2014 Joint AIC-ASDAH Conference
Hong Kong Adventist College, October 30-31, 2014
Paper Submission
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SUBMISSION HELP
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SUBMISSION HELP
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- Click the "New Submission" tab on top-left to submit a new paper. Enter author details, paper title, abstract, and keywords. You may attach your paper file or simply just submit an abstract without the paper.
- You can come back later to submit the paper file, or replace the file with a revised version.
- Any questions? Contact the Conference Chair, Bruce Lo at lobw@uwec.edu.
Paper Review/Acceptance Process
Full papers or extended abstracts (up to 300 word) are subject to review by the referee panel consisting of members from the Conference Advisory Board. The final acceptance decision will be made by the Conference Executive Officers. Authors, with accepted papers will be required to revise the papers or the abstracts into a final publishable form in the lights of the referees' comments. A condition of final acceptance is that at least one unique author be registered as a paid conference delegate. Accepted papers will be electronically published at the official ASDAH website (this site) to provide a permanent record.
Key Dates:
Aug 20, 2014 Closing date for paper or abstract submission
Sep 10, 2014 Notification of acceptance
Sep 30, 2014 Deadline for early bird Registration
Sep 30, 2014 Final copy of full paper or extended extract due
Full papers or extended abstracts (up to 300 word) are subject to review by the referee panel consisting of members from the Conference Advisory Board. The final acceptance decision will be made by the Conference Executive Officers. Authors, with accepted papers will be required to revise the papers or the abstracts into a final publishable form in the lights of the referees' comments. A condition of final acceptance is that at least one unique author be registered as a paid conference delegate. Accepted papers will be electronically published at the official ASDAH website (this site) to provide a permanent record.
Key Dates:
Aug 20, 2014 Closing date for paper or abstract submission
Sep 10, 2014 Notification of acceptance
Sep 30, 2014 Deadline for early bird Registration
Sep 30, 2014 Final copy of full paper or extended extract due
Instruction to Authors
General
Papers should be submitted as Microsoft Word files. Each paper must contain the following information:
Citation/Referencing Style
Please use either the Chicago style for "notes & bibliography" or the Turabian citation style for citation and referencing in the article.
For more information on formatting and citation style, please click the paper template to download an example paper file that illustrates the paper format recommended.
Papers that do not conform to these formatting and style specifications will not be accepted.
Presentation Sessions
On the day of the Conference, each presentation session, chaired by a scholar, will be 1.5 hours in duration and will consist of three papers. Therefore the time allocated to each paper will be 30 minutes. It is suggested that the author should talk for no more than 25 minutes and allow at least 5 minutes for questions and discussion. The session chair may terminate a presenter's presentation, if these limits are exceeded. We request that no single presenter should monopolize the time and all authors respect the rights of other presenters.
Papers should be submitted as Microsoft Word files. Each paper must contain the following information:
- Article title
- Author(s)'s name(s)
- Author(s)'s email address(es)
- Affiliated institution(s) or organization(s)
- An Abstract (up to 300 words)
- Up to five keywords (to facilitate searching)
- The article itself (up to 18 pages)
- Acknowledgement (if applicable)
- References/bibliography
- Paper size: Letter 8.5" X 11"
- Margin 1" on all four sides
- Line space: single or 1.15 line space, 10 points or double between paragraphs
- Body text font size: Calibri 11 points
- Heading and subheading font sizes: 14 or 12 respectively, bold
- Article title font size: 16 points centered
- See the article template for more detailed specification
- The entire paper should not exceed a total of 20 physical pages when printed, including the title page, the article itself, and the bibliography
Citation/Referencing Style
Please use either the Chicago style for "notes & bibliography" or the Turabian citation style for citation and referencing in the article.
For more information on formatting and citation style, please click the paper template to download an example paper file that illustrates the paper format recommended.
Papers that do not conform to these formatting and style specifications will not be accepted.
Presentation Sessions
On the day of the Conference, each presentation session, chaired by a scholar, will be 1.5 hours in duration and will consist of three papers. Therefore the time allocated to each paper will be 30 minutes. It is suggested that the author should talk for no more than 25 minutes and allow at least 5 minutes for questions and discussion. The session chair may terminate a presenter's presentation, if these limits are exceeded. We request that no single presenter should monopolize the time and all authors respect the rights of other presenters.
Conference Theme and Topics
Papers on completed work or research-in-progress, may deal with any aspect of the general theme of the conference. Topics may include but not limited to:
Papers on completed work or research-in-progress, may deal with any aspect of the general theme of the conference. Topics may include but not limited to:
- Early Adventist missions in China, northeast Asia, and southeast Asia
- Adventist health, education, and publishing institutions in China
- Chinese Adventist pioneers - expatriates, nationals, or laypersons
- Mission organization and church governance in China
- Cultural diversity and adaptation (sinicizing) in missions
- Reaching Chinese ethnic minorities
- The Adventist relationship with local and national Chinese governments
- The Adventist relationship with other Christian organizations
- Christian concepts in ancient China
- Adventist believers in China today
- The impact of Adventism in East Asia