Organizers, authors and reviewers shall use IOP online article management and peer review system (the “Platform”) to manage, submit, revise and review the abstracts and manuscripts. Here are the instructions for using the platform.

The submitted abstracts and manuscripts will be reviewed by the organizing and scientific committees. The review criteria are based on scope of the symposium, quality and depth of the scientific results (expected), methodology and IOP Author guidelines for conference proceedings.

Templates

Authors must prepare their papers using Microsoft Word templates, according to the guidelines and templates, and then convert these to PDF format for submission.

As a general rule we would advise that an author does not submit more than two articles to a conference. This includes papers that they have co-authored.

Our guidance on what constitutes authorship is available here: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/ethics-of-authorship/

By submitting a paper an author and all co-authors are assumed to agree with the terms of the IOP Proceedings Licence.

Language requirement

Manuscript must be in English language. Reviewers may not make suggestions for grammatical errors and poor sentence structures. Authors themselves are responsible for language correction. Articles should be clearly and concisely written, and be accessible to an international audience. You should aim for consistency within your article in matters such as hyphenation and spelling. All acronyms and abbreviations should be clearly explained when they first appear in the text. We encourage authors to use inclusive language wherever possible.

On completion of the first draft, carefully re-read your paper and make any amendments that will improve the content. When complete, send the paper to colleagues and co-authors, and use their feedback to improve the clarity of the text. When all co-authors are satisfied that the draft is ready to be submitted to the submission portal, carry out one final spelling and grammar check before the submission.

Abstract

The abstract text should be formatted using 10 point Times or Times New Roman and indented 25 mm from the left margin. Leave 10 mm space after the abstract before you begin the main text of your article, starting on the same page as the abstract. The abstract should give readers concise information about the content of the article and indicate the main results obtained and conclusions drawn. The abstract is not part of the text and should be complete in itself; no table numbers, figure numbers, references or displayed mathematical expressions should be included. It should be suitable for direct inclusion in abstracting services and should not normally exceed 200 words in a single paragraph. Since contemporary information-retrieval systems rely heavily on the content of titles and abstracts to identify relevant articles in literature searches, great care should be taken in constructing both.

Paper format

1. The paper size is European A4.
2. Margins are 4cm (top), 2.5cm (left and right) and 2.7cm (bottom).
3. There are no page numbers, headers or footers within the paper.
4. Text is single spaced, not double spaced.
5. All fonts are embedded.
6. All pages are portrait (landscape pages should be rotated).
7. The abstract text should be indented 25mm from the left margin and there should be 10mm space after the abstract before you begin the main text of your article, starting on the same page as the abstract.

Paper content

1. The paper includes the author name(s) and affiliation(s) (full address including country).
2. All articlesmustcontain an abstract.
3. All figures and tables should be numbered in numerical order. Please ensure that figure/table numbers arenotduplicated or missed.
4. Figures are legible and placed within the text,notcollected at the end of the document.
5. If section headings are numbered, ensure that they are numbered numerically, and no numbers are duplicated or missing.
6. Displayed equations should follow a naming convention in numerical order, i.e. (1), (2), (3) etc or by section, i.e. (1.1), (1.2) etc. Ensure every displayed equation has its own number and none are duplicated or missing.
7. Reference lists are checked for accuracy.References can only be linked via CrossRef if they are correct and complete.Check thetemplates and guidance pagefor further reference styling information.
8. If numbering references (Harvard system) ensure that references are numbered numerically, every reference has its own number and no numbers are duplicated or missing.
9. Ensure that all references are cited in the text and that all citations have a corresponding reference.
10. Finally, please ensure that the paper is thoroughly proofread to check the standard of English and ensure wording is clear and concise.

Conversion to PDF

1. The PDF file is editable andnotpassword protected.
2. The PDF is free of formatting errors (e.g. corrupt equations, missing or poor-resolution figures), since conversion from Word to PDF can introduce formatting errors.
3. There are no blank pages.

Submission check list

1. Manuscript formatted correctly.
2. Authors' name, affiliation and ORCID are correct.
3. No spelling error in the paper title, authors' name and affiliation.
4. Nomenclatures and abbreviations are correctly defined.
5. Citations, referencing and bibliography is according to IOP Science.
6. DOI (digital object identifier) is written for all references in the bibliography.
7. All authors have read the manuscript and no spelling mistakes (grammatical errors).
8. All illustrations are checked and properly presented, cross-referenced in the corresponding
paragraph. Necessary permission is obtained for the illustrations, which are cited from the literature

Copyright and permissions

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IOP Proceedings Licence

By submitting a paper an author and all co-authors are assumed to agree with the terms of the IOP Proceedings Licence. All papers submitted to IOP Conference Series for publication will be published according to the following terms and conditions.

Licence terms and conditions

By submitting the paper to the conference organizer, you, as copyright owner and author/representative of all the authors, grant a worldwide perpetual royalty free exclusive licence to IOP Publishing Limited (IOP) to use the copyright in the paper for the full term of copyright in all ways otherwise restricted by copyright, including, but not limited to, the right to reproduce, distribute and communicate the article to the public under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 or any newer version of the licence) and to make any other use which IOP may choose world-wide, by all means, media and formats, whether known or unknown at the date of submission, to the conference organizer.

This licence does not transfer the copyright in the paper as submitted which therefore remains with the authors or their employer, as appropriate. Authors may not offer the paper to another publisher unless the article is withdrawn by the author(s) or rejected by IOP.

Once published, the paper may be reused in accordance with the terms of the applicable Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence, including appropriate citation information (for electronic use best efforts must be made to include a link to the online abstract of the paper on IOPscience), a link to the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence, and indicating if any changes have been made to the original paper.

By granting this licence, the author warrants that the paper they are submitting is their original work, has not been published previously (other than in a research thesis or dissertation which fact has been notified to the conference organizer in writing), all named authors participated sufficiently in the conception and writing of the paper, have received a final version of the paper, agree to its submission and take responsibility for it, have read and understood IOP Publishing’s ethical policy (https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/ethical-policy-journals/) and agree that the submission complies with its terms, and the submission has been approved as necessary by the authorities at the establishment where the research was carried out.

By granting this licence, the author also warrants that they act on behalf of, and with the knowledge of, all authors of the paper, that the paper does not infringe any third party rights, it contains nothing libellous, all factual statements are, to the best of the authors’ knowledge and belief, true or based on valid research conducted according to accepted norms and our ethical policy (https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/ethical-policyjournals/), and all required permissions have been obtained.

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