Instructions for authors: writing an extended abstract to be
submitted to One Water Many Futures.
John Smith1,2* and Brenda Nicot1,3
1 CRC
for Irrigation Futures, P.O. Box 56, Darling Downs, Qld 4350, Australia
of Agriculture, University of Northern Territory, Darwin 0801, Australia
3 Irrigation Australia Limited, P.O. Box 1804, Hornsby NSW 1635, Australia
* corresponding and presenting author, j.smith@irrigationfutures.org.au
2 School
Introduction
This document will help you prepare your extended abstract for the One Water Many
Futures Conference. It has a maximum length of 2 pages. The program committee will review
the extended abstract in order to assess its acceptability for the conference as an oral or a
poster presentation. All accepted oral and poster extended abstracts will be included in the
printed abstract book provided to delegates at registration.
The extended abstract should be written in the style of an abstract and the following
sections are provided for guidance.
We suggest you save this document under a different name and use this document to write
your extended abstract.
The very brief introduction should outline the issue and objectives of the work presented.
Methods and Materials
This section should provide a very brief summary of what you did. All instructions for layout and style are provided, and at the same time, this document will serve as an example.
Results & Discussion (Lay-out and style)
The results and discussion should occupy more than half of the extended abstract. We
encourage you to put one key Table or Figure. End the paper with a one sentence conclusion,
followed by any acknowledgements or references.
Page set-up& Font
Use A4 paper with top and bottom margins of 2.54 cm and left and right margins of 3.17
cm. Do not include page numbers, headers or footers or footnotes. All text should be Times
New Roman font.
Paragraph formats
Paragraph formats are applied by selecting a paragraph and choosing a paragraph style
from the paragraph format list box (Figure 1; choose paragraph format 'Body text+First line:
0.5 cm'). Avoid using empty lines between paragraphs or before and after headings.
Click here to access title, author,
affiliation, paragraph, table,
figure and reference styles
Figure 1: Indication of the paragraph format list box in the MS Word user interface.
Title
The title is typed in bold, 14pt (use paragraph format 'Title'). Between title and authors list
there is a blank line (incorporated in the Title style).
Authors
The authors are listed in one paragraph in 12pt (use paragraph format 'authors'). Use
superscripted numbering if authors have multiple of different affiliation.
Affiliation
Affiliation are in 9pt (use paragraph format 'address'). Different affiliations are numbered
with the superscripted numbers used in the authors list.
Body text
In the remaining sections of the extended abstract, headings are formatted according to
their ranking with paragraph formats 'Heading1' and 'Heading2' (see Table 1). Paragraphs are
justified at both margins and in 11pt (use paragraph format 'Body text+First line: 0.5 cm').
Format name
Heading 1
Heading 2
Table 1: Formatting used in heading paragraph formats.
Font size
Font style
Blank space
before
after
12 pt
Bold
12 pt
3 pt
12 pt
Italic
6 pt
3 pt
Tables
Tables should be numbered and have a table heading above (use paragraph format
'tablehead'). Only horizontal lines should be used for the tables. The text should include
references to all tables.
Figures
Illustrations and figures should be in black and white only (no colours will be printed in
the proceedings). They are numbered and have a figure caption under the figure (use
paragraph format 'figcaps'). The text should include references to all figures.
References
All publications cited in the text should be listed in alphabetical order in the references.
Use paragraph format 'reference' which has a hanging indent and font size 9pt.
Examples are Dufossé et al. (2001) for periodicals, Savy and Dufossé (2002) for edited
conference proceedings, Mac Dougall (2002) for books and Van Impe et al. (2001) for multiauthor books.
References
Camkin, J.K., Kellett, B.M., and Bristow, K.L. (2007) Northern Australia Irrigation Futures: Origin, Evolution and
Future Directions for the Development of a Sustainability Framework. CRC for Irrigation Futures Technical
Report No. 11/07 and CSIRO Land and Water Science Report 73/07
Christen EW, Shepheard ML, Curtis A, Fairweather H & Maheshwari B (2005) The sustainability challenge for
irrigation. Restoring the Balance Conference Proceedings, Irrigation Association of Australia National
Conference. Townsville, Australia 17-17 May 2005.
Gillies, M.H. & Smith R.J. (2005) Infiltration parameters from surface irrigation advance and run-off data.
Irrigation Science 24, 25-35.
Martin, P. (2008) The changing role of Law in the pursuit of sustainability. In Bridging the Nth South Divide (eds
Michael Jeffrey, Jeremy Firestone, Karen Bubna-Litic). Cambridge University Press.