How to prepare your paper
for the 23rd NISPAcee Annual Conference
The following steps can help you to prepare your paper and be successful at the NISPAcee Conference.
1 . Registration in the NISPAcee Database
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Each applicant must be registrated in the NISPAcee Database with an application and paper proposal. If you do not have a personal account on the NISPAcee website, please register first. If you do have a NISPAcee Personal Account, please check your profile and update your personal information and CV where applicable.
2. Application with a Paper Proposal
- Review the Calls for Papers of all conference Working Groups, Panels and Sessions and choose the one you are interested in applying for.
- To assess the authenticity of your paper, or to select a Working Group, Session or Panel, please see the List of Existing Applications.
- Write an Abstract of your Paper according to a Call for the selected Working Group (in English, maximum two pages - 3600 characters).
- In case the results of your paper are applicable for practitioners, write Points for Practitioners (max 1800 characters).
- Complete an Online Application with a Paper Proposal (in English) and upload an Abstract of a Paper. Attach the actual CV file (in, English, maximum 2MB; please do not use the docx format). Please give your agreement to the NISPAcee copyright policy. Deadline for applications is October 15, 2014.
- Where a paper proposal is co-authored, only one of the authors may apply online. Co-author(s) must also be registered in the NISPAcee Database. The co-author(s) should be assigned by author(s). After the proposal is accepted for presentation, the authors could change the presenter(s) of the paper at the NISPAcee conference.
3. Selection of the paper proposals for the conference
- The selection of papers for presentation at the Conference will be carried out by the Working Group coordinators, based on the quality of the submitted final paper proposals.
- The paper proposals may be evaluated in the 1st Selection Round as "accepted", "conditionally accepted" or "not accepted".
- The selection and evaluation results of the paper proposal will be available via your personal account by end of November 2014.
- Conditionally accepted paper proposals can be updated by December 31, 2014.
- Evaluation results of conditionally accepted paper proposals in the 2ndSelection Round will be available by January 10, 2015.
4. Write and complete your paper
- If your paper proposal has an acceptation status you can start to complete your paper based on the recommendations of the Working Group coordinators.
- Please follow the NISPAcee Manuscript Guidelines.
- Please complete the Participant Online Registration for the NISPAcee Annual Conference by March 31, 2015.
- The deadline for the submission of final papers is April 10, 2015. After completing the final version of the paper, please upload your paper in pdf, doc or rtf format via your personal account (do not use docx format).
- Identify the presenter(s) of the paper. Check if the title of the final paper is the same as the title of your uploaded paper.
- After April 10, 2015all papers which were not submitted in full format, and all papers of unregistered authors and papers of authors who have not paid the conference fees will be withdrawn from the conference programme . The authors will not be allowed to present their papers at the conference and their papers will not be published.
- Final programme of all Working Groups will be determinated after April 10, 2015 based on the list of all final papers. The Working Group coordinators can identify all papers in the programme as Key Papers and Papers.
- E-version of conference papers will be available for all conference participants in the Conference Programme on the NISPAcee website prior to the event.
5. Presentation of your paper at the NISPAcee Conference
- Please check the suggested Paper Presentation Advice.
- Copies of papers will not be provided by NISPAcee during the Conference. Authors of papers are welcome to bring copies of their papers for distribution at their working session or Working Group.
- Data-projectors will be available in all conference rooms.
6. Finalisation of papers based on feedback from the Conference
- Last feedback and comments from the conference should be incorporated in the paper, finalised and uploaded on to the online system by June 15, 2015.
7. CD with all conference papers
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The CD with all conference papers will be published in the Summer of 2015.