AUTHOR/CONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

We realize that it may be some time before you submit your manuscript for publication. We are sending you these guidelines now so that you may make use of them throughout the manuscript preparation process. If you follow them closely, you will find that production of your book will be a much smoother process. Of course, if you have any questions, your editor at LEA will be happy to provide further assistance. These guidelines conform to the style provided in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (4th ed.).

All elements of the manuscript should be submitted as original single-sided double-spaced typescript, 10 point Times Roman (or a similar font), on 8 1/2" x 11" bond, with 1 1/2" margins on all sides (Submission of a high-density disk in an acceptable format is also required. Please see Appendix C for details). Fonts that are difficult to read are to be avoided. Contributors to edited books should submit two copies of their manuscripts, one of which is an original copy, to their volume editor. Volume authors/editors should submit one original copy and all front matter, as well as a list of all editors/contributors with their current addresses, to the publisher.

Authors, as well as contributors to edited works, are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright owners for the use of lengthy quoted material as well as for all tables and illustrations (even if these have been adapted). Where permission is required, the author or contributor should write both to the copyright owner, usually the publisher, and to the author of the material. (Permission letters should be sent to copyright owners in duplicate.) Permission should be requested for quoted materials of 500 words or more from books and journal articles. Appropriate acknowledgement should accompany the use of all quoted materials and tables and figures. Appendix B gives an example of a permission request letter that may be adapted and reproduced as necessary. (See the APA Manual, for table/figure acknowledgments.)

3. FRONT-MATTER:

All front-matter for books should accompany the manuscript when it is submitted to the publisher for production. This includes the following: title page, including both a main title and, if appropriate, a sub-title, as well as the name and affiliation of the authors as they should appear in the published work; dedication, if appropriate; preface; acknowledgments, either as a separate section or as part of the preface; foreword, if appropriate; table of contents, including both chapter titles and, if appropriate, chapter authors, section titles, and the titles of important subheadings; and a list of contributors, if appropriate, including both names and affiliations. The early availability of your Preface is particularly important, as its descriptive content can be vital to the development of promotional materials.

Note for Chapter Authors of Edited Works: As chapter titles are normally used for running heads, try to limit the length of your title to 45 characters if possible, or provide a running head of 45 characters or less.

End-matter, such as glossaries, appendices, and references should accompany the final manuscript submitted for production.

In most instances, preparation of author and subject indexes is the responsibility of the author/ editor(s). We will provide you with instructions for index preparation when we send your page-proofs, which is the point in production when the indexes should be prepared. Editors may find the task easier if they ask their contributors in advance to submit a list of 20-30 "key words" along with their chapters.

All figures should be submitted to the publisher in camera-ready form. Although many graphics software packages produce high-quality figures when their output is laser-printed, figures printed on dot-matrix printers are not acceptable as camera-ready. For tables, a brief title should be typed directly above the table. Tables do not require legends, but any explanation or clarification of tabular material should be indicated as a footnote to the table. Figure captions should be typed in double-spaced form and be included as part of the manuscript, after the text but before the references. In figure captions, only the initial letter of the first word should be capitalized. All figures are reduced to fit our normal print page size of 4 1/2" x 7". Unless the figure is unusually large, it should occupy from 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the printed page. In submitting figures larger than 4 1/2" x 7", remember to make lettering and details large enough to be able to undergo successful reduction. The name of the author and the figure number should be indicated on the reverse side of each figure.

Each figure and table should be mentioned in the text. Although the APA Manual does not specify the need for call-outs, it is crucial that you indicate in the text of the manuscript approximately where you wish each table or figure to be placed. Tables and figures should be numbered sequentially as they appear throughout the text, using Arabic numerals.

Equations should be numbered (with Arabic numerals in parentheses) sequentially throughout the text. When referring to numbered equations, do not abbreviate (e.g., Equation 1, not Eq. 1; the first equation).

Footnotes should be used sparingly. When they appear, they should be indicated by superscript Arabic numerals and numbered consecutively throughout the text. Subsequent references to a footnote are by parenthetical note (see Footnote 2). Footnotes should be typed, double-spaced, on a separate page or pages and submitted with the manuscript following the figure captions.

The name and data system of the American Psychological Association, as described in the APA Manual (4th ed.), should be followed. Examples of this system are provided in Appendix A. Please note that, in references to articles or chapters in books, the inclusive page numbers of the articles or chapters should be included as part of the entry.

American spelling, rather than British, is preferred. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, or the more comprehensive Webster's Third New International Dictionary, are the standard references. If a choice is offered by the dictionary, use the first spelling listed.

Wherever possible, try to avoid excessive use of jargon. Avoid the use of abbreviations except where they are widely known by your readership and are used repeatedly in your text. Commonly used abbreviations include the following: IQ, LSD, MMPI, REM, ESP, STM, RT.

For a detailed treatment, consult the APA Manual (4th ed.). Some of the most common problems (taken from the Manual) are shown below with suggested remedies:

As a general rule, use his or her, he or she and the like sparingly, as they sound both contrived and monotonous. This can be done by using the plural wherever possible.

APPENDIX A

Jones (1947) contrasted traits

In one study of traits (Jones, 1947)

Jones, Jackson, and Welsh (1952) found

(1st citation--use "and" if names are outside of --> --parentheses)

(Jones & Johnson, 1979)

(1st citation--use ampersand if names are within --> --parentheses)

Jones et al. (1952) found

(subsequent citation)

Jones et al. (1952) found

(1st and subsequent citations)

(National Institute of Health [NIH], 1970)

(abbreviated corp., first citation)

(NIH, 1970)

(subsequent citations)

(University of Kentucky, 1981)

(all citations)

the book Discovering New York (1965)

(book--no author)

city delights ("Discovering New York," 1965)

(article--no author)

(Anonymous, 1976)

(anonymous)

Include authors' initials in all text citations, even where year of publication differs.

Order citations in order in which they appear in the reference list, as follows: Earlier works first (Johnson, 1978, 1979, in press)

Several works same year (Jones, 1977a, 1977b)

Alphabetized by author (Harris, 1989; Williams, 1978, 1979)

Letters, memos, telephone conversations, etc.

M.H. Howard (personal communication, May 16, 1989)

Smith v. Willard (1981) or

(Smith v. Willard, 1981)

National Environmental Policy Act (1969) or

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969

Use commas, not brackets, to set off date:

(see Table 4 of Williams, 1989, in press-a, in press-b)

All references that are cited in the text must appear in the reference list, except for personal communications. All entries that appear in the reference list must be cited in the text. Reference list entries normally contain the following elements: author, year of publication, title, place of publication and publisher. Refer to the APA Manual (4th ed.) for acceptable abbreviations to be used in the reference list.

earliest first.

publication year.

Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979). The elements of style (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan.

Tuma, D. T., & Reif, F. (Eds.). (1980). Problem solving and education: Issues in teaching and research. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Norman, D. A. (1980). Cognitive engineering and education. In D. T. Tuma & F. Reif (Eds.), Problem solving and education: Issues in teaching and research (pp. 365-397). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Johnston, R. J. (1979). Symbolic love in nineteenth-century art. Literary Digest, 5, 847-865.

Johnston, R. J., & Levy, S. (1980). Form and representation in painting. Literary Digest, 6, 940-965.

Nash, D., & Hopkins, L. S. (1976). Decision-making in small group crises. Experimental Social Psychology, 14, 121-143 (From Psychological Abstracts, 1976, 32, Abstract No. 1421).

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