Submission Guidelines

The Advanced Engineering Days (AED) International Symposium accepts submissions only in the form of full papers. Abstract-only submissions will not be considered or reviewed.

Authors are requested to prepare their full papers strictly in accordance with the official AED Full Paper Template and submit the completed manuscript by email to aed@alanyauniversity.edu.tr.

 

Full Paper Preparation Requirements

All submitted manuscripts must be prepared exactly according to the official conference template. Authors are required to fully respect all formatting requirements, including the prescribed page layout, fonts, font sizes, headings, spacing, margins, tables, figures, references, and other formatting specifications provided in the template.

Manuscripts that do not comply with the official template may be returned to the authors for technical correction before being considered for review.

Submission Policy

Please note that submission to the symposium is based exclusively on the full paper. The symposium does not accept or review abstracts as independent submissions. Authors should therefore submit their complete manuscript using the official full paper template.

Following the review process, authors of accepted papers will receive an Acceptance Letter together with a unique Manuscript Number.

After receiving the Acceptance Letter, authors must include both the Manuscript Number and the full title of the paper in the subject line or content of all subsequent correspondence with the symposium secretariat. This will ensure accurate and timely processing of all communications.

Download the Full Paper Template

Please download the official AED Full Paper Template from the following link:

                           

Full Paper Submission Email

Completed full papers should be submitted to:

aed@alanyauniversity.edu.tr

 

Important Language Policy

Advanced Engineering Days (AED) is an international symposium. English is the only official language of the symposium. Accordingly, all submitted manuscripts, publications, presentations, presentation materials, and academic correspondence must be prepared and delivered in English.

 

Manuscript Structure

 Title

Craft a concise, informative title that signals the study’s unique angle, highlights the specific gap it addresses, and hints at the principal contribution. Prefer active phrasing and, where relevant, embed key variables, study context or method so that readers can immediately grasp the manuscript’s novelty.

 

Abstract

In fewer than 200 words, summarise the rationale, distinct knowledge gap, methodological approach and principal findings, concluding with the study’s theoretical and/or practical contribution. Ensure every sentence adds value; avoid citations, undefined acronyms and speculation.

 Introduction

Situate the reader within current scholarship, clearly identifying the unresolved theoretical, methodological or empirical lacuna your study tackles. State explicit objectives or research questions, explain why the gap matters in broader disciplinary debates, and preview how your work advances understanding.

 

  1. Materials and Methods

Describe data sources, sampling, instruments and analytical techniques with enough detail to enable replication, emphasising any innovative protocols or mixed-method designs that strengthen validity. Justify methodological choices by linking them to the stated research gap and by explaining how they enhance originality.

 

  1. Results

Present findings logically—often from most to least novel—using tables or figures only where they add clarity. Highlight results that directly answer the research questions and demonstrate how they extend, refine or challenge existing theories.

 

  1. Discussion

Interpret the results in relation to prior studies, explaining how they close (or re-frame) the identified gap and what fresh avenues they open for scholarship or practice. Address limitations candidly and suggest future research that would build upon the article’s contribution.

 

  1. Conclusions

Recapitulate the main insights and their significance without restating data. Emphasise original contributions to theory, policy or professional practice, and articulate clear, evidence-based recommendations or conceptual advances.

 

Acknowledgements
Authors are invited to express their gratitude to the individuals or organisations whose input materially assisted the study but does not justify authorship (for example, language revision, technical or data-collection support).

Note: Place this section immediately before the reference list. It must not appear on the title page, as a footnote, or elsewhere in the manuscript.

Examples

  1. The authors thank Prof A. Khan (University of Leeds) for his constructive comments on an earlier draft.
  2. We are grateful to Ms L. Patel for her assistance with GIS mapping and figure preparation.
  3. Special thanks to the City of Manchester Archives for granting access to historical planning documents.
  4. The language editing carried out by Cambridge Proof-Reading Services is acknowledged with appreciation.
  5. We acknowledge the technical support of the Environmental Modelling Laboratory at Imperial College London.
  6. The authors thank the anonymous reviewers whose insights greatly improved the clarity of the manuscript.
  7. Fieldwork permission was kindly provided by the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality (Permit No 2024/115).
  8. We appreciate the statistical guidance offered by Dr J. Li of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

 

Funding
State all sources of financial support for the research. Where no external funding was secured, include the sentence:
“This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.”
If funding was provided, give full details, e.g. “This work was supported by the UK Research and Innovation Council [grant number XXXXXXX].”

Examples

  1. This work was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under grant agreement No 789456.
  2. Funding was provided by the Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme (IES\R2\2023\0156).
  3. The project received seed funding from the Alanya University Scientific Research Fund (Project No AU-SRF-2024-08).
  4. This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
  5. Financial support was partially provided by Arup Group Ltd through an industry-academia collaboration contract.
  6. The data-collection phase was financed by a Turkish Burslari scholarship awarded to the first author.
  7. Publication fees were covered by the Horizon-Europe Open-Access Fund, University of Glasgow.
  8. This study forms part of the “Green Corridors” project funded by the Ministry of Environment, Spain (Grant PID2023-0645).

 

Conflicts of Interest
Declare any personal or institutional interests that could be viewed as influencing the research. Where no such interests exist, use:
“The author(s) report no conflicts of interest.”

Examples

  1. Author A serves on the advisory board of UrbanEco Ltd, which may benefit from the study findings.
  2. Author B has received consultancy fees from SmartCity Planning Solutions in the past three years.
  3. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
  4. Author C is a shareholder in Eco-Transport Plc; all other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
  5. Author D’s spouse is employed by the Department of Housing, which oversees related policy areas.
  6. No conflicts of interest were reported by the authors.
  7. The funders had no role in study design, data collection, interpretation or the decision to publish.
  8. Author E is Editor-in-Chief of this journal but had no involvement in the peer-review of this manuscript.

 

Data Availability Statement
Indicate how readers can access the underlying data. If all datasets are included within the article or its supplementary files, state this and provide contact details for further enquiries.

Examples

  1. All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article and its supplementary files.
  2. The anonymised interview transcripts are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
  3. Geospatial datasets used in the analysis can be accessed through the OpenAIRE repository (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.9876543).
  4. Due to ethical restrictions, survey data are not publicly available but may be obtained from the authors with IRB approval.
  5. The code for the simulation model is deposited on GitHub (https://github.com/urban-lab/green-corridors, commit 7f3ad2e).
  6. Supporting data are stored in the Figshare archive under licence CC-BY-4.0 (https://figshare.com/articles/12345678).
  7. The satellite imagery belongs to Planet Labs and cannot be shared; processed outputs are available on request.
  8. No new data were created or analysed in this study; all sources are cited within the article.

 

Institutional Review Board Statement
For studies involving human participants or animals, supply the ethics committee name, approval code and date, and confirm adherence to the Declaration of Helsinki. If ethical approval was not required, state “Not applicable.”

Examples

  1. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Alanya University (Approval No AU-2025-004, 12 January 2025).
  2. Animal procedures complied with the UK Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 and were approved by the Home Office (Licence PP1234567).
  3. Not applicable.
  4. The research involved publicly available datasets and thus did not require ethical approval.
  5. Ethical clearance was granted by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (Ref HREC-2024-8234).
  6. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to data collection.
  7. The project adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki principles and local data-protection regulations.
  8. The Institutional Review Board of the National University of Singapore waived the requirement for ethics review (Waiver No NUS-IRB-2023-W48).

 

CRediT Author Statement
Detail each author’s contribution using the CRediT taxonomy (Conceptualisation; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration; Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualisation; Writing – original draft; Writing – review & editing). Conclude with:
“All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.”

A separate author-contribution file employing these CRediT roles must also be uploaded with the submission.

Examples

Conceptualisation: A.N.; Methodology: A.N., B.K.; Writing – original draft: B.K.; Writing – review & editing: A.N., C.D.; Visualisation: C.D.; Supervision: A.N. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

Conceptualisation: X.Y.; Data curation: X.Y.; Formal analysis: X.Y., Z.Q.; Investigation: Z.Q.; Writing – original draft: X.Y.; Writing – review & editing: Z.Q.; Funding acquisition: X.Y. All authors have read and approved…

Conceptualisation: S.R.; Methodology: S.R.; Software: J.M.; Validation: S.R., J.M.; Resources: L.P.; Writing – original draft: S.R.; Writing – review & editing: L.P.; Supervision: L.P. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

Conceptualisation: K.T.; Data curation: K.T.; Formal analysis: M.W.; Visualisation: M.W.; Writing – original draft: K.T.; Writing – review & editing: K.T., M.W.; Project administration: K.T. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

Conceptualisation: P.S.; Funding acquisition: P.S.; Investigation: P.S., R.V.; Methodology: R.V.; Supervision: P.S.; Writing – original draft: R.V.; Writing – review & editing: P.S. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

Conceptualisation: L.H.; Methodology: L.H.; Software: M.T.; Validation: L.H., M.T.; Visualisation: M.T.; Writing – original draft: L.H.; Writing – review & editing: L.H., M.T.; Supervision: L.H. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

Conceptualisation: D.J.; Data curation: D.J.; Investigation: D.J., F.A.; Writing – original draft: D.J.; Writing – review & editing: D.J., F.A.; Project administration: F.A. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

Conceptualisation: E.O.; Methodology: E.O.; Formal analysis: E.O.; Resources: G.C.; Writing – original draft: E.O.; Writing – review & editing: E.O., G.C.; Validation: G.C.; Funding acquisition: E.O. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

 

References

-   Select sources solely from Web of Science Core Collection via https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/basic-search.

-   Limit eligibility to articles published within the last four calendar years.

-   Include only peer-reviewed research articles or systematic reviews; omit editorials, letters and conference abstracts.

-   Choose papers directly aligned with the manuscript’s scope, title and research questions.

-   Prioritise journals ranked Q1 or Q2 in Journal Citation Reports to enhance citation quality.

-   Favour primary empirical work or rigorous meta-analyses that close an identified knowledge gap.

-   Cap self-citations at 2 % of the total reference list to preserve objectivity.

-   Provide a full DOI hyperlink for every citation in the form https://doi.org/xxxxxxx.

-   Record each entry in APA 7th edition style using UK spelling conventions.

-   Supply complete bibliographic details—authors, year, article title, journal title (in full), volume, issue, page range or article number.

-   Enter and format all references with recognised citation-management software (EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley or Word’s Referencing tool).

-   Conduct a duplicate-reference check to ensure each source appears only once.

-   Cross-verify in-text citations and the reference list for one-to-one correspondence.

-   Arrange entries in alphabetical order by first author’s surname, using hanging indentation and double spacing.

-   Avoid citing predatory or non-indexed journals, even if they appear in secondary databases.

 

Online (live) Presentation Instructions for Authors via Zoom

-  Use the official conference PowerPoint template.

-  Limit your presentation to 15 slides maximum to fit the 7-minute slot comfortably.

-  Practise your talk in advance to ensure you finish exactly within 7 minutes.

-  A live 3-minute Q&A will follow each presentation; be prepared to answer succinctly.

-  Test your microphone and webcam with Zooms built-in diagnostics the day before.

-  Use headphones with an integrated mic to reduce echo and background noise.

-  Display your full name and affiliation in the Zoom participant list.

-  Presentations must be delivered live via Zoom; pre-recorded videos will not be accepted this year.

-  Install the latest Zoom client and test screen-sharing of a PowerPoint file before the event.

-  Join your session at least 30 minutes before it starts for an audio-visual check.

-  Use a wired or stable high-speed internet connection to avoid drop-outs.

-  Ensure your camera is on and you are clearly visible throughout the presentation and Q&A.

-  Use a quiet, well-lit environment with a neutral background to minimise distractions.

-  Embed all fonts and media; avoid external links, macros, or autoplay audio.

-  Use font sizes no smaller than 24 pt to guarantee readability on all screens.

-  Ensure all images are high-resolution and properly credited in a small footer.

-  Stick to professional language and visuals; offensive or discriminatory content is prohibited.

-  Mute mobile phones and disable desktop notifications before you go live.

-  If co-authors are present, designate one primary speaker to avoid confusion.

-  Keep animations minimal; complex transitions can lag during screen-sharing.

-  Authors who fail to appear on time will forfeit their slot and risk removal from proceedings.

-  Dress in smart casual attire suitable for an international academic audience.

-  Respect the session chairs time cues; speaking beyond 7 minutes will cut into Q&A.

 

PowerPoint Structure

All authors are strongly recommended to use the official  PowerPoint template provided by the organising committee for preparing their presentations. This ensures visual consistency, professional quality, and alignment with the conference branding. Presentations must adhere strictly to the format, layout, and colour scheme of the provided template. Please  Download the Template from the following link: https://www.iccaua.com/PDFs/ICCAUA2026/Templates/Manuscript_Number_AuthorsName.ppt 

General Presentation Policies:

  1. The total presentation time is 7 minutes for content delivery, followed by 3 minutes for audience questions.
  2. Any presentation exceeding 7 minutes will be immediately stopped by the Session Chair to maintain fairness in timing.
  3. All slides must be clear, concise, and free of excessive text; prioritise bullet points over long paragraphs.
  4. Use high-quality images, graphs, and figures to support your scientific content, ensuring they are properly labelled and referenced.
  5. Include the manuscript number, title, author names, affiliations, and contact email on the first slide as per the template.
  6. Ensure that key scientific aspects of your paper are presented:
    • Research background and problem statement.
    • Objectives and aims of the study.
    • Methodology and data sources.
    • Key findings and results (with relevant charts/figures).
    • Analysis and interpretation of results.
    • Conclusions and implications.
    • Future research recommendations.
  7. All text must be in a readable font size (minimum 20pt) and in colours that ensure high contrast against the background.
  8. Avoid animations or transitions that may distract from the scientific content.
  9. Presentation files must be submitted to the conference technical team at least 24 hours before your session.
  10. Speakers must arrive in the session room at least 15 minutes before the start to test their presentation.
  11. The language of presentation is English; presenters must ensure clear and professional delivery.
  12. Plagiarism in visuals or text will not be tolerated; all content must comply with copyright and ethical standards.