• Review the following guidelines and submit your paper by e-mail attachment to: Kathy Ferguson at juliah@nwmissouri.edu
  
  
• Your paper must be received by July 14, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
  
  
• Submit only original, unpublished work.
  
  
  Papers should be 2,000 to 4,000 words in length.
  
  Word count includes: figures, tables and text boxes;
  it does not include abstract or references.
  
  Your abstract submitted during the proposal phase
  may be edited and will be used for publication.
• Follow MLA style (7th Edition) with one exception--single space the entries. Follow examples at: MLA Citation Style Examples or consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers—7th Edition. Cite all full text (online) articles following the guidelines provided at the hyperlink above.
  
  
• Divide the paper into sections that reflect content (e.g., –-but not limited to--introduction, review of literature, findings, conclusions—your sections will be unique to your paper).
  
  
• Center and bold section headings.
  
  
• Use Microsoft Word or save in rich text format.
  
  
• Use Times New Roman, size 12 font.
  
  
• 1-inch margins.
  
  
• Single space paragraphs and double space between paragraphs.
  
  
• Do not indent paragraphs.
  
  
• Format the title of your paper, the author(s) names, position, and institution as shown in the example below:
  
  Did We Say Brick or Click? Did We Say Both?
  
  Connie Ury
  Library Outreach Coordinator
  Northwest Missouri State University
  
  Frank Baudino
  Head Librarian for Information Services
  Northwest Missouri State University
• Do not include appendices. Use tables or figures to display information.
  
  
• Use black and white tables and graphics. Label graphics and tables as explained in section 4.5 of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers - 7th Edition.
  
  
• List the titles of figures to read Fig. 16 instead of Figure 16. A good example is provided on page 150 of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. See this page also when referring to figures in the text of the paper.
  
  
• Italicize the titles of computer programs.
  
  
• Don’t capitalize the word chapter when referring to chapters of a work. See page 92, section 3.6.5 Exceptions of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. Format the titles of book chapters by enclosing them in quotation marks (see section 3.6.3 Titles in Quotation Marks).
  
  
• List authors and titles of Web sites in the text of papers. Include a citation for the Web site in the Works Cited list. There is no need to include the URL. Refer to section 5.6 CITING WEB PUBLICATIONS (pp. 181-184) of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed.
  
  
• Don’t list URLs in the text of the paper in parentheses. Either mention the title of the Web site in the text of the paper or parenthetically cite the Web site using the author or title. Then include a Works Cited entry following the guidelines in section 5.6 CITING WEB PUBLICATIONS (pp. 181-184) of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed.
  
  
• Read sections 3.5.2 through 3.5.4 about numbers and percentages. These sections provide some important distinctions about when to spell out numbers and when to use numerals.
  
  
• If there are two or three authors in parenthetical reference, list the authors’ last names. If there are more than three authors, use et al. (See section 6.2 of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed.).
  
  
• Section 5.5.21 of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. explains how to cite the proceedings of a conference.
  
  
• For scholarly journals, list only the year for date.

Questions about the proceedings? Contact: Frank Baudino or 660-562-1534

Proceedings Guidelines updated August 3, 2009.

Sponsored by Owens Library, Northwest Missouri State University