Guidelines for Authors

To attend the Conference, one needs to complete the registration and payment. Authors will need to register before the Early-Bird deadline to allow the papers to be included for final online publication. A No Paper No Podium policy will be followed. Each paper shall at least have one registered delegate. Each delegate can register to present two papers at most either by Oral or Interactive Display.

1. Paper Preparation Overview

Abstracts

Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract within 300 words in English. Full-length paper is not required for technical participation in ACCM12. The abstract should explain clearly the content and relevance of the proposed technical contribution. On a separate page, please list the following information: (1) Title of the paper, (2) Name, affiliation, and email address of each author, (3) Corresponding author and presenting author.

Please use Abstract Submission system to submit your contribution at website www.accm12.net .

Full-length Papers

Author of an accepted abstract is invited (but not required) to submit a full paper of 3–10 pages. Full papers will be reviewed by session organizers and/or committee members. Accepted and presented full papers will be included in the final ACCM12 proceedings after the conference. Note that author(s) must register and pay the conference registration fee in order to present a paper at ACCM12.

Excellent full papers submissions can be selected and recommended to be published in journals including Composites Science and Technology, Composites Part A, Composites Part B, Composites Communications, International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, and Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica. Journals can reject the paper for not meeting the quality standards and has the following policies on conference publications:

1. Papers submitted need to have a minimum length of 3 pages.
2. Papers should have no more than 40% overlap with prior publications.
3. Every paper should include references and the amount of references should be proportionate to the work.
4. For papers to be acceptable in journal, authors need to ensure that the papers fall within the Scope of journals. Correct results and acceptable English are also required.

All full papers will be checked and finalized for inclusion in the ACCM12 Proceedings after the conference. Thus, feedbacks/comments from conference presentation may affect the decision to include or exclude a paper from the final Proceedings. Please note that the publisher reserves the right to revoke the acceptance (and retract) the publication in some extreme circumstances when it becomes apparent that a previously published or accepted work significantly misrepresented the quality, veracity, or relevance of the presented results.

Presented full-length papers that satisfy quality and technical scope requirements will be included in the ACCM12 Proceedings, which will be submitted for publication in publishing journals. There is no additional publication charge for full papers with 10 pages or less. The one-page abstracts will not be included in the final ACCM12 Proceedings.

Please note that there is NO mail/shipment service of conference materials for ACCM12 participants.