Instructions for authors

All submissions (academic and professional papers, posters and works of art) will undergo double blind peer review by an international team of peer reviewers. All accepted abstracts will be published in the Cumulus Rovaniemi 2019 Conference program (with a University of Lapland Faculty of Art and Design ISBN). The Cumulus Association will publish selected academic and professional papers, posters and works of art as online conference proceedings after the conference (with an ISBN).

When preparing their submission, the authors should take into account the following:

• All submissions must be in English. All presentations are also in English.
• Contributions for the peer review should be submitted anonymously and should not contain the name(s) nor institution(s) of the author(s).
• Submission implies consent for the material to be used for the conference and conference publications.
• At least one of the authors should be present at the conference to present the work.
• For the academic track, the content should be unpublished work. For other tracks, the content does not need to be unpublished, but the authors must comply with the use of the submission material for the conference publications.
• For each submission category, see the detailed instructions of the submission text, e.g. word limits, and other required material.
• Authors must specify the theme that they are addressing.
• Authors must clarify their emphasis of their contributions with a maximum of five (5) keywords.
• Submission instructions are given for each contribution category below (see: accepted contributions).
• The works of art have to be accompanied by a 500 word abstract and two images (maximum) with a file size of 0.7 - 1 MB in jpg. or PDF format. The abstract of the work of art has to include the name of the artist, designer or group, title of the work, year of production, material(s) used and the name of the documenting photographer. Each image must be clearly specified (information for the file name) as follows
  • Name of the artist/designer/group
  • Title of work of art
  • Year
  • Size in centimeters
• All submission proposals should be in pdf format. The submissions are made through Easy Chair submission system. Make sure that all submissions are appropriately anonymised. CLICK here to submit.
• Submission instructions for accepted contributions are given for each contribution category below (see: Requirements for accepted contributions and categories).