• Papers and Program Deadlines for ASHRAE Conferences

For more information, please contact Tiffany Cox at tcox@ashrae.org.

Technical papers are presented by authors at ASHRAE Winter and Annual conferences and then published in ASHRAE Transactions.  Papers submitted for review must be both technically accurate and clearly written.  Technical papers undergo a rigorous double-blind review and must be approved by three reviewers knowledgeable in the subject matter. Presentation is by poster or orally, if grouped into a session with related papers. Technical papers can be up to 30 double-spaced manuscript pages in length, including tables and charts, and a maximum of 12 figures (not counted in the page count).

AUTHORS:  When writing your technical paper manuscript, please follow the guidelines in the ASHRAE Authors Manual.

Submit your technical paper manuscript for peer review on Manuscript Central. 

Conference papers are shorter than technical papers, undergo a less stringent review and can be prepared closer to the conferences. Unlike technical papers, abstracts of conference papers are submitted first for review. Upon acceptance, papers are due three months after abstract acceptance and undergo a single-blind review and must be approved by two reviewers. Upon approval, papers are scheduled for oral presentation and are published in ASHRAE Transactions. Conference papers can be a maximum of eight single-spaced pages in length. Papers are submitted in 'final' form using a template.

Calls for papers will be posted on each conference’s Web page. Visit the ASHRAE Conferences page for links to future ASHRAE Winter and Annual conferences. For the schedule of calls for papers and programs, click here.  

The Conferences and Expositions Committee (CEC) oversees ASHRAE’s annual and winter conferences and other specialty conferences and expositions globally.  The CEC continually works to improve the conference experience for all attendees.  To help keep a “pulse” on the technical issues facing professionals in the HVAC&R marketplace, the CEC seeks ideas for tracks within its annual and winter conferences and topics for specialty conferences.

Click here to submit a suggestion.

Wish you could get more involved in the Society but don’t know how?  Consider volunteering to review technical papers submitted to ASHRAE for publication in ASHRAE Transactions.  Reviewers are selected based on their technical background and technical interests.   

• Notify Tiffany Cox, Conference Program Administrator, email: tcox@ashrae.org  
• Create or update your ASHRAE biographical record under the “Manage Your Membership” link from the ASHRAE Web site Members:  Login, Click “Update Your Bio”, update information on the small blue tabs.
  If you do not have an ASHRAE ID, or are not applying for ASHRAE membership, and are applying for a position that requires an ASHRAE bio to be on file, please click here to request an ID and PIN. You may also use that link if you already have an ASHRAE ID as a non-member, but you do not have a record of what that number is.

Programs, such as seminars, forums, transactions sessions, to be presented at ASHRAE's Winter and Annual conferences will be posted on each conference’s Web page.  Visit the ASHRAE Conferences page for links to future ASHRAE Winter and Annual conferences.  The conference Web pages provide the dates for program submission as well as the final, selected program.

• Poster Preparation Instructions (PDF)
• Forum Preparation Instructions 

• Commercialism Policy (PDF)

• The ASHRAE SI Guide (PDF) 

ASHRAE's Publishing Ethics (.docx)

• ASHRAE Journal - Citation and Abstract Services
• ASHRAE Standards - Citation and Abstract Services
• ASHRAE Transactions - Citation and Abstract Services
• HVAC&R Research - Citation and Abstract Services