The Egyptian Association for Sheep and Goats (EASG)

Has the honor to invite to its

The 2nd International Conference on

Enhancement of Small Ruminant Productivity
19 – 21 February 2008
The Conference will be held under the Auspices of

Mrs. Amin Abaza

Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation.
At
Elgardaka for
Red See Governorate, Egypt

E-mail: easgda@hotmail.com
web site: http://apri.arc.sci.eg/conference2
The Conference is a new window open for publishing research articles in sheep and goats

The Association welcomes new distinguish researches from the entire world. We concern with:
Breeding & Genetics Nutrition
Physiology & Adaptation Behavior
Biotechnology Wool & Hair Technology
Production Systems Milk & Milk Processing
Economics Extension
Range Management & Development Mutton
Software helping Sheep & Goats Production
Conference language: Presentation of scientific papers in English while the session of sheep &
goats industry in Egypt will be in Arabic. Possibility of direct translation from Arabic to
English will be announced on the website.

Closing date:

Deadline for submitting abstracts is 30th October 2007 and full paper 15th November 2007.
Cancellation:
To cancel attendance up to 30 November 2007 there will be 50% cut of the fee.
For later cancellations (1st December 2007) no fees refund. The conference book will be
mailed in case of inability to attend.
In case the referees do not agree publishing the article, two possibilities; cancellation with
L.E. 50.00 or $ 20.00 cut of the fees or attendance for listening are acceptable.

Conference Coordinators
Prof. Dr. Essam I. Shehata Chairman, EASGDA Committee
Prof. Dr. Fayez. M. Marai Vice Chairman, EASGDA Committee

Scientific Committee
Prof. A.A. El-Sherbiny Prof. Hamdy Khattab
Prof. A.M. Aboul-Naga Prof. M. Elshafii
Prof. Abdelhamid M. Abdelhamid Prof. Madiha M. Ateia
Prof. A.Z. Mehrez Prof. M. Shokry
Prof. E.S.E. Galal Prof. O. Y. Abdallah
Prof. Elsayed Aboufandoud Prof. S. Basiuny
Prof. G.E. El-Ashmawy Prof. N. I. Hassan
Prof. H. R. Metawi

The Egyptian Association for Sheep, Goats & Desert Animals as giving priority for
small ruminants planed to focus its conference for this field only.

Session on
Development of Sheep & Goats Industry in Egypt
The Egyptian Association for Sheep, Goats & Desert Animals plans to have a full day
in the Conference for different authorities in Egypt working for development of sheep and
goats to present their works and to brief achievements.
We keen to benefit our Conference to strengthen relations between parities concern
with small ruminants in Egypt, to arrange for future collaborative works, to adjust our plans,
to come to a conclusion suggesting a future guiding plan for developing sheep and goats
sector in the country and suggesting priorities for future research works.
Share of scientists and producers in the symposium is the tool produce applicable
and valuable recommendation able to bring progress to small ruminant sector.

Attention Please
Towards better organization for producing fruitful recommendation, the Association asks
who keen to share his ideas to support the Association with them before the Conference,
either by fax or email. The Conference Committee will appreciate that for giving good time
to produce the recommendation and discussing it by attendants before publication.
The Conference will be repeated every two years to discuss achievements and
renewing plans of future works.

Registration Fees
Payable to the Association Account No. 345010057419, Cairo Bank, Dokki Branch, Giza,
Egypt.
Egyptians, Members of the Association
250 L.E. before end of October
300 L.E. after 1st of November
Egyptians, non-member of the Association
300 L.E. before end of October
350 L.E. after 1st of November
Non-Egyptians
200 $ before end of October
250 $ after 1st of November
Attendant without receiving proceeding and bag
L.E 80. or $ 20.00 cut of the previous fees
Attendants of the Sheep & Goats Industry session only
60 L.E. for Egyptians
40 $ for non Egyptians
Note: It necessary sends Copy of value of Registration Check Transfer With
your papers to Easgda@hotmail.com.

The registration fees include:

Attendance, publications, bags, Lunches, Tea Breaks.

L.E.10.00 or $ 2.25 will be collected per extra page exceed the assigned
number of 10 pages for article.

Accommodation:
The Association has arrangement for accommodation for special prices. Details of Booking
will be announced after recognizing the number of attendance.

Regulations for articles delivery & Format

o Articles would not exceed 10 pages, including tables, figures and references,
otherwise extra payment of L.E. 10.00 or $ 2.25 per page is asked over the
Conference fees.
o Three printed copies of the manuscript, double spaced with lines numbered, are
needed for refereeing. The first page shows only the title and keywords. A covering
page includes the title, authors' names and addresses need to be attached.
o Each article will be refereed by two experts and forward to the author to consider the
comments of the referees in case of acceptance for publication.
o All paper should be written according to the system of the Egyptian Journal of Sheep,
Goats and Desert Animals.
o A tested diskette 3.5" and better email attach copy would be forward beside the three
print copies.
o Software used for writing would be Microsoft Word (any version).
o Photos will publish B & W, otherwise authors will ask for true color cost. Tables,
figures and photos should be located with the text discussing them and each is
numbered consecutively.
o Page format; A4 size, with the following margins; top: 5.0 cm, bottom 5.7 cm, left 4.3
cm, right 4.0 cm; Font : Times New Roman. Text size 12.7 x 19 cm
o Sub-titles are written in italics (Times New Roman, Font 12) (lined in the manuscript)
with only the first letter of the first word in capital.
o Leave a line between Title and authors names and between authors name and
affiliations.
o Following the title, author(s) name(s) (with initials preceding) and address(es),
articles are often divided into the following sections: Summary (not more than 250
words), Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions,
Acknowledgment(s) and References.
o There are no fixed sections except summary, introduction, material and methods,
results and discussion, references and Arabic summary.
o Capitalize the letters of the major work in both the article's title and the sections
titles, e.g. MATERIAL AND METHODS (Times New Roman, Font 12 Bold). Text
written font 11 regular.
o Within the text keep the following formats:
o Abbreviations of the Journal of Animal Science (D.S.A) are adopted in
EASGDA journal. Any other abbreviations must be defined. Notice that a
period (dot) (.) is put after the abbreviation.
o Enumerations Zero to ten are written in letters, e.g. Zero, one, two, etc. Values
greater than ten or that followed by abbreviated units are written in Arabic
numerals. e.g. II animals, 49 wk.
o Table's format is essential to construct as each mean value or columns' heading typed in
a separate cell, i.e., do not put all means in a column in one cell.
o Tables must be legible self explained and with suitable size. Avoid, as possible, tables
which can be included only in horizontal direction or in more than on page. The table
heading is written as: Table 2. Means of ….. Capitalize the first letter of the first word
in each column heading. Footnotes are referred to by numbers 1, 2, ..
o Tables fonts; Title & headings font 11 bold, numbers font 11 regular.
o Tables, figures and plates are referred to by capital first letter T, F and P.
o Do not repeat information in tables in graphs. Select one tool to present results
 efficiently.
o Referring to authors would show in name for single or double followed by Year, e.g.
Garrette 1990, Ahmed and Cline 1989. In case of three or more authors the name of
the first author only is mentioned followed by et al., 1989. (Authors & years within text
written bold).
o In the references section, each reference is shown in the following succession; name of
author(s), Year, title and editing authority, plus publishing Co. in case of books and
symposia. In case of periodicals the volume No. is followed by the number of the first
page of the article, if the reference is a book or symposium the pages of the article
referred to are shown as pp. 42- 46, or the chapter No. stated in italic (lined in the
manuscript) the periodical name (e.g. J. Anim. Sci.), in case of books the first letter of
each main word of the title is capital.
o In the references; names and year font 11 bold, other font 11 regular.
o Key words position after the English summary, not more than five key words, font 11
italic.
Key words: sheep, digestibility, ….
o Arabic summary: Font type Simplified Arabic; Title, authors' names font 11 bold;
affiliations, text font 11 regular.
Post-Conference Optional Tours:
After the end of the Conference, attractive tours for participants who are interested to visit
historical and cultural sites in Egypt will be available. Full details and timetable will be
announced later. Possibility to arrange scientific tour to the research farms belong to the
Animal Production Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture will be available too.
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The 1st Conference on
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Persons to contact:
Prof. Dr. E.I. Shehata Prof. Dr. Fayez M. Marai
Telephone: +202-3374489
Fax: +202-3374889
E-mail: easgda@hotmail.com
web site: http: arc.sci.eg/conference2