REGISTRATION

Registration Form including abstract submission

Abstract submission and registration deadline: September 15, 2023

Paper Requirements:

The conference proceedings publish original scientific papers submitted to the Inproforum conference.
Papers which have not been published so far, or have not been accepted for publishing or are not under consideration for publishing by any other publisher, are welcome.
The conference proceedings apply a blind review procedure. Authors are therefore requested to state their names and affiliations only on the title page of the manuscript. Self-identifying citations and references in the paper should either be avoided or left blank.

Articles are accepted in good English.

Papers are submitted to the editor’s office online via Actavia system.

Authors are invited to submit full papers of no more than 6 pages in length including results, figures and references according to APA style. It is necessary to write the paper according to the instructions using the full paper templates provided below.

Please follow the provided templates and do not make any changes to the templates.

 Template form for papers

Paper submission deadline: October 10, 2023

Papers received later will not be taken into consideration.

Ethical Guidelines

Faculty of Economics, South Bohemia University in České Budějovice as a publisher of the Proceedings of the International Conference INPROFORUM is committed to the highest ethical standards. All authors, reviewers, and editors must comply with the following ethical principles. In case of any doubts regarding the Ethical Guidelines, do not hesitate to contact the editors of the proceedings.

Ethical Expectations

Editors’ Responsibilities
• To acknowledge receipt of submitted manuscripts within two working days and to ensure an efficient, fair, and timely review process. Reviewers are chosen from a number of experts on the basis of their proven qualification in the area discussed in the paper. None of the reviewers is allowed to be a member of staff of the same institution as the author or co-author of the submitted paper.
• To identify manuscripts that are fully within the scope and aim of the conference. To treat all submissions fairly without any favour of prejudice regarding authors’ gender, religious or political beliefs, ethnic or geographical origin.
• To provide advice to the authors during the submission process when necessary.
• To be transparent with regards to the review and publication process with an appropriate care that individuals will not be identified when it is inappropriate to do so.
• To not use any parts or data of the submitted manuscript for his or her own future research as the submitted manuscript is not published yet.
• To respond immediately and take reasonable action when ethical problems occur concerning a submitted or published manuscript.
• Any article that does not meet the standards, will be rejected or removed.

Authors’ Responsibilities
• To carefully read the Instructions for authors published on the website of the conference.
To acknowledge and cite accordingly all content overlaps with already published content.
• To ensure that the submitted manuscript is original, prepared to a high scholarly standard and fully referenced using the prescribed referencing convention.

Reviewers’ Responsibilities
• To immediately notify the editors whenever the reviewer feels unqualified to review the assigned manuscript or sees difficulties in meeting the deadline for completion of the review.
• To agree to review a reasonable number of manuscripts at the same time.
• To inform the editors if there is any possible conflict of interest related to the assigned manuscript. Specifically, to avoid reviewing any manuscript authored or co-authored by a person with whom the reviewer has an obvious personal or academic relationship.
• To treat the manuscript in a confidential manner and to not use any parts or data of the reviewed manuscript for his or her own future research as the reviewing manuscript is not published yet.
• To assist in improving the quality of the manuscript by reading the manuscript with appropriate care and attention, reviewing the manuscript objectively and being constructively critical.
• To immediately notify the editors of any similarities between the reviewing manuscript and another article either published or under consideration by another journal.

Indexing in Journals / Databases

After successful review will be selected papers offered to the conference proceedings which will be submitted to Web of Science, Thomson Reuters for evaluation.

Conference Proceedings of volume 2015 and 2021 is already indexed in Web of Science. Conference Proceedings of volumes 2016,2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 have been sent for evaluation and we are awaiting for results.

The best papers will be offered an opportunity to be published in the scientific journal for economics and management Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis.