While writing your abstract for submission, there is no one standard format. But it might be useful to try the following steps (note that it should not be more than 350 words).
1. Mention the Forest:
Start with the broad subject that your research falls into. It can be any issues, such as social, cultural, economic, technological, environmental, political. Think of it as the backdrop of your research story (one or two sentences).
2. What is Known:
What is known in that field (how much forest have we already seen), both problems and solutions. Consider this as a bird’s eye view of literature review, giving readers a glimpse of the story that exists (a couple of sentences).
3. What Remains Unknown:
Point out what is yet to be known (which trees have not been seen in the literature yet), a highlight of research gap. Introduce your research questions, or research objectives or hypotheses. The gap could be methodological, data coverage, regional coverage and/or extension of the existing papers (a few sentences).
4. Why should We Care:
Mention why it is important to know the answers to the research questions that you are raising? At this point, you should be able to hook the readers that this is very interesting research issue to follow (a few sentences).
5. What Method will be Used:
Mention type of methodology you will be using. Is it descriptive, qualitative, quantitative, or combination paper? What data will be used? (a couple of sentences)
6. What are the Findings:
If you have already finished the research, mention your main results, if not mention what types of results you will be anticipating (a few sentences). Researchers who have completed the work can be longer in Points (5) and (6). But researchers who are still working on the paper, they can be short on these two points, whereas they can be longer on the remaining points.
Finally, include a title, 5-7 keywords, your name, affiliation, and email address. If you would like to see examples of an abstract, please see abstracts from our past conferences here.
