Submissions and Publications

Submissions

The submissions must be max two page long extended abstracts or short papers, prepared using the ICMB23 extended abstract template. Further information about the expected content and the required formatting can be found within the template. All submissions will be handled electronically via the conference’s submission system.

It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that all co-authors agree on contributing the ICMB23 and the content of the submission. The system will ask you to tag your paper by one key area that ICMB23 is set to cover to ensure each paper is presented to the right audience and it receives efficient and rigorous expert feedback. Submissions will be handled by the area co-chairs for a preliminary assessment for suitability and will sent out for peer-review by committee members, who will make the final decision to accept or reject contributions, and if accepted, for oral or poster presentation.

Poster submission formatting guidelines: 

  • .png or .jpg file types only
  • Minimum width is 1000px (26.46cm)
  • Minimum height is 600px (15.88cm)
  • Maximum file size is 3MB
  • Don’t use a transparent background.
  • Minimum font size 12pt font (but larger is recommended)
  • Use high quality images to avoid pixelation (recommended minimum of 150dpi)
  • We also need you to supply a preview ‘thumbnail’ document which is a copy of the main poster document that has been made smaller. Recommended width and height is half of the main document.

If you have any issues formatting your poster, please email ukcmb@ucl.ac.uk

Publications

All submissions will be handled electronically via the conference’s submission system. It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that all co-authors agree on contributing the ICMB23 and the content of the submission. The system will ask you to tag your paper by one or more key fields that ICMB23 is set to cover to ensure each paper is presented to the right audience and it receives efficient and rigorous expert feedback. Submissions will be double-blind reviewed by experts in the field by committee members handling each case.

All extended abstracts will be electronically printed at ScienceOpen Preprint as the ICMB23 proceedings collection, and assigned a Crosref DOI and a CC BY 4.0 attribution license. This will allow researchers to continue to collect feedback from the relevant research community on their work, while retaining the right to publish formally in a journal of their choice at a later date. See the previous event’s proceedings collection here.

Prize for outstanding research presented

We are pleased to announce that authors of outstanding extended abstracts / presentations / posters will be awarded the prize to publish their full paper for free as an open access publication in the UCL Open Environment Special Issue on Moisture in Buildings. See the previous conference ICMB21 special issue here. The awarding process will be made by the conference Scientific Committee and journal Editorial Board, based on the merits of the paper in terms of its significance, relevance, and quality.

UCL Open Environment is a fully non-commercial, Open Science journal, publishing high impact, multi-disciplinary research, on real world environmental issues. Published by UCL Press, the journal enables researchers to publish quickly and with great confidence and trust in the process and the exposure that will be achieved. UCL Open Environment uniquely combines a clear, fair, and open peer-review process (offering immediate publication in a dedicated preprint server), with robust, highly esteemed, independent editorial governance and support. This is a new and unique fully non-commercial publishing process that is accessible, transparent, accountable, and fast; and delivered at minimum cost to the community. Only by removing barriers and innovatively working together will we accelerate finding solutions to the world’s most significant environmental challenges. The journal is under review for indexing with PubMed Central and will be applying for indexing with SCOPUS and Web of Science during 2023/24 (when the journal has met the application criteria of having 5 years publishing history before applying). If accepted, all previously published content will be indexed – readers will find the list if indexers the journal has currently secured, here.

Please note that prize winning papers will be subjected to the journals open peer-review process and if accepted will not be charged any fee to publish. All other participants are encouraged to develop full papers and submit for publication in the special issue, but may incur a publication charge. Details regarding peer review and publication at UCL Open Environment can be seen here.

For any questions regarding this, please contact y.aktas@ucl.ac.uk.

Publication awards

We are pleased to announce that authors of outstanding extended abstracts/presentations will be awarded the prize to publish their full paper for open access publication at the Special Issue on Moisture in Buildings at UCL Open: Environment, a new broad scope and multidisciplinary open science journal dedicated to environment-related inter/cross-disciplinary research published by UCL Press. The awarding process will be made by the Scientific Committee and journal editorial board, based on the merits of the paper in terms of its significance, relevance, and quality. Please note that prize winner papers will be subjected to the journals open peer-review process.

All other participants are encouraged to develop full papers to submit to the special issue. Details regarding submission to, and peer review and publication at UCL Open: Environment can be seen here.