Autumn 2005 Newsletter : Submissions for Annual Meeting

Summaries of papers for the WPSA UK Branch Annual Meeting 2006 will, once again this year, be required to be submitted to the Programme Committee electronically in WORD format as an email attachment. Please DO NOT use the abstract template previously carried on the WPSA UK Branch web site However, these instructions will be reproduced there:
www.wpsa-uk.comReceipt will be acknowledged at that time and comments from the Programme Committee will be received by Christmas. Authors of accepted papers are then asked to deal with any requested amendments speedily to facilitate printing and will be informed of their deadline at that time.The Programme Committee would encourage submission of papers on any topic relevant to poultry science as original communications.There will once again be some emphasis on poster presentations. A formal session will be organised to examine posters and to discuss their results. Very brief summaries are not acceptable - they should be sufficiently informative so that a reader can understand why the topic is important, how the experiment was done, what results were obtained and what conclusions can be drawn from the findings.To be considered for inclusion in the conference programme and in the proceedings of the meeting, the contribution, including any Figures or Tables, must print out on no more than two sheets of A4 paper. A detailed description of the required format is presented on the following page and is illustrated on the web site by a typical summary.

Please note the change from earlier years in that all tables and figures are to be put at the end of the text.Please send your abstract in WORD format as detailed above to Dr Paul Rose at Harper Adams University College.
His email address is: sprose@harper-adams.ac.uk

Please state your preferred method of presentation i.e. oral paper or poster. It is unlikely that there will be time for all those wishing to present oral papers to do so, so further selection will be done by the Programme Committee.

Ten Tips for Success

1. Introduce the problem
2. State objective clearly
3. Present the experimental design
4. Give replication (numbers, individuals or pens?)
5. Describe the statistical analysis
6. Ensure correct analysis (eg split-plot?)
7. Keep it simple
8. Provide measures of variation (e.g. standard errors)
9. State conclusion(s) clearly
10. Proof read the summaries (again)