TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Requirements for the participants

The authors should observe the following requirements:

• Title – in English
• Authors – in English – without titles and institutions
• Abstract -  in English
• Key words
• Presentation text
• References
• Information for contacts with the author or authors should be given at the end of the paper
• The size of the report should be up to 10 pages
• Each participant may participate with up to two reports

2. Requirements for formatting

The article should be written using the computer program Word for Windows in a DOC format. It should be sent to e-mail:

conference_burgas@abv.bg

The menus are to be configured as follows:

• Page Setup – Margins: Top – 2 cm; Bottom – 3 cm; Left – 3 cm; Right – 2 cm
• Paper Size – A4
• Font – Times New Roman; Font Style – Regular; Size – 11
• Paragraph – Line Spacing: Single; Alignment: Justified;
  All other options indicate 0.
• The article pages should not be paginated.
• The title of the report should be written after a space of 6 blank lines from the top, in uppercase, centered, Bold, in Times New Roman, Size - 11.
• After a space of one blank line there follows the author’s name /first and family full names/, in lowercase, centered, Size – 11.
• An ABSTRACT in English should be written after a space of 1 blank line below, Bold, Italic, Size – 10, Indentation-by 0.5 cm. The summary in English should be Italic, size 10.
• Key Words in Bold, Italic, Size – 10, Indentation by 0.5 cm, should be written below the summary. The key words themselves should not be written in Bold, size-10, Italic.
• The presentation text should begin one blank line below, formatted in two columns: Columns: Presets – Two, Spacing – 0.6 cm.
• First line indentation: Format, Paragraph, Special – First Line, By – 0.5 cm.
• The subtitles should be written in sentence case, with no numbering, Bold, new line, after a space of one blank line.
• The text should be automatically hyphenated: Tools – Language – Hyphenation – Automatically hyphenate document.
• The tables, charts and figures should be built in the text softwarely, notwithstanding the program type they have been made. Their numbering should be Arabic.
• The permissible maximum size of the tables, figures and charts is 15 x 15 cm. The size of the tables should not be bigger than a A4 sheet of paper, formatted according the specific requirements.
• The orientation of the figures, charts and tables should be Portrait.  Between the text of the article and the tables, charts and figures there should be a space of one blank line. The figures and charts should be numbered underneath, the figure is to be indicated as Fig., Bold, the text itself is not in Bold, Size – 11, left alignment. The word Table and the relevant number should be written above the table, left alignment, Bold.
• The formulae are created with WORD editor or are built in as objects if they were created with special programs.
• The references in the text should be numbered continuously in square brackets: [1], [2], [3], etc.
• The literature follows after a space of two blank lines, at the end of the report. The word References is centered. The quoted literature is to be written according to the bibliographic standard;
• The full authors’ names, scientific ranks and titles, the institutions they represent, addresses and e-mail should be written after a space of two blank lines below the literature list, in English.

Papers, which do not meet the requirements, will not be published and the remitted fees will not be refunded. Files, infected with viruses, will not be processed and the fees will not be refunded.

Download a sample of paper

3. Requirements for presentation

Terms of presentation

• The presentation of the report should be within 10 minutes
• Discussion on the theme – 5 minutes

The participants will be able to use a multimedia projector

The presentations for the multimedia projector should be made in Microsoft Power Point and saved on a CD ROM. No responsibility is taken for usage of DVD, flash-memory and others.

4. Send the materials to the following address:

“Prof. Dr Assen Zlatarov” University

1 “Prof Yakimov” str.

Faculty of Social Sciences

For the Conference

8010 Bourgas

e-mail: conference_burgas@abv.bg