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Author Guidelines

The conference language is English. Conference and publication activities consist of several stages, as explained below.

Registration

Submission for the abstract/paper is made through the 4th IICGDTR website. The participant needs to create an account first (see the REGISTER FIRST! at  submission section). Please fill in your name, affiliation (department, institution, country), and email. Please ensure that you select an account as AUTHOR at the end of the registration.

After registration is done, please go to the abstract/article submission section and follow every step provided by the committee.

Abstract Preparation

An abstract is written based on the format as follows:

The Title; Capitalize Initial Letter of Word, not More than Twenty Words (Calibri 16, bold)

Author1)*, Author2), Author3) ... (Calibri 12, bold)

1)Affiliation, email: ….. (Calibri 12)

2)Affiliation, email: …(Calibri 12)

3)Affiliation, email: … (Calibri 12)

*E-mail: for the corresponding author (Calibri 11)

ABSTRACT (Calibri 12, bold)

(Calibri 12, line spacing: single). An abstract briefly explains the salient aspects of the content. An abstract is written in English in one paragraph, complete, and concise (maximum 300 words). It contains background, aim(s), methods, result(s), and conclusion.

Keywords: Containing keywords to enhance online accessibility to an article (maximum 5 words) (Calibri 12, line spacing: single)

Please, choose and mention the appropriate sub-theme for your abstract (Place it after the keywords) as follows:

  1. Natural resources and environmental management
  2. Sustainable development issues
  3. Regional development Issues
  4. Disaster and public health
  5. Biotech and bio-based product development

Abstract Submission

The abstract is submitted via the 4th IICGDTR website, in the Microsoft Word file format only. The website will give each incoming abstract an ID. Please submit the abstract once so that there will just be one ID. Use this ID number to communicate with the committee.


Manuscript Preparation
Papers are written based on the format and template provided by the committee (see the article template in the submission section). Please follow the predefined formatting and citation styles. For the reference style used, please also follow the instructions provided in the template. Before submitting, the paper must have been professionally proofread beforehand by the authors.

Manuscript Submission
The paper is submitted via the 4th IICGDTR website, in the Microsoft Word file format only. The website will give each incoming paper an ID. Please only enter the paper once so that there will just be one ID. Use this ID number to communicate with the committee.

Review and Revision
The reviewer team will review papers; each paper will get suggestions and comments from The reviewer team will review papers; each paper will receive suggestions and comments. Please make corrections accordingly and send the paper back to the 4th IICGDTR website using the same paper ID.

Conference
The conference will be held online by Zoom, and instructions will be notified later.

Publishing
The committee will examine the paper and ensure that the final paper is ready to be sent to the publisher.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another conference for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Director).

  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.

  3. All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca) are activated and ready to click.

  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points.

  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Conference.

  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed track of the conference, authors' names are removed from submission, with "Author" and year used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of authors' name, paper title, etc.

  7. If submitting to peer review, all Microsoft Office documents (including Supplementary Files) have been saved by going to File and selecting Save As; clicking Tools (or Options in a Mac); clicking Security; selecting "Remove personal information from file properties on save"; clicking Save.

 

Copyright Notice

Authors who submit to this conference agree to the following terms:
a) Authors retain copyright over their work, while allowing the conference to place this unpublished work under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely access, use, and share the work, with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and its initial presentation at this conference.
b) Authors are able to waive the terms of the CC license and enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution and subsequent publication of this work (e.g., publish a revised version in a journal, post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial presentation at this conference.
c) In addition, authors are encouraged to post and share their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) at any point before and after the conference.

Privacy Statement

 

The names and email addresses entered in this conference site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this conference and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.