Guidelines for Submission Process:

• Create User Id: Fill in profile details (* implies mandatory fields)
• After entering all necessary information, click ‘Create’ to finish creating a user account.
• You shall receive a notification mail from IASC2011informing you of the successful creation of your user account.
• Login to the Online Conference Management System using User id and Password. The software will guide you to the User Home Page.
• At any point of time, you may edit your profile or change your password through the respective tabs under 'My Account'.
• Clicking on Author shall provide a summary of all submissions by this particular user
• To start a new submission process, click Step one of the submission process.The software shall guide you through the various steps involved.

Step 1. Starting the Submission

This step includes:

• Identification of the subtheme of relevance (click more on subthemes for information on various subthemes)
• Crosschecking the submission checklist and making sure the submission adheres to all mentioned requirements.
• Agreeing to terms of copyright notice.

Any additional comments can be entered as text in the space provided under ‘Comments for Co-chair’

To continue to step 2, click, Save and Continue

Step 2. Submit Abstract

Enter information regards:

• Author/s: Co-authors for a particular abstract can be added by clicking ‘Add Co-author’
• Submission Type: Select from various submission types Paper/panel/Poster/Video.
• Title and Abstract: Enter Title and Abstract in respective spaces.
• Indicate relevant indexing.
• Identify supporting agencies/organizations, if any.
• Specify if Travel Grant is required. 

Paper Abstract Guidelines

Word Limit: 100-300 words. Identify the Conference Sub-Themes the abstract is relevant to (academic reviewers of your abstract will be assigned based on the sub-theme you indicate); provide a title for the abstract/paper; names and contact information for all contributing authors; 5 keywords (i.e. describing methods, region of study, etc). Note: Final paper should be between 6,000-10,000 words.

Poster Abstract Guidelines

Word Limit: 100-300 words. Identify the theme or provide a title for your poster; indicate if your poster will present a project, conceptual work, or results from an empirical study, etc. In your abstract, you may include key elements of the script of your poster.

Note: Practitioners are strongly encouraged to submit poster abstracts, and the profile of posters will be elevated at the IASC 2011 Conference, to successfully "bring a practitioner perspective to the Conference."

Video Abstract Guidelines

Word Limit 100-300 words. Indicate the title of the video, run-time of the video, original format of the video, equipment needs for showing the video, production credits, date the film was produced and description of its original purpose if not created for this Conference itself, the contact details for the corresponding presenter. The online process allows users to upload links to their videos as supplementary files along with their abstracts. Interested participants are requested to post hard copies of their videos to the mail address mentioned below:

Foundation for Ecological Security
PB No. 29, Anand - 388001, India
Tel: 02692-261402/261238/261239

Mailing Address
A-1 Madhuram Park, Near Srinathji Society
Ganesh Crossing, Anand-388001
Gujarat, INDIA

Submission of Panel abstracts

We encourage the submission of proposals for organizing panels focused on a specific theme or topic. A panel session may have 4-5 papers focused on a central theme. A total time of about an hour and a half is allocated to each panel presentation. It is up to the organizer of the panel to determine how to fill those hours (in terms of number of speakers, etc.). However, time for questions from the audience and discussion needs to be considered. 

• A panel submission would need an identified organizer/coordinator, an abstract summarizing the aims of the panel session and how each paper will contribute to the overall aim (abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words and include names and affiliations of the organizer and individual presenters), planned outcomes (if any) and additional abstracts for each paper to be presented within the proposed panel (using the template form as described above).
• The panel and the constituent paper abstracts shall be reviewed together. It would be helpful if all the abstracts came through the panel organizer, so it is clear that they are intended to fit together as a group. The online submission system has provisions to add abstracts and its individual details to a single panel abstract submission.  

• Please note that in case of Panel submission, the Title and Abstract and its respective Indexing will pertain to the Panel as a whole. To add constituent papers to the Panel, click ‘Add Paper’. Each Paper, in turn, will have its own Title, Abstract and Author/ Co-Authors.

• Users are requested to submit panel proposals into the online system by choosing submission type as ‘Panel’ and adding constituent papers through ‘Add Paper’ and not by selecting submission type as ‘Paper’ and subsequently adding constituent papers as supplementary files.

• The IASC2011 Online Conference System does not require that all constituent members of a proposed panel submit individual abstracts as well, in order to be considered as part of the panel proposal. However, all panelists are required to register as Users into the Online Conference System, as group registration is not possible through the system.  This will be helpful in their registrations at a later stage.

Please note: Travel grants shall be awarded only to select authors among those whose abstracts have been invited for final presentation at IASC2011.Final decisions on award of Travel Grants shall be subject to fund availability. Funding will only partially cover the whole costs of participating in the Conference. Also note that in the case of submissions selected for final presentation and having more than one Author, only one amongst them shall be considered for Travel Grant Award.

To continue to step 3, click, Save and Continue

Step 3. Upload Supplementary Files.

In this step, authors of Poster and Video abstracts may choose to upload images (in specified format and permissible file size) or links to their videos.

If not applicable, click Save and Continue to proceed to the next step.

Step 4: Confirmation

Click ‘Finish Submissions’ to complete your submission. You would receive a notification email from IASC2011confirming the receipt of your completed abstract submission.

The submission shall now be archived as ‘Active’. If at any stage, the submission process is left incomplete, the submission shall be archived as ‘Incomplete’. The User may click on the Title of the Abstract under ‘Incomplete’ to complete it or choose to delete it completely.

You may log in to your user account as ‘Author’ to track the progress of your submissions or edit any incomplete submissions.
The conference system limits submissions by a particular User to just two, but does not limit them from featuring as co-authors in any number of papers/posters/videos/panels.

For any further questions, contact iasc2011@fes.org.in