Guide for abstracts

Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR" and the Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Agriculture Republic of Latvia, the hosts of the EIFAAC International Symposium on “Managing and Conserving Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources in a Changing World”, and FAO intend to produce an EIFAAC occasional paper with the proceedings of the 2026 symposium. This will include a summary of the symposium with the abstracts of papers presented at the symposium. Some examples EIFAAC occasional papers can be found here and here.

Those authors that are interested to have their abstracts included in this EIFAAC occasional paper, which will be published online and printed by FAO in early 2027, should submit their abstracts here before 15 May 2026.

Please note that abstracts submitted will only be lightly edited before publication. If the quality of the abstract submitted is insufficient, then FAO may decide to exclude an abstract from the proceedings.

The aim of the occasional paper is to provide an opportunity to all presenters at the 2026 EIFAAC symposium to have their abstracts published.

Guidance for the preparation of your abstracts

Abstracts submitted for the occasional paper should not be longer than 2 pages, and not include more than 2 figures/graphs or pictures.

Abstracts should describe or summarise the presentation made or poster presented by participants, the character for the title of the abstract of the presentation/paper should be ARIAL 11 all in capital letters and bold.

Below the title, please insert the authors names, first name followed by the surname in Arial 11 bold and each name with capitalized first letters. The corresponding author should have an (*) behind his/her name. Please also add the organization name, city and country, in Arial 11 Italic bold.

The body (text) of the abstract should be written in Times New Roman 11.

Paragraphs:

i. Only the first line is indented;

ii. single space between lines;

iii. double space between paragraphs;

iv. There should be consistency throughout. It is preferable to leave one single line between headers and paragraphs but you may also keep them stuck if the reading is not difficult.

Fonts:

i. Times New Roman 11 for text.

ii. Times New Roman 10 for footnotes;

iii. Times New Roman 11 for titles of figures/graphs/pictures.

Margins:

i. Maximum 2.5 cm for all margins;

ii. Minimum 2 cm for all margins;

iii. Justified text on both sides

Photos/imagines/graphics/figures:

Insert a caption or title at the bottom of a photo, graph or map, and add the source/author and year in brackets.

If a picture is inserted, please make sure it is .jpg or .tif and with a minimum file size of 500kb. Please do not insert very high resolution (above 3 MB) pictures either. If a graphic/figure is inserted, then please send along with the abstract the excel file with the original figure.

References:

Please try to limit the number of references in the abstract.

If references are used, then please use the following style in the text (Costa and Gilles, 2016).

Insert at the bottom of the abstract the full reference, using the following style in Times New Roman 11:

Allison, E. & McBride, R. 2003. Education reform for improved natural resource management:

Fisheries and aquaculture in Bangladeshi Universities. Society and Natural Resources, 16(3):

249–263.

World Bank. 2019. Understanding poverty. In: The World Bank. Washington, DC. Cited 3 April 2019. www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview

For full information about FAO style, please visit: FAOSTYLE->About

Section 12 provides examples for the most common types of references.

Corresponding author:

Please insert the e-mail address at the bottom of the abstract below any references, starting with an asterix *, followed by the e-mail address, if so desired.