Title of Contribution for the 13th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation

Author*1, co-Author(s)2

1 Academic title, Department, University, Country

2 Job position, Company, Country

Short Summary

All short papers should be written in English and be maximal 3000 words, acknowledgments and references included. The abstract should be submitted in Microsoft Word or LaTeX format. The document should start with the paper’s title, authors, address, followed by a short summary text (max 150 words) and the keywords (at least 3 and up to 6). Please, indicate the author who will present the paper with an asterisk (*). The short summary should not include any table, picture, figure, etc. In the short summary, please briefly explain the aim and scope of your study, the methodology used, and the main conclusions of the study. The short summary should be single-spaced in 11pt Times New Roman. Authors are requested to submit short papers in electronic form (MS-Word doc/docx or LaTeX) via the submission system in https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=heart2023. The scientific committee will read your short papers and evaluate its potential for presentation at the symposium. However, incorrect formatting may result in your short paper being returned to you by e-mail. All short papers will be published on the website of the hEART association at http://www.heart-web.org/. All pages must be numbered. Major headings are typed bold in 12pt upper case (capital letters), with two line spaces above and one line space below. Text should be justified (extend to the right-hand margin) and be typed to fill the full depth of the text area. Please, use a single-spaced 11pt Times New Roman typeface. Do not indent the text paragraphs.

Keywords: At least 3 and up to 6 keywords arranged in alphabetical order, possibly indicating one or more suggested topics from the call.

Introduction

The Introduction section should contain the background, a concise literature review (references included in the word count), and the motivation and objective of the study. If you use any references, please give them with authors’ surname and date. The reference information within the text should be set in brackets, e.g., (Smith and Wilson, 2011). References should conform to the standard APA referencing style (Wang et al., 2017). The abbreviation "et al." should be used in the text, when there are more than three authors of a cited paper.

Methodology

Outline the materials and methods used in your study here. Subheadings are possible, but should be avoided.

Minor headings

Minor headings are in 12pt bold-italic type, not indented, with one line of space above and below. Do not number headings.

Minor headings

New paragraphs are not indented, but are preceded by a line of space. Also, please avoid using footnotes or splitting tables over two (or more) pages.

Results and discussion

Describe and discuss your all results here and/or the finding/contents of your study. Description of case studies, or data used should be here.

You can present tables, graphs and figures in this part. Table captions should be above the tables, while figure captions should be below. Figures and tables must be numbered. Use also font 12pt bold as the example below.

Table 1: Title of the Table

Value 1	Value 2	Value 3
1	110.1	a
2	10.1	b
3	23.113231	c

Equations should possibly be done using MathType or Equation Editor. They should be numbered as follows:

(1)

Conclusions

Present your conclusions here (and do not use any graphs, figure or table). Make a brief summary of the research and focus on the main findings here.

Acknowledgements

Collate acknowledgments in this separate section at the end of the text, before the part of references. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., funding the project, providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).

References

It is essential that references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper. Although "et al." is preferable in the text, in the list of references all authors should be given.

For journal articles:

Rinaldi M., Viti F., Laskaris G. 2020. How to write a good short paper template. Journal of writing research papers, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-10.

For books or book chapters:

Rinaldi M., Viti F., Laskaris G. 2020. How to write a good short paper template. Mobilab press

For conference papers and technical reports:

Rinaldi M., Viti F., Laskaris G. 2020. How to write a good short paper template. In Proceedings of the MFTS Symposium, 6-8 July, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, pp. 1-10.