Authors could participate on ORP conferences contributing to the congresses or symposia of their choice. All selected contributions will be published on the respective proceedings, as long as they meet the following requisites. If you are an author, we encourage your participation sending your articles to these publications.

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The conference's official languages are Spanish and English.

We are glad to invite all authors to participate on the conference by sending their article abstracts. It is a requisite that authors inscribe themselves filling the registration form; at this point it is not necessary to fulfull they payment of the conference's fees.

Contributions will be analized by the Scientific Committee which, after deliberation, will announce the list of selected papers and the following procedure for publishing the final documents.

Selected articles will not be incorporated on the conference proceedings until registration and payment of the conference's fees are confirmed by at least one of the authors of the article.

The following are the deadline dates for sending the articles:

The conference's proceedings will be published on: Mondelo, P; Mattila, M.; Karwowski, W.; Hale, A. "Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention". ISBN 84-933328-9-5

The working areas accepted for ORP2006 are:

Occupational Risk Prevention (General)	General Ergonomics
Global Accident Statistics and Indicators	Environmental Ergonomics
Prevention Management	Psychological Ergonomics
Safety at Work	Applied Ergonomics
Industrial Hygiene	Psychosociology
Education on Prevention	Occupational Medicine
Environment	Epidemiology
Quality	Prevention and Quality Systems Audit
Management Systems Integration	Legal aspects of Prevention
Corporate Social Responsibility and Enterprise Ethics	Process Industries
Internet and Information Technologies	Fire protection and extinguishing.

Four methods for participation are considered for this conference:

1.- Workshops and MeetingPoints: they are work sessions where assistants could observe and learn from applied methodologies to the occupational risk prevention. They are destined to professionals interested on apply these methodologies to their every-day practice. MeetingPoints are gatherings for discussion of a specific matter around a free and moderated conversation.

2.-  Conferences: offered by international experts on the different working areas. If you wish to participate as a speaker on any of our events, we invite you to contact us and send your profile.

3.- Articles: Authors can participate sending their original work related with the areas of the chosen conference. They will be evaluated by the scientific committee, and all those accepted will be published on the conference proceedings.

4.- Posters: To empower the difussion of the different works presented to the conference, there is the possibility to expose them as posters or any other plublicitary mechanism that fits the dimensions which will be indicated as long as the precinct dimensions for this purpose is available.

Please follow the instructions detailed next.  We recommend the use of the downloadable template for Microsoft Word.

General:

• There is no limit over the number of pages for the article. During the selection process, the synthesis and clarity of the received articles will be evaluated, nonetheless.

Fonts and Styles:

• Normal Text: Use the font type Verdana.

• Titles and authoring: The title (Verdana, 18 points, black), the authors' names and lastname (Verdana, 10 points, black) and their addresses (Verdana, 10 points) must be written from the left margin and page-wide. Please write a contact phone number and the email for each author.

• Headings: Title in verdana, 10 points, black style in  white color over gray background, uppercase.

• References and cites: Please always write the references following this instructions: A number between brackets [1] on the text, and its correspondent reference at the end of the document (see the example). Only published and publicly accessible documents should be referenced. There may be internal reports and other kind of documents when they could be easily requested by the reader. In this case, please write down a reference address. We recommend the use of bibliographic referring software EndNote. In the next paragraph, you could find the respective instructions.

• Page numbering: Do not write down page numbers, neither page headings nor footnotes.

Bibliographic References

• References should be written single-spaced and alphabetically ordered, under the heading "References", beginning in a separated page and at the end of the document. References should be referred only to the material actually used and presented within the text.

• Please do not abbreviate journal or magazine names.

• Authors are responsible for the content of the presented papers and, therefore, the use of  material that is not accessible to general public (unpublished theses, working papers, experimental data, etc.) should be limited at the strictly essential level.

• The reference styling is based on the style recommended by Harvard at the "Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers", published by Wiley in 2002. Some citing examples are the following:

• The following are the Bibliographic references styles that must be used:

Use of the Bibliographic Reference Software EndNote

• EndNote is a software recommended for authors to simplify the processes of revision and publication. The use of bibliography management like this one may allow the automatic appliance of stiles like the one here requested.

• Here you may download the reference style for EndNote to the proceedings of any ORP conference  

• To learn more about EndNote, please visit  www.endnote.com

Abstract and Keywords

• The article should begin with an abstract of about 100 words. The abstract is a brief explanation of the article, exposing the investigated problem, the research method and its main results. Following to this, there shall be mentioned a set of words that better describe it for searching and indexing purposes.

Paragraph and Section composition

• Paragraph titles shall be written in Verdana, 10 points, bold style and with the first letter in uppercase.

• Subparagraph titles shall be written in Verdana, 10 points, cursive y and with the first letter in uppercase.

• The titles of each section shall be written in Verdana, 10 points, bold style and uppercase. Please do not number them.

• White spaces before each section must be in Verdana, 20 points. The spaces between paragraphs should be in Verdana, 10 points.

• All the elements of the document (text and exhibits) must fit within a rectangle of 15 cm x 25,7 cm, centered on a A4 sheet (21 cm x 29,7 cm). Margins are the following:

  • Upper margin: 2 cm

  • Lower margin: 2 cm

  • Left margin: 3 cm

  • Right margin: 3 cm 

• On the pages following the first one, begin your writing on the first line, caring not to leave any empty space between the upper margin and the text. All the text should be justified between the right and left margins.

Style and Content

• Please write to an international public, and observe this recommendations:

  • Use a direct and easily comprehensible style.

  • Briefly explain the technical terms you are using on your document.

  • Declare the meaning of the abbreviations when they are used for the first time on the document. For example, “UK (United Kingdom)”

  • Declare the use of the symbols, including the dating system used. Remember that they change from one country to another. For example, "1-5-99" or "5-1-99" could mean January, the fifth, or May, the first; $ may indicate dollars, pesos, as well as another currency.

• Insert your schemes and illustrations along the text while you are referring them. Insert a title in Verdana, 8 points, on each one of them. Please use low-resolution images as possible.

• If you use tables, please be sure that they are not inserted directly with its data as well. This is often the reason why documents exceed storage size and make difficult its delivery.

Tables

• It is recommended the use of simple tables, with a moderate use of color. The content will fit the Verdana typeset.

• It is also recommended to be specially careful when copying tables, because this process usually copy all the data from it was built as well. Try to insert it as an image or using another copying method.

Images and pictures

• It is recommended the use of images at medium and low resolutions (not bigger than 600 dpi), or web optimized (72 dpi), and the use of standard formats as JPEG, GIF, TIFF or BMP.

• Image size will always fit the publication's. In case that it is strictly necessary to add images bigger than that, they must be included as annexes to the article, and presented on independent archives clearly specified.

Template

• To follow the detailed instructions, please use the template available here.