Call for papers

Chitkara University Doctoral Consortium - CUDC 2023
(A Colloquium of Doctoral Research Scholars)
Starting Date of Submission of Extended Abstract: 5th July 2023

Formatting Guidelines for Abstract Submission

  • (i) For Management, Commerce, Economics, Health Sciences, Nursing, Education, Architecture, Art & Design disciplines
    Title: Bold Type 14-points Times New Roman Font
    Font: Times New Roman
    Font size: 12 Points
    Line spacing: Double Margin
    Word limit: 1000-1500 words
    Keywords: 5-6
    Margins: One inch on all four sides
  • (ii) For Engineering, Applied Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Media disciplines
    Title: Times New Roman Bold, Font Size-14points, single line spacing
    Body of abstract: Times New Roman, Font Size -12 points, Line spacing 1.5
    Line spacing: 1.5
    Word limit: approximately 250 words
    Margins: One inch on all four sides
    Keywords: 5-6

Guidelines for Manuscript Submission for Review purpose

Manuscript template (only for review purpose) downloaded from: Click here Important notes:
  • Please take note that the review process strictly adheres to double anonymized peer review guidelines. Therefore, authors are required to submit a blind manuscript without including any authors’ details.
  • If your paper is accepted for publication within the scope of the above-mentioned proceedings, you will receive instructions to submit the final version of the manuscript following the publisher's guidelines.
  • An additional Article Publication Charges (APC) will be applicable for an accepted paper in accordance with the publisher's policy.
Plagiarism policy

The ethical committee of CUDC-23 upholds and advocates for ethical practices in publishing. In order to fulfil this objective, the committee is dedicated to discouraging and proactively dealing with plagiarism and self-plagiarism. The committee employs Turnitin software to scan all conference paper submissions, identifying any occurrences of duplicated or similar text in the submitted manuscripts. The manuscript that exceeds a plagiarism threshold of 10% using Turnitin will not be considered for the peer-review process and may receive a rejection.

Publication Opportunity

  • Authors of the selected abstracts would be invited to submit a full-length paper to be published in premier Materials Today: Proceedings/AIP proceedings/ABDC/ Applied Data Science and Smart Systems (to be indexed in Scopus)/ UGC indexed journals / Edited books as per the publication’s review policy.
  • The guidelines for publication (if accepted) will be updated soon.
We have identified the following Scopus Indexed Journals for Publication.

Will Update Soon

Paper Submission Link

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Important Dates

Starting date of submission of extended abstract5th July 2023
Last date of submitting the extended abstract31st August 2023 10th September 2023
Notification of abstract acceptance10th September 2023 20th September 2023
Last date of registration15th October 2023

Full Paper Format