All presenters of ORAL & POSTER papers are requested to submit manuscripts for the conference volume. We are pleased to advise that Dr Frank Seebacher, University of Sydney has agreed to join the Natural Events editorial team.

It is our intention that ALL papers pass peer review - you may be asked to participate in this process.
This review process will make proper recognition of the fact that these papers are proceedings papers and apply criteria appropriately. Final decisions rest with the NE Editorial Team. 

The success and future of the ICCPB in AFRICA meetings is dependent on the perceived quality of the science. We urge and strongly encourage you to submit to the proceedings volume.

Your manuscript as MS WORD and associated graphics as JPG must be brought to the MARA 2008 registration desk for download submission. We do not wish to receive printed copies unless there is some extraordinary reason. We would prefer USB data storage devices* for your download but can accommodate CD. We can not support more esoteric SD and micro storage devices.
(* we recommend two storage devices - just in case)

This volume will be published through MEDIMOND International Proceedings and indexed in ISI Current Contents - Conference Proceedings. DO NOT SUBMIT ANYTHING TO THEIR WEBSITE.
Each author to publish their paper (up to 8 printed pages without specific page charges, with up to 6 figures in addition) in a recognized volume with full referencing in Current Contents etc. Several delegates who previously did not take up this option subsequently expressed their regret.

Instructions to Authors: MS WORD template file (this template file is 4 pages but will expand to your final submitted manuscript size).
Figures: please take special note & be prepared that we may reduce your figures to 25% of the page area

Instructions to Authors: (above file as PDF reference)

Instructions: the above as text instructions.

Example: a rough scan of a short paper (~3 Mbyte PDF) published from a previous congress - to show formatting

Please remember to register your MS for submission using this simple registration form