Author Guidelines
Follow these steps to prepare and submit your work for CYSCONF.
- Submit your abstractthrough the online form, with an optional full paper
- Peer reviewdouble-blind, decision within 7–14 days
- Decisionsent to the corresponding author by email
- Registerif accepted, register to confirm participation
- Presentin person in Paris or live online
Optional full paper:send it with your abstract or later, at any point before the full-paper deadline of 3 July 2027. If reviewers request revisions, follow the instructions and deadline in their email.
Abstract Requirements
- Length: 200–250 words
- Keywords: three to five, separated by commas (for example: child development, youth participation, early childhood education)
- Language: English
- Content: state the aim, approach or methods, main findings and implications
- Author details: enter them in the submission form only, not in the abstract text, so that review remains double-blind
Full Paper Requirements (Optional)
A full paper is not required for acceptance or presentation. It is needed only if you wish to be considered for the Conference Proceedings.
- Structure: Purpose → Methodology → Findings → Conclusion → References
- Length: maximum 12 pages, including references, tables, and charts
- Formatting: use the Full Paper Template, which sets the required font, spacing and margins
- Language: English
- File formats: MS Word-compatible file
The abstract can be submitted now and the full paper uploaded later, before the proceedings deadline. For an existing submission, use the update link in your confirmation email; do not submit it again as a new paper.
Review and Research Ethics
- All submissions go through double-blind peer review.
- Work must be original, unpublished and not under review elsewhere.
- The corresponding author confirms that all co-authors have approved the submission.
- All submissions are checked with Crossref Similarity Check (iThenticate) before review. Plagiarised work is rejected.
- Research involving human participants, including children and young people, should have appropriate ethical approval and consent.
- Authors must protect confidential and identifiable information, especially in research involving minors.
- Presentation type: if you select Oral or Poster presentation, the Scientific Committee may assign the final in-person format based on the review. A Virtual presentation remains Virtual.
Copyright and Publication Agreement
- Authors keep full copyright of their work.
- Accepted work is published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
- Accepting the copyright and publication agreement is required when you submit.
Preparing Your Presentation
Oral and virtual presentations:standard presentation allocation is 15 minutes. Your exact slot and Q&A arrangements are included in your presenter instructions.
Poster presentations:poster presenters receive the poster requirements with their presenter instructions.
Virtual presentations:you present live online; joining details are sent to registered presenters.
Using Generative AI in Your Submission
- For manuscript writing, generative AI may be used only to improve the language and readability of your own text.
- If you use it, disclose the tool, what it was used for, and that the authors checked the output.
- Basic spelling, grammar, punctuation and reference-formatting checks do not need to be declared.
- If AI is part of your research method, describe it in your methodology. For an abstract-only submission, describe it in the methods wording of your abstract.
- Abstract submissions: use the separate AI-use declaration in the submission form. It does not count toward your abstract word limit.
- Full papers: include the same declaration in the manuscript, immediately before the References.
- Revised material: include any applicable declaration with your revision, following the update instructions in your email or in Help & Support.
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