General Guidelines:
Authors can submit their work for oral presentation under one of six themes. Oral presentations will
be held in parallel sessions corresponding to the themes of the Sessions.
 Authors should submit blind abstracts and extended abstracts (NOT including authors’ names)
through the EasyChair online submission system (www.easychair.org), and details of ALL
AUTHORS must be added to the Authors section of the Easychair Conference Management Toolkit
submission page.
 Authors should ensure to use the template of extended abstract, which can be downloaded in the
iOURS 2018 official webpage, leaving sufficient space to add names of authors and their affiliations.
 Research work presented or published elsewhere will not be considered.
 If plagiarism is detected, abstracts will be rejected without further consideration. The Editorial
Board advises all authors to optimize their abstracts and extended abstracts before submitting the
work using a free online plagiarism checker (e.g. http://www.plagscan.com/seesources/analyse.php)
 Editorial Board reserves the right to change the theme of the abstract selected by the authors to a
more relevant theme, if necessary.
 Authors should send the Author Declaration Form signed by all the authors, to be received by the
Research Unit of OUSL on or before 20th June, 2018. Reviewing process will not commence until all
the relevant documents and information are completed.

Please follow the specified given below for preparing Extended abstracts.
Guidelines for Extended abstracts:
Please note that inclusion of an extended abstract is mandatory for reviewing. Formatting of the
extended abstract should be similar to that of the abstracts, giving priority to the results and
discussion, within 3-4 pages. Research findings must be Clearly stated using detailed steps
. When preparing extended abstracts, the following page-set up should be used.
 Paper size A4
 Margins Left margin 1.5” (3.0 cm) & all other (top, bottom and right) margins 1” ( 2.5 cm)
 Font Times New Roman
 Font size 11 (except for affiliations of authors)