Extended Abstract & Paper Preparation Instructions
In order to prepare for extended abstract or paper submissions, authors are requested to read carefully the guidelines before you write a paper. Contributed papers must conform to the paper preparation instructions below.
Length: The maximum word count for the extended abstract or paper is 3,000. The acknowledgement and references should begin on the last page and may be excluded from the word count.
Abstract: The abstract length is limited up to 150 words. The abstract in your manuscript must be identical to the one you have submitted previously for the review. Avoid non-ASCII characters or symbols, because they may not display correctly in the programme book.
Author List: You can list up to twenty authors in your manuscript. If the number of co-authors is more than twenty, they should be listed in a footnote or in acknowledgement section, as appropriate. Please check the submission policy information on coverage and copyright. Note that the review process IS NOT double blind. Therefore, the author names need to be present in (all versions of) the manuscript.
File Type: All manuscripts should be in MS Word file and PDF format. The PDF file should comply with the following requirements:
- there must be no PASSWORD protection on the file at all,
- the file must be text searchable (do CTRL-F and try to find a common word such as ‘the’) and
- all fonts must be embedded; To embed the fonts, you may use the following instructions:
1. For Windows users, the bullzip printer can convert any PDF to have embedded and subsetted fonts.
- when saving the Word file as a PDF file, click Option.
- Check the [PDF/A] in PDF option, and click OK.
- Then click the save button.
2. For Linux/Mac users, you may use $ pdftops file.pdf or $ pstopdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress file.pdf.
- Note: for some distributions, these utilities may be named pdf2ps and ps2pdf, respectively.
No Logos: Authors should not use any logos in acknowledgement section, but acknowledge corporation names only.
Language: Manuscripts should be written in English.
If a contributed manuscript does not conform to the guidelines, it will be rejected without review.