SDEWES Ohrid 2012 Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

Types of papers sought

The papers must report original, previously unpublished findings in the fields of sustainable development of energy, transport, water, food and environment systems and policy. All papers will be reviewed under the direction of the International Scientific Committee by the Scientific Advisory Board. The abstracts and papers must be written in English. The papers with archival value (archival papers), meaning those that contribute significantly to the state of the art and report final results of research, with proper literature review, will be thoroughly reviewed and will be candidates for publication consideration in special issues of several archival journals. The papers that report work in progress, conventional projects without much contribution to the state of the art, and those lacking a thorough literature review, are invited as conference papers, and will receive less stringent review. Authors are invited to offer suggestion on classification of their papers as “archival” or “conference”, when submitting them.

Authors (corresponding author) willing to present a paper should submit an abstract in English, between 1500-2500 characters long.

Abstract preparation and submission instructions:

An abstract is an extremely important part of the paper because it summarizes the entire paper; it is the public’s window to your work and must allow the reviewers to make an intelligent decision about its acceptance. Its typical composition should be:

Motivation for the paper
Objectives
What was done
How it was done and validated
Major results
Conclusions

In writing the abstract, be quantitative, write it clearly and in good English, and do not exceed the imposed 1500-2500 characters length limit because accepted abstracts will be published in the proceedings, one page per abstract.

The abstracts should be submitted online (deadline for abstracts of archival submissions is December 15th):

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT

Paper submission, presentation and deadline rules

Each paper to be published in online Proceedings and in special issues of journals will have to be presented at the Conference by one of the authors (presenting author). The papers will not be allowed to be presented by those who are not its authors. Each participating author will be obliged to present their paper(s) orally at the Conference.

Types of contributions:

archival paper (published in Book of Abstracts and online Proceedings, may be invited to a special issue, which are submitted and fee settled by February 15, 2012)
conference paper (published in Book of Abstracts and online Proceedings, which are submitted and fee settled by June 15, 2012)
conference abstract (published in Book of Abstracts, fee settled by June 15, 2012)

Types of presentation:

oral presentation (presented in one of general or special sessions)
there will be no poster presentations at SDEWES 2012 conference

The papers with archival value (archival papers), meaning those that contribute significantly to the state of the art and report final results of research, with proper literature review, will be thoroughly reviewed and will be candidates for publication consideration in special issues of several archival journals (among others Energy, Applied Energy, Management of Environmental Quality, Strojarstvo, Journal of Environmental Sciences and Health ...).

Manuscript template/instructions is available to all corresponding/presenting authors of accepted abstracts after logging-in the conference submission system.

If you have any question please send it to: ohrid2012@sdewes.org