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              GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 2026 - LaTeX ABSTRACT TEMPLATE

           First International Scientific Conference
           "Multidisciplinary Approach to the Contemporary
            Cross-Cultural Challenges"
           4 December 2026 | Belgrade, Serbia | Hybrid
           www.gpconf.net

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The LaTeX version of the official abstract template. It produces the same
layout as the Word version; use whichever you prefer.


  Template support (LaTeX questions, compilation problems, class bugs):

      aleksandar.nikodinovski@sarifindustries.org

  Abstract submission:

      gpconf@mef.edu.rs


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CONTENTS
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  1. What is in this folder
  2. Getting started
  3. Using the template
       3.1  Title, authors, affiliations
       3.2  The ten passages
       3.3  Tables, figures, equations
       3.4  Keywords and references
       3.5  Clearing the prompts before you submit
  4. Command reference
  5. Troubleshooting


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1. WHAT IS IN THIS FOLDER
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  GPconf-2026-Abstract-Template.tex
      START HERE. The template itself. This is the file you edit.

  GPconf-2026-Abstract-Template.pdf
      What that file looks like when compiled, so you can check your own
      output against it.

  GPconf-2026-Abstract-Example.tex
      A completed (fictitious) abstract, showing a table, an equation,
      in-text citations and a reference list.

  GPconf-2026-Abstract-Example.pdf
      The compiled example.

  gpconf-abstract.cls
      The document class. Keep it in the same folder as your .tex file.
      It carries the official page layout, so leave it unedited.

  README.txt
      This file.


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2. GETTING STARTED
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ON OVERLEAF (nothing to install)

  1. Create a blank project.
  2. Upload all the files from this folder into it.
  3. Set GPconf-2026-Abstract-Template.tex as the main document.
  4. Press Recompile.

  The default pdfLaTeX setting is the correct one, and every package the
  template uses is already available on Overleaf.

ON YOUR OWN COMPUTER

  Open a terminal in this folder and run:

      latexmk -pdf GPconf-2026-Abstract-Template.tex

  If you do not have latexmk, run pdflatex TWICE:

      pdflatex GPconf-2026-Abstract-Template.tex
      pdflatex GPconf-2026-Abstract-Template.tex

  The second pass is needed because the footer prints "Page N of M", and
  the total is not known until the first pass has finished.

  A standard full installation of TeX Live or MiKTeX already has
  everything. If yours is a minimal installation, the packages used are:

      geometry     fancyhdr    lastpage    tcolorbox    environ
      ragged2e     needspace   enumitem    ulem         newtx
      microtype    hyperref    babel       booktabs     caption
      amsmath      graphicx


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3. USING THE TEMPLATE
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Work through GPconf-2026-Abstract-Template.tex from the top. The masthead,
the running head and the footer are generated by the class; you do not
edit them.


3.1  TITLE, AUTHORS, AFFILIATIONS
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    \gptitle{Your title}

    \gpauthors{%
      Milena Jovanovi\'c\gpmark{1,*}\gpand
      Anders L. Berg\gpmark{2}}

    \gpaffiliation{1}{Faculty of Applied Management, Belgrade, Serbia}
    \gpaffiliation{2}{Department of Organisational Psychology, Aarhus,
      Denmark}
    \gpcorresponding{m.jovanovic@example.edu}{0000-0002-1825-0097}

    \gpsession{Intercultural Dialogue, Cultural Diplomacy, Global Cooperation and Governance}

  \gpmark{...} sets the superscript marker after a name. \gpand is the
  separator between names. Add as many \gpaffiliation lines as you have
  affiliations; \gpcorresponding takes an e-mail address and an ORCID.

  The programme sessions are listed at www.gpconf.net/themes


3.2  THE TEN PASSAGES
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  Each passage is opened by \gpsegment{n}. You do not type the labels
  yourself: the command prints them, and they are stored in the class so
  that they stay identical across submissions.

      \gpsegment{1}    1. Context/Background
      \gpsegment{2}    2. Problem
      \gpsegment{3}    3. Literature Gap/Knowledge Gap
      \gpsegment{4}    4. Motive/Purpose/Aim/Goal/Objective/
                          Research Questions
      \gpsegment{5}    5. Novelty/Originality
      \gpsegment{6}    6. Research Design/Method/Analytical Approach
      \gpsegment{7}    7. Data/Sample
      \gpsegment{8}    8. Key Findings/Results
      \gpsegment{9}    9. Conclusion with Central Answer
      \gpsegment{10}  10. Implications/Contribution

  Under each label the template carries a prompt, written as
  \gpguide{[Target: ...]}. Delete the whole \gpguide{...} line and write
  your text as an ordinary paragraph in its place:

    \gpsegment{2}
    It is unclear which repair actions restore co-operation when the
    offended party and the offender read the same apology through
    different conventions.

  Section 3.5 describes how to clear all ten prompts at once instead.


3.3  TABLES, FIGURES, EQUATIONS
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  Ordinary LaTeX applies. booktabs, graphicx, amsmath and caption are
  already loaded and styled to match the template, so \begin{table},
  \includegraphics and displayed equations need no setup on your part.
  GPconf-2026-Abstract-Example.tex contains a worked table and a
  displayed equation you can copy.


3.4  KEYWORDS AND REFERENCES
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    \gpkeywords{trust repair; cross-cultural communication; mixed methods}

    \gpreferences
    \gpref{Lewicki, R. J., \& Brinsfield, C. (2017). Trust repair.
      \emph{Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and
      Organizational Behavior}, \emph{4}, 287--313.}

  One \gpref{...} per entry; the hanging indent is applied for you.

  To manage citations with BibTeX instead, biblatex works: call
  \gpreferences for the label, then \printbibliography[heading=none].


3.5  CLEARING THE PROMPTS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT
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  The template ships with a grey instruction box and a [Target: ...]
  prompt under each label. Instead of deleting them by hand, change the
  first line of your document to:

      \documentclass[clean]{gpconf-abstract}

  This drops the instruction box and every \gpguide{...} prompt in one
  pass, leaving your own text untouched.


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4. COMMAND REFERENCE
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  \gpconferenceheader        Conference masthead. Generated; leave as is.
  \gptitle{...}              Paper title.
  \gpauthors{...}            Author line.
  \gpmark{...}               Superscript marker after a name.
  \gpand                     Separator between two names.
  \gpaffiliation{n}{...}     One affiliation line.
  \gpcorresponding{e}{orcid} Corresponding-author line.
  \gpsession{...}            Programme session.
  \gpsegment{1} ...
  \gpsegment{10}             The ten labels.
  \gpguide{...}              A prompt from the template.
  \gpkeywords{...}           Keywords line.
  \gpreferences              References label.
  \gpref{...}                One reference entry.
  \gpurl{...}                A link, in the template's styling.
  \gpurltext{url}{text}      A link with its own display text.
  \gpmail{...}               An e-mail link.
  \gpwordtarget{n}           The indicative word figure the template
                             gives for passage n.

  Class options, given in the first line of the document:

  clean            Drop the instruction box and every prompt.
  nosectionrules   Remove the hairline rule under the ten labels.

  For example:

      \documentclass[clean]{gpconf-abstract}


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5. TROUBLESHOOTING
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  "LaTeX Error: File `gpconf-abstract.cls' not found."

      The class file must sit in the same folder as your .tex file. On
      Overleaf, check that it was uploaded to the top level of the
      project rather than into a subfolder.

  The footer reads "Page 1 of ??".

      Compile a second time. The page total is resolved on the second
      pass.

  "Package tcolorbox Error", or another missing-package message.

      Your TeX installation is a minimal one. Install the packages
      listed in section 2, or use Overleaf, where they are already
      present.

  Accented characters come out wrong.

      Save your .tex file as UTF-8; the template expects it. Typing
      Jovanovic with its accents directly is fine, and so is the LaTeX
      spelling Jovanovi\'c, which never depends on the encoding.

  I need genuine Arial and Times New Roman.

      The class uses metric-identical substitutes, which is why the PDF
      matches the Word layout on any machine. If you need the licensed
      originals, compile with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX and add to your
      preamble:

          \usepackage{fontspec}
          \setmainfont{Times New Roman}
          \setsansfont{Arial}

  Anything else, or something the template will not let you express:
  write to aleksandar.nikodinovski@sarifindustries.org and attach your
  .tex file together with the .log file from the run that failed.


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Global Perspectives 2026 | www.gpconf.net | Belgrade | 4 December 2026
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