The Proceedings will be published generally following the format and guidelines of the American Society of Agronomy (other than use of English rather than SI units).
  16. Electronic submission: E-mail to david_jordan@ncsu.edu or mail cd or diskette to: David Jordan, Box 7620, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7620

Publication Guidelines
“Summary”

Summaries can be prepared for oral presentations made in the morning session entitled "Conservation Tillage Production in North Carolina". However, full papers are encouraged for this session.

Full papers are required for posters and all other oral presentations.

Electronic versions are due by April 1, 2004

  1. Title Page: Text should be centered at the top of the page in bold lettering, followed by a blank line. Names of the authors should be centered directly below the title, with the address of the research location and the corresponding author’s e-mail address following (see directions for full papers).
  2. Page Size: 8.5 by 11 inches
  3. Margins: 1 inch on all sides
  4. Page numbering: No page numberings or headings (other than those listed under 'Content')
  5. Line spacing: Single
  6. Units of measure: English
  7. Font: Times New Romans, size 12
  8. Abstract: Length not to exceed 250 words, required for all papers
  9. Length of Summary:Not to exceed 2 pages of written text. No references, figures, or tables (if these items are needed you must submit a full paper).
  10. Text: Rich text format (rtf extension). Use the following procedure for saving: Save as Mxxxtext.rtf, where xxx is the number of the manuscript assigned to your contribution.
  11. Electronic submission: E-mail to david_jordan@ncsu.edu or mail cd or diskette to: David Jordan, Box 7620, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7620