1. Participants who wish to give a poster or oral presentation should submit a manuscript by e-mail attached file to the Secretariat at the address below. The authors should also send simultaneously two sets of printed hard copy and the manuscript submission form included in the second announcement by post mail. Manuscript must arrive no later than August 31, 2005.
Dr. Xiquan Zhang
College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University
Guangzhou 510642, China
Phone: 86 20 8528 5703
Fax: 86 20 8528 0740
E-mail:waterfowl2005@scau.edu.cn

2. The organizing committee will select a limited number of manuscripts for oral presentation and will advise the authors of the selected manuscripts by e-mail before August 31, 2005. The selected authors will have oral presentations of 20 minutes using PowerPoint.

3. The manuscript must be prepared using Microsoft Word and conform to the format illustrated in the following guide for the authors.

4. The manuscript will be organized in the following categories. Please indicate one section on the manuscript submission form, in which you would like to present your manuscript.
a. World waterfowl production, trade and marketing;
b. Waterfowl breeds and genetic resources;
c. Reproductive physiology and techniques;
d. Nutrition and management;
e. Disease prevention and control;
f. Product processing.

Guide for Authors: Format for submitting manuscripts to

3rd World Waterfowl Conference

 Types of contributions Both Original Research Papers which report the results of original research and are for either a 20 minutes oral presentation or a poster presentation, and Review Articles which are for the keynote speech for each program session, are welcomed.The manuscripts will be reviewed and selected by the conference scientific committee, and the authors will be notified of the selection outcome of types of presentation and the program session specific.

Online submission Online submission to 3rd World Waterfowl Conference can be done through a step-by-step uploading of files directly from contributor’s computers. Authors should select a set of classifications for their papers from a given list, as well as a category designation (Original Research Paper or Review article). Should the submitted manuscript be withdrawn, the online submission function can also be used to delete the submitted manuscript from the database before the deadline.

Submission of an article is understood to imply that the article is original and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Submission also implies that all authors have approved the paper for release and are in agreement with its content. It is understood by the authors that upon acceptance of the article by the conference, the copyright of the article is automatically transferred to the conference or WPSA. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

Circumstances relating to animal experimentation must meet the International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research Involving Animals as issued by the Council for the International Organizations of Medical Sciences. They are obtainable from: Executive Secretary C.I.O.M.S., c/o WHO, Via Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, or at the following URL: http://www.cioms.ch/frame_1985_texts_of_guidelines.htm. Equivalent national care standards may alternatively be referred to. The standards of animal experimentation adhered to should be clearly stated. Any approval number that has been assigned to a research project by an Animal Experimentation Committee should be cited. Unnecessary cruelty in animal experimentation is not acceptable to the Scientific Committee of the Conference.

 Preparation of manuscripts

(1) Manuscripts should be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are strongly advised to have their manuscripts checked by an English-speaking colleague prior to submission. Manuscripts that do not conform to standard English style, usage or grammar will be returned to the authors for modification prior to scientific review.

(2) Manuscripts should have numbered lines with wide margins and double spacing throughout, i.e. also for abstracts, footnotes and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the references, should be numbered.

(3) Manuscripts in general should follow the format adopted by WORLD’S POULTRY SCIENCE JOURNAL and be organized in the following order:

Title (should be clear, descriptive and not too long)
Name(s) of author(s)
Complete postal address(es) of affiliations(Full telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the corresponding author in the footnote appearing in the first page containing the title
Present address(es) of author(s) if applicable, in the footnote appearing at the bottom of the first page containing the title)

Abstract (should be no more than 400 words)

Key words (indexing terms), normally 3-6 items.

Introduction

Material and methods (materials studied, area descriptions, methods, techniques)

Results

Discussion

Conclusion (optional)

Acknowledgements and any additional information concerning research grants, etc.

References
(4) Electronic figures or illustrations ((line drawings and photographs) of good intensity and contrasts can be inserted into the text at appropriate positions, but should be numbered which are referred to in the text.Each figure should be followed with a caption explaining the details of treatments, difference significance, etc. as is done by World’s Poultry Science Journal.
(5) Tables are arranged into 3-lined format, and inserted into the appropriate positions in the text.Large tables should be avoided or to be divided over two or more tables.Each table is numbered and preceded with a brief and self-explanatory title, and whenever necessary can be followed with explanatory numbered footnotes immediately after the table, in the format adopted by World’s Poultry Science Journal.
(6) Standard International units should be used, with hormonal concentrations preferably as mass/unit volume (e.g. ng/ml, g/l, etc.).
(7) Conference scientific committee, representing WPSA, reserves the privilege of returning to the author for revision accepted manuscripts and illustrations which are not in the proper form given in this guide, or re-editing or performing modifications of the manuscript whenever necessary.

References

A. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of authors' names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list.
B. Reference made in the text to a publication written by single or double authors should follow the example of (Kramer, 1989) or (Leeson and Summers, 1988).When citing publications with more than two authors the name of the first author should be used followed by "et al." ,for example (Nys et al., 1995) .This indication, however, should never be used in the list of references. In this list names of first author and co-authors should all be mentioned.
C. References cited together in the text should be arranged chronologically. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically on authors' names, and chronologically per author. If an author's name in the list is also mentioned with co-authors the following order should be used: publications of the single author, arranged according to publication dates - publications of the same author with one co-author - publications of the author with more than one co-author. Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be listed as 1974a, 1974b, etc.
D. Use the following system for arranging your references:
a. For periodicals
BUYS, N., SCHEELE, W., KWAKERNAAK, C. and DECUYPERE, E. (1999) Performance and physiological variables in broiler chicken lines differing in susceptibility to the ascites syndrome: 2. Effect of ambient temperature on partial efficiencies of protein and fat retention and plasma hormone concentrations.British Poultry Science 40: 140-144.

b. For edited symposia and special issues
VAN BEBBER, J. and MERCER, J.T. (1994) Selection for efficiency in broilers: A comparison of residual feed intake with feed conversion ratio. 5th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, 15-21 August 1994, Guelph, Canada, pp 53-56.

WIDEMAN F.R. (1988) Ascites in poultry. Monsanto Nutrition Update 6:1-8.

c. For books
VAN ZUTPHEN, L.F.M., BAUMANS, V., BEYNEN, A.C. (2001) Principles of Laboratory Animal Science, Revised Edition. Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
d. For multi-author books
SORENSEN P. (1984) The influence on leanness of selection for feed efficiency. In: Leanness in domestic bireds (Leclercq. B. and Whitehead, C.C., Eds), Butterworths London, pp127-128.

E. In the case of publications in any language other than English, the original title is to be retained. However, the titles of publications in non-Latin alphabets should be transliterated, and a notation such as "(in Russian)" or "(in Greek, with English abstract)" should be added.
F. Work accepted for publication but not yet published should be referred to as "in press".
G. References concerning unpublished data and "personal communications" should not be cited in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text.
H. Web references may be given. As a minimum, the full URL is necessary. Any further information, such as Author names, dates, reference to a source publication and so on, should also be given.
I. Articles available online but without volume and page numbers may be referred to by means of their Digital Object identifier (DOI) code.

Formulae

A. Give the meaning of all symbols immediately after the equation in which they are first used.
B. For simple fractions use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line.
C. Equations should be numbered serially at the right-hand side in parentheses. In general only equations explicitly referred to in the text need be numbered.
D. The use of fractional powers instead of root signs is recommended. Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp.
E. In chemical formulae, valence of ions should be given as, e.g. Ca2+, not as Ca++.
F. Isotope numbers should precede the symbols e.g. 125I.
G. The repeated use of chemical formulae in the text is to be avoided where reasonably possible; instead, the name of the compound should be given in full. Exceptions may be made in the case of a very long name occurring very frequently or in the case of a compound being described as the end product of a gravimetric determination (e.g. phosphate as P2O5).

Footnotes

Footnotes are normally used only to indicate the corresponding author and present address of the author or co-author(s), and they should only appear at the bottom on the first page with the title

Nomenclature

A. Authors and editors are, by general agreement, obliged to accept the rules governing biological nomenclature, as laid down in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria, and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
B. All biotica (crops, plants, insects, birds, mammals, etc.) should be identified by their scientific names when the English term is first used, with the exception of common domestic animals.
C. All biocides and other organic compounds must be identified by their Geneva names when first used in the text. Active ingredients of all formulations should be likewise identified.
D. For chemical nomenclature, the conventions of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the official recommendations of the IUPAC-IUB Combined Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature should be followed.