Newsflash    8 July 2010
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Conference proceedings on-line. Abstracts of invited and contributed full length papers plus complete short communications are now on-line here (2010 Proceedings).
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Papers for Animal Production in Australia

ASAP will publish contributed 1-page papers and some invited plenary session papers as volume 28 of "Animal Production in Australia". This will also contain the summaries of the papers to be published in the special Issue of "Animal Production Science". Animal Production in Australia will be provided to all financial members of ASAP and conference delegates as a hard copy. An electronic copy (PDF) will be stored on the ASAP server with free search access from this web site and Livestock Library.

Final date for upload of manuscripts is 7 April 2010.

Guide for authors (revised 17 January 2010)

The papers will be scrutinised by the editors for suitability and formatting and the content will be refereed by 1 reviewer.

The Authors' Guide with page set-up and formatting instructions is available for download from this link: Authors' guide for APA papers

Authors of the invited plenary and other 4-page papers which are to be published in "Animal Production in Australia" should follow the guide for 1-page papers with the following variations:

  • Number of pages - as specified by the editors.
  • A brief abstract is required. Heading: Abstract - 10pt, bold type, first letter upper case, single line space above, abstract starts on line below with first line indented 0.5cm.
  • Section headings may be used - style as for abstract heading.
  • Sub-headings within sections may be used - 10pt, italic, single line space above, text starts on line below with first line indented 0.5cm.

Example 1-page paper

An example 1-page paper can be downloaded from this link: Example 1-page paper

This is a paper from the 2008 Proceedings with the page set-up and text formatting edited to the requirements for this conference.

Due date

Papers to be published in Animal Production in Australia are due on 7 April 2010.

Copyright and publishing arrangements

Authors will retain copyright of their papers. However they are requested to assign a license to ASAP to publish their papers (in printed and electronic format) and for ASAP to grant permission for the papers on its server to be indexed by appropriate search entities. ASAP will not be able to accept papers without their authors' agreement to these arrangements.

The system for submitting papers

The file upload systems for submitting papers are now operating. If you have not yet sent in your contact details for this conference, click the "Submit first paper" item in the Conference Menu. I you have already sent them, click the "Submit additional papers" item.