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Authors should submit summaries describing work that is new, significant, and relevant to the risk management meeting. The summaries will be published in the ANS TRANSACTIONS and full-papers will be published in a book post meeting. For the summaries, use the "Guidelines for TRANSACTIONS Summary Preparation" and "Template" available from the ANS website. Full-length papers should follow the same general guidelines as the summaries.

Steps for Summary and Paper Submission

Step 1. Online Submission of Summaries due by June 30, 2013

Authors should submit a summary following "Guidelines for TRANSACTIONS Summary Preparation" and "Template" available from the ANS website. The ANS submission site will be accepting summaries from May 1 - June 30, 2013. The summaries need to be submitted through the following link: http://epsr.ans.org/meeting/?m=159

Step 2. Authors will be notified of summary acceptance by July 28, 2013.

At this time the authors will be notified of any comments for preparation of the summary and the final full-length paper.

Step 3. Submission of Revised Summaries due by August 12, 2013.

Once the summaries have been reviewed and approved, authors may then submit their revised summaries to riskmgmt2013@ans.org no later than August 12, 2013. Authors need to reference their papers’ ID numbers when they submit their revised summaries.

Step 4. Online Submission of Final Full-length Papers due by November 10, 2013.

Full-length paper submission should follow the following guidelines: