1. The speaker must be an individual member (regular, student, foreign and sustaining) of ISJ, having paid a membership fee of the fiscal year 2018 (from 1 August 2018 to 31 July 2019).
2. The presenters can choose the oral or poster presentations.
3. The oral presenters have 15 minutes in total (including ca. three minutes for the question and answer) for their presentation. The presenters can use PowerPoint or PDF file, for both of them, the only available OS is Windows. The slides and VHS video tapes are not available, but the moving images are conditionally acceptable with PowerPoint. Please note only one screen will be prepared.
4. The oral presenters cannot use their personal computers. The computers prepared by the organizing committee must be used.
5. The oral presenters must operate PowerPoint or Acrobat by themselves (the organizing committee does not operate them).
6. The oral presenters must hand over the CD-R or USB flash memory including the data of PowerPoint/PDF file to the Reception Desk of ISJ Meeting. The file name of PowerPoint/PDF should be: “Register number of presentation” plus (connected by hyphen) “name of presenter” plus “.pptx”, “.ppt”, or “.pdf” (e.g., 085-Shinohara.pptx, 085- Shinohara.ppt, or 085- Shinohara.pdf).
7. The poster size for poster presentation should be smaller than 84 cm (width) by 170 cm (height).
8. The double-sided tapes etc. will be prepared by the organizing committee. The posters should be set up to the designated space during the forenoon of 6 October and posted for two days (6-7 October).
9. The title, names of author(s) and institution(s) should be clearly displayed at the uppermost portion of the poster.
10. The odd-numbered posters should be explained by the presenters on 6 October and the even-numbered posters on 7 October. For the explanation, the presenters should be beside their posters during “core time” (13:30-14:30 on respective days). During the core time, the oral presentations will not be held in both times. The presenters can also choose their own presentation time at any time during 9:00 to 16:00 (except 11:00-12:30, 6 October). In this case, the presenters should post a message card with their own presentation time on their board (message cards will be prepared by the organizing committee).
11. The register number of the oral and poster presentations will be informed to the participants from the organizing committee after the application will be finished.
12. No photography is allowed for both the oral and poster presentations.

1. When the presentation includes two or more authors, the presenter should be marked by the asterisk.
2. The name of author should be followed by the name of the institution in the parentheses.
3. The space by a single line should be inserted between the title and name of the author and between the name of the author and sentences, respectively.
4. The following tags should be used:
   a. italic: <I>character</I>
   b. superscript: <SUP>character</SUP>
   c. subscript: <SUB>character</SUB>
5. The abstract, including the title and name of the author (and institution) should include 1504 characters (please note not "words") (94 characters by 16 lines). Please note the spaces between the title and name of the author (and institution), between the name of the author (and institution) and sentences, and between the words are counted as the number of characters.

Stomach contents of <i>Carcharodon megalodon</i> (Lamniformes) ……
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*George SHINOHARA (Tokyo Museum of Natural History) and Thomas SARUWATARI (National University of Edo)
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A living Megalodon shark, <i>Carcharodon megalodon</i> was captured by a bait trap from Edo Bay on 1 April 2018. Its stomach contents were examined with …….

If you have any questions, please contact the representative of the organizing committee by e-mail.
Dr. Gento Shinohara (isj-nenkai2018@bunken.co.jp)
Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science
4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0005 JAPAN