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Written by IAJ Staff   

Please use this resource to properly style and format your articles before submitting them to the IAJ. This style guide is a work in progress, for any issues not covered in this document, please double-check with the editing staff by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

TOC

  1. Citations
  2. Formatting Paragraphs
  3. URLs
  4. Plagiarism

 

Citations

Format your articles in APA. We are no longer using Chicago. The URL to the specific version of APA we are using is here:
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_o.html

In-text citations should look like this:

Yanovski and Yanovski (2002) reported that “the current state of the treatment for obesity is similar to the state of the treatment of hypertension several decades ago” (p. 600).

The bibliography reference list will then have this info:

References:

Yanovski, S. Z., Yanovski, J. A. (2002). Drug therapy: Obesity [Electronic version]. The New England Journal of Medicine, 346, 591-602.

The list should be organized alphabetically, without numbering the entries.

Allow the software to handle the carriage returns and indents. Please do not force the text to indent by putting in a manual carriage return and tabbing or spacing the second line over. If you cannot get your software to allow a first-line hanging indent, then just leave the references with no indents at all. Our software will add the correct formatting automatically.

For more info on APA citation style, check Diana Hacker's site: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_o.html 

 

Formatting Paragraphs

When composing paragraphs, please do not add any spaces or tabs to the leading sentence. Paragraphs should look like this:

This is the first sentence of the paragraph. Note how there is no leading space. Our software (for both the website and the quarterly journal) will add the leading indent, if we want it. Adding spaces or tabs just makes your article look funny, and keeps it from matching the rest of the articles in the issue/website.

Not like this:

         This paragraph is indented manually, with ten spaces. This is evil, because then the editors have to manually delete these spaces when they upload the file. Which means they have less time to double-check your article for miss-spellings that just end up making us all look stupid.

Double carriage returns between paragraphs, subheadings and blockquotes are also unnecessary, the software spaces the paragraphs automatically.

 

URLs 

A note on APA. Really long URLs throw the formatting for the website off. When citing an article that was retrieved from a databse, you just cite the database name, and the article ID, you do not need to include the whole URL that goes directly to the article. For one, link structures are notoriously finicky, and databses may change how the site links work. Much better to cite the ID number, which shouldn't change.

If you're not sure what this means, see Diana Hacker's website for more info: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_s2.html#20

 

Plagiarism 

We are currently checking articles for plagiarism. Case of willful plagiarism will result in immediate dismissal. Do not DO NOT plagiarize.

Here is an excellent article on the subject: http://www.prism-magazine.org/december/html/student_plagiarism_in_an_onlin.htm


 
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