Neglected and Underutilized
Species Community

Summary of Participant Contributions

1. Guidelines for Abstracts 

• Abstracts should be approximately 300 words and should convey the general arch of your presentation, establishing the context and sharing the main take home messages.
• There should be no references in the abstract.
• The abstracts will be printed prior to the meeting and circulated at the event. 
• Abstracts should be submitted by April 9, 2015 to allow enough time for layout and printing.

2. Guidelines for Oral Presentations

• Presentations are 20 minutes in length. Time for questions will be provided at the end of each session.
• The presentation should address the main topic based on your expertise, sharing your own research and experience.
• We also request that you share some reflection on how your topic fits and links with the conference themes (nutrition, value chains, conservation and climate change adaptation) and the cross-cutting issues (gender, participatory methods, enabling policies and capacity building).
• Slides should be in Powerpoint or PDF format. Save your presentation on a USB drive and hand it to the organizers in the 15 minutes prior to your session.

3. Notes on Working Groups

• You will be assigned to a working group on one of the conference themes (nutrition, value chains, conservation or climate change adaptation) based on your area of expertise.
• More information on the format and outputs of the working groups will be provided at the event. The outputs will be synthesized and shared during the conference.

4. Guidelines for Proceedings Papers

• The proceedings for the conference will be prepared soon after the event to guide implementation of the project. We are aiming to have the proceedings fully available online and in print by September 1st, 2015, so your papers should be submitted by June 15th, 2015 to allow time for editing, layout and printing. Each contributor will receive one hard copy of the proceedings.
• Your paper should follow closely the nature of your presentation.
• It should describe original work or ideas and should not have been published elsewhere in other journals or proceedings. All previously published work must be clearly acknowledged or referenced.
• Try to keep the focus of the discussion, conclusions and recommendations in line with the objectives of the Conference according to the specific session of your presentation.
• The maximum length is 4000 words including abstracts, references, figures and tables. Shorter papers that capture the main points of the presentation are also acceptable.
• All papers should be in English. If this will make it more challenging to deliver by the deadline, please contact us and we can discuss alternative options.
• Minor corrections will be made by the editors. The final text will be recirculated for clearance before publishing.
• Submissions should be in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx). 
• Follow reference style in: Padulosi, S., Bergamini, N. and Lawrence, T. (eds) 2012. On-farm conservation of neglected and underutilized species: status, trends and novel approaches to cope with climate change. Proceedings of an International Conference, Frankfurt, 14-16 June, 2011. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy.  [3]
• It is preferred that you use a reference management software to streamline the preparation of the proceedings. Guidelines to export the data from popular reference managers are provided below. If you use a different reference management software, please contact us to discuss how to export the data.

Exporting Reference Data