Author Instructions
Prospective authors should carefully read the following information before submitting.
Types of Submissions
We invite original submissions in various categories:
- Full research papers (up to 15 pages), describing material not previously published in the form of solution papers, empirical studies, surveys, and comparative studies,
- Experience reports (up to 15 pages), describing the specific social/organizational context of the experience, clear positive and negative lessons learned and conclusions derived from the experience,
- Vision papers (up to 6 pages) stating future directions for specific areas in the field of requirements engineering,
- Problem statements (up to 6 pages) describing open issues of pratical or theoretical nature,
- Research previews (up to 6 pages) reporting on preliminary research results.
Structured Abstracts:
To facilitate accurate bidding and a better understanding of the papers, each paper submitted to REFSQ 2014 is required to have a structured abstract. The imposed structure demands each abstract to have exactly 4 paragraphs with the following content:
- Context & motivation: Situate and motivate your research.
- Question/problem: Formulate the specific question/problem addressed by the paper.
- Principal ideas/results: Summarize the ideas and results described in your paper. State, where appropriate, your research approach and methodology.
- Contribution: State the main contribution of your paper. What’s the value you add (to theory, to practice, or to whatever you think that the paper adds value). Also state the limitations of your results.
An example showing a structured abstract is given here. In addition, of course, remember to include keywords after your abstract. Submission FormatSubmissions should be in PDF, on A4 page size and formatted in LNCS style, see Springer’s Information for LNCS Authors for details (notice that for the submission, only the instructions about the layout of the paper itself are relevant – the copyright form etc. is only needed for the camera-ready version, in case the paper gets accepted).
Dan M. Berry’s smart tips to avoid wasting space can be found here.
