General Call for Papers
What Is the General CFP?
Each year, ACCUTE issues a CFP inviting its members to submit papers/proposals on a wide variety of topics for the annual conference in May. The deadline for submissions is November 15 of the year preceding the conference.
If this is the first time you are submitting a proposal or paper, or if you have never previously attended an ACCUTE conference, please consult the information provided in the FAQ section.
How to Submit
PLEASE USE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSION FORMATS:
I. Before you begin, please download the Proposal Submissions Information Sheet. This provides a checklist for proposals/papers submitted to the general call as well as to Member-Organized and Joint Sessions.
If you are responding to our general call for papers, please send an electronic copy of the following three documents, each in a separate electronic file, to the ACCUTE office by 15 November 2010:
- a 700-word proposal* or completed paper (of approximately 8-10 double-spaced pages, not to exceed 20 minutes in presentation). Please note that because of our policy of blind vetting, ACCUTE cannot accept proposals or papers that include identifying marks. These include information in headers, references to your work or to your collaborations with others, your rank or institutional affiliation, or any other information that might identify you to a vettor.
- the completed Proposal Submissions Information Sheet that includes mandatory information such as your name, affiliation, contact information, and title of proposal. Please note that you must clearly indicate on this sheet any A/V needs you anticipate. We need all A/V information early so that we can submit our technology requests before the Congress deadline.
- a 100-word abstract of your proposed presentation and a 50-word bio-bibliographical note on yourself. Should your paper be accepted for the conference, this information will appear in the programme and so it must adhere to the word limits. Abstracts and bios exceeding the word limit will be returned to you for editing.
II. OR, USE THE ONLINE SUBMISSIONS FORM:
This submission format does NOT require the Proposal 'Submissions Information Sheet'. This information is submitted directly on the 'Online Submissions Form' and is requested in a series of boxes (or “fields”); each is marked with a red asterisk to indicate that the information in that field is required. It also means that the form won’t let you submit your work until that information is provided.
Your abstract and your proposal/completed paper are still submitted in computer files as above, but should you choose to use the 'online form', you will simply attach these files where requested. We have included basic instructions on the side of these attachment fields, and will walk you through the steps you need to follow. It’s very easy, very quick, and very efficient.
The purpose of all of this is to make sure the ACCUTE office has what it needs, laid out in a format that will make conference organization easier and will allow you to know that you’ve provided everything you need to provide in November. Your will receive a short message that your submission has been successfully submitted; so, even before you receive official notification of receipt from us, you’ll know that your work has arrived safely.
Note: The on-line form is available ONLY to those submitting to the open call. Work submitted to member-organized or joint sessions MUST be sent directly to the people organizing those sessions (following procedures outlined above in OPTION I) through regular email. Please choose your submission method carefully.
SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL VIA THE ONLINE SUBMISSIONS FORM: CLICK HERE
* Proposals should be approximately 700 words in length. (Please note the increase in length from 500 words, as stipulated in previous years. This increase in word length was approved by the ACCUTE Executive at their 2007 meeting at Congress.)
**If you are submitting a completed paper, it should be no longer than 8 to 10 double-spaced pages (no more than 20 minutes speaking time).
While ACCUTE absolutely requires submission in digital form, we will accept it on disk rather than through email. If you are submitting a disk, please label it clearly, indicating your name, the title of the paper, and the computer program you used. (We strongly prefer MS Word or RTF.)
