Call for Papers

The PAA Board of Directors has instituted a two-presentations rule, i.e., each person is limited to a maximum of two presentations (summed across regular oral sessions, flash sessions and poster sessions).

A further rule is a limit of four appearances in total, encompassing the roles of presenter, chair, and discussant. But there is no limit on how many times a person can appear on the program as a co-author. Single-authored papers must be presented by the author. For multiple-authored papers, at the time of submission a presenter must be designated; once all sessions are finalized (that is, all papers and posters have been accepted or rejected), there will be a short time interval when presenter status can be revised.

Note that for the purpose of the two-presentations rule, the roles of chair and discussant do not count; instead, there is a limit of four presentations in the roles of presenter, chair, and discussant inclusive.

All presenting authors must register for the conference by February 4, 2027 to confirm their intention to attend and present. PAA members receive a preferred rate for annual meeting registration, and all participants are strongly encouraged to join. Learn more about PAA membership.

Online submissions will be made through the MiraSmart software submission system. Authors are asked to submit both: a) a short abstract (150 words); and b) either an extended abstract (2-4 pages, including tables) or a completed paper. You may modify your submissions at any time until the September 20 deadline.

Extended abstracts must be sufficiently detailed to allow the session organizer to judge the merits of the paper. Typically, extended abstracts consist of a statement of the research question (and the underlying theory, if appropriate), the data and research methods, and preliminary findings. If your submission is accepted for a regular session, you must upload the full paper by March 10, 2027, to allow the discussant sufficient time to read it.

The PAA 2027 submission website will allow session organizers to view the titles and authors of submitted abstracts as they are submitted. The author making the submission must provide the full name, affiliation, country, and email address of each co-author. Use the search function to add co-authors to avoid duplicate records, and choose to add them only if there is no record found. If the affiliation is incorrect, select the record anyway and have the co-author update it in the PAA database. Doing so will ensure all of the co-authors’ submissions appear under the same record, that they are able to have any changes made in the database applied universally, and that they are able to download visa/acceptance letters.

At the time of submission, if there are multiple co-authors, one must be identified as the presenting author. (See below for specification of PAA’s two-presenter rule.) Author information can be revised until the program is finalized; you will be informed of the deadline via email.

Sessions are numbered and if you wish to have your abstract considered by two organizers, you must indicate the session numbers of your first and second choices. The first designated organizer is given first right of acceptance. No paper/abstract may be submitted to more than two sessions. 

In addition to the sessions listed in this Call for Papers, up to 100 “overflow” sessions will be created at the request of session organizers who receive large numbers of submissions. In choosing where to submit your paper, keep in mind that session organizers with broad session titles may end up organizing two or three sessions.

Members are encouraged to submit abstracts/papers for consideration as posters. All the above instructions also apply to poster submissions. Authors who wish to have a submission considered only for a poster session should submit to Session 1702. This may be a particularly good option for papers that do not fit into any regular or flash sessions. 

An author who is submitting a paper to one or two regular sessions, or a regular session and a flash session, may ask that the submission also be considered for a poster session if it is not accepted in the regular or flash session. This is accomplished by checking “yes” in the appropriate box of the online submission form. Unless you check “yes,” your paper will not be considered for a poster.