Guidelines for SuperSoil2004

• Abstracts must not exceed 250 words in length. The abstract should contain an accurate summary of the context and new information to be presented in the symposia paper or poster paper.
• Contributed symposia papers must not exceed eight (8) pages in length (including figures, etc.).
• Contributed poster papers must not exceed eight (8) pages in length (including figures, etc.).
• State the theme in which you paper is being presented. You may add themes.
• Make the Title brief and specific to the subject of your paper.

File name

• Name your completed Word document as follows:
  soil underscore plus lastname plus initials.doc (eg, soil_jonesks.doc for Ken S Jones). Use all lowercase.

Text

• Use Times New Roman for all text including headings. Left align all text, images and tables.
• Use the Normal style for all text (style-normal) where possible in preference to "Body text" styles. Normal text should be 11 point with single line spacing.
• Do not indent the first line of a paragraph. Leave one blank line between paragraphs and before new section headings.
• Authors' email and web addresses may be hyperlinked. Hyperlinks to external web references should be placed in the References section, rather than in the body of the paper.
• Use List Bullet or List Number styles where appropriate for dot point or numbered lists.

Headings and sections

• Paper title: (style-Title) - 14 point, bold, sentence case (capitals for proper nouns only). If the title extends to a second line, do not use "enter" to break the line. Leave one blank line below the title.
• Authors' names: (style-author) - 11 point. First name should come before the family name for each author. Highlight the presenting author in bold. Use superscripts to indicate different addresses. Use shift+enter to break lines between addresses. Leave one blank line below the authors' names.
• Authors' address: (style-address) - 9 point, not italics. The corresponding web site and email may be included at the end of each address. Leave two blank lines after the authors' addresses.
• Section Headings: Heading 1 (style-Heading 1) - 11 point, bold, not italic and Heading 2 (style-Heading 2) - 11 point, italic. Note: use sentence case NOT capital letters for headings.
  Use descriptive names for Section headings where appropriate but Abstract, Introduction and Conclusion section are examples of standard sections that could be used.
• Abstract heading: (style-abstract head) - 11 point, bold.
• Abstract body: (style-abstract) - 11 point, not bold. Leave one blank line below the abstract text
• Keywords heading: (style-keywords head) 11 point, bold.
• Keywords: (style-keywords) 11 point, not bold. Six key words not used in the Title or Abstract. Leave one blank line below the key words.
• References: Please follow the Australian Journal of Soil Research (www.publish.csiro.au/nid/84.htm.)

Figures and images

• Figures and images should be placed in the body of the text, left aligned and not wrapped in the text.
• Figures copied from graphic applications (eg Microsoft Excel or SigmaPlot chart) should be paste into the Word document using Edit>Paste Special>Picture.
• Images in either colour or black and white are acceptable. Images files can be inserted using Insert>Picture>From File. Suitable formats include JPG, GIF, BMP and TIFF. Images should be cropped and reduced where possible using Photoshop or an image editor to produce a file size before inserting into Word of around 300kb or less.
• Outline boxes (such as frames) should be avoided. Do not allow images to "float" over text. Use Format>Picture>Layout>In line with text.
• A table with borders removed can be used to arrange two or more images or figures side by side.
• If the drawing tool is used to create a diagram, group the objects using the Select Objects arrow on the Drawing toolbar and then choose right-click>Grouping>Group. Right-click over the toolbars area to access the drawing toolbar.
• Captions for Figures and images (style-Caption) should be 10 point, bold and left aligned, placed below the image.

Symbols

• As far as possible use Insert>Symbol and select a character from the "normal-text" font set at the top of the Font drop-down list rather than the "Symbol" or "Wingdings" font set.

Tables

• Use tables rather than tabs or spaces to align images and text. Remove borders from tables and insert horizontal lines only as illustrated (Table 1) using Format>Borders and shading.
• Use the Insert Table button on the Standard toolbar and left align tables. Keep formatting simple.
• Captions should be placed above the table using the Caption style.
• Data columns should generally be centred or left aligned.
• Use a separate cell for each number and use Shift+Enter rather than Enter to break lines in cells.

Page Layout

• Margins should be set at 2 cm all round.
• Do not indent paragraphs.

A note on styles and templates

A style is a set of formatting instructions that can be applied to text. The style used for the title of this document is "Title". It applies the font Times New Roman, 14 point, bold. The Title style can be found in the "Normal" drop-down-window on the left of the Formatting menu bar above. This template uses the default styles: Heading 1, Heading 2 etc and some custom styles: author, address etc. All styles are stored with this document and can be saved as a template. Check the formatting of your paper using View>Outline. Show 1, 2, 3 etc heading levels to see the logical structure of your document and check for "orphaned" headings, eg a Heading 1 style on a blank line.

Submitting your Abstract and Paper

To submit your abstract and paper, go to the `Submit Paper' section in the Author Gateway.