Manual on Application Process, Selection of Papers and Full Papers

• Each applicant with a paper proposal must be signed up in the NISPAcee Database as a first step. If you do not have a NISPAcee Personal Acount, please sign up  first.
• If you do have a NISPAcee Personal Account, please check your profile and update your personal information and your CV via you personal dashboard (in English, in pdf, maximum 2MB; please do not use the docx format).

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 and upload an Abstract of your Paper proposal according to the Call for the selected Working Group, Panel or Session (in English, maximum two pages - 3600 characters).
• 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 the author(s).
• Please identify who will present your paper. After the proposal is accepted for presentation, the authors can change the presenter(s) of the paper at the NISPAcee conference.
• If the results of your paper are applicable for practitioners, complete Points for Practitioners (max 1800 characters).
• If the topic of your paper is related to EU issues, please complete Points relating to EU or EU Integration within Public Administration and Public Policy (max. 1800 characters).
• Please complete your Online Application with a Paper Proposal and confirm your agreement to the NISPAcee copyright policy.
• Call for papers - second round: Deadline for submissions of paper proposals is extended by January 20, 2023.
  

3. Selection of the paper proposals for the conference

• The selection of papers for presentation at the Conference is carried out by the Working Group / Panel / Sessions’ Coordinators and Chairs, based on the quality of the submitted final paper proposals.
• Selection Criteria:
  The NISPAcee conference Coordinators and Chairs of the respective Working Group / Session / Panel will select the Paper proposals to be completed and presented at the conference based on the following criteria:
  - the nature of the topic and its relevance to the actual conference Call for Papers;
  - the specificity of the research topic and / or case example;
  - the scholarly quality of the Paper; preference will be given to analytical papers based on empirical evidence;
  - the significance for theory or practice.
  
• The paper proposals may be evaluated as "accepted", "conditionally accepted" or "not accepted".
• The selection and evaluation results of paper proposals submitted within the first round of applications, by November 25, 2022, are available via your personal account since December 14, 2022.
  
• Conditionally accepted paper proposals can be updated and uploaded by January 20, 2023.
• Evaluation results of conditionally accepted paper proposals will be available by February 15, 2023.
• The selection and evaluation results of paper proposals submitted within the second round of applications, by January 20, 2023, are available via your personal account since the beginning of February 2023.
  

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 relevant Working Group / Panel / Session‘s Coordinators and Chairs.
• Please follow the NISPAcee Manuscript Guidelines.
• Please complete the Participant Online Registration for the NISPAcee Annual Conference by early on-line registration deadline April 10, 2023.
• The deadline for the submission of full conference papers is April 10, 2023 for Awards competition -The Best Graduate Student Paper Award and The Best Comparative Paper Award. The deadline for submission of full papers for individual sessions, WGs and panels required by Chairs and Coordinators is specified in the Call for papers. It could be April 10, 2023 or May 10, 2023. Please visit a respective Call for papers. After completing the final version of the paper, please upload your paper in pdf format via your personal account (do not use docx format).
• Identify the presenter(s) of the paper. Check that the title of the final paper is the same as the title of your uploaded paper.
• After April 10, 2023 all papers of unregistered authors and papers of authors who have not paid the conference fees could be withdrawn from the conference programme. The authors could not be allowed to present their papers at the conference and their papers can't  be published if they are not presented.
• The final conference programme will be published by May 22, 2023 based on the list of all final papers.
• E-versions 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.
• PowerPoint presentations will be possible in all conference rooms.

6. Finalisation of papers based on feedback from the Conference

• The final papers should be revised and finalised based on the feedback and comments received during the conference and uploaded onto the online system by June 20, 2023.

7. E-publication with conference papers presented at the conference

• Authors of conference papers can decide when apply with a paper proposal for the conference, if they provide full papers for the conference e-proceedings or only abstracts. The e-proceedings will be published in the fall 2023.
• After June 20, 2023 the conference coordinators/chairs will select papers for the conference e-proceedings. Only selected papers can be included into the proceedings. The selected papers have to follow the NISPAcee Manuscript Guidelines and have to comply at least with basic quality standards of academic publications.