Application & Fee

Proposals

Proposals must contain an abstract (300-500 words) with a brief C.V. and must be sent to: dura.ioan@univ-ovidius.ro and conferencerks@gmail.com.

All abstracts will be peer reviewed and acceptance/rejection is based on their relevance to the conference topics. Notification on acceptance/rejection is sent within 7 days after the submissions has been received.

Fee

There is no participation fee for registration / participation at this event.

Presentations

The following presentation format will be possible at the conference:

Oral presentation in-person - Take an advantage of oral presentation of your paper/ research on site and get the first hand remarks and comments from the audience. Encourage a live discussion regarding the presented topic and network with other researchers and academics.

Equipment that will be provided by the conference and setup in all presentation rooms :

Laptop
LCD projector
White board
Microphone and sound system
Internet access
Printing facilities

Paper publication

Papers presented at the conference will be published in the official ISBN conference proceedings publication.
In order to have your paper published in the official conference proceedings, your submission should have been previously approved.

Language

The language of the manuscript can be written in English (either American or British standard, but not the mixture of both) or Romanian.

Length of paper

The length of the manuscript should not exceed 10.000 words, including abstract, keywords, footnotes, tables etc. (MS Word, Times New Roman, 12 Font, A4, 2.5 cm margins).

Title Page

The title page should include:
(i)The name(s) of the author(s)

(ii) A concise and informative title

(iii)The affiliation(s) of the author(s)

(iv)The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author.

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 150 to 300 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

Acknowledgement

The author may use acknowledgement section in the title page of the paper (if any).

Subdivision of the article

Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections (1, 2). Subsections should be numbered 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2), 1.2, etc. The abstract, introduction and conclusions are not included in section numbering.

Table & Figures

Present tables and figures within the article, not at the end of the article. Please note that the article will be published in black and white (print), although online version will contain the colorful figures (if any).

References & Footnotes

The references of quoted texts should be given in footnotes in each page according to Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.)(Notes and Bibliography Style).

Quotations

Cite by reference to footnote Short quotations (up to forty words or no more than two lines of verse) should be enclosed in double quotation marks and run on with the main text. Long quotations should be indented and broken off by an increased space from the preceding and following lines of typescript. They should not be enclosed within quotation marks. Final punctuation precedes quotation marks. If the quote contains a quote, use single quotation marks around the nested one.

Book

One author

1. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: Penguin, 2006), 99–100.

2. Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, 3. (second citation)

Two or more authors

1. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2007), 52.

2. Ward and Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 59–61. (second citation)

Editor, translator, or compiler instead of author

1. Richmond Lattimore, trans., The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 91–92.

2. Lattimore, The Iliad of Homer, 24. (second citation)

Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author

1. Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, trans. Edith Grossman (London: Cape, 1988), 242–55.

2. García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 33. (second citation)

Chapter or other part of a book

1. John D. Kelly, “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War,” in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, ed. John D. Kelly et al. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 77.

2. Kelly, “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War,” 81–82. (second citation)

Chapter of an edited volume originally published elsewhere (as in primary sources)

1. Quintus Tullius Cicero, “Handbook on Canvassing for the Consulship,” in Rome: Late Republic and Principate, ed. Walter Emil Kaegi Jr. and Peter White, vol. 2 of University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, ed. John Boyer and Julius Kirshner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 35.

2. Cicero, “Handbook on Canvassing for the Consulship,” 35. (second citation)

Preface, foreword, introduction, or similar part of a book

1. James Rieger, “Introduction” to Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), xx–xxi.

2. Rieger, “Introduction,” xxxiii. (second citation)

Book published electronically

1. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (New York: Penguin Classics, 2007), Kindle edition.

2. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), accessed February 28, 2010, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

3. Austen, Pride and Prejudice. (second citation)

4. Kurland and Lerner, Founder’s Constitution, chap. 10, doc. 19. (second citation)

Journal article

Article in a print journal

1. Joshua I. Weinstein, “The Market in Plato’s Republic,” Classical Philology 104, no. 3 ( Spring 2009): 440.

2. Weinstein, “The Market in Plato’s Republic,” 452–53. (second citation)

Article in an online journal

1. Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan J. Watts, “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network,” American Journal of Sociology 115, no. 2 (Winter 2009): 411, accessed February 28, 2010, doi:10.1086/599247.

2. Kossinets and Watts, “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network,” 439. (second citation)

Article in a newspaper or popular magazine

1. Daniel Mendelsohn, “But Enough about Me,” New Yorker, January 25, 2010, 68.

2. Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear, “Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote,” New York Times, February 27, 2010, accessed February 28, 2010,http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.

3. Mendelsohn, “But Enough about Me,” 69. (second citation)

4. Stolberg and Pear, “Wary Centrists.” (second citation)

Book review

1. David Kamp, “Deconstructing Dinner,” review of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan, New York Times, April 23, 2006, Sunday Book Review,http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/books/review/23kamp.html.

2. Kamp, “Deconstructing Dinner.” (second citation)

Thesis or dissertation

1. Mihwa Choi, “Contesting Imaginaires in Death Rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008), 87.

2. Choi, “Contesting Imaginaires”, 88. (second citation)

Paper presented at a meeting or conference

1. Rachel Adelman, “ ‘Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On’: God’s Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition” (paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21–24, 2009).

2. Adelman, “Such Stuff as Dreams.” (second citation)

Website

1. “Google Privacy Policy,” last modified March 11, 2009,http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.

2. “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts,” McDonald’s Corporation, accessed July 19, 2008,http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.

3. “Google Privacy Policy.” (second citation)

4. “Toy Safety Facts.” (second citation)