Key Information

Submission Streams

The Conference Programme Committee welcomes papers from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives, and submissions are organised into the streams and sub-streams listed below:

General guidelines for abstract submission:

• An abstract is a summary of a research paper or clinical work.
• It should be one paragraph with a word limit of 300 in English.
• Keywords should be provided as a must (around 5 words).
• Keywords should be written in lowercase letters (Not applicable to names/scientific names) and should be separated with commas.
• Please do not include subheadings, bullets, lists and header/footer in the abstract.
• Acronyms should be written in full the first time, mentioned in the text, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses.
• There shall be no citations or references in the abstract specifically. If there is a need to cite references, please provide the sources in brackets.
• The abstract should be submitted online.
• For symposium, please submit your abstract in the format of MS Word (.doc or .docx) to ciebpr@hksyu.edu. Please refer to the formatting details below.
  Symposium Formatting Details

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  • Title: Times New Roman, 12 points, Upper case, Centered text in bold
  • Body: Times New Roman, 11 points; Line spacing: 1, one column of text

   

  AFFILIATIONS

  • Affiliations should be indicated with superscript Arabic numbers appearing at the end of surname/family name.
  • Names of affiliations should be given including the country. Eg:-
    • Surname INITIALS ¹ , Surname INITIALS ^1* and Surname INITIALS ²
    • Department, Faculty, University, Country
    • Department, Institute, Country
    • author@gmail.com ( Email address of the corresponding author)
• Upon confirmation of abstract acceptance, the presenting author must register for the Congress. All presentations are expected to be delivered in person.

Guidelines for Poster/Short Oral Presentation:

• Each participant can submit a maximum of two abstracts as a presenter/first author. There is no limit on the number of abstract submissions allowed for oral presentations as a non-presenting co-author or for posters as a co-author.

Guidelines for Symposium/Roundtable Discussion:

• A symposium is a format for delivering a series of spoken presentations that focus on a common topic.
• Each symposium/roundtable discussion must be organised and submitted by a designated person, referred to as the Symposium Chair/Roundtable Discussion Moderator.
• The Symposium Chair/Roundtable Discussion Moderator may serve in one of the following roles or role combinations:
  1. Chair/Moderator only; or
  2. Chair and Presenter (for Symposium); or
  3. Moderator and Panelist (for Roundtable Discussion)
• Each symposium/roundtable discussion must include at least 4 presenters/panelists and a Chair/ Moderator, preferably from at least 2 institution or organisation from different regions.
• Submissions for symposiamust include an abstract for each presenter.
• A total of 90 minutes will be allocated for each symposium/roundtable discussion.
• Each chair/moderator can only hold ONE symposium/roundtable discussion.

About the reviewing process

• Your abstract will undergo a double-blind peer review by the Conference Paper Peer Review committee.
• Acceptance or rejections of abstract will be sent to you generally within 4 weeks of submission.

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