Papers presented in the conference were published, in the form of an edited volume, in a Report on Rural Learning for Development to the European Commission, presenting the state-of-the-art and challenges in rural learning in Europe and beyond, in Autumn 2007 (ISBN: 978-960-8339-25-1).

RuraLEARN: Text formatting guidelines

All texts submitted for inclusion in the publications of RuraLEARN should be provided to the organizers in editable electronic form, in either *.doc or *.rtf format.

In general, the basic format of the text editor should be used, avoiding any formatting (headings, etc.) other than the following:

Sunset, Merikounta beach, Mesta

Paper title: Bold, size 16, centered. All Primary Words of the Title with a Capital First, Including Those Placed after a Semicolon (:).

All other titles/headings in the document: Bold, size 12, justified. First letter of the title/heading should be a capital, no full stop point at the end (question mark allowed, if necessary). Text headings should be numbered in up to three hierarchical levels as follows:
1. [first level title]
1.1. [second level title]
1.1.1 [third level title]

Authors: Size 14, justified. Author name, together with institution and country information, should follow the paper title, and precede the abstract. The following form should be applied:
[First Name Last name] in bold
[Institution] in italics, [Country] in italics
If there are more than one author from the same institution, names should be separated by commas, and the institution and country information should be mentioned only once, at the end. If authors from more than one institution are involved, names should be linked to the institutions through asterisks (*, **, ***).

Abstract: Normal , size 10, justified. An abstract of about 50-70 words should be included in papers, following the names of authors and preceding the text. It should carry the heading ‘Abstract', unnumbered.

Text: Normal , size 12, justified. Words to be stressed should be in italics . Quotes should be included in the flowing text, within simple quotation marks (‘…').

Footnotes: Asterisk footnotes should be preferred to endnotes. They should be used to indicate additional, supplementary information, but not references to sources (see further below for referencing instructions). Footnotes should be formatted as inserted automatically by the text editor.

Tables and Figures: Tables and Figures should be centered, with captions underneath them, also centered and in italics . Tables and Figures should be numbered is two separate sequences: Table 1, Table 2, Table 3,… Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3,… The captions should be of the following form:

Table/Figure [number] in bold italics: Description of the table/figure in simple italics

References in the text:

• Last Name (year of publication)
• (Last Name year of publication)

References list at the end of the document:

• For a book:
  Last Name, Initial. (year of publication). Title with All Primary Words with a Capital First, Including Those Placed after a Semicolon. Place: Publisher.
• For a chapter in a book:
  Last Name, Initial. (year of publication). ‘Title of chapter in lower case, in simple quotation marks'. In: Last Name, Initial. Title of the Book with All Primary Words with a Capital First, Including Those Placed after a Semicolon. Place: Publisher.

• For a paper in a journal:
  Last Name, Initial. (year of publication). ‘Title of paper in lower case, in simple quotation marks'. In: Name of Journal in italics , [Volume number], [Issue Number], [Pages].