Submission of Manuscripts and Abstracts

Once an abstract/paper is submitted to the provided e-mails, it will be formally received to proceed with the acceptance process. Authors will be notified by an email within week regarding the initial actions. For those who submitted abstracts and are notified of its acceptance then have a maximum of 8 weeks after notification to submit the full paper.

Submitted papers will be peer reviewed and authors of accepted papers will be notified by e-mail. Authors must ensure that only new and original work is submitted and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and it is related to:

1. The content that has already been provided by the author within the symposium through a lecture or a poster.
2. As a second option, it can be accepted a paper proposal related to any of the shared topics of interest of the organizing committee, as per the following list:
3. Rupestrian/hypogeum site conservation
4. Sites conservation relation with rock mass characterization, geohazards, climate change, weathering
5. Remote sensing applications, monitoring, advanced modeling, cutting-edge geophysical investigations, etc., applied to rupestrian sites conservation.
6. Innovative conservation projects for rupestrian sites.

Research Papers & Abstracts’ Guidelines

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check all the following items, as submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be accepted. Rules are the following:

• Authors are to submit their Abstract / Full paper by e-mail prior to the provided deadline.
• The paper sections must include introduction, research method, results and discussion, conclusions, and bibliography, with references in APA citation style (See below section).
• Attached to this document the authors can find a template to use as guideline.
• Abstract must contain a maximum of 100 words and refer to 5 key words
• Full papers should be providing 3.000 words and not more than 4,000 words, including a minimum of 10 bibliographic references
• English papers must be written in Times Roman font size 12 double-spaced
• Arabic Abstracts must be written in Arabic Naskh style font size 16 double-spaced
• English papers must also include an Arabic Abstract. Translation will be provided if needed.
• High resolution photos and figures of the proper size must be inserted in its position in the paper (if any) and also have to be presented separately in original image format (raw / tiff / jpeg / etc.), in HQ, if possible 300 DPi.
• The images should be referenced with caption bellow figure explanation including author citation. No images will be published unreferenced in these terms.
• All manuscripts must be typed in Microsoft Word (.docx) and double-spaced with margins are to be set at (3 cm at all sides) and paper size at A4 (21 x 29.7cm)
• Authors are required to conform to the References Guidelines (APA style) as given.

APA references’ citation style must be applied as it follows:

• APA in-text citation style uses the author’s last name and the year of publication, for example: (Field, 2005). For direct quotations, include the page number as well, for example: (Field, 2005, p. 14). For sources such as websites and e-books that have no page numbers, use a paragraph number, for example: (Field, 2005, para. 1). Sample of citations in APA style must be made as follows:

References:

Paper:

• Derwing, T. M., Rossiter, M. J., & Munro, M. J. (2002). Teaching native speakers to listen to foreign-accented speech. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 23(4), 245-259.

Book:

• Thomas, H. K. (2004). Training strategies for improving listeners’ comprehension of foreign-accented speech. University of Colorado, Boulder