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INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS FOR THE 2007 OSSA PROCEEDINGS

A NOTE ABOUT PRESENTATIONS AT THE CONFERENCE:  The presenter will have up to 30 minutes to present his or her paper; the commentator will have a maximum of 10 minutes to present his or her comments. Please prepare a 30-minute presentation of your paper if it would take longer than 30 minutes to read the written version of the paper.  The remaining 15 minutes of the session will be for members of the audience to direct questions to either the presenter or the commentator.

 1.  MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION:  Before March 31, 2007 papers for the program and the proceedings should be sent by e-mail as a separate attachment to two places: (1) to <ossa@uwindsor.ca>, and (2) to the e-mail address of the person who has been identified to you as the commentator for your paper.

·       Subject Line: The subject line of the email should be: “Proceedings <Author’s Name>” [example: “Proceedings Johnson”]

·       File Name: The file name of the attachment should be the author’s surname [example: “Johnson”]. If there are two or more authors, use all surnames with no spaces separating them [example: “vanEemerenHoutlosser”].

Paper copy: Please hand in a paper copy of your manuscript at the Registration desk  when registering at the conference.

2. WORD-PROCESSING PROGRAM must be formatted as either MS Word for Windows (.doc) files, or as Rich Text (.rtf) files. Submissions in other programs cannot be accepted. If submitting a Word document, do NOT use Word 2007 format but only Word 2003 or earlier.

3. BASIC FORMAT OF THE CONTENTS OF THE PAPER:  Submissions should be in Times Roman font, 12 point type-size, single-spaced, and fully-justified (both flush left and flush right). Leave only one space after any punctuation mark—NOT two.

Except for TAB and ITALIC, no other formatting options should be used.

Do NOT use any other options for structuring (such as CENTRED TYPE, HYPHENATE and RIGHT-JUSTIFY) or for letter design (such as BOLD and UNDERLINE.) 

4. BEGINNING:  The paper must begin with the title, flush left, in 16-point type, (only the first word and proper names capitalized), followed by one blank line, followed by the author's name or authors' names in 14-point type all in CAPS , followed by one blank line, followed by the author’s contact information in 10-point italic type on several lines (department, institution, city and province/state, country and postal code, e-mail address), followed by three blank lines, followed the short abstract appearing in the programme (75 word maximum) in 10-point type introduced by the word "ABSTRACT:" in capital letters, followed by a blank line, followed by "KEY WORDS:" followed by up to 10 key words, listed alphabetically, separated by commas, all in 10-point type, followed by two blank lines. Both the abstract and the list of key words must be fully justified (both flush left and flush right).
 

5.  PAGE NUMBERS IN RUNNING FOOTER:  Place Arabic page numbers in a footer, centred, in 12 point font, starting on page 1.
 

6. SECTION HEADINGS:  Section headings should be all caps, flush left, and with a blank line before and after them. You may, but you need not, number them consecutively.
Sub-section headings should be in lower case italics with an initial capital on the first word only, and should be preceded and followed by a blank line. They may be consecutively numbered within the section number (e.g. sub-sections 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 of section 1), but need not be.

Paragraphs should begin flush left at the beginning of the paper and at the beginning of each titled section or sub-section, but otherwise be indented one tab stop (approximately half an inch, or 1.3 centimetres). Never use the space bar to indent.
 

7. QUOTATIONS:  Use double quotation marks for quotations or for “scare” quotes; only use single quotations marks for quotations within quotations or around a term that is being mentioned (example: ‘argument’ is spelled with one ‘e’). Long quotations (more than two lines long) should be indented one tab stop, but flush right, in 10-point type, and not in quotation marks. There should be a blank line before and after any such indented quotation.
 

8. CITATIONS:  Do not use footnotes for citation purposes. All source citations must be in the body of the text. Literature should be referred to by its author’s surname (or authors’s surnames) and the year of publication of the work cited, followed by a comma, followed by ‘p.’ then a space then the page number.  For two or more pages, use ‘pp.’ and the first and last page number separated by a hyphen (examples: Toulmin 1958, p. 124; van Eemeren and Grootendorst 2004, pp. 147-150; Pinto, Blair and Parr 1994, p. 14). Complete descriptions of the publications referred to are to be presented in a list called List the references for citations at the end of the text (see below).

9.  DIAGRAMS:  Only diagrams that reproduce in Word will be printed.  They should appear in the submitted document where and as they are intended to appear in the final paper.
 

10. NOTES = FOOTNOTES:  Make notes by using the option FOOTNOTE. (Do NOT use or insert endnotes). Do not use any formatting options in the footnotes. Restrict the number of footnotes to a bare minimum.
 

11. REFERENCES LIST:  Works cited in the paper should be listed at the end of the paper after an interval of two blank lines. Both the heading "REFERENCES" in all capital letters and the entries under this heading should be in 10-point type. There should be one blank line between the heading and the first reference. References should have a hanging indent; that is, the first line of each entry should be flush left and subsequent lines should be indented one tab, i.e., the same distance from the left margin as the indentation of a paragraph in the body of the paper.
 

12. REFERENCE STYLE:  The references should conform to the American Psychological Association (also known as “APA”) format. See the following examples (book, article in journal, article in book):

Toulmin, S.E. (1958). The Uses of Argument. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Benoit, W.L. (1989). Attorney argumentation and Supreme Court opinions. Argumentation and Advocacy 26, 22-38.

Eemeren, F.H. van and R. Grootendorst (1993b). The history of the argumentum ad hominem since the seventeenth century. In: E.C.W. Krabbe, R.J. Dalitz and P.A. Smit (Eds.), Empirical Logic and Public Debate. Essays in Honour of Else M. Barth (pp. 49-68, Ch. 4), Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
 

13. TEMPLATE: The file “OSSA07template.doc” may be used as a template for submitted papers.  Simply substitute the information from your paper for that in the template to comply with the specified formatting requirements.  Be sure to “match destination formatting” when cutting-and-pasting, and ensure that items such as QUOTATION STYLE, FOOTNOTE STYLE, CITATION STYLE, and REFERENCE STYLE are adhered to.

14.  Papers must be ready to be published as received. The organizing committee will decide whether a submitted paper merits publication in the Proceedings, but will make no corrections. Papers not formatted suitably for publication or with excessive typographical or grammatical errors might be excluded from the Proceedings. They will be returned to their author(s) for correction only if time permits and at the organizing committee’s sole discretion.
 

15. NOTE TO COMMENTATORS: Instructions for commentators, whose responses will be due towards the end of May, will be posted soon.
 

16. QUESTIONS:  Any questions regarding document formatting should be addressed to:

David Godden: goddendm@uwindsor.ca