Call for papers

** Abstract submission has now closed **

Publication of Conference Proceedings

The Council of the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) has voted strongly in favour of publishing the conference proceedings as a Journal of Wildlife Diseases (JWD) Supplement.

As is normal for the JWD, page charges are $65 and $120 US for members and non-members of the WDA respectively. The proceedings will be limited to papers of oral presentations. We would appreciate confirmation that you will be submitting a paper at the time of the conference.

The JWD guidelines for Preparation of Manuscripts are available at: http://www.wildlifedisease.org/Documents/JWD/JWD_Changes_6_06.pdf.

Please submit the papers to Elizabeth Olsen at

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, NOT via the online abstract submission, by 15th December.


Presentations should fit into the following broad categories:

  • Management & control
  • Socio-economics and ethics
  • Surveillance, risk assessment and contingency planning
  • Epidemiology
  • Field evidence and experiments
  • Conservation
  • Ecosystem health and climate change

Please indicate preferred presentation format: oral or poster.

Oral presentation / paper

An abstract must be submitted in response to this call and will be considered by the Scientific Committee with regard to scientific merit, originality and appropriateness for the overall conference programme. The accepted abstracts will be compiled and printed in a booklet for the conference.

We are currently in discussion with potential publishers of the conference proceedings. Please indicate whether you wish to be considered for invitation to submit a manuscript for publication.

The abstract should contain the title of the paper, the author's names, affiliations and addresses, including the e-mail address of the author who is giving the paper. Please underline the presenting author's name. The abstract will be no more than 150 words (excluding title, affiliations and authors). If possible send electronically, as an attached MS Word document in PC format (not Mac). Please use a 12 point font, Times New Roman style, single line spacing, full justification and do not indent paragraphs.

Presentations (approximately five per theme) will be 20 minutes long plus 5 minutes for discussion. Powerpoint for PC will be the preferred presentation format although 35mm slide projectors will also be available.

Posters

An abstract should be submitted as described previously for an oral presentation. The maximum size of poster presentations will be: 100 cm (width) by 120 cm (height).

Student awards

Two awards have been kindly provided by the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA) for the best student presentations. Please indicate on your abstract registration if you are a student and wish to be considered. There will be a 400 euro award for the best student oral presentation and a 200 euro award for the best student poster.