Abstract Guidelines for the Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference

An abstract is required for each paper proposed for presentation at the Wildlife Management Institute’s (WMI’s) annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference. The final manuscript that accompanies the author’s(s’) presentation will be printed in the Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (Transactions). The abstract should synopsize in clear, concise, objective terms what the final, full manuscript will encompass. And, it should identify pertinent conclusions—known or hypothesized—at the time of preparation. Abstracts should be a maximum of 350 words.

Three copies of each abstract must be e-mailed no later than September 1. As an attachment, one copy is e-mailed to the special session chair, one to the special session cochair and one to WMI’s Transactions editor (Richard McCabe at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

When formatting the abstract, use the following guidelines.

1. The abstract should be saved as a Microsoft Word or as a Corel WordPerfect file, using the author’s(s’) names as the file name.
2. Abstracts should have 1-inch margins, be typed in 11-point, Times New Roman font, be left justified, and be single spaced. Do not include hyperlinks in the paper.
3. Place the title of the special session at the top of the page in bold type with all letters capitalized.
4. Follow the title of the session with one skipped line then the title of the paper, also in bold type.
5. After the paper’s title, skip one line and indicate the name, affiliation, mailing address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address of the primary author.
6. Follow the primary author’s contact information with the same type of information for all coauthors individually, skipping a line between each.
7. Finally, skip one line and proceed with the abstract. For example:

Study of the Effects of Human Disturbance on National Parks

John D. Doe
Allegheny Research Center, 1500 Campus Hall, Sometown, Pennsylvania 18010-1000
phone (302) 444-5555, fax (302) 444-5556, e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and

Robert Q. Roe
State College, Department of Biology, Campus Box 4, Sometown, Pennsylvania 18010-1000
phone (302) 444-3333, fax (302) 444-3334, e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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The special session chairs need abstracts in order to introduce authors at the conference and to schedule presentations appropriately. WMI requires abstracts in order to organize the special sessions, to promote the presentations to the conference’s audience and to the media, and to publish the conference agenda. If there are questions on formatting or submitting an abstract, contact WMI’s Transactions editor (Richard McCabe at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).