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Author Guidelines

Any paper submitted to the conference should follow following proposed formatting

1. Papers must be in English.
2. Submit manuscripts electronically to conference web-site.
3. The first page of the manuscript should contain:
   • the title
   • an abstract of 50-200 words.
   • JEL categories
   • 5 keywords
   • It should not contain author name and affiliation
4. Manuscripts should be 1.5 spaced, Please use Times New Roman font in 12 pt. type and maintain a 1-inch (2.5-cm) side, top, and bottom margin. Equations and symbols should be typed as well. A4 paper format.
5. Figures and tables should be numbered consecutively.
6. Subtitles should be numbered consecutively (1., 1.1., 1.2., 2., 2.1., 2.2., etc.)
7. Conference employs APA style of formatting. References should be listed at the end of the main text in alphabetical order. They should be cross-referenced in the text by using the author's name and publication date in the style of Gorman (1996), or (Cowley, 2000: 46-54).

References should be typed in the following style:

Basic Print Examples:

Author’s last name, First initial. (year of publication). Title of book. City of publication, state or country: Publisher.

Author’s last name, First initial. (date of publication). Title of periodical article. Title of the periodical, volume number, page number(s).

Basic Database Examples:

Author, A. (date). Title of article. In Title of Book (Vol. no, pages if given). City of publication, ST: Publisher. Retrieved from [name of database] database.

Author, A. (date). Title of article. [Descriptive information, if any] Title of Periodical, volume, pages if given. Retrieved from [name of database] database.

Book

Gorman, J. M. (1996). The new psychiatry: The essential guide to state-of-the-art therapy, medication and emotional health. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Magazine article

Cowley, G. (2000, January 31). Alzheimer’s: Unlocking the mystery. Newsweek, 135, 46-54.

Journal Article (continuous page numbering)

Lindahl, K. M. & Malik, N. M. (1991). Observations of marital conflict and power: Relations with parenting in the triad. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 61, 320-330.

Journal Article (begins each issue on page one)

Add the issue number in parentheses directly after the volume number. In the example below “24(3)” signifies volume 24, issue 3.

Marek, K. D. & Rantz, M. J. (2000). Aging in place: A new model for long term care. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 24(3), 1-11.

Newspaper Article

Woodward, C. (2000, April 24). Storm surrounds raid as Elian has quiet Easter. The Daily Commercial, p. A1.

Book from database

Brockopp, D.Y. (1995). Fundamentals of nursing research [Electronic version]. Boston: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc. Retrieved from netLibrary database.

Magazine Article from database

Kelly, B. (2007, August 27). The story behind the rankings. U.S. News and World Reports, 143, 4. Retrieved from General Onefile database.

Journal article from database

Brown, P. (2006). Answers to key questions about childhood leukemia--for the generalist. Contemporary Pediatrics, 23(3), 81-84. Retrieved from CINAHL Plus with Full Text database.

Newspaper article from database

Henderson, D. (2006, August 29). FDA to take a harder look at custom blending of drugs. The Boston Globe. Retrieved from America’s Newspapers database.

Citing an online book (Not from a library database)

Robinson, P. (1993). Freud and his critics [Electronic version]. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/robinson.xml

Citing a chapter from an online book

To cite a chapter from an online book, cite the author of the chapter, followed by “In” and the editor‟s name and/or the title of the book. If no page numbers are available, use the section or chapter number.

Tell, T. (2000). Guns, gold and grain: War and food supply in the making of Transjordan [Electronic version]. In S. Heydemann (Ed.), War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East (chap. 2). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from http://escholarship.cdlib.org/uspress/heydemann.xml

Citing articles from an online journal or magazine based on a print source

Wills, T.A., Sandy, J.M., Yaeger, A., & Shinar, O. (2001, May). Family risk factors and adolescent substance use: Moderation effects for temperament dimensions [Electronic version]. Developmental Psychology, 37, 238-297. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/journals/dev/dev373283.html

Citing an article from the online version of a print newspaper

Caldwell, A. A. (2003, September 13). Volunteer firefighter faces child sex charge [Electronic version]. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved from http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/orl-locmolest13091303sep13.story

Citing an entire multi-page document created by a private organization

Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2001, November 14). Stem cell therapy: The ethical issues. Retrieved from http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/publications/pp_0000000007.asp

Citing a chapter or section of a multi-page document

When citing a named or numbered part of a document, give the name or number and a direct URL if available.

Thomas Jefferson Monticello Foundation, Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. (2000, January). Assessment of DNA study. In Report of the Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings (section II). Retrieved from http://www.monticello.org/plantation/dnareport2.html

Citing a website

When citing a website, treat the webpage as an article and the website as the source.

Agrawal, A. (2010, February 3). Study finds symptoms would likely diagnose one in 100 of the general population. OncoLink. Retrieved from http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu/news/index.cfm?function=detail&ID=841

What is heart failure? (2010, January). National Heart and Lung Blood Institute. Retrieved from http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Hf/HF_WhatIs.html

Submission Preparation Checklist

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another conference for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Director).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca) are activated and ready to click.
4. The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Conference.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed track of the conference, authors' names are removed from submission, with "Author" and year used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of authors' name, paper title, etc.
7. If submitting to peer review, all Microsoft Office documents (including Supplementary Files) have been saved by going to File and selecting Save As; clicking Tools (or Options in a Mac); clicking Security; selecting "Remove personal information from file properties on save"; clicking Save.

Copyright Notice

Authors who submit to this conference agree to the following terms:
a) Authors retain copyright over their work, while allowing the conference to place this unpublished work under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely access, use, and share the work, with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and its initial presentation at this conference.
b) Authors are able to waive the terms of the CC license and enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution and subsequent publication of this work (e.g., publish a revised version in a journal, post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial presentation at this conference.
c) In addition, authors are encouraged to post and share their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) at any point before and after the conference.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this conference site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this conference and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.