NOTES FOR AUTHORS

• Presentation timing: Each full paper is allocated approximately 12 minutes for presentation, followed by 3 minutes for audience questions. The track chair will monitor the time and alert presenters when their time is running short. We encourage constructive interaction from both in-person and online audiences. Your cooperation in adhering to the time limit ensures smooth running and fairness to all presenters.
• Presentation: The CBER requests that all PowerPoint presentations and any links to pre-recorded video clips be submitted in advance for upload to the conference system. Please email these materials—along with your name and conference details—to info@cberuk.com.

- In-person presenters should also carry a backup copy (USB or personal device).
- Online presenters will share their slides via Zoom’s screen share function.
  Presentations not submitted in time will remain the responsibility of the presenter.

· Q & A Session: After each session, a live Q & A session will start, and this will be moderated by the Session Chair. This session is limited to only 15 minutes. Therefore, 
    the limited number of questions will be accepted. Both in-person and online participants may submit questions:

              - Online attendees: Use the Zoom Chat function during the presentation, including the presenter’s name, slide number (if applicable), and your question.
              - In-person attendees: Please raise your hand during the Q&A period.
               Only a limited number of questions will be addressed due to time constraints.

• Breaks: As the conference will take place in hybrid mode, there will be regular breaks scheduled for both in-person and online participants. Please refer to the final conference programme for the exact timing of these breaks. These intervals are intended to allow everyone to refresh, network, and prepare for the next session.
• Punctuality - As this is a hybrid conference (face to face and virtual conference), please ensure that you join your session promptly and are aware of the order of speakers from the conference proceedings. Please allow extra time to join online and wait for the session to start.
• Conference Tracks: The CBER works assiduously to organize papers to fit in with the relevant tracks. There are occasions when individual authors request that papers be moved to fit in with flights etc. Please note that whilst The CBER will do its level best to accommodate individual needs, it must be mindful of ensuring that the conference as a whole is balanced and appropriately structured.
• Your Name and name of the affiliation: All participants are requested to type their name and the name of the Institution when they join Zoom conference so that we will be able to recognize you immediately.
• Conference proceedings: The conference proceedings- “The Business & Management Review" is open access proceedings which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in the conference proceedings without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. CBER is committed to publishing all full-text articles that accepted for the conference. However, all abstracts are included in the conference “abstract proceedings.”
• Photography: Photographs and screenshots may be taken during both on-site and online sessions for promotional purposes. A link will be shared with participants once these are uploaded.
• Recording: The whole session or part of the session will be recorded and may be used internal and external purposes. The edited version of the video will be uploaded via relevant YouTube Channel.
• Social media live to stream: We may Livestream the whole or part of the session for external viewers.
• Conduct: Professional conduct is expected at all times. Any inappropriate behaviour, whether in-person or online, may result in removal from the session and exclusion from the conference without refund.
• Certificate of Participation: Each registered participant who attends the conference in person, shall be awarded a Certificate of contribution. The certificate will have the name of each author with a clear indication of who has presented.
• Authorship: Presenters have a moral obligation to acknowledge all contributions to their paper, both orally at the time of presentation and by referencing authors in papers submitted to the conference.
• Republishing a Presentation: Authors are free to publish their presentations elsewhere without fear of copyright problems and without permission from the CBER.
• Abstract-Only Publications: Authors often elect to publish only the abstract of their presentation in the conference proceedings. This effectively gives the author until the conference date to complete the paper. This also means that the author is free to submit the paper to another journal without copyright consequences. This is possible because the paper has never been published elsewhere since only the abstract was published in the proceedings. CBER does not copyright the proceedings, which means that authors are still free to do as they see fit with the paper. Consequently, authors can claim academic credit for a conference presentation, a refereed conference proceedings publication, and possibly a journal publication from one piece of research. Please note that only the full-text papers are published in the online conference proceedings.