• Create your papers in Microsoft^® Word.
• Turn in a hard copy of the paper and an electronic copy (either on diskette or by e-mail—cbeadle@valdosta.edu). The hard copy and diskette copies may be left in “plain brown envelopes” at the registration desk clearly addressed to the Proceedings Editor.
• Portrait orientation
• Use Mirror Margins with the top and bottom margins set at 0.7″, the inside margin at .9″, and the outside margin at 0.6″.
• Be sure to use only one space after any punctuation including periods and colons (I know you have always been taught to use two spaces, but publications use only one—two looks too spaced out in print.).
• Use real quotation marks ( “ and ” ), single quote marks ( ‘ and ’ ), and apostrophes ( ’ ).
• Use the appropriate measurement symbols ( ′ or ″, etc.).
• Bulleted items should hang indent so that no bulleted item text is aligned under the bullet. If you use numbered bullets, remember the rule of division that says you cannot have a 1 unless you also have a 2, you cannot have an A unless you also have a B, etc.

For the “Official” copy of your paper to be included in the Proceedings use the Publication Manual of the APA (4^th ed.). The style of the Proceedings varies from APA on several points:

• This is not a student paper submitted for corrections, do not double space.
• The text of the paper’s paragraphs should be in Arial at 11 points, full- but not forced-justified. Use the automatic leading (13.2 points).
• Put a line space between paragraphs, and do not indent paragraphs.
• Paper title and author information will be at the top of the first page of text, not on a separate title page (the paper handed out at the conference probably should have a title page). The title should be in Times New Roman at 18 points bold. Author information should be Arial at 11 points italic.
• Make all headings or subheads in Times New Roman at 14 points bold, left-aligned.
• Do not underline anything. If you are underlining to call attention to the word, make it bold. If you are underlining to indicate a work of authorship, make it italic.
• Use APA style for citations and bibliography (but always use italics for book and journal names rather than underlining). References should be in Arial at 11 points.
• You may insert a small table into the text, but if a table is substantial, consider placing it as an appendix to the text. Appendix items may be in whatever format you choose, but if you have no good reason to choose something else, it would simplify my life if you used the same text specifications given for the rest of the paper.
• If you use notes, use end notes. End notes should be in Arial at 11 points. If you use end notes, do not use the Footnote function in Word. This is fine for your document, but when I try to incorporate your document into my document, Word wants to put your footnotes at the end of my document.

Charles F. Beadle, Jr., Proceedings editor

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