PAPER PREPARATION
The size of a Full / Commentary Paper has to be 4-6 pages (including abstract, main text, references and figure legends). For each additional page of the Full paper, the author will be required to pay an extra fee.
The size of a Doctoral Workshop proposal has to be 1-2 pages.
Each main author is allowed to submit max. 2 papers (check for the additional charges on the registration page). However, the author can be mentioned as a co-author in other submissions.
The conference language is English only.
Guidelines for preparing your paper:
Full paper: please use the provided Guidelines for preparing your paper. You can find there instructions and recommendations on how to structure a Full paper in compliance with the IEEE requirements. You can download the Guidelines here.
Depending on the submission type*, a paper should include a combination of following sections: Synopsis, Research Design, Relevance for Practice, Relevance for Education, Main and Anticipated Findings, Profile of Associated Instructions, Keywords.
Commentary paper: the stories of cities go well beyond the researcher perspective. We want to hear informed commentary from citizens, city leaders and other stakeholders who want to ensure their future cities have a high quality of life. We would like factual commentaries that effectively and meaningfully shed light on either the topics of this conference or anything that you, as a city stakeholder, consider worthy of discussion.
The commentary paper should have a short meaningful title, an abstract of 50 words or less, no more than 35 references, and one or two figures (with figure legends) or tables.
Doctoral Workshop proposals**:
Starting a new Journey – this proposal focuses on your PhD journey at the beginning of your research. Use the chance to present your research questions and the first outline of your project. Profit from in-depth discussions with and feedback by peers and professionals from different fields.
On the Journey – this proposal focuses on the first outcomes of your research in the middle stage of your PhD journey. Share your current research findings, and strengthen your arguments by the qualified feedback from professionals with diverse perspectives on your findings.
* Submission types: Research Paper, Commentary Paper, Case Study, Masters Research Note, Practitioner Paper, Research Paper.
**All presented during the Doctoral Workshop proposals can be then considered for the elaboration and extension. PhD researchers will be given a chance to be published in either Project Management Research & Practice Journal or IEEE Xplore.
FURTHER PUBLICATION STEPS (AFTER THE CONFERENCE)
5. Check the publication of your paper in IEEE Xplore around the end of September (you will be notified).
SUBMISSION
Each presenting author must submit the Paper (Full paper, Commentary Paper, Doctoral Workshop Proposal) via EasyChair System.
PAPER TEMPLATES
FULL / COMMENTARY PAPER Template
DOCTORAL WORKSHOP PROPOSAL Template
ORAL (ONLINE) PRESENTATION
Oral (online) presentation should take around 15 minutes which will be followed by the Q&A session (around 10 minutes) at the end of your session, therefore, you are kindly asked to be present the whole session online. For preparing your oral presentation please use the MS PowerPoint template on the right.
VIDEO PRESENTATION
You are kindly asked to record a video of your presentation, explaining your research and limited by 5 minutes, and send us the link to the video-file by 10th of March to this email.
For preparing your presentation please use the MS PowerPoint template on the right. In the video, you can show your slides, record the demos and so on. Please make sure that you are also visible in the recorded video as a presenter.
Your video will be published on our Conference portal and only participants will have access to it. Please note, that you should be present during the Poster and Video Discussions session to discuss your paper(s). The moderator will guide you.
In case of no-show, your paper will be excluded from the IEEE Xplore publications.
POSTER PRESENTATION
Please prepare a poster based on the template provided. Send us the file both in ppt and pdf formats until 10th of March to this email.
Your poster will be published on our Conference portal and only participants will have access to it. Every participant can get familiar with your poster in advance and will be able to discuss your paper with you during the Poster & Video Discussion session. Please make sure to be present during this session.
In case of no-show, your paper will be excluded from the IEEE Xplore publications.
DOCTORAL WORKSHOP
Presentation of each Doctoral proposal should take max 15 minutes. The presentation will be followed by a 10 minutes discussion, during which researchers will also get feedback and suggestions for their future research.
For preparing your presentation please use the MS PowerPoint template on the right.
INDEXING
Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases. All A&I providers can be found here and include amongst others Scopus and Web of Science.
POLICIES
Privacy policy: IEEE policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge which that access provides. This applies to anyone else who is authorized to handle submissions.
Publication policies:
IEEE reserves the right to exclude a submission from distribution after the conference, including exclusion from IEEE Xplore, if the submission does not meet IEEE standards for scope and/or quality.
IEEE reserves the right to exclude an article from distribution after the conference (e.g., not placed on IEEE Xplore) if the article is not presented at the conference.