Author guidelines
What to prepare for SET Proceedings, and how to submit it.
Before you write
- Papers are welcome from academics, researchers and industry professionals working in the areas the conference covers. Membership of WSSET is not required.
- Read the peer review policy, so you know what will happen.
- Read the publication ethics policy. Submitting is a statement that you meet it.
What every submission must have
- A title and an abstract in English. The abstract is 250 to 350 words and summarises the context, intent, methodology, findings and conclusions, with no citations and no undefined abbreviations.
- Up to five keywords, placed immediately after the abstract.
- Every author's full name, institution, city and country, and an email address for each.
- CRediT contributor roles for every author, so a reader can see who did what. CRediT (ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022).
- A competing interests statement, or an explicit statement that there are none.
- A data availability statement.
- References in the Harvard style, listed alphabetically, cited in the text as (Author Surname, Year).
The contributor roles, the competing interests statement and the data availability statement are required from SET2027, as they are for every Caravel Press journal.
Asked for, where they apply
- A funding statement, which is optional, naming every funder and grant number.
- Research ethics approval details where the work involved people, animals or identifiable data. See the research integrity policy.
- A generative AI declaration, naming any tool used and what it was used for. See the generative AI policy.
- Acknowledgements, naming anyone who contributed but does not meet the conditions for authorship.
An ORCID iD for every author is recommended, not required. It is free, and it keeps this paper attached to the rest of your work whatever name you publish under.
Preparing the manuscript for anonymous review
SET Proceedings reviews anonymously in both directions. The manuscript template has no fields for author names or affiliations, so the file is anonymous as it stands. Keep it so:
- Do not add author names, affiliations or contact details to the file.
- Leave identifying acknowledgements and funding details out of the file for review.
- Refer to your own earlier work in the third person, as you would anyone else's.
- Check the file's document properties, which often still carry the author's name.
Format
- At most 10 pages, including the title page, abstract, figures and references.
- Microsoft Word (.docx), in the official manuscript template for the conference.
- Numbered, captioned below, and cited in the text. At most half of the paper.
- Numbered, captioned above, and cited in the text.
- At most two levels, using the template's styles.
- English.
Papers are typeset by Caravel Press from the Word file, so the template's styles matter more than its look.
Originality
- A submission is original work, not published elsewhere in any form, and not under consideration anywhere else.
- An extended version of a conference abstract or of preliminary findings is acceptable, provided this is acknowledged and the paper is substantially new.
- Every submission is screened for plagiarism before review.
Submitting
1. Prepare
Prepare the paper in the manuscript template, the one Caravel Press's journals use, anonymised for double-anonymous review.
2. Submit
Submit it through Caravel Press: with its abstract, or after the abstract on its own has been approved.
3. Review
The paper is screened and reviewed as the peer review policy describes.
4. Accepted
WSSET invoices the article processing charge, and you submit the final version of the paper. See the charges.
5. Published
Caravel Press typesets, proofs and publishes the paper in the volume. See after acceptance.
Questions about a submission: [email protected].