1. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Email a MICROSOFT WORD compatible paper, complying with the guidelines below, by the 31st of March 2010 to Simon Thorne: sthorne @ uwic.ac.uk (remove the spaces obviously!)

All papers will be double blind refereed by a minimum of 2 referees and their comments given to the author. All candidates will be notified by the 30th April 2010 whether successful or unsuccessful.

We are not seeking to pre-approve papers on the basis of abstracts. However, if you wish to submit an abstract in order to obtain our guidance on whether the subject matter is likely to be of interest, please do so (to Simon Thorne as above) by the 1st of February and we will let you have feedback within 2 weeks of receipt.

If your paper is accepted, the full paper, modified as necessary, must be sent by email to the same address by the 31st May 2010

Submission deadline: 31st March 2010
Acceptance notice: 30th April 2010
Final camera-ready copy: 31st May 2010
Conference dates: 15th and 16th of July 2010

2. GUIDANCE FOR THE FIRST TIME SUBMITTER

If you are new to writing conference papers, please read this document first: "How to write a successful EuSpRIG paper"

3. FULL PAPER FORMAT FOR CAMERA-READY COPY

Be maximum 12 pages A4,
Include a short abstract (10 lines max.)
Contain an introduction that indicates structure of the entire paper
Include references [Name, Year]

4. LAYOUT  

In English
11 point Times New Roman font
Single-spaced
Justified
NOT contain page numbers
NOT contain footnotes or headers
Use gender-free language
Use A4 sheet size (21cm * 29.7cm)
Printing area: 14.0 cm * 23.7 cm
Margins: left 3.8 cm, right 3.2 cm, top 3.0 cm, bottom 3.0 cm

5. HEADINGS

The Paper Title in 18 point, bold, Arial,
centre justified
 

Presenting author, other authors,
Address,
Email
(in 11 point, Times Roman, not bold, centre justified, double spaced from the title)
<3 blank lines 11 point >

ABSTRACT (CAPITALS, not numbered, 11 point, bold, left justifed)
<1 blank line 11 point>

Abstract text after single blank line (10 point, italic, not bold, left justified)
 
1 HEADING LEVEL ONE (CAPITALS, numbered, 11 point, bold and left justifed)
 
1.1 Heading - Level Two (Title Case, numbered, 11 point, bold and left justifed)
 
Heading Level Three (Title Case, not numbered, 11 point, bold and left justifed)
 
Text following all section titles after single blank line.
Text in all sections in 11 point Times Roman.

Paragraphs separated by a single line.
No indented paragraphs.

6. REFERENCES
 
Minimum six reference for all papers including management summaries

Referencing within the text should be [Name, Year]

References should appear at the end of the paper and should be:

Times 9 point, minimum spacing 11 point;
 
One space between references;
second line indented flush with first line 
 
To give an article/paper:
Name, A. and Another, N. (2000), "The Subversive Spreadsheet", Proceedings of the EuSpRIG 2000 Symposium, pages 5-6.
 
To give a book:
Name, W. (First edition) (1966), The Spreadsheet Substitute, Kemp & Masters Publishing.
 
To give a URL:
Include the URL and time and date of access at the end of the normal reference details e.g. www.gre.ac.uk/~cd02/eusprig/  12.30pm  12/4/01