For Authors: Resources/Examples

The Society of Plastics Engineers is delighted to announce that it is accepting submissions of technical papers for SPE’s ANTEC™ 2010 Technical Program of the Color and Appearance Division. ANTEC™ 2010 will be held in Orlando at the Marriot World Center on May 16-20, 2010. ANTEC™ 2009 was very successful, and we expect to make it even better in 2010 To do that, we need you to participate by submitting your technical paper by November 13, 2009. Prior submission of an abstract is not necessary

Any paper related to the color and/or appearance of plastic will be considered. Appropriate topics might apply to one of these categories:

• Color Measurement
• Testing and Quality Control
• Color Matching Techniques
• Processing and Equipment
• Materials (Colorants, Additives, Polymers)
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  Property Retention/Durability
• Instrumentation and Test Methods
• Regulatory Issues  
• Color Trends
• Decorative or Special Effects
• Other Color/Appearance Related Topics 

The Process:
The paper submission and review process is managed entirely online, as follows:

• Authors submit their papers to an online database via a website. The database can accept virtually any type of electronically formatted document (PC and Mac formats). Go to the SPE homepage at www.4spe.org, and, under Conference/Events Tab, follow the link to ANTEC or go directly to http://www.4spe.org/antec-2011-technical-program-information  .

Please email Bruce and let him know you are submitting a paper on a topic related to color and appearance of plastics.  If your topic is not related to color and appearace of plastics, it may be reassigned to an alternate SPE division session.

• Submit your paper to the Color and Appearance Division. (Once the file is submitted to the website, it is automatically converted to an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.)

• The Author’s Release Form must be sent electronically upon paper submission.

• The SPE Technical Program Chairs and respective review committees conduct paper reviews via the paper-submission website. The reviewers then forward any necessary revision requests to the authors via email.

As you can see, the process for an ANTEC author is relatively easy. If you have not submitted a paper or made a presentation at ANTEC, please consider the possibility…it will be worth your efforts!

LINKS (Links may not be active yet):

Abstract/Paper Submission Website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/speantec

Specify “Color and Appearance” (D21) when submitting your paper/abstract.

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