The official language of the conference is English. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts to the Secretary of Organizing committee not later than during the conference. Manuscripts should be submitted in two hard copies and on a diskette or CD. Two referees will review them.

After accepting a paper for publication, the author(s) should send the revised manuscript together with a hardcopy and on a diskette or CD and it will be printed free of charge in the International Journal “Propagation of Ornamental Plants”, covered by Current Contents, Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences and SCIE.

Papers should be written on Word for Windows, double line spacing and the rows should be numbered. Please use Times New Roman 12 points.

The following categories of manuscripts are distinguished:

• the manuscripts of key speakers – maximum 6 printed pages (approx. 18 manuscript pages, double line spacing),
• the manuscripts of voluntary speakers – maximum 4 pages (approx. 12 manuscript pages, double line spacing),
• the posters (they will be published as “research note” ) – maximum 2 pages (approx. 6 manuscript pages, double line spacing).

Title. The title should be brief, typed with bold capital letters. Full author(s) name and family name, address, fax and e-mail must be given after the title for each of the authors and co-authors.

Abstract. The abstract must be included after the title and author(s) name. It should not be more than 20 rows. It should be informative and not indicative.

Key words. Maximum 6 key words should be given at the bottom of the abstract

Running title must be not more than 55 characters.

The introduction states the reasons for doing the work, the underlying hypotheses and the essential background.

Material and methods should present enough details to enable the work to be repeated by someone else.

Results and discussion. Results draw attention to important features of tables and figures. The discussion points out the significance of the results and places the results in the context of other studies and concepts.

The acknowledgements should be simply phrased. References to research projects and funds should be included here.

In the text, references should be cited using the following format: for two authors, both names should be given throughout. Use the first author and “et al.” for three or more authors. In the list of references use the following format:
For journals:
De Klerk G.-J., Van der Krieken W., De Jong J. C. (1999). The formation of adventitious roots: new concepts, new possibilities. In vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology-Plant, 35: 189-199.
For chapters in a book:
Welander M. (1993). Micropropagation of Birch. In: Ahuja M. R. (Ed.). Micropropagation of woody plants. Kluwer Academic Publishers: 223-246.
For books:
Hartman H. T., Kester D. E., Davies F. T. Jr., Geneve R. L. (2002). Plant propagation: Principles and practices. 7th edition. Prentice Hall Publishers, 880 pp.

Latin names of the species must be in italic.
A paper may be cited in press only if it has been accepted by a journal, and then the journal must be given in the references. Papers not yet accepted can not be cited in the text.

Nomenclature. Binomial Latin names should be used in accordance with International Rules of Nomenclature. In the title after the Latin name of the species the name of its author should be included. Latin names must be typed in italic in the manuscript.

Measurement units. SI-system should be used for indicating the measurement units. Use mg l^-1 or M instead mg/l.

Tables must be single line spacing and typed on separate sheet. Their numbers must be indicated in the text.

Black and white photographs must be of good quality, printed on glassy paper. Their number must be indicated on the backside. Type the number and text of the photographs on a separate sheet, too. Photocopies are not acceptable, expect to indicate position of the lettering. Printing of colour photographs will be charged additionally. Scanned images will be accepted only as TIF or JPEG formats and minimum 250 dpi.

The figures must be printed on separate sheets. The original files (Excel for example) must be saved in separate files.

An example could be downloaded at http://www.journal-pop.org/sample.htm