Submission Guidelines

Studies must tackle Angolan national development challenges or demonstrate that it can be adapted to such challenges. Studies must also be unpublished and not currently under review for any other publication.

Since we opted for a Double-blind review mode, authors should make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions by omitting any personal identifier (name, affiliation).

Initial submissions will not be based on a template. They are to be made in form of an Abstracts with maximum 250 words, containing explicitly the following sections: 1) Background/literature review/motivation; 2) Objectives; 3) Methodology; 4) Results; 5) Keywords; 6) ISC Track number and its title (go to home page to see the tracks)

Successful submissions will explain why the topic is relevant to the ISC.URNM scope. That is, they should be complied with one of the three tracks and address a concern for the Angolan development challenges.

Abstracts and manuscripts in English or Portuguese will be considered. However, for the accepted papers, the presentation slides are to be written in English. Exceptionally, the oral presentation can be delivered in Portuguese.

Authors of the accepted Abstracts will be invited to submit, within a couple of days, a full paper which will go through a peer-review process, for a final selection.

The full manuscripts templates (only for accepted abstracts), are available in the following links (EN version or PT version). The length should range from 10 (minimum) to 12 (maximum) pages (including both Titles and Abstracts in three languages, and the bibliography).

The best papers will be published in a special issue of RAC international indexed journal. Besides their compliance with the RAC guidelines, submissions will be judged on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Abstracts of all the studies selected will be included in the conference proceedings to be available on URNM digital library.

We require each submission material to be in PDF (abstracts and manuscripts of the accepted abstracts), and submitted through the conference submission system .

Ethical issues: Studies that describe experiments on human subjects, or that analyze non-public data derived from human subjects (even anonymized data), should briefly describe how the research protocol addresses ethical considerations and whether their work was vetted by an ethics review (e.g., IRB approval). We expect authors to follow the rules of their host institutions around data collection and experiments with human subjects.