Guidelines for producing presentations and papers for CRE conferences

Call for Papers & abstracts
Once the 'Call for Papers' has been issued, intending speakers should submit an abstract as soon as possible to the conference organisers for their presentation, which must be of original research. Abstracts should be no more than 200 words, and should normally be submitted electronically to the email address given on the call for papers page.

Presentations
Once the abstract has been accepted, and the intending speaker advised by the conference organisers, he or she should begin work on preparing their presentation, not already doing so. Unless advised otherwise, presentations should be designed to last 20 minutes or less. Experience has shown that if scripted, such presentations should be of about 2,500 words.

Poster media
In recent years there have been facilities for displaying your research in the format of a poster presentation. Click here for guidelines on producing posters for conferences.

Presentation media
Most conference venues now have a variety of presentation equipment and the lecture theatre venues where CRE is normally held are no exception. Intending speakers therefore should be able to offer their presentations in any of a number of formats (35mm photographic slides, digital PowerPoint presentations and Overhead transparencies or any combination of these). If you have other formats (such as audio, or video), you should initially discuss this with the conference organisers, to check if suitable equipment can be made available.

Guidelines on producing PowerPoint presentations
For suggestions on producing PowerPoint presentations, click here.

Embedding True Type fonts into your presentation
If you are using any hieroglyphic fonts, such as WinGlyph or Inscribe, please ensure that you have embedded them in Powerpoint, in case the hieroglyph programs are not available on the presentation equipment. To see how to embed fonts into your PowerPoint files, click here. If you use fonts from other sources, you should first contact the conference organisers who can check if your fonts will display ok. To avoid problems with displaying fonts you should save any hieroglyphic fonts you are using on your USB memory device or disc that you have your presentation stored on. You should also consider saving your fonts within your presentation file although this may make your presentation file much larger, so your should ensure that you have sufficient space on your storage medium to cope with this.

Writing up your paper
If, having presented your paper, you are invited to submit it for publication in that conference's volume, and you are willing to do so, then click here for publication guidelines that our publishers (currently Oxbow Books) have suggested. Having submitted your first draft according to the guidelines, the paper will be passed to two anonymous reviewers for checking of content. You may then be asked to amend your paper in line with their comments. Please return your paper as soon as you can after doing any required amendments.

Copyright issues
Papers presented at Current Research in Egyptology conferences and published in CRE volumes remain the copyright of their individual authors and the CRE volume in which they are published. Authors wishing to cite CRE publications should check initially with the paper's author and with the volume's publishers as with any other citation from a secondary source.

Page updated 29 November, 2007