Author Guidelines for UK & Ireland Regional Environmental Enrichment Conference Proceedings 

 

The SHAPE—UK & Ireland committee publish all REEC proceedings which can be downloaded for free from the Shape of Enrichment Inc. website. It is our policy to publish the oral presentation, posters, video abstracts, and notes from other major topics (e.g. panel discussions) occurring during the conference.

 

These proceedings are not peer-reviewed. We understand that many authors wish to publish their scientific papers in a peer-reviewed journal. If that is the case, please consider submitting an extended abstract for the conference proceedings.

Guidelines for authors of papers and posters in this proceedings are below. For more information, contact the SHAPE—UK & Ireland committee.

 

Submissions

All proceedings may be submitted via e-mail or posted to the address below. Please be sure to include your e-mail, telephone number, and other contact information. All submissions will be confirmed via email.

 

Holly Farmer

Paignton Zoo Environmental Park

Totnes Road

Paignton

Devon

TQ4 7EU

 

Proceedings guidelines

Text must be submitted in MS Word formatted document.  Please do not include headers and footers, page numbers, or set any text in bold. The only formatting we require is that all text be typed in Arial Font, size 12, paragraph spacing should remain single and page margins be set to 2cm for all margins (top, bottom, left and right) for ease of printing.

 

The main body of text should be a full write up of your presentation either as a scientific paper (see below) or a detailed write up of your slide show.

 

Please organize your write up in the following manner;

·               Title

·               Author(s) name(s)

·               Contact details of corresponding author, address of institution, email address and telephone number

·               Abstract- please include an updated version, not exceeding 200 words

·               Main text

·               Acknowledgements

·               References if relevant (for guidelines click here)

 

If including graphs, tables or photographs, please place them in the text in the appropriate location, including a caption explaining what they are and a reference to them in the text.

 

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