Submission

Authors are invited to submit first a 4-page extended abstract which will follow the instruction provided in the Abstract Template. To be accepted for the Conference, the submissions must report work that is novel, well described, and suited to the Conference themes. Submissions must contain original data and meet international ethical standards.

Selection criteria include high technical quality, relevance to the conference themes, and significant information content. Papers for accepted abstracts must be prepared by adopting the Paper Template.

On the basis of the submitted 4 page extended abstracts, a review will be undertaken to select the best papers for oral presentation or poster presentation. All selected extended abstracts will be published in the proceedings with an ISBN.

If your extended abstract is selected you are invited (on a voluntary basis) to prepare a 10-page full manuscript which will be sent to an IWA Publishing journal for peer review and possible publication. Your full paper will need to be at least 50% different from the extended abstract.

At least one author of each selected paper must register and attend the conference to present the paper (poster or platform presentation).

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IWA Publishing Journals

After the peer-review process, the highest quality full papers will be selected and authors will receive an invitation to submit manuscripts for publication in one of the IWA journals (Water Science and Technology or Water Practice and Technology). The acceptance of a paper for conference presentation does not guarantee subsequent acceptance for journal publication, the final decision on journal publication lies with the journals’ Editor-in-Chief. Specifications for the formatting of papers are available on the IWAP website.

Abstracts

Authors are invited to submit a 4-page extended abstract which will include introduction, material and methods, results and discussion, conclusions and references. To be accepted for the Conference, the submissions must report work that is novel, well described, and suited to the Conference themes. Submissions must contain original data and meet international ethical standards. Selection criteria include high technical quality, relevance to the conference themes, and significant information content. Abstracts that are deemed commercial in nature will not be accepted.

To submit your abstract please follow the steps outlined below:

1. Abstracts must be submitted by February 15th, 2017
2. Abstracts must follow the guidelines provided in the Abstract Template
3. Abstracts will be accepted in English only
4. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee
5. Authors will be notified when their abstracts are accepted
6. Incomplete or incorrect submissions will be returned to the author, who must resubmit immediately in the correct format in order to be considered for inclusion in the program
7. Please name the file “FICWTM2017_Your surname” (e.g. FICWTM2017_Smith.docx and FICWTM2017_Smith.pdf)
8. Do not add page numbers
9. Upload file as docx and pdf document.

Paper Review System:

• We are using the “EasyChair” site to manage full paper submissions and reviews.
• To sumbit your paper, please use this link to access the FICWTM2017 conference on the EasyChair web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ficwtm2017