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Abstract

In this template paper we describe the requirements for the Proceedings of the 6th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research 2014 submission on categories for peer-reviewed articles of 7000 words (category A) and non-peer-reviewed articles of 3000 - 7000 words (category B). This format is to be used for the submissions that are published in the Conference proceedings. We ask you to download this template from the web site and replace the content with your own material.

Introduction

Manuscript submission will occur through Federation of Finnish Learned Societies’ Open Journal Systems (OJS) – publishing platform using this template provided by organizers at Submission requires registration to the site. During the submission process the publishing platform will prompt you with instructions. It is advisable to prepare indexing information in advance, such as academic discipline and sub-disciplines, and keywords.

For the submission category A, the papers to be submitted to the peer-review process will be written in English. The length of the paper is 7000 words in maximum of 20 pages. Please notice that full manuscripts are submitted in this category.Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and selected by a scientific board, which ensures the general academic quality of the conference. The scientific board consists of active post-doctoral level researchers, and its members will be selected among Nordic and international researchers. The peer-reviewing process will be double-blind. Peer-reviewed category A articles will be labeled in footer as “Peer-reviewed article”.

We also welcome submissions of high-quality non-peer-reviewed articles in category B. This category of article submission is available for high-quality professional articles and shorter scientific articles.The length of the paper is 3000 – 7000 words in maximum of 20 pages.Please be aware that this category of articles will be selected based on submitted abstracts. The papers published in this category can be written in English, Finnish or Swedish. The abstract submission deadline is May 26th 2014 and acceptance notification and feedback for the abstract will be sent latest at September 5th 2014.Non-peer-reviewed category B articles will be labeled in footer as “Article”.

Title and authors

Title can consist of main title (“Proceedings Manuscript Format”) and its subtitle (“Writing guidelines for articles”). Before submission, please verify that each author’s full name, affiliation(s) and location(s) are updated and correct. Please edit the number of authors as needed.

Double-blind peer reviewing and anonymity

To ensure the integrity of the double blind peer-review process in category A submissions, authors should anonymize both the text and the document submitted. The title and affiliation are to be removed from the title and the header of the text. As the reviewers need to be able to compare author’s submission to other related work in the area, we ask authors’ to refer to their own previous work in third person (e.g. instead of “In our prior work…”, the work should be referred to as “In the previous work of…”). Authors should also remove author identification from the PDF document either when saving the Microsoft Office Document file as PDF (see the author field under the “Save as type” selection menu or alternatively in Adobe Acrobat as follows: beginning with File on the main menu of Adobe application: File > Properties > Description > Author.

Layout, sections, references and citations (Heading 2)

This format is to be used for submissions that are published in the conference proceedings. The body text is in single-column layout.

Sections, subsections and sub-subsections (Heading 3)

Manuscripts should contain an abstract with a maximum length of 500 words (use Heading 2 for “Abstract”). Abstracts should function as an independent description of the article. Please, note that organizers will publish all the abstracts in the Book of Abstracts, which will be available at the conference. Other sections can include titles such as Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions and Acknowledgements (use Heading 2). Also, you can divide your text into subsections (use Heading 3 for title) or sub-subsections (use Heading 4 for title).

Fonts (Heading 4)

Please use a 10-point Arial font for body text. Sections titles are (Heading 2) are 14-point Arial font in bold, subsections titles (Heading 3) 10-point Arial in bold and sub-subsection titles (Heading 4) 10-point Arial in italics.

References and citations

In-text citations should be written in parentheses in such a way that the name of the author is followed by the year of publication and pages of the reference if needed (Author 2014, 100-105) and if two or more references are published by the same author on the same year, the publication should be sorted with lower-case letters (Author 2014a; 2014b). References should follow the Harvard system, please see a full guide at References should be listed in full and in alphabetical order at the end of the paper. Examples of references are given at the end of this submission guideline document.

Quotations

The short quotations from other authors’ works should be written in the text using quotes. Longer quotes should be placed as their own section moved slightly into the margin of the column and they should be written in italics but without quotation marks.

Figures and tables

Examples of figure placements are given in Figure 1, 2 and 3.Due to versatileillustrative needs of each manuscript, several forms of figure placements arepossible. However, please do notice that if you place a figure directly adjacent to edge of the paper, clipping may occur in print-outs of published papers depending of the printer. Due to this reason, it is important that figure texts are located within the margin area of 1.27 cm from each side.In addition, leave the footer area free of illustrations at the bottom of each page. The manuscripts will be submitted and published online as PDF-documents. Please note that authors are responsible for placing the figures in the layout and ensuring that they are of good quality. Therefore use resolution of minimum of 300 dpi for bitmap based files (such as .tif or .jpeg filesand resolution of 600 dpi for lineart files (such as .eps files). Both color and greyscale figures can be used. Using Wrap text – Top and bottom option and different Position options available under Format menu in Picture tools may be helpful when positioning the figure to desired place.

Both figures and tables should be accompanied by a title and they should be referred to in the body text. Please use 8-point Arial font for figure text with bold font in its title. We suggest that you use 8-point Arial font for table texts and place the title of the table in format of Table 1. Title above the tables in 8-point Arial in bold. If applicable, place the table within the 1-column area but if necessary, the left margin area can be used as well.

Figure 3.An example of figure placement and figure text positioning. You can place figure text in the body text below the figure. Please use 8-point Arial font for figure text with bold font in its title.

Acknowledgements

Authors may acknowledge contributions to the presented research or credit illustrations here. Also authors may provide information in this section on how the research is funded, for example through research foundation, university, authority, organization or spare time research.

References

References should follow the Harvard system, please see a full guide at References should be listed in full and in alphabetical order at the end of the paper. Examples of references are given below.

Books:

Groat, L. & Wang, D. 2013.Architectural Research Methods. 2nd ed. Hoboken, New Jersey & Canada: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Chapters of edited books:

Rosson M. B. & Carroll J. M. Scenario-based design. In: A. Sears and J. A. Jacko ed. 2009. Human-Computer Interaction: Development Process, Boca Raton: CRC Press

Journal articles and newspapers:

Borges, A., Babin, B.J. & Spielmann, N. 2013, "Gender orientation and retail atmosphere: effects on value perception", International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 498-511.

Electronic references:
Hamlin, A. D. F., 1909. A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised. Available through: Anglia Ruskin University Library website [Accessed 25 May 2014].