SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR PAPERS


Symposium Theme:
Contemporary Evidence and Future Directions of Work in the 21st Century

Date:
Sunday 10 - Tuesday 12 June, 2012

Venue:
Grand Hotel and Casino, Port Vila, Vanuatu



Abstracts and/or full papers (refereed) will be accepted up to Saturday 31 March, 2012

Symposium abstracts can be submitted (maximum 600 words) for the blind reviewing process.  This form of submission will not be published in the Symposium Proceedings as a full paper.  Only the abstract will be published in the Symposium Proceedings.


Abstracts and/or full papers (non-refereed) will be accepted up Monday 30 April, 2012

A full paper, with a maximum of 12 pages (as set out in the submission guidelines) will be subjected to a blind reviewing process.  If accepted, the paper will be published in full in the Symposium Proceedings.

Abstracts and/or full papers should be sent to papersubmission@iera.net.au.


Paper Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must NOT have been previously presented, scheduled for presentation, published, accepted for publication and, if under review, must NOT appear in print before the 2012 IERA Symposium.

Papers represent the majority of the submissions and form the scholarly sessions of the Symposium program.  Below is a set of guidelines and formatting instructions to help you prepare your paper.  Please read them carefully prior to submitting your paper:
  • A separate cover page, within the paper (.doc file) setting out the full names of each author, their position, institution, postal address, email and phone numbers must accompany each abstract and paper
  • When submitting papers, the track in which they are to be included, should be indicated
  • The paper should be saved as a .doc file and named as "Surname - Track"
  • Abstracts should be no more than 500 words and provide a summary of the paper
  • Conference papers must not exceed 10 pages in single spacing including references, figures and tables
  • Abstracts and papers received by Saturday 31 March, 2012 will be refereed prior to the Symposium
  • Papers submitted for refereeing will be double-blind refereed
  • All refereed and non-refereed abstracts and papers will be electronically published on CD
  • All abstracts and papers are accepted conditional upon at least one of the authors being a paid registrant for the Symposium
  • Authors are limited to a maximum of two papers

Papers for the 2012 IERA Symposium, in addition to being published in the Symposium Proceedings, may also be considered for publication in special edition of the journals that are published by IERA - the International Employment Relations Review (IERR) and the International Journal of Employment Studies (IJES).


Members of the 2012 IERA Symposium Committee are:
  • TBA

Members of the 2012 IERA Refereeing and Program Committee are:
  • TBA

Style Notes for Papers

Please use:
  • Times New Roman 12 point
  • Single spacing
  • Block paragraphs
  • Page numbers
  • Margins set at 3cm left, right, top and bottom
  • Australian spelling (refer to the Macquarie Dictionary at http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au)
  • Papers not to exceed 10 pages in single spacing with includes cover page, tables, figures and references.
  • Major section headings should be preceded by a line space and be formatted in bold type
  • Minor section headings should be preceded by a line space and formatted in italic type
  • 'Quotations' should be set in single inverted commas.  Emphasis, foreign words and foreign phrases should be set in italics

Citations

The Harvard method is required.  Citations should be formatted as follows:

(Author, year: page number), for example:
(Bean, 1995: 2-5)
(Bean, 1993: 2-5; Bamber, Park, Lee, Ross and Broadbent, 2000: 1)
(Bean, 1995 cited in Bamber et al, 2000: 12)
(Bean, 1995 in Bamber et al, 2000: 9)

Citations in publications with more than two authors should list all authors in the first instance and use 'et al' for subsequent citations.


Reference list

Present references in Times New Roman, 10 point, with hanging indent formatted as follows:

Chew, S.B. and Chew, R. (2001), 'The Cost and Benefits Model of Union Membership' International Employment Relations Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 
    1-8
Bean, R. (1995), Comparative Industrial Relations: An Introduction to Cross-National Perspectives, Second Edition, London: International Thomson 
    business press
Bamber, G. and Ross, P. (2000), 'Industrialisation, Democratisation and Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific', in Bamber, G., Park, F., Lee, C., 
    Ross, P. and Broadbent, K. (eds), Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific: Changing Approaches, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, pp. 3-22.


Tables and Figures

Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively.  Place the title flush to the left margin, above the table in bold type, with one line space above.  Insert tables and figures in the text where they are meant to appear.

For final publication, send additional files containing tables and figures and the spreadsheets used to produce them.  Tables and figures should be included within the document which must comply with the 10 page, single space, size restriction as referred to above.


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