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Document Structure

Your document should be at most 12 pages long, including references. For papers over 10 pages, the last two pages (page 11 and 12) must contain only references. The submission checklist at the end of the template must be included with each submission; it does not count towards the page limit.

The first page is to include the paper's title (at most 90 characters, including white spaces), author(s) name(s), abstract (up to 200 words), and keywords. Please spell "keywords" as one word. Provide up to 5 keywords for your paper, by selecting at least from the keyword list. Under Page Setup, ensure that A4 is the paper size setting under the Paper tab.

Give each author exactly one footnote, with their professional title, affiliation, email address and ORCID iD. Co-authors with the same affiliation still each have their own footnote. An author with more than one affiliation lists them all in that one footnote, separated by semicolons, with the email address and ORCID iD once at the end, for example: Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University A, City, Country; Adjunct Professor, School of Management, University B, City, Country, name@example.org, orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000. Each author must have an ORCID; if you do not already have one, request one at orcid.org (it does not cost any money).

Most papers will start with an introduction and end with conclusions. The introduction should immediately follow the keywords, on the first page if possible. The conclusions must be followed by acknowledgments, if any, and then references.

Author Names

Write each author's full name as it should be published and indexed: given name(s) first and family name last, without titles or degrees (Dr, Prof., PhD, MSc). Use the same form of your name in every paper, and the same as in your ORCID record, so that databases such as Crossref, Scopus and Google Scholar link all your work to you.

  • Two family names, as is common in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries: choose one form and keep to it throughout your academic career. If you use both, join them with a hyphen (Ana García-López), so that databases index both as your family name instead of taking the first one as a middle name.
  • Family name first, as is usual in, for example, China, Japan, Korea and Hungary: write the given name first and the family name last (Wei Zhang, not Zhang Wei), as in other English-language publications.
  • One name only, as is common in, for example, Indonesia: write that name alone. Do not repeat it or add an initial to make a first name.
  • Particles such as van, von, de and da belong to the family name (Anna van der Berg).

The IGLC registers each author with given name(s) and a family name. The family name is taken to be the last word of the name, together with any particles before it; everything before it is the given name(s). A hyphenated family name stays together. When the paper is published, you are asked to confirm its details, including how each name is divided, and you can correct them then.

References

A significant body of literature exists to describe lean construction theory and applications as well as lean production in general. Make sure to build on that work (or critique it) and cite sources accordingly in the References section of your paper. Papers that do not at all relate to the existing lean construction literature will be rejected.

The references should be formatted using the author-date format according to APA Style, 7th Edition (apastyle.apa.org). You may benefit from using a citation and reference management software program such as Zotero, EndNote, RefWorks, or Mendeley, or an online citation generator such as Citation Machine.

The References section must include all work cited in the paper, sorted in alphabetical order by author(s) and then by year. Some example references are cited in the following text, illustrating the following types of references: doctoral dissertation (Martinez, 1996), technical report (Tommelein & Ballard, 1997), and journal papers (Howell et al., 1993; Tommelein, 1998; Tommelein et al., 1999). The proceedings of the first three IGLC conferences were compiled into a book, edited by Alarcon (1997). All other IGLC papers are available online at www.iglc.net/Papers.

Different Types of Papers

Some authors will write papers on observations or case studies that are practice-based or experimental in nature. Such papers will be considered for review if they describe or explain an innovative or significant implementation of lean construction concepts and tools. They must contribute to the practice of lean construction from an industrial perspective, make a clear reference to lean concepts, and cite prior work. We ask that authors of such practice-oriented papers describe:

  1. What questions were you trying to answer? What (if any) hypotheses are tested in your work?
  2. What evidence is provided that was used to test the hypotheses?
  3. Did your work enable you to answer your questions or draw conclusions about the hypotheses, or what further work is needed?

In contrast, other authors will write papers that are more opinion-based or theoretical in nature. We ask that authors of such papers describe:

  1. What are the foundational elements of the theory you base your work on?
  2. What are your hypotheses and background assumptions?
  3. What seems to be true based on the theory?
  4. How could the theory be tested through experimentation?

Moreover, some papers will report on constructive research (also called design science research, e.g., March & Smith, 1995). Characteristically, this kind of research pertains to creating and testing an artefact. We ask that authors of such papers describe:

  1. What practical problem is being addressed?
  2. What is the design and construction process of the artefact?
  3. How is the artefact evaluated?

All authors should:

  • Reference previous work, including papers from previous IGLC conferences available at iglc.net/Papers. When citing them, use the APA 7th Edition format.
  • Describe how that previous work is related to the presented work.
  • Describe the value of their work for practitioners as well as scholars.
  • State the limitations of the presented work.
  • Propose questions or hypotheses for future work – to be done by the authors themselves or others – and suggest how these may be tested.

Our IGLC conferences aim to advance both the body of knowledge and the practice of lean construction, so please respond to our requests.