Extended Abstract Submission Guidelines

Submission Guidelines for Extended Abstract:

• Submit your Extended Abstract through the Oxford Abstracts link given below. Only FULL PAPERS are required to be submitted through Microsoft CMT Login page.

Note: Please enter the names and affiliations of all authors in the exact order they should appear on the certificate in Oxford Abstract Portal during submission; no further changes will be allowed.

• The extended abstract should be submitted in approximately 2000 words.

• Extended Abstracts must include a clear indication of the introduction, methodology, results, implications, conclusion and key references.

• The author(s) must mention around 5-6 keywords in their extended abstract submission.

• Submission must be in PDF format (if accepted, MS Word file will be asked to be submitted).

• Use the following sections (additional subsections as needed):

  • Introduction

  • Main Body (Sections and Subsections as applicable)

  • Conclusion

  • Acknowledgements (if any)

  • References

  • The document should be formatted on A4-sized paper using Times New Roman (or Times) font, size 12, with 1.15 line spacing.

• Referencing Style:

Follow Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition).

Examples:

• • Book: Woods, D. D., and E. Hollnagel. 2012. Joint cognitive systems. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

  • Journal: Terborgh, J. 2009. Preservation of natural diversity. BioScience 24:715-22.

  • Electronic Journal: Include the full URL and access date.

  • In-text citations: (Woods and Hollnagel 2012)

  • For more than six authors: use "et al." after the first three in the reference list; "FirstAuthor et al." in-text.

• All submitted extended abstracts will undergo a plagiarism check, and the similarity index must be less than 15% (including AI-generated text) to be considered for review/publication. If the similarity index is found to be greater than 15%, it will not be considered for proceedings and can be rejected at any stage.

For any query, please contact: hcsst@iiitm.ac.in

Publication

All the accepted and presented Extended Abstract will be published in book of abstracts. At least one author should register before February 28, 2026, for the inclusion in book of abstracts.