Call for Abstracts

WAHVM

CONGRESS 2020

27-29 February 2020
The Farm Inn Hotel & Conference Centre
City of Tshwane, South Africa

PROGRAMME

We are pleased to announce that abstract submissions are open for the 44^th International Congress of the World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine (WAHVM). The congress will be held from 27-29 February 2020 at the Farm Inn Hotel & Conference Centre in Pretoria, South Africa.

Registration for the congress will open soon – this will be communicated in due course.

The themes for this year’s congress are “The Vet Histories of International Cooperation” and “Tropical Diseases” and “Free Topics“. All contributions should be based on historical methodology and should originate from unpublished work or provide an historical and not a technical review in respect of a component of the congress themes or the other subjects.

Please submit your abstracts to the WAHVM Congress Organisers through email to Corné Engelbrecht at [email protected]. The deadline for abstract submissions is 30 November 2019.

Registration for the conference will open soon.

Abstract Submission Format Guidelines

Abstracts must be limited to 350 words max.
A minimum 2cm margin should be applied to the entire page.
Use Arial font size 12 throughout the abstract.
All of the abstract should be fully justified.
Leave a blank line between each section if sections are used (Title, Authors, Contact details, Abstract, References (if applicable).
Abstract to be accompanied by a one(1) page curriculum vitae (CV) of the presenting author
Oral presentations will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion/changeover between presentations.
Please ensure that the email addresses as submitted are correct as these addresses will be used in all correspondence and acceptance notifications.

GUIDELINES FOR FULL PAPER/MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION FOR INCLUSION IN THE CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS
If your abstract is approved and placed in the programme we would require a manuscript for the congress book of proceedings.
In order to maintain uniformity in the publication of the Proceedings, speakers are asked to conform to the following guidelines in the preparation of their manuscripts:

Structure

Line one: Title, left aligned in BLOCK CAPITALS
Line two: Name of the author and qualification, left align
Line three: Address left align
Length: Not more than four pages (2000 words maximum), including figures and references, per presentation, which shall be representative of the full text of the lecture (not an abstract)
Format: Use A2 (21cm x 29.5cm) paper with standard margins.
Use 12pt Arial type (ten characters per inch or 2.5 cm).
Use single line spacing.
Diagrams, Tables, Drawings: Line drawings and graphs may be used. Any illustrations must be in black and white and as sharp as possible. Photographs or other illustrations should be in black and white.

Submission: All manuscripts should be submitted to the Scientific Committee by email.
The preferred programme is Microsoft Word.
A clear indication must be given as to the position of any illustrations in the text.
Deadline: all manuscript submissions must be sent to [email protected] by 14 February 2020.

References (If essential, should be within the text as follows):