TITLE: 80 Characters Maximum (Not Including Spaces)

TITLE: 80 Characters Maximum (Not Including Spaces)

AUTHOR (S): Last Name, First Initial. Example: Smith, J.

ORGANIZATION: Name of Company or University Only, Departments will be deleted during editing. Please use an em dash instead of a comma or a hyphen for institutions that include state and city names. For example, write: University of Illinois—Chicago (please, do not write University of Illinois-Chicago or University of Illinois, Chicago). Moreover, please, do not preface organizations with “the.”

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM 250 WORDS

Make sure that your abstract matches your originally accepted submission.

OVERVIEW OF THE CONTENT MAXIMUM 1000 WORDS

Do not exceed the 1-2 SINGLE-SPACED page limit.

· Please, center all figures, tables, and corresponding titles.

· Please, align all paragraphs, headings, and sub-headings flush-left (separate paragraphs with spaces instead of with indentations).

· Please, APA 6 guidelines for in-text citations: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/

REFERENCES

References must be in APA 6 format.

PLEASE, NO FOOTNOTES OR ENDNOTES.

Please, note the following basic APA 6 guidelines and commonly overlooked rules, and visit https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/ for further details:

· Use hanging indentations for reference pages (All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented one-half inch from the left margin).

· Invert authors’ names as such: Last Name, First Initial. (include middle initials if applicable).

· Separate authors’ names by commas and use ampersands (please, do not write “and”) in between the two final names in the list. Use ampersands to separate the names of a work by two authors. For example:

Brown, T., Smith, J., & Thompson, R. (2009).

Hernández, C. & Richards, R. (2009).

· Please, see Reference List: Author/Authors for further information, including instances of seven or more authors, or instances of institutions as authors.

· Alphabetize references according the last name of the first author of each work.

· Indicate the year of publication in parentheses following authors’ names

· Publishing locations should include the city and abbreviated state or country, and should appear at the end of a book reference. For example:

San Francisco, CA: Sage or London, UK: Routledge

Please, use the following links to review specific guidelines for journals, books, chapters:

· Reference List: Articles in Periodicals (articles in journals paginated by volumes and/or issues; articles in magazines; articles in newspapers).

· Reference List: Books (basic format for books; edited books with no author; edited books with one or more author(s); translated books; editions of books; articles or chapters in edited books; multivolume works).

· Reference List: Other Print Sources (entries in encyclopedias; works discussed in secondary sources; dissertations; government documents; reports from private organizations; conference proceedings).

· Reference List: Web Publications (articles from online periodicals, books, interviews, and presentations).

Please, note the following commonly overlooked rules:

DO NOT put quotes around titles of works

DO NOT italicize titles of journal articles

DO NOT capitalize each word of book and/or chapter titles (only capitalize the first letter of these titles and sub-titles).