Distance education: a brave new world? Conference. 20-21 October 2022

Short papers for the conference proceedings - Instructions for authors 

TEXTS

The final version of short papers for the conference proceedings, which will be published online before the conference, will need to follow the following guidelines closely:

• authors will need to provide a 200 word abstract in English (and in French if you can write in French too), and a list of 6 keywords;
• short papers need to be submitted as ready-to-print PDF files to ensure that any formatting and image positioning is preserved;
• the document should have no page numbering, no header, no footer and no text indentation;
• all four document margins should be set to 2.5 cm;
• short papers should contain 3,000 to 4,000 words, including references;
• the paper title should be in Times New Roman font, size 14, bold; spacing before and after the paragraph should be set to 8 points;
• level 1 headings should be in Times New Roman font, size 12, bold, spacing before the paragraph should be set to 12 points and spacing after the paragraph should be set to 3 points
• level 2 headings should be in Times New Roman font, size 12, bold, spacing before the paragraph should be set to 8 points and spacing after the paragraph should be set to 0 points
• the main body of the text should be justified, in Times New Roman font, size 12, normal characters (i.e. not bold, not in italics);
• paragraphs in the main body of the text should not be indented; spacing before the paragraph should be set to 6 points; images, tables and any other illustrations should be inserted in the text, as PNG or TIFF files, with captions and numbering; captions and numbers should be positioned above the images and tables;
• images, tables and any other illustrations should also submitted separately as text files, with information about image sources and copyright information;
• footnotes should be in Times New Roman font, size 10.

A word template is also available for authors: 

https://distance-2022.sciencesconf.org/data/Distance22_ShortPaperTemplate_English.dot 

REFERENCES

References should follow APA (6^th) referencing guidelines. Examples are provided below:

General structure of references:

Author, A. A., & Other-Author, B. B. (Year). Title of item. Title of overall work [Item type/information]. Publisher information/location from which accessed (normally the url). Persistent identifier (normally the DOI).

Books:

Author, A. (Year of publication). Title (Edition number if it is not the first edition). Place of publication: publisher.

Book chapter and Conference proceedings:

Author, A. (Year of publication). Title of chapter In Editor, E. (Ed.) Title of book (pp. Page numbers of chapter). Place of publication: publisher.

Author, A. & Otherauthor, B. (Year of publication). Title of paper In Title of Proceedings, Location of conference, conference date (Page numbers).

Journal paper:

Author, A. & Otherauthor, B. (Year of publication). Title of article. Title of journal, Volume number(Issue), Page numbers.

Online document:

Author, A. (Year the site was published/last updated). Title of Internet site. Retrieved from URL

Download the instructions

Download the instructions for authors in PDF format: https://distance-2022.sciencesconf.org/data/Distance22_ShortPapers_InstructionsForAuthors.pdf