Selection will be by international double blind peer review and it is aimed to publish selected conference papers on the inpursuitofluxury.com website, in a peer esteemed journal and collected into an Anthology.

If your abstract submission is selected you will be invited to present your paper at the conference (see below).

Selected Papers will contribute to thematic areas, which include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Sociology and luxury
• Luxury and emerging economies
• Ethics, politics and luxury
• Luxury and craft
• Luxury and popular culture
• Luxury, globalisation and branding
• Luxury and design
• Luxury and fashion
• Luxury and jewellry
• Luxury and the history of consumption

The criteria for selection are:

• Relevance to the conference theme
  
• Clarity of: research question or issue, the context in which it arises and has significance, the outline of the enquiry itself, the outcome

• Submissions should be in English.
  
• We ask for extended abstracts of a maximum of 500 words, excluding the front matter.
  
• The front matter should contain your name, institutional affiliation, address, e-mail, and the title of the full paper.
  
• At the end of your abstract please add 5 keywords.
  
• Do not mention your name or institution in the text, or include material that easily identifies you, because the abstracts are subject to a blind-review process.
  
• Your abstract should specify the research question or issue that you are addressing, the context in which it arises and has significance, an outline of the enquiry itself, and the outcome. You should also make clear the connection between your paper and the theme of the conference by ensuring that the conclusion of your paper addresses an aspect of the conference theme.
  
• We will only accept one abstract per lead researcher (you can be a co-author on any number of submissions). Abstracts should be sent as plain text in an e-mail to abstracts@inpursuitofluxury.com from the lead researcher's email address. This will be the email address we will use for correspondence with the authors.
  
• Do not send abstracts as attachments in MS Word etc . This helps us to avoid catching and spreading viruses.
  

Please refer to the Conference Timeline to find out when abstracts are due.

If your abstract is selected, you will need to supply the full paper one month before the conference. Full papers will be further selected by an international panel and will be double-blind peer reviewed for publication.

Full papers must conform to the style sheet that has been prepared to facilitate publication. Papers that do not conform may not be published. For more information about style requirements please see below

On acceptance of the paper for inclusion in the journal, authors are requested to assign copyright of the paper to the University of Hertfordshire. This allows the University to sanction reprints and photocopies and to authorize the re-publication of complete issues or volumes according to demand. Authors retain proprietary rights and veto over third party publication will be retained. Authors wishing to publish elsewhere must first seek permission from the University and will be required to credit Working Papers in Art and Design and the University of Hertfordshire as the original publishers of the paper.

• You should send your full paper as MS Word, or HTML, or plain text. Please do noit send PDF because we will need to encode your paper in HTML if it is selected for publication
  
• Your paper must start with the title, followed by your name and affiliation. Your paper must end with your name and affiliation, followed by a postal address. In addition you may include a link to your own home page, etc. Do not include the abstract because this will be added later as a link.
  
• References and citations should be in the Harvard style and full bibliographical information should be included of all cited texts. A list of references should be placed at the end of the paper. If in doubt it is requested that authors follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition, Section 16.
  
• If endnotes are required you should not use your word-processor's automatic feature. You should place the note number in square brackets [1] and supply a separate numbered list with the note text at the end of your paper.
  
• Images may be included in the text. However, they must also be supplied as a separate file. If they are not included their location should be shown thus: [IMAGE1.GIF], where IMAGE1.GIF is the image filename.
  
• Do not use "styles" or anything else that may not transfer to another computer.
  
• Do not use multiple fonts and sizes as these will be standardised to a house style.
  
• Use only straight double quotation marks, i.e. UK keyboard character Shift-2, not "smart/typographer's quotes."
  
• Do not format your text using "tables" or similar. If you need to present a table keep it simple so that it can be converted into HTML for publication.
  
• Do not link your images (OLE). Include/embed your images in the text but also supply another separate copy of the image file.
  

Please refer to the Conference Timeline to find out when abstracts are due.