Platform Presenter Information

Platform presentations will run 25 minutes in length with an additional five minutes for questions. Meeting rooms will be equipped with a laptop computer and computer projector, as well as a lavaliere microphone and a stationary microphone at the podium.

Platform presenters will receive a complimentary one-day registration for the day of the talk or a reduced registration of $295 if attending the entire conference.

Presenter manuscripts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. See manuscript submission guidelines below.

Platform presenters are also welcome to submit full papers to the UMass open access online journal, International Journal for Soil, Sediment and Water. Submission guidelines are posted on that web site.

Proceedings Manuscript Submission

Platform and Poster Presenters have until June 30, 2009 to submit a 3-page summary of their conference presentation to be included in the Conference Proceedings.

The conference proceedings editors reserve the right to make editorial and format changes to the submitted manuscripts to provide consistent style, grammar, and presentation throughout the proceedings book. No changes to substantive content will be made by the editors.

Please be sure that you include ALL supporting materials (sources-cited, images, etc) with your interim-final manuscript.

Please read the submission guidelines below. When you are ready (but by June 30), you can submit your interim-final manuscript by dropping your document on our drop box web site.

Preparing Your Manuscript

The editors prefer simple, clear grammar and format. Authors should avoid overuse of bold, italics, underscore, indent, and any other special formatting devises. If deemed useful by the authors, an illustrative fully formatted version of the manuscript with incorporated graphics may be submitted along with the required simplified text and separate graphics files.

Complete manuscripts are to consist of 3 types of files: 1) a text only file (i.e., "manuscript text") which shall be 3 pages or less in length. Name this file "Your First Name Your last Name Manuscript"; 2) a "Literature Cited" file which contains the full references to all literature cited in the manuscript Name this file "Your First Name Your last Name Bibliography"; and 3) graphics files each of which will contain an individual graphic whether table, graph, photograph, diagram, or other. Name this file "Your First Name Your last Name Graphics". Thus, only the manuscript text counts toward the 3-page.

Further, the manuscript text is to be organized in typical scientific format possessing the following elements: title, author names and affiliations, keywords, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusions.

Format for Cited References

Pages in a book:

• Rockwell, W., and H. Chang (1999). The Handbook of Environmental Toxicology (3rd edition, volume 11, pp. 101-102) New York, NY, Chemical Publishing Co., INC.

Chapter in a Book:

• Schmitt, R. (2004b). "Nano-engineered Materials: Releases and Detection in the Working Environment." in New Developments in Nanotechnology, S. Chambers, R. Morales, T. Chang & G. Howard, Hollywood, FL: University of Hollywood Press.

Journal Articles:

• Jordan, J., and M. Wilmer (2008). "Environmental Effects II: Understanding the Influence of Ambient Temperature on the Physical and Chemical Properties of Fullerenes." J. Phys. Chem. Prop. Nanomaterials 209 (5), 1006-1119.
• M. Winters, J. Kaplan, G. Lane, and M. Jones (2008). "Principles of Nanotechnology I: Chemistry and Toxicity in the Environment." Scientific Overviews in Government 919 (12), 12-45.

Web Site:

• United States Environmental Protection Agency (October, 2008). "International Environmental Nanotechnology Conference: Applications and Implications." http://emsus.com/nanotechconf/.

Manuscript Text Format

• Only one space after period in sentences!!!!
• 12-point font (preferably Times New Roman). Do not use different type fonts within the same manuscript.
• Limit bolded or italicized text.
• Do not indent text except to begin a new paragraph.
• Do not use tabs around or within text.
• Do not capitalize text for emphasis.
• Page Setup
• 8.5 inch x 11 inch page size
• 1 inch top, bottom, and side margins
• page number
• in the center of each page
• 1/2 inch (1.25 cm)from the bottom
• on a separate line and with a blank line above it
• Arabic numbers, i.e., 1, 2, 3
• Single-spaced, left justified lines with ragged-right margins
• When using footnotes, do not imbed them into the text file document. Place an Arabic numeral (no Roman numerals, letters, Greek symbols, etc.) in parentheses at the place in the text where the footnote is referenced. Place the footnote text with corresponding parenthetical Arabic numeral at the end of the manuscript.

Preparing Your Graphics

• Use tables and figures or other graphics only if they enhance reader understanding of the manuscript.
• Do not include more than five graphics (tables, pictures, graphs, diagrams, clip art, etc.) per manuscript
• Do not imbed graphics (tables, pictures, graphs, diagrams, clip art, etc.) within the text file document. Instead, make each graphic its own file document and label each file as shown in the following examples:
• pg1tab2.doc (this is the document name for table #2 located on page1).
• pg2pic1.doc (this is the document name for picture #3 located on page 2).
• pg3grf4.doc (this is the document name for graph #4 located on page3).

• Upload your completed manuscript to our Drop Box site (URL coming soon here).
• The editors prefer that manuscripts be generated using Microsoft Word. If Microsoft Word is not available to the authors, the editors prefer the use of Plain Text files rather than other word processing programs.
• JPG or GIF files are the preferred formats for graphics files.

If possible, we would like you to upload your slide presentation to our Drop Box Site as well, so we may install them on the conference computers prior to the sessions. If not possible, please bring your presentation on a memory stick and report to the Registration table immediately upon arrival so we can arrange to have your slides installed on the appropriate computer.