SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstract submission
An abstract is about 250-300 words is a powerful statement contain the scope, purpose, results, and contents of the work (for social science) and for humanities may provide the thesis, background, and conclusion of the more extensive work. All abstract should include five keywords.
All abstract submission must include the author’s name(s), institutional affiliations (full address) and email address, AND 100 words of short-bio. Please include all of this information in a single Word document written in single spacing. The font style is Time New Roman and the font size 12.
Those who are interested in organizing a panel discussion, panel proposals need to be submitted; a title and abstract (describing the scope and unifying issues that span the individual papers) for the panel, along with the names and institutional affiliations of the panel organizer(s), as well as titles, abstracts, names, and affiliations for each individual paper on the panel.
Paper Submission
All submission between 8,000 to 10,000 words must include abstract keywords. The paper should be following a general template of journal paper which include an introduction, problem statement, research questions and objectives, literature review, theoretical framework, methodology, results (research findings and analysis), discussion, conclusion and references (latest APA style of citations and references).
All paper submission must include the author’s name(s), institutional affiliations (full address) include email address AND 100 words of short-bio. Please include all of this information in a single Word document written in single spacing. The font style is Time New Roman and the font size 12.
Abstract and paper submission need to sent to
on or before 30th October 2019
PUBLICATION OF THE CONFERENCE PAPER
The 9th Asian Food Study Conference organisers plan for the publication of the submitted papers are as follows:
(1)conference proceedings (The Proceedings of the 9th Asian Food Study Conference (AFSC2019)
The publication is in the form of softcopy publication, i.e. CD publication (for sharing with the conference participants).
(2)Post-conference publication;
(i)Proceedings (edited volume) with ISBN – optional
(ii)Special Issue – selected papers will be recommended to be published in selected journals
(iii)Book Publication – selected papers on a specific theme(s) will be considered for book publication of 2020 or 2021.
Presenters who wish their paper to be considered for publication in the series as mentioned above,
please email to the conference organisers at umasianfoodstudies@um.edu.my