INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Please use the templates for the extended abstract and the full paper. In the case you have already submitted the extended abstract, please follow the procedure only for the full papers.

Preferred total lenght of the full paper is from 10 to 20 pages. Maximum lenght of the extended abstract is 3 pages.

To ensure an even language quality, all accepted Full papers (that will be published in the Conference proceedings and in the special monograph) will undergo language editing.

Extended abstracts and full papers have to be submitted through the on-line submission procedure only. The full papers and extended abstracts submitted by e-mail, fax or regular mail will not be taken into consideration.

Having submitted / modified the extended abstract / full paper, the authors (and contact person) will be automatically notified about the receipt / modification. If such a confirmation is not received, please contact us right away.

The authors are invited to submit the full papers by 24th April 2009 for the inclusion in the Conference Programme and the Working Papers CD ROM.

The authors are free to modify the extended abstracts and full papers in the period of ten days after the first submission, but not later than the full paper submission deadline (24th April 2009).

When submitting the extended abstract / full paper please indicate:

• whether you would like to submit the paper for Working Papers session, or R-session; and
• the theme that is the most appropriate for your paper.

Papers itended for the Working Papers sessions will undergo review before the Conference and will be included in the Conference Working Papers CD-ROM available at the Conference. However, these papers will NOT be reviewed after the Conference and will not be included in the Conference Proceedings or the special monograph. Thus, the Oraganizers do not claim any copyright on these papers.

R-papers, on the other hand, will undergo standard reviewing process before the Conference, and have to be presented  and debated at the Conference. These papers will be reviewed further by the International Reviewing Board. All the comments by the reviewers will be forwarded to the authors.

The authors will be notified about the status of the paper by 12th June 2009. Status could mean that the paper is rejected, excepted for the Conference Proceedings (with/withhout modifications) or suggested for publishing in the special Coonference monograph.

The authors or the accepted papers will be required to declare whether they accept the proposed status of the paper, and their willingness to make the changes indicated by the reviewers (19th June 2009).  

Having declared their willingness to follow the reviewer's requirements, the author(s) agree to the following:

• to guarantee that the submitted paper has not been published, accepted for publication, or is under consideration for publication elsewhere; and
• to release the copyright to the Faculty of Economics of the University of Split.

The authors have to follow the timetable of reviewing and re-sbmitting the papers as indicated in the Important Dates part at the Conference web site.

The Conference Proceedings (CD-ROM with reviewed R-papers) will ba available by end of October 2009.

The exact date of the publishing of the special Conference monograph would depend on the procedures of the publisher (one of the distinguished international publishing companies such as Rutledge, Elsevier etc.).