Instructions for Authors of Abstracts
Before preparing your abstract please review the instructions below as well as the suggestions for the preparation of abstracts that the Program Committee developed in conjunction with its workshop on abstract writing at the 2010 Annual Meeting.
Content of Abstracts
The abstract should contain the following information:
- a clear initial statement of purpose,
- a brief explanation of the abstract's relationship to the previous literature on the topic, including direct citations of any important literature (see "Citations of Literature" below)
- a summary of the argumentation
- some examples to be used in the argumentation.
The abstract should make it clear that the paper is suitable for oral presentation within the time limit (maximum time is 20 minutes).
Format of Abstracts
- Abstracts must be composed in 11 point Times font.
- Abstracts must be no more than 650 words, not including bibliography. See the next paragraph concerning the submission of bibliographical information.
- Abstracts including Greek characters should utilize a Unicode font. It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that Greek characters appear correctly.
- The author's name should not appear on any copy of the abstract. However the title of the abstract should be in the upper-right-hand corner.
Citations of Literature
For documentation, footnotes should not be used. Incorporate citations into the text of the abstract. In citing bibliography in the text, brief parenthetical references usually suffice, but be sure that these are intelligible. List complete bibliographical citations of the most important works in the separate text box provided, and refer to these in your abstract by author's name and, when necessary, date. Note, however, that the abstract itself may not exceed 650 words. Please Note: Authors may cite relevant work that they have already published, but these citations should be in the same format as any other author's, i.e., in the third person.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
APA MEMBERSHIP
All participants in panels, seminars, workshops and paper sessions at the Annual Meeting are required to be APA members in good standing. If you are not sure whether you have paid your APA dues for the current year, contact the customer service staff at the Johns Hopkins University Press at jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu, 800-548-1784 (US and Canada only), or 410-516-6987 (all others).
ANNUAL MEETING REGISTRATION
All participants in sessions on the program, including nonmembers who have received a waiver of the membership requirement, must register for the Annual Meeting and pay the applicable fees.
SINGLE APPEARANCE POLICY
The Program Committee seeks to encourage wide participation among APA members at the Annual Meeting. The Committee therefore reminds all participants of its long-standing policy of limiting members to one appearance on the Annual Meeting Program. An appearance includes participation as a presenter or respondent in a panel, seminar or workshop, an affiliated group session, an organizer-refereed panel, a session sponsored by an APA committee, or a regular APA paper session. Panel organizers should ensure that participants in their proposed sessions are not appearing elsewhere at the Annual Meeting. The only exception to this policy is that individuals who are members of both the AIA and the APA may appear in both a Joint Session and an APA program unit. Serving as either the presider of an annual meeting panel or the leader of a roundtable discussion group is not treated as an appearance on the APA program.
SINGLE SUBMISSION POLICY
In accordance with the single-appearance policy above, members may submit only one abstract for consideration at any one Program Committee meeting. For example, members may not submit an abstract to both an organizer-refereed panel and an affiliated group panel in February if both sessions will be reviewed by the Program Committee at its April meeting.
Last updated on May 14, 2012.
