All submissions will be peer reviewed. Following are the deadlines:

Deadlines:
Abstract deadline:                                   March 1, 2010
Notification of abstract acceptance:       April 5, 2010
Full paper deadline:                                 June 15, 2010
Notification of full paper acceptance:     July 31, 2010
Revised full paper deadline:              August 20, 2010  

Specifications: 
Abstracts should be limited to 200 words and should be structured to summarize the background, aims, significance and focus of the question addressed, as well as conclusions. Please identify the relevant conference theme that the paper addresses. Please upload your abstracts by March, 2010. 

Papers should be limited to 4500 words (excluding references) and follow APA 6th referencing style for in-text citation and reference lists(www.apastyle.org) All papers must be written in English. As English is not the mother tongue of most audience, the style should therefore be kept direct and easy to read. Please download a template of a full paper for your use:FORMAT-fullpaper.doc

Format: Word (.doc) format are required for both abstracts and papers. Please keep the size of each file less than 3Mb, (including your illustrations), and use a filename beginning with the principal author’s surname, for example (Chiara_paper.doc).

Copyright: By submitting papers for publication in the conference proceedings, authors are assigning copyright of the submitted paper to the conference host. Authors’ traditional rights will not be jeopardized by assigning copyright in this manner, as they will retain the right to re-use the content of the paper.

To submit abstracts and papers:
http://www.cumulus2010tongji.org/paper/index.php?flag=1