Contributor Guidelines
ABSTRACT
Paper proposals are now being accepted. The official language for the Conference
is English. Unfortunately submissions in other languages cannot be accepted.
Paper proposals intended for presentation within the Conference should be
e-mailed to u.sengupta@mmu.ac.uk.
Submissions should include the following information:
- Author(s) - In case of multiple authors, please indicate presenter with an asterix (*)
- Name and contact information (phone number, email and postal address);
- Institutional affiliation
- Biography: indication of educational and professional background, andresearch interests, in a single paragraph up to 100 words.
Abstract Template:
- Title of the paper;
- 3 keywords;
- Abstract: outlining the aims, scope and conclusions of the paper in maximum 250 words;
- 5 key bibliographical references.
PAPER (based on guidelines Environment and Planning B: Planning & Design)
- Papers should be submitted as Word or pdf files.
- Papers should be written in English, in nonsexist, nonracist language.
- Please think very carefully when writing your title so that it contains the keywords that readers would use when searching for papers on the same topic. Describe your work fully in the abstract, reiterating key phrases (the abstract should not be repeated in the first paragraph). We also ask that you select 3 – 5 keywords from the choices given on the submissions website.
- Papers should be double spaced with 12-point font size. Papers should be no longer than 8000 words (including tables, equations, etc). Please embed all tables within the document. Please attach figures separately, as these are appended to the end of the manuscript document.
- Papers should be formatted as per the style guidelines provided below, and particular attention should be paid to the style of references and accepted figure formats.
Style Figures
Figures should be submitted in TIFF or EPS format, with at least 300dpi resolution for greyscale TIFFs and atleast 600dpi resolution for black and white TIFFs. PDFs are also accepted. Other formats are not accepted (JPEG, GIF, BMP, Powerpoint, Excel, etc).
All figures and tables should be mentioned in the text and should be numbered according to the order in which they are mentioned.
Figures should be submitted in black and white unless colour is really necessary. Colour printing is expensive and is charged at cost—though, alternatively, colour figures can be made available online free of charge. Any figures intended for colour printing, either in print or online, should be indicated as such.
References
The full list of all references cited in the paper should appear at the end of the text, in alphabetical order by author, and in ascending chronological order for each author. They should be formatted in the house style (see example references). If you are an Endnote user, there is an output style called Environment and Planning.ens
References must be cited in the text, and should be cited alphabetically in the format shown by the following examples: Batty, 2003; 2005a; Batty and Xie, 1994; Webster et al, 1999b.
Where more than one reference appears for the same year, labels a, b, c etc should be used, in the order in which the papers are cited.
All authors and editors should be listed for each citation.
Any unpublished material, or material published by an organisation or department (such as conference proceedings) must be accompanied by full contact details of availability, as shown in the example references (it is notsufficient, for example, to provide the name and year of a conference and the place at which it was held).
A full contact address is required for any organisations.
Acts of Parliament, statutes, government publications, legal judgments, etc, must be fully referenced as shown in the example references.
First and last pages should be provided for all articles published in journals or books
Mathematics
If mathematics feature in the manuscript, care should be taken that they are formatted according to mathematics style of the journal.
