Style guidelines are for the authors who are preparing their manuscripts for publishing. Final manuscripts will be compiled into Conference Proceedings and made available in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format. Language of the Conference is English.
Length
Manuscript for Full Paper word count is 4,000–5,000 words, excluding abstract, figures, captions and references.
Manuscript for Poster word count is approx. 2,000 words.
Manuscript for Panel, a critical opinion essay, word count is 2,000–3,000 words.
Short biography
Send a short biography of the author(s) of up to 150 words in a separate document.
Legal bit
In a separate document please send a signed declaration stating that your manuscript is the original work and has never been copyrighted and/or published in its submitted form.
File format
Papers should be submitted as a .doc .docx or .rtf attachment by email to info@strand.rs.
Please do not send zipped files or files in PDF format.
Page
Set the page to A4 with margins of 2.5 cm all around. Please do not insert headers, footers, or page numbers. All text should be in a single column.
Font
Calibri font 10 pt with single line spacing for all texts including title, authors names, headings, figures, and references.
Title
Insert the title of the paper in bold, left aligned, at the top of the first page only.
Author name and Affiliation
On the following line, place the names of the author(s), excluding degrees or qualifications. Where all authors are with the same affiliation, use the following format:
Lead Author, Second Author, Third Author
Organization/Affiliation (if applicable), Town, Country
leadauthor@email
secondauthor@email (optional)
thirdauthor@email (optional)
For multiple authors from different organizations:
Lead Author1, Second Author2, Third Author3
1 Organization/Affiliation (if applicable), Town, Country
2 Organization/Affiliation (if applicable), Town, Country
3 Organization/Affiliation (if applicable), Town, Country
leadauthor@email
secondauthor@email (optional)
thirdauthor@email (optional)
If you wish to include an ORCID reference, add it next to the email contact in the following format: ORCID: http://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
Abstract
Insert up to 300 words abstract. Include up to 6 keywords.
Body text
For body text use Calibri 10 point, single-spaced and fully justified. Please use normal capitalisation within the text. Bulleted or numbered lists are permitted. Figures and tables must have titles. Insert images as picture files (.gif .jpg .bmp .png). Please avoid using footnotes. Endnotes are not permitted.
Headings
All headings should use initial capitals only (except Acronyms). Use the following numbering convention:
1 Heading 1
1.1 Heading 2
1.1.1 Heading 3
Acknowledgements
If applicable insert acknowledgements just before the references.
References
References should follow the Harvard referencing style which means that primary references in the text should be in the format (Vidler 2000) and listed at the end of the paper as following:
Vidler, A. (2000). Diagrams of Diagrams: Architectural Abstraction and Modern Representation. Representations, (72), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902906
Reference linking
Reference linking enables researchers to follow a link from the reference list to other full-text documents. Instead of just including the reference you should also display the DOI link after each reference. For easy reference linking you can use a free online tool to look up the DOIs for your references Crossref SimpleTextQuery