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" (Click Here and Enter Your Paper Title) ": Instructions

This document provides instructions for formatting an academic paper according to the Harvard referencing style. It specifies formatting for text, headings, citations, references, figures, images and tables. Authors are instructed to save the paper as a Microsoft Word document and include their name, affiliations and a 250-word abstract. Formatting guidelines cover font, spacing, margins and capitalization for titles, authors' names, section headings and references.

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" (Click Here and Enter Your Paper Title) ": Instructions

This document provides instructions for formatting an academic paper according to the Harvard referencing style. It specifies formatting for text, headings, citations, references, figures, images and tables. Authors are instructed to save the paper as a Microsoft Word document and include their name, affiliations and a 250-word abstract. Formatting guidelines cover font, spacing, margins and capitalization for titles, authors' names, section headings and references.

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"[Click here and enter your Paper Title]"

[Click here and enter an author]1, [Click here and enter an author]2, [Click here and enter an author]3

1 [Click here and enter an Organisation, Postal Address, State, Postcode, Email Address for Author 1]
2 [Click here and enter an Organisation, Postal Address, State, Postcode, Email Address for Author 2]
3 [Click here and enter an Organisation, Postal Address, State, Postcode, Email Address for Author 3]

"[Click here and enter your 250-word abstract]"

Instructions:
 Save this file as a MS Word document to your desktop
 Please only capitalise the first word and pronouns in your Paper Title
 Make sure you include all the authors and their organisation details in the abstract
 Highlight the presenting author by making his/her name bold
 Your paper will appear in any publications exactly as submitted

Text
 Use “Times New Roman” for all text including headings. Left align all text, images and tables.
 Use the Normal style for all text (style-normal) where possible in preference to "Body text" styles.
Normal text should be 11 point with single line spacing.
 Do not indent the first line of a paragraph. Leave one blank line between paragraphs and before new
section headings.
 Margins should be set at 2 cm all round.

Headings and sections


 Paper title: 14 point, bold, sentence case (capitals for proper nouns only). Leave one blank line
below the title.
 Authors' names: 11 point. First name or initials should come before the family name for each
author. Highlight the presenting author in bold. Use superscript capital letter to indicate different
affiliations.
 Authors affiliation: 9 point, sentence case (capitals for first letter and proper nouns only), provide
email address of first or presenting author and each affiliation defined by a superscript capital letter.
 Section headings: 11 point, bold but not italic, sentence case (capitals for first letter and proper
nouns only).
 Section subheadings: 11 point, italic, sentence case (capitals for first letter and proper nouns only).

Citations and References

 All citations and references must be formatted to specifications of Harvard Style.


Please see the following sites for examples:
http://sydney.edu.au/library/subjects/downloads/citation/Harvard_Complete.pdf
http://guides.is.uwa.edu.au/harvard
http://www.deakin.edu.au/students/study-support/referencing/harvard

 Figures, Images and Tables: All figures, images and tables are to be formatted to Harvard Style
specifications. For examples, please see:
http://rmit.libguides.com/c.php?g=336211&p=2262352
http://guides.lib.monash.edu/c.php?g=219786&p=1454239

Papers, in which references are not formatted correctly, will be returned to authors and will need to be
re-submitted.

Your full paper must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document.

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