Dear Conference Delegate
Thank you for you valuable contribution at the SDPI’s Tenth Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) held from 10-12 December 2007 in Islamabad and making it a success!
As you may know, the papers shared at the Conference are included in the publication process. The ones that are approved are included in the anthology that is launched at the succeeding Conference. The SDPI's Ninth SDC’s book titled Missing Links in Sustainable Development (SD): South Asian Perspectives was launched on 10 December 2007 at the inaugural session of the Tenth SDC. The papers go through a rigorous review process, which is explained below, and our target is to have the book launched at the next SDC in 2008.
This is a final request for your respective paper (s). If you have already submitted your paper and it is the final version, kindly inform us (sarah@sdpi.org; and uzma@sdpi.org) so that it can be forwarded to a referee for review.
If you would like to revise your paper in the light of comments received from the discussant and audience, please submit your final, revised version in MS word (not PDF) latest by Monday, 14 January 2008.
If you have not submitted a paper prior to the Conference please submit it by Monday 7 January 2008. It will be very difficult to include late submissions as delay caused by one or two papers delays the entire publication process.
Please ensure that the length of the paper should not exceed 8,000 words. It will be difficult to include longer papers in the review process.
Review and Publication Process
The first step in the publication process is to ensure that the papers are original and not plagiarized which will be determined by the editorial team.
All papers will be thoroughly reviewed before going for publication. If the referee returns it with suggestions and comments, the paper will be returned to the author for addressing those comments/suggestions. The author will be requested to incorporate the changes and return it within a specified time limit. The referees require a reasonable time for review and hence there will be specified time limit for revisions. The revised paper will be re-sent to the same referee for a final review. If the referee approves the paper for publication, it will be sent for editing.
In case where papers need re-writing, they will be returned to the author for professional editing before they may be accepted and sent to the referee for review.
Once all the papers have been reviewed, revised, approved and edited, then the SDPI will send the manuscript to the publisher.
Kindly note, the entire review and editing process takes five to six months followed by another six months or more required by the publisher. The publisher also requires time for getting it reviewed and edited once again by SDPI and may also ask for further revisions in some papers.
Some broad guidelines for authors that have already been shared with you and include:
Author Guidelines  
Papers exceeding 8,000 words have to brought within the word ceiling. Since the bibliography/referencing style has to be standardized, it will be highly appreciated that you read through the guidelines once again. You may have submitted your abstracts prior to the Conference, however, an abstract still needs to be incorporated in your paper(s). Some of the papers are changed and so we will not know whether the previous abstract relates to the changes or not. Further, your bionote is extremely essential. As explained, it should be precise of not more than 30 words.
When you send us your paper, please do inform us whether it is the same paper you had submitted earlier so that we do not have to save and print it again--and hence save us reams of paper. If it is different, again let us know so that we can discard the earlier version and save and print the new version.
Looking forward to including your paper(s) in the publication process.
Thank you.
Uzma T. Haroon (uzma@sdpi.org)
Conference Coordinator
Sarah Siddiq (sarah@sdpi.org)
Research Coordinator & SDC Associate
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