GUIDELINES AND STYLE GUIDE     FOR SUBMITTING ARTICLES        (Note:  Further publication is contingent on additional funding)

                

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 Author’s Identification 

• Name, Job Title, Academic Credentials if desired
• Organization
• Website (if applicable) and email address, both in italics
• Contact phone number

 

Punctuation, Spacing, etc. 

• Put 2 spaces after a period, question mark, or exclamation point at the end of a sentence.
• In a list of three or more items, add a serial comma before the “and” or “but.”
• Put all end punctuation inside the quotation marks.  (e.g., I said, “hello.”)
• Separate phone numbers with decimal points (e.g., 860.486.6844)
• Single space the article

 

Word Guide

 

• afterschool (one word)
• bilingual (no hyphen)
• child care (2 words)
• words such as mid-August, home-based care should be hyphenated
• make believe (2 words)
• point of view (no hyphen)
• school-age
• child day care

 

Source Citations (alphabetically by author’s last name or first word of website)

 

Website

American Academy of Pediatrics (http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/autism.cfm), “Caring for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders:  Resource Toolkit for Clinicians,” 11-11-09.

 

Book

Ginott, Haim G, Dr.  Between Parent and Child.  New York:  Three Rivers Press, 1965.

Article

Green, Stephen.  “Reaching Out to Fathers: An Examination of Staff Efforts That Lead to Greater Father Involvement in Early Childhood Programs.”  Early Childhood Research and Practice, Vol. 5 No. 2 (Fall 2003).

 

References 

• Dictionary/Thesaurus, etc.  http://dictionary.reference.com/

                                                                                                                                (Revised  11-16-09)