INFORMATION ABOUT THE BARLEY
NEWSLETTERINFORMATION ABOUT THE BARLEY NEWSLETTER
1. Comments on the 2006 Barley
Newsletter
The
Editorial Committee thanks all who submitted articles for the 2006 Barley
Newsletter. The articles were in good condition, and appear as they
were submitted. Because all submissions were either on disk or sent via
email,
and since Volume 50 will be available on-line via GrainGenes, fonts, spacings
etc. were left as each individual author provided them.
2. Publication
The
Barley Newsletter is published electronically at
http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/ggpages/BarleyNewsletter.
3. The 2008 (Volume 51) Barley
Newsletter
The
Barley Newsletter Editor is Dolores W. Mornhinweg, elected by the Barley
Workers at the triennial North American Barley Researchers
Workshop.
Articles
for 2008 Barley Newsletter, Volume 51, should be received by the editor by
April
30, 2008. The editor encourages you to submit your contribution
several weeks
earlier than the deadline if you can do so. The Newsletter
primarily is intended
for informal communication among barley researchers. Information on any
phase of
barley research is welcomed, but contributions must conform to the
following
guidelines:
4. Instructions to Authors
a.
Submit articles in English. Limit the length to no more than 3 or 4 pages,
single spaced. Manuscripts must be submitted on disk or via email,
see section
c. below. If sending a disk an original hard copy on good quality paper
would
also be appreciated.
b.
Manuscripts should be very carefully proofed. Occasionally where the author's
native language is not English, and only minor changes are needed,
an attempt to
edit may be made. Manuscripts considered unsuitable for inclusion will be
returned to the author(s) for possible revision and re-submission
for a future
volume.
c. Acceptable Fonts: Please submit only
in Arial or if not available use
Courier News. All materials including tables must be submitted in
Portrait
format - landscape format is not acceptable. Please submit
manuscripts on a 31/2
diskette or via email to Do.Mornhinweg@ars.usda.gov and indicate the
word-processing software used to prepare the file. MSWord 7.0 is
preferred.
WordPerfect
is acceptable, but if using WordPerfect please also include your
manuscript as an ASCII/text only file.
d. DO NOT include Tables created using
tabs. Authors must use the Table Format
in MSWord or WordPerfect when preparing tables. All materials including
tables
must be submitted in Portrait format - landscape format is not
acceptable.
Authors
submitting graphs or figures must send them as a separate GIF or JPG
files.
e. All pages must be in portrait format and
have a left and right-hand margin
of 3 cm, a top margin of 3.5 cm and a bottom margin of 3 cm. Do not number
pages. Do not include headers or footers.
Contributions
should be titled as follows:
State or Country
Title
Author(s)
Affiliation
f. Omit contributions that are strictly of local interest and do not
submit
manuscripts intended for publication or already published in recognized
journals.
g.
Examples of appropriate topics for the Newsletter are:
i. Useful and
interesting germplasm, including new cultivars and parental or
genetic stocks that should be of interest to others.
ii. New or innovative procedures for
laboratory, greenhouse, or field use.
iii. Cultivar tests or breeding nursery
management procedures that are new,
more efficient, effective, or improved in some way over old ones.
iv. Objectives of your breeding program,
including parental sources of
resistance or for other traits being emphasized.
v. Screening procedures for diseases,
insects, yield, or quality traits.
vi. New breeding techniques, methodologies,
or equipment.
vii. Personnel changes.
viii. Philosophies, ideas or comments that
would be interesting or useful to
other barley researchers.
ix. An update on barley production or the
cultivar complex in your area or
country.
h.
Contributions received after April 30, 2008 may not be included in Volume 46.
Volume
51 of the Barley Newsletter will be available on the internet at the
GrainGenes
web site.
ARTICLES FOR THE 2008 BARLEY
NEWSLETTER, VOLUME 51, SHOULD BE SENT TO:
Dr. Dolores W. Mornhinweg
Editor, Barley Newsletter
USDA-ARS Wheat, Peanuts and other Field Crops
Research Unit
OR
emailed to her at Do.Mornhinweg@ars.usda.gov
Questions
concerning Volume 51 can be directed to Dolores at the following:
Phone: 405-624-4141 ext.237
FAX: 405-624-4142
EMAIL: Do.Mornhinweg@ars.usda.gov
5.
Special thanks to Victoria Carollo
Publication
of Volume 50 of the Barley Newsletter on the internet was greatly
facilitated by Victoria Carollo Blake. The editor of the Newsletter
would like to
thank the GrainGenes Team for their help in getting Volume 50 on the
internet.
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