Call for Abstracts
The Twelfth International Symposium on Pollination Scientific Programme Committee would like to invite you to submit an abstract/s for the Symposium.
Submission Guidelines
Please adhere to the guidelines below when preparing your abstract/s:
- Abstracts must be submitted as a Microsoft Office Word (MS Word) document.
- Every abstract must have a completed Submission Questionnaire Form accompanying it.
- Abstracts must conform to the following format:
- Abstract Title - UPPERCASE, 10pt Arial, Bold, except for scientific names which should be upper/lower case and italicized. Scientific names should not be preceded or followed by commas or parentheses or other markings.
- Authors Names - Regular title case, 10pt Arial. Presenting authors name should be underlined.
- Authors Affiliations - Regular title case, 10pt Arial. Affiliations should consist of authors institutions, city and country only. It is voluntary to include the corresponding authors email address.
- Body Text - 10pt Arial, justified. Body text must not exceed 250 words.
- Paragraphs should be separated by one blank line space. New paragraphs must not be indented.
- Single line spacing should be used.
- Abstracts should not include images, graphs or charts.
- All text must be black.
- Your page should be portrait and margins should be set at 2.54cm throughout (left, right, top and bottom)
- Abstracts with an accompanying submission questionnaire form must be emailed to Kerry Firmani - Kerryf@turnersconferences.co.za by no later than 30 April 2023.
- Late submissions will not be considered.
- An abstract template in the correct format is available for download.
- Oral presentations will be 15 minutes (this includes 5 minutes questions & answer time).
- Submissions are open for oral presentations, poster presentations and oral poster tour (2-minute presentation to explain your poster).
- Poster presentations should be A1 in size and portrait orientation. Full guidelines will follow.
Submission Themes/Topics
Abstracts can be submitted for any theme/topic related to pollination and pollinators. If they do not fit the themes/topics listed below, they will be organized into other sessions or general oral presentations*.
The following themes/topics are predicted to be sessions and more themes may be added as the programme develops:
- Floral signals
- Apivectoring
- Variation in diet and diet width in bees
- Non-Apis pollinators of crops
- Crop pollination by honey bees
- Pollination of tropical crops
- Traditional knowledge and pollination
- Citizen Science
- Climate Change & Land use effects on pollinators
- Pollinator taxonomy
- *General Oral Presentations
Important Dates
| Abstract Submission Deadline |
30 April 2023 |
| Acceptance Notices to Authors |
31 May 2023 |
| Presenting Author Registration Deadline |
16 June 2023 |
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