Submission Guidelines

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Full Papers

Academic papers of up to 8000 words to be considered for publication in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography series, subject to a double blind review from two international referees. Papers must be formatted according to the Springer Key Style Points (follow the ‘Basic’ Reference Style) and Book Manuscript Guidelines and be in a camera-ready state. Submission of the paper will be in MS Word format via the EasyChair conference management system. It is expected that authors of accepted papers in this category will give an oral presentation.

Short Papers

Short papers of up to 2500 words will be published in an appropriate online repository, such as figshare. Authors should use the following guidelines in preparing their short papers. Submission of the paper will be in MS Word format via the EasyChair conference management system.

Format

  • Paginated to A4 paper format
    • Upper, lower and right margins of 2.5 cm
    • Left margin of 3 cm
    • Times New Roman font set at 12 point size
    • Single spacing
    • Maximum length of 2,500 words, in English, including figures, tables, appendices and references
    • No indentations for paragraphs, but a blank line between paragraphs
    • Page numbers should be set central to the bottom of each page

Structure

There should be two blank lines to start with. The title should be written in capitals and centred, starting from the 3rd line from the top. The author name(s), affiliation(s) and email(s) should be separated by two lines gap from the title. The title and name(s) of the author(s) should be in bold typeface. Author details should be followed by the keywords (at least three).

After the keywords, two blank lines should be added before the body of the short paper. Sections and subsections should be numbered using a maximum of two digits (for example, 1. INTRODUCTION, 2.1 Model Validation, etc). The section and sub-section headings must be bold typeface. All text must start at the left hand margin (that is, new paragraphs are not to be indented) with exception of listings, which may be indented. The second and subsequent pages should start text from the first line of the page.

Order

The general order of the materials in the paper should be as follows:

  • Title and authors
  • Keywords
  • The sections of the main body of the text, tables and figures (the tables and figures should appear close to their citation in the text)
  • Acknowledgements, if any
  • References

Equations, Tables and Figures

Equations should be typed, preferably using the same word processor used for the rest of the text. Equations must be numbered sequentially with their numbers in parenthesis and right justified.

Tables must be numbered sequentially and have a reasonably explanatory title centred above the table; the measurement units employed in the table must be indicated.

Figures should be provided embedded in the short paper document. Any other or specialised formats, including animations, should be firstly cleared with the Programme Chair

Please provide information on any formulae setting software used, and avoid the overly-creative use of format-dependent Word drawing tools.

References

The Harvard System of referencing must be used (see for example, Transportation Research). In the body of the text papers or documents are referred by author’s surname with the year of publication in parenthesis; if the quotation is itself in parenthesis, the year of publication is separated by a comma. If the reference has more than two authors, only the surname of the first author followed by et al in italics will appear in the body of the text.

At the end of the short paper, complete references must be given alphabetically by author’s surname including: surname(s) and initials of author(s), separated by a comma, year of publication in parentheses, title of the paper, title of the journal in italic typeface, and first and last pages. In case of books the title of the book must be in italics typeface, with first letter capitals; the publisher and the city of publication must also be indicated.

The following examples present some of the most typical cases of referencing that might appear at the end of the short paper. Please follow them as closely as possible.

a) Books and book chapters

Buttenfield BP and RB McMaster (eds), 1991, Map Generalization: Making Rules for Knowledge Representation, Longman, London.

Kuhn W and AU Frank, 1991, A formalization of metaphors and image-schemas in user interfaces, in: DM Mark and AU Frank (eds), Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 419-434.

b) Journal papers

Goodchild MG and BR Rizzo, 1987, Performance evaluation and workload estimation for geographic information systems, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 1(1), 67-76.

c) Papers presented in conferences

Evans J, J Ferreira and P Thompson, 1992, A visual interface to heterogeneous spatial databses based on spatial metadata, Proceedings 5th International Spatial Data Handling, 3-7 August 1992, Charleston, South Carolina, 282-293.

d) Web based documents

NASA, 2000, Digital Earth Workbench, Web site: holodeck.gsfc.nasa.gov/digitalearth/ (accessed July 28, 2000).

Northern Territory Bird Atlas, 2000, Web site: birds.rhyme.com.au/ (accessed November 10, 2000).

e) Other documents

Econometric Software, 1994, LIMDEP, Econometric Software Inc., New York and Sydney. Kokur G, T Adlet, W Hyman and B Aunet, 1982, Guide to Forecast Travel Demand with Direct Utility Assessment, Report No. UMTA-NH-11-1-82, US Department of Transport, Washington, DC.

Posters

For poster submission, upload a short abstract (max. 250 words) in MS Word format via the EasyChair conference management system. Use the following abstract format:

  • Paginated to A4 paper format
  • Upper, lower and right margins of 2.5 cm
  • Left margin of 3 cm
  • Times New Roman font set at 12 point size
  • Single spacing
  • Please insert the following before the abstract text. There should be two blank lines to start with. The title should be written in capitals and centred, starting from the 3rd line from the top. The author name(s), affiliation(s) and email(s) should be separated by two lines gap from the title. The title and name(s) of the author(s) should be in bold typeface.
  • The abstract text should be followed by keywords (at least three).

Authors should use the following guidelines in preparing their posters.

Format

Please use A0 (1189mm x 841mm) paper format.

Orientation

Both, portrait and landscape orientation of the poster is acceptable.

Structure

The poster should include:

  • Title
  • Author(s) and affiliation(s)
  • The main body of the poster including text, tables and figures
  • Acknowledgements, if any
  • References

References Please follow the instructions as given in the Short Paper guidelines.

Lightning Talks

Lightning talks will be 5 minutes long, with 5 minutes for questions/discussion. Submit an abstract of 250-300 words in MS Word or pdf format via the EasyChair conference management system.

Workshops

We invite proposals for workshops up to half a day in duration, on any geospatial topic. Workshops may consist of presentations, discussions, tutorials, challenges, hackathons and other interactive activities.

Please submit your workshop proposal of up to 2-pages in length, covering:

  • Name of the session.
  • Short description of the session (suitable for the conference web page).
  • Session content and an indication of the schedule.
  • Duration.
  • Names and affiliations of workshop leaders.
  • Space and equipment requirements.
  • Expected participation (i.e., who would be interested in attending your session)
  • Email the proposal to the workshops chair at nzgrc2022@massey.ac.nz.