Proceedings will be handed out at the conference. Authors are required to submit a copy of the completed manuscript before January 1, 2005 electronically to:

tancin@vuzv.sk

Length of manuscripts would not exceed 6 pages for oral presentations and 2 pages for poster presentations. ICAR guidelines for manuscripts preparation were forwarded to the authors with notifications of acceptance.

Guidelines for the paper to be published in ICAR Technical Series

Manuscripts prepared in English should be submitted to the organisers that will distribute them to the referees.
Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced and with lines numbered in the left margin. All pages, including those of references, tables etc., must be consecutively numbered. An e-mail address should be preferably indicated in order to contact the corresponding author in case of doubts.

Preparation of the manuscript

The first page of the manuscript must include names of authors, institutions, full addresses including postal codes and telephone number and other communication details (fax, e-mail, etc.) of the corresponding author. The title should be as brief as possible not exceeding 150 characters (including spaces) with species names when applicable. Authors, institutions and addresses are in upper and lower case italics. There is one blank line between the title and the authors. Addresses are typed as footnotes to the authors after leaving one blank line. Footnotes are designated numerically.

Summaries

Summary should not exceed 300 words . It should be an objective summary briefly describing the procedures and findings and not simply stating that the study was carried on such and such and results are presented, etc. Leave one line between the summary text and Keywords which is written in italics as well as the keywords themselves. A summary in a different language than that used in the text must be prepared, containing the same information of the original summary.

Headings

Headings of sections, for example Summary, Introduction, etc., are left-justified. Leave two blank lines between addresses footnotes and Summary and between the heading Summary and its text. All headings of sections (14 regular) and sub-sections (12 regular) are typed bold and preceded and succeeded by one blank line and their text begins with no indention. The heading of a sub-subsection is written in italics, and ends with a dot after which the text follows on a new line. Keywords come immediately after the summary. They should be no more than six, with no „and" or „&".

TABLES AND FIGURES

Tables and figures must be enclosed with the paper and attached at the end of the text according their citation in the document. Photos will not be returned

Tables

Tables, including footnotes, should be preceded and succeeded by 2 blank lines. Table number and caption are written, above the table, in italics (12) followed by a dot, then one blank line. For each column or line title or sub-title, only the 1st letter of the 1st word is capitalized. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. Tables and captions should be left justified as is the text. Use horizontal or vertical lines only when necessary. Do not use tabs or space-bar to create a table but only the appropriate commands.

Figures

Figures including titles and legends should be preceded and succeeded by two blank lines. Figure number and title are written, below the figure, in italics (12) and end with a dot. The term figures includes photos, line drawings, maps, diagrams etc.
All the submitted diagrams, must be accompanied with the original matrix of the data used to create them. It is strongly advised to submit diagrams in Word 6.0 or Excel 5.0. Figures should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals.

REFERENCES

Every reference cited in the text should be included in the reference list and every reference in the reference list should have been mentioned in the text at least once. References should be ordered firstly alphabetically by the first author's surname and secondly by year.
Example for reference in a periodical is:
Köhler-Rollefson, I., 1992; The camel breeds of India in social and historical perspective. Animal Genetic Resources Information 10, 53-64. <arrange first alphabetically by author(s) and secondly cronologically>

When there are more than one author:
Matos, C.A.P., D.L. Thomas, D. Gianola, R.J. Tempelman & L.D. Young, 1997; Genetic analysis of discrete reproductive traits in sheep using linear and nonnlinear models: 1. Estimation of genetic parameters 75, 76-87.

For a book or an ad hoc publication, e.g., reports, theses, etc.:
Cockril, W.R., (Ed), 1994; The Husbandry and Health of the Domestic Buffalo. FAO, Rome, Italy, pp 993.

For an article in the Proceedings of a Meeting:
Drake, F., 1996; FAO's programme for the management of farm animal genetic resources. In C. Devendra (Ed.) Proceedings of IGA/FAO Round Table on the Global Management of Small Ruminant Genetic Resources, Beijing, May 1996, FAO, Bangkok, Thailand, 4-13.

Thanking you in advance for the kind collaboration,

ICAR Secretariat