Full Paper Submission Guidelines

General instructions
• The official language of the International Rangeland Congress is English.
• Papers should be uploaded via the submission portal on the Congress website
(see details below).
• Papers must follow the standard format provided in the template document,
available on the conference website and linked here LINK. See instructions below
for further information on formatting requirements.
• Papers describing programs and projects should focus on what was done and
restrict background information such as the description of
organization/institution/country to a minimum.
• Papers submitted to IRC 2025 should not have been previously published in
refereed journals or conference proceedings.
• All offered papers will be peer-reviewed by experts.
Full Paper Submission Instructions:
1. Log in to the Full Paper Submission Portal:
https://aomevents.eventsair.com/international-rangeland-congress-irc-2025/full-
paper-portal
2. Click on the "Upload Full Paper" tab
3. Navigate to your submission with the status "Accepted"
4. Select "Edit", that can be found next to the red box labelled "Full Paper
Submission"
5. Browse for the file you would like to upload
6. Select update to finalise your submission
7. You will now see a green tick next to 'Full Paper Submission', no further action is
required at this stage, and you can now exit the page
Full Paper Submission dates
Full Paper submissions will be open on 1 September 2024 and close on 2 December 2024
Late submissions will not be accepted.
Paper &Typing guidelines
• All papers should be typed and formatted in Microsoft (MS) Word (.docx) format
using the template provided
• All text should be single spaced. The font should be Times New Roman Font size
11 in single column. A4 size (letter) paper with uniform margin of 25 mm (1 inch)
on all four sides should be used. Left and right justified typing is preferred. The
 headings should be bold in font size 11. Do not apply page numbering or line
numbering.
Paper length
Full papers can be a maximum of four pages (approximately 1500 words, including
references, excluding authors, figures and tables).

Formatting requirements (use template provided)

Title and key words block:

• The title should be centered at top of the first page. Font type should be Times
New Roman, size 14 points, bold and single spaced. After one blank line, type
the corresponding author’s name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
followed by the name, affiliation, and mailing address of all collaborating authors;
all authors’ details should be in upper and lower case letters, centered under the
title in Times New Roman Font size 12.
• Key words: Leave one blank line under the Title. Type "Key words:" flush left in
bold letters in Font size 11, followed by a maximum of five (5) key words that are
not a part of the title. These are placed below the author’s name and before the
body of the text.
Main body of text:
• Type text single-spaced, Times New Roman, Font size 11, with one blank line
between paragraphs, and the following Major headings in bold print: Introduction,
Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions & Implications, and References
sections. For papers (i.e. reviews or other commentary style papers) that do not
follow this standard structure, adjust heading names as necessary. Start
paragraphs flush with the left margin.
Headings:
• All headings should be typed using upper and lower case letters in Times New
Roman font size 11 in bold without underlining. Major headings should be flush
with the left margin followed by a single line space.
• Sub-headings: Type sub-headings flush with the left margin, in bold italics,
capitalizing the first letter of the sub-heading.
Footnotes:
• Avoid footnotes, but if needed, then mark footnotes in the text with an asterisk (*);
use a double asterisk (**) for a second footnote on the same page. Place
footnotes at the bottom of the page, separated from the text above it by a
horizontal line.
Illustrations:
• A maximum of three (3) figures/charts/graphs/tables/photographs may be
embedded within the paper.
• All tables and figures with number and caption should be placed directly within
the text.
 • Captions: All captions should be typed in upper and lower case letters, centered
directly above tables and below figures and photographs. Use single spacing if
they use more than one line. All captions are to be numbered consecutively (Fig.
1, Fig. 2, Table 1, Table 2).
Copyright:
• If the article contains any copyrighted illustrations or imagery, please include a
statement of copyright such as: (c) SPOT Image Copyright 20XX (fill in year),
CNES.
• It will be the author's responsibility to obtain any necessary copyright permission.
Equations, symbols and units:
• Equations should be numbered consecutively throughout the paper. The equation
number should be enclosed in parentheses. One blank line should be left before
and after equations.
• Symbols and units: Use the SI (Systeme Internationale) Units and Symbols.
Unusual characters or symbols should be explained as footnote.
References in-text:
References should be cited in the text, thus (Smith, 1987b; Kawamura et al., 2000). In the
text, references should only contain the surname and the year of publication of the refereed
articles: e.g.: (Jones 2010) or (Jones and Smith 2017). When more than two authors are
involved the first author followed by “et al.” should be used: e.g., (Brown et al. 2016).
Reference list:
For the listing of cited references, use 10 pt. font and list in alphabetical order in the
reference section, with a hanging indent for each reference. The following arrangements
should be used:
• Journal article
Woelkerling WJ, Irvine LM, Harvey AS (1993) Growth-forms in non-geniculate
coralline red algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta). Australian Systematic Botany 6,
277-293.
• Chapter in a book
Andrew CS (1978) Mineral characterisation of tropical forage legumes. In ‘Mineral
nutrition of legumes in tropical and subtropical soils’. (Eds CS Andrew, EJ
Kamprath) pp. 93-111. (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne)
• Whole book
Simmonds DH (1989) ‘Wheat and wheat quality in Australia’, (CSIRO Publishing:
Melbourne)
• Conferences/Symposia
Stuth JW, Freer M, Dove H, Lyons RK (1999) Nutritional management for free
ranging livestock. In ‘Nutritional Ecology of Herbivores. Proceedings Vth
International Symposium on Nutrition of Herbivores’. pp. 696–750. (ASAC:
Denver, CO, USA)
• Report/Bulletin
Chippendale GM, Wolf L (1981) The natural distribution of Eucalyptus in
Australia. Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Special Publication No.
6, Canberra, ACT.
• Thesis
 Ossiya S (1999) Development of a nutritional profiling system for free-ranging
livestock in major agro-ecological zones of sub-Saharan Africa. PhD Thesis,
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
• Software
R Core Team (2020) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R
Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. Available at https://www.R-
project.org/ [Accessed DD MM YYYY].
• Web pages
Referencing from web pages is acceptable and should give the author’s names
or company name, year of publication and title as for a report, followed by the
URL, and access date
e.g. British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) (2008) United
Kingdom national guideline on the management of the viral hepatitides A, B & C.
Available at http://www.bashh.org/documents/1927.pdf [Accessed DD MM YYYY]
• Unpublished articles
Articles in preparation or unpublished observations should not be included in the
reference list but may be mentioned in the article text (e.g. Singh, pers.
comment.).