N-and-MRC-Conf-Paper-Formatting-Guidelines

Paper Title (in Title Case, Times New Roman 16, Bold) Paper Subtitle (Times New Roman 14) First Author (Times New Roman 12, Bold) *Please remove author details for peer-review Affiliation, Country, email (Times New Roman 12, first line indented by 1.27cm) Second Author Affiliation, Country, email Abstract (Times New Roman size 11, Bold, left-aligned, single spaced, 20pt before and 10pt after) Abstract text style should be Times New Roman 10, with single spacing, Fully Justified, 0pt before and 10pt after each line The abstract of your paper should not be longer than 250 words Keywords: Include up to keywords here; separated by semicolons; Format is Times New Roman size 10 First Level Heading (Times New Roman size 12, Bold, left-aligned, single spaced, 20pt before and 10pt after) The body of the text starts here Full conference papers should be no longer than 5,000 words (including abstract and references) Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed Please ensure author(s) names are removed from both within the text and the properties of the document Papers should be submitted in Word format (.doc or docx) Please use Australian English Body text is Times New Roman size 11, single spaced, 0pt before and 10pt after each line Margins are 2.54cm all around Body text is to be Fully Justified for main text, and Left Aligned for headings Please use normal capitalisation within the text Please use Italics for emphasis, not bold face or underline In-text citations should be in the format (Author, date; Author & Author, date), with multiple sources separated by semi-colons Direct quotations (including from interviews) should be placed within double “quotation marks” (Author, date, p number), with the in-text citation directly following the quote and including the relevant page number(s), if applicable Direct quotes of more than 40 words should be indented from the text by 1cm on both left and right margins, with quotation marks omitted (Author, Year, p number) Use of author name(s) within the text should be immediately followed by the year of publication in parentheses (ampersands – ‘&’ – should only be used when works by multiple authors appear in parentheses, not when names are given within the text itself) When referencing a work by three or more authors, list all authors when first cited, and then use the first author’s name followed by et al for all subsequent citations Multiple works by an author(s) in the same year should be differentiated with the use of alphabetical suffixes, for example: (Smith, 2004a) Please avoid the use of footnotes and endnotes Do not include headers, footers, or page numbers Please not refer to page numbers in your text If necessary, refer to section headings Subheadings should be formatted as follows: Subheading (Times New Roman 11, bold, left-aligned, single spaced, 20pt before and 10pt after) Text continues normally after subheadings Times New Roman size 11; single spaced; Fully Justified; 0pt before, 10pt after Subheading (Times New Roman size 11, Italics, left-aligned, single spaced, 20pt before and 10pt after) Text continues normally after subheadings Times New Roman size 11; single spaced; Fully Justified; 0pt before, 10pt after Please avoid the use of any further levels of subheadings Bulleted lists may be used, where the style is: • • • Times New Roman size 11pt; Left-aligned, single spaced text; First-line indent is 1.27cm, and hanging 0.63cm Please avoid the use of numbered lists Text continues normally after bulleted lists Tables and Figures Tables should be numbered consecutively throughout the paper and explicitly mentioned in the text (for example: see Table 1; as highlighted by Table 1) Tables should be set as ‘Auto-fit to contents’ and centred on the page Table Header Times New Roman 10, Bold Centred, Single Spaced 6pt before, 6pt after Table Cells Times New Roman Centred, Single spaced 4pt before, 4pt after Table Cells Times New Roman Centred, Single spaced 4pt before, 4pt after Table - Caption explaining table Text is Times New Roman 10pt, Left-Aligned, single spaced, 6pt before, 10pt after Text should continue normally after tables and figures Figures (images or graphs) should be placed within the body of the text and not at the end of the paper Figures should be numbered consecutively throughout the paper and explicitly mentioned in the text (for example: Figure illustrates) All figures should be centred on the page Please insert images into the text where you would like them to appear Please use ‘In Line with Text’ text wrapping to ensure images not overlap text Figure – Caption explaining figure Text is Times New Roman 10pt, Left-Aligned, single spaced, 6pt before, 10pt after Notes on style and content Please write in a straightforward style, avoiding long or complex sentence structures Explain all acronyms at first use – for example, Telecommunications Journal of Australia (TJA) Please explain all local references and technical terms These considerations will make your paper suitable for as broad an audience as possible Acknowledgements (Times New Roman 11, bold, left-aligned, single spaced, 20pt before and 10pt after) If you wish to make acknowledgements in your paper, these should appear immediately before the references at the end of your paper Please remove acknowledgements for peer-reviewing should they enable author identification References (Times New Roman size 11, bold, left-aligned, single spaced, 20pt before and 10pt after) Text format for references is Times New Roman 10, single spaced, Left Aligned, 0pt before and 10pt after each line, with paragraph hanging 1.27cm Details on in-text citation can be found in the first main section of this document References in this list should relate only to the material you actually cite within your chapter (this is not a bibliography), should be listed in alphabetical order, and chronologically in the case of multiple works by the same author(s) All references are to be in the APA referencing style Include subtitles All titles must be italicised General examples are as follows: Book: Keane, J (2009) The life and death of democracy New York: W.W Norton & Company, Inc Edited Book: Goggin, G (Ed.) (2004) Virtual nation: The Internet in Australia Sydney: University of New South Wales Press Book Chapter: Jensen, M J (2009) Electronic democracy and citizen influence in government In C G Reddick (Ed.), Handbook of research on strategies for local e-government adoption and implementation: Comparative studies (pp 288-305) Hershey, PA: IGI Global Journal Article: Holland, K., Blood, R W., Imison, M., Chapman, S., & Fogarty, A (2012) Risk, expert uncertainty, and Australian news media: Public and private faces of expert opinion during the 2009 swine flu pandemic Journal of Risk Research, 15(6), 657-671 Conference Proceedings: Norris, D F (2010) E-government Not e-governance Not e-democracy: Not now! Not ever? In J Davies & T Janowski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (pp 339-346) New York: ACM Newspaper Article: Barr, T (2007, March 9) Australia is way out of the loop with broadband The Age, Business, p 10 Websites: Australian Government (2012) australia.gov.au: Your connection with government Retrieved March 19, 2012, from http://australia.gov.au Organisational Documents: Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) (2011) #au20 national digital economy strategy: Leveraging the National Broadband Network to drive Australia’s digital productivity Canberra: DBCDE Other Sources: More detailed information on the APA referencing style, including further reference types, can be found at: http://canberra.libguides.com/content.php?pid=238252&sid=1966106 About the Author/s Include a brief biographical statement for each author Please note that this should be removed for the peer-review process