Call for papers

Research intended for presentation at the conference may be submitted in the form of an oral presentation within at least one of the four axis of the Conference. Papers may be written and presented in French, Spanish or English. Communications in a poster format presenting research projects or works in progress will also be accepted. Potential proposers will find help and advice about the pertinence of their project and the appropriateness of its achievement if they contact (by writing to the following address citad4-asr@sciencesconf.org) the Scientific and Editorial Assistance (SEA, or ASR in French) that will be set up within the framework of the conference.

Researchers wishing to make a presentation (oral or poster) must submit a file to the Scientific Committee including an abstract of the proposal including:

- Title;

- Author(s): first name(s) and last name(s), affiliation, institution, country;

- Axis to which belongs the proposal;

- Type of presentation (oral or poster);

- Text of the abstract of the proposed presentation itself.

The file should be uploaded to the conference website as a Word file (in the format .doc or .docx), composed of 800 to 1000 words, typeset in Times New Roman, font size 12 pt and line spacing at least 14 pt. This file should be named in the following way:

– For an oral presentation:

– For a poster presentation:

In this file name, "pro" is for proposal and "pos" for poster; "name" should be replaced by the name of the main contributor (lower case, without accented letters or cedilla, tilde, spaces, etc.). Please beware of using underscores (no dashes) before author's name.

In case of acceptance of their proposal by the scientific committee, authors have to provide the committee with the full text of (the first version of) their presentation. This text should specify in its first page:

- Title;

- Author(s): first name(s) and last name(s), affiliation, institution, country;

- Axis to which belongs the presentation;

- Three abstracts (English, Spanish, and French).

As a general model, the text of the presentation (including first page) should not exceed 8000 words. Further explanation concerning the presentation of the file will be provided in the second announcement.

The authors will then receive comments and suggestions from the Scientific Committee. They will subsequently upload the provisionally definitive version of their paper on the site a few weeks before the conference.

During the conference, authors will illustrate their presentation with two slide shows, one of which must be in English.

Submissions will also be accepted in the form of poster presentations presenting completed research projects or works in progress. In addition to the poster itself, the authors must provide a text in the same format as the oral presentation but with a maximum of 5 000 words.

In case of acceptance of their poster by the scientific committee, authors have to proceed in the same way, with the sole exception of the length of their presentation which should not exceed 5 000 words (including first page). In addition to the provisionally definitive version of their communication, and for the same date, authors will upload on the website of the conference a PDF file of their poster. Poster will be printed and displayed by the organizing staff.

Uploading of the abstract of the proposal and of the several versions thereof will be done on the website of the conference, as well as pre-registration and registration.

– The abstract of the proposal must be upload at the latest by September 30, 2012.

– Pre-registration will be open until Septembre 30, 2012.

– The committee's response regarding the submitted proposals will be communicated to authors no later than October 31, 2012.

– In case of acceptance, the full text of the presentation will be uploaded at the latest by December 20, 2012.

– Registration for the conference will be open until January 15, 2013.

– The committee's response, indicating the required changes to the text, will be sent to authors no later than February 28, 2013.

Authors should submit the provisionally definitive text of their presentation (oral or poster 1) no later than March 31, 2013, in order to be included in the (electronic) pre-proceedings.