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Author Guidelines

Use the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual, 6th edition, 2009, for in-text citation and bibliography.  Do not include a cover page.

Need a refresher course for APA style?   Try the OWL Purdue Writing Lab’s APA Formatting and Style Guide at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.

Use 1.5 line spacing and 1” margins.  For the font type and size, use Calibri 9 point.

The length of the paper should be 2,500 words maximum.  The editor reserves the right to edit the paper as needed to comply with the word limit.

The abstract submitted with your proposal will be used as an introduction to your paper; it may be trimmed or edited slightly for length.

Save your paper as a Microsoft Word document (2010, but previous versions are also acceptable).  If you are not sure of conversion, you can also save your paper as an RTF document.

On the first page, include:

Title of paper

For all authors - name, position/title, university, and library

Do not include special formatting such as headers/footers, page numbers, etc.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
2. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
3. The text is formatted using 1.5 line spacing with 1” margins; Calibri 9 point; employs italics, rather than underscoring (except with URL addresses); and places all illustrations, figures, and tables within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end of the paper.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.


2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.


3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy Statement

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