Submission of Abstracts:

Abstracts will be collated for distribution in an Abstract volume. Please confine the text to a width of 160 mm and a height of 120 mm. The title should be given in bold capital letters followed by full names and addresses of authors on the 2nd line below. The text should follow on the 2nd line below the address and be single spaced using 10 point Times font. Underline the presenting author. Please ensure that your full name(s) and address(es) for correspondence appear on the abstract The organizers reserve the right to decide whether a contribution will be presented orally or as a poster, and may suggest that a proposed poster contribution be presented orally if helpful in organizing thematic sessions.

Papers submitted for consideration as oral or poster contributions within the topics outlined in this announcement are welcome. Authors should submit a one-page abstract of 200-300 words by e-mail, typed in unformatted text within the text frame (body) of the message rather than as an attachment. Please e-mail abstracts to Hallegraeff@utas.edu.au for review and selection by the organizing committee.

Deadline for submission of Abstracts is 1 October 1999.

The HAB2000 Conference Proceedings containing accepted papers (oral contributions and posters) will be published as one or two special issues (600-700 pages in total) of the international journal Phycologia. This decision has important advantages in allowing us to produce a high-quality, typeset, professionally edited volume, which is also available through many libraries. Page limitations on proffered contributions will be less strictly prescribed than at previous conferences in this series (5-6 printed pages would be an average paper) while we will also maintain the option of short communications (2-3 pp). However, journal publication renders it imperative that the work makes an original contribution and the results have not been published and are not being considered for publication elsewhere. Instructions for authors can be found at the worldwide web on

Copies of the conference volume will be made available free of charge to all full-fee paying conference delegates, as well as to all journal subscribers, while extra copies will also be available via the IOC Science and Communication Centre on Harmful Algae and related outlets.

Three typed doublespaced copies of the manuscript, based on talks or posters, must be submitted to the conference organizers not later than 11 February, 2000. Make sure your manuscript is linguistically acceptable when sending it for review. An editorial team consisting of G.M.Hallegraeff, C.J.Bolch, S.I.Blackburn and R.J. Lewis will distribute manuscripts to referees, and only after deemed suitable for publication will the manuscripts be passed on to the journal editor for final editing. Upon final acceptance of the manuscript, an electronic disk version will be requested. Allocation of the HAB2000 conference proceedings to a special journal issue (Feb-Mar 2001) also means that manuscript submission deadlines will be strictly implemented.

Deadline for submission of manuscripts 11 February 2000

Deadline for final acceptance of manuscripts 31 August 2000

Proposed publication of Conference Proceeding mid 2001

Conference contributions such as new bloom reports which do not meet the criteria for journal publication will be considered for the IOC newsletter Harmful Algae News or a similar IOC publication.