Submission of abstracts
The 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology will accept contributions from any field of sedimentology and related sciences. Presenting authors of abstracts at the 29th IAS Meeting must register for this meeting and pay their registration fee not later than 30 April 2012. The fees due correspond to the date of payment, not the date of abstract submission. Presenting authors not registered and paid by this date will have their abstracts removed from the programme and abstract book.
Guidelines for abstract preparation
Abstracts must comply with the guidelines which are given below. Abstracts will be reviewed before final acceptance. Every abstract following not the instructions, will be sent back to the authors. Re-submit the corrections within two weeks. If your corrections are not received in time, the abstract will be rejected. To submit an abstract follow the instructions given on the submission form. Any questions or requests for further information should be addressed to the conference chairpersons or session conveners, whose email addresses are listed in the scientific programme.
Abstract guidelines:
Heading (Times New Roman, 12 pt., bold)
Name, Prename (Times New Roman, 12 pt., regular)
(e.g., Badenas, B.1, Pomar, L.2, Aurell, M.1, Morsilli, M.3)
Address post address, email address (Times New Roman, 12 pt., regular)
(e.g. Institution, postal code-city, country) (e@mail)
- Maximum extent size of the abstract is 4.000 characters including spaces, heading, names, address, text and acknowledgements.
- The English language will not be corrected.
- The abstract should include a brief introduction followed by a summary of methods, results and conclusions.
- Use Times or Arial standard font throughout. Font size 12 pt., regular.
- Only pure Latin letters are accepted. No additional characters are allowed, also not in the given names.
- References, tables, figures or any other graphics are not permitted. Equations and symbols (e.g., Greek symbols) must be typed. Please, use metric measurements and symbols.
- Fossil names should be indicated in italics.
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Authors are advised to prepare their abstracts using a Word or Word-compatible text editor (use .doc, .docx or .odt file extensions).
For easy identification of your abstract, name your file by the (1) first author (last name only),
(2) proposed theme and (3) session, (4) proposed presentation mode, all separated by hyphens. Avoid special characters, use lowercase and replace
all spaces by an underscore. Valid examples might be: gawlick-t1-s3-oral.docx,
de_boer-t3-s1-poster.odt.
Upload the entire abstract in the format outlined here on the abstract submission page. Note that to do so you will need an Adobe Flash enabled browser.
Acknowledgements A brief sentence(s) in Times New Roman, 12 pt., regular.