GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS 

1. An abstract is required for each presentation including plenary and invited lectures. The abstracts must be in English. Submit original on good quality paper and one copy. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is April 1, 1998. Note that publication in the abstract book will depend on your payment of the registration fee. Facsimiles, photocopies or pasted abstracts cannot be accepted.

2. Use laser printer or electric typewriter with a new black carbon ribbon. Do not use a dot-matrix printer. 

3. Abstract should be typed on a single A4 page to fit a frame of 16 cm wide and 25 cm high, including title, authors and affiliations, text, equations, figures, tables, references and keywords. An 11-point CG Times/Times New Roman character is preferred. 

4. Page numbers will be inserted by the organizers.

5. Center the title, which should be upper case and at the top of the page. Two lines below, give the name(s) of the author(s), and on the next line the institutional affiliation and addresses. The text should begin after two lines separation. There should be one line separation between text and references as well as between references and keywords. 

6. The references should be typed in square brackets [1] and listed after the text.

7. List of 5 keywords should be given as a last line in the abstract. They will be used to assign the paper in the appropriate session and for the keyword index of the Book of Abstracts. 

8. The name of the person who will present the paper or poster should be underlined 

9. All abstracts (original and one copy) and completed Abstract submission form must be sent to the conference Organizers: A. Sabljic, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, PO Box 1016, HR-10001 Zagreb, Croatia. All abstracts should be also sent by E-mail or on a floppy disk (Microsoft Word and WordPerfect for Windows or Macintosh preferred). You can either type your abstract into your e-mail message as plain text or attach it. Use your mailer's "Attach" mode and allow the mailer to determine any parameters required. DO NOT COMPRESS the file!!!!! E-mail abstracts should be submitted to dpe@indigo.irb.hr

10. Presenting author will serve as the contact person receiving notification of acceptance/rejection of the abstract, and other relevant material about the conference. It is his/her responsibility to inform the other co-authors. 

11. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and the author will be notified promptly of acceptance but in any case not later than April 15, 1998. A Book of Abstracts will be distributed with the Programme to participants upon arrival. Abstracts will be included in the Book of Abstract only if the author(s) paid the registration fee before May 1, 1998. 

12. The Scientific Committee and the Organizing Committee reserve the right to make any necessary change in the programme due to scientific, technical and/or organizational reasons. 

Abstract Submission Form 	(please make a copy!)

IUPAC Conference

Degradation Processes in the Environment
24 - 28 May 1998, Dubrovnik (Cavtat) - Croatia

(Please print)

Presenting Author:
Surname:.........................................................................................	Title:..........................................
First Name:..............................................................	Initials:........................	Male/Female
Affiliation:..............................................................................................................................................
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Mailing Address:....................................................................................................................................
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Phone:......................................	Fax:.............................................	E-mail:..........................................

Title of Presentation:

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Type of Presentation:
q Platform presentation 
q Poster presentation
q My preference is platform presentation but will accept poster presentation
q My preference is poster presentation but will accept platform presentation

q I plan to submit a manuscript for conference Proceedings on the subject of my presentation

Remarks:
(Please list here the Word Processor and Graphics software used to prepare the abstract.)

Date: 	Signature:

Completed abstract form and abstract should be mailed by April 1, 1998. to the conference Organizers: A. Sabljic, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, PO Box 1016, HR-10001 Zagreb, Croatia