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GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION OF PAPERS FOR PUBLICATION IN THE 2008 NEW ZEALAND ORGANISATION FOR QUALITY LEARN-SHARE-GROW CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Papers will be accepted for publication in the Proceedings on the basis that they have not been presented or published elsewhere. New Zealand Organisation for Quality Conference Programme Committee reserves the right to make grammatical and formatting changes to assist in publication. All papers will be reviewed prior to publication in the Proceedings.
The editors of the proceedings will only accept papers through electronic submission, and all papers to be submitted by 22nd August 2008 to ensure publication. Papers must be written in Microsoft Word and any tables or figures attached in the paper as well as in a separate JPEG file. Below is a list of formatting requirements. If you have any queries then please do not hesitate to contact Carol Johnson, email membership@nzoq.org.nz
PAGE SETUP
- All spelling to be in English (no American spelling unless stated as a Reference)
- All margins are 2.5cm (NO EXCEPTIONS)
- Font - 'Arial' throughout, size 12
- Ensure there are no paragraph indents throughout the document
- No page numbering on the document
- A four page limit
TITLE
- The TITLE is bold, capital case and centred to the page
- Authors should be two spaces down from the title (preceded by initials) and centred, unbolded and in sentence case. Multiple authors from various addresses should be superscripted numbers (1,2,...), if there is a single author no numbering is required
- Ensure that no author names are underlined
- Address of author is one space down from the author in the order of Organisation, City, Post Code, and Country. Justified left to right, unbolded and in sentence case. Ensure there are no PO Box numbers, street numbers and names.
- Now leave one space between the authors address and the text
TEXT
- Text should be justified left to right
- SECTIONS TITLES should be bold, capital, left justified
- Subsection titles should be italics and a sentence case, left justified
- Second subsection titles should be underlined and sentence case, left justified
FIGURES AND TABLES
- Ensure that all figures and tables fit within the page margins
- The proceedings is published in black and white, so ensure all pictures, graphs and tables are NOT in any colour formatting. Please change any coloured pictures to black and white or grayscale by clicking on the picture and selecting grayscale in the "Image control" section
- The figure number should be bold and the title unbolded and presented underneath the Figure as below:
Figure 1. Title of figure.
- Ensure the figure is pasted within the document by copying or cutting the picture and Pasting it in the Word document as a picture (deselect 'float over text'), as this can affect the placement of text or figures within the document.
- Refer to the figure number in the text as Figure 1, not as Fig. 1.
- The Figure number should be bold and the title unbolded and presented above the Figure as below in the example paper.
- As well as pasted into the word Document, each figure also needs to be attached as well as the Word Document file as a separate JPEG file.
Table 1. Title of table.
- Ensure the table is created in the document in Word format, do not paste a table as a picture or figure as it can cause major formatting problems.
- Refer to the table number in the text as Table 1.
- The font-types used for all Figures and Tables must be in Times New Roman.
- Centre the presented Figures and Tables to the centre of the page margins.
REFERENCES
- Ensure that the reference in the text is as 'Joss et al (2002)' or '(Joss et al 2002)'
- The references should be listed alphabetically, under REFERENCES title
- The reference should be in the form of:
Journal
Author Last Name, Initial. (YEAR) Abbrev. Journal Name, Volume No: page numbers
eg:
Baines, H and Stewart, T. (2008) J Qual. Man. 253:95-9
Conference Paper
Author Last Name, Initial. (YEAR) Abbrev. Conf Proceedings Number and Title, page numbers.
eg:
Coburn, M., Coburn, L., and Porter, D (2005) Sustainability in Canterbury 2001. Proc. 51st New Zealand Sustainability Conf., 59-61.
Approved Method
Testing Association/Manual. (YEAR) Method Number.
eg:
New Zealand Association of Quality Scientists, Approved Methods, 10th Edition. (2003) Approved method 44-15A
Monograph
Author Last Name, Initial. (YEAR) Title. Text Name. Place of Publication. Pages. 9 - 11
eg:
Hopely, J. (1994) Suburban Economies and Public Policy. Wellington: St. Mark's Press 125-136
Book Chapter
Author Last Name, Initial. (YEAR) Section Title. Text Authors (eds.) Text Name, Place of Publication. Pages.
eg:
Kingsley, P.N. (2004) From Quality to Innovation. Connor, G. & Peters, S.C.E. (eds.) Managing ISO 9001, Geraldine: Mark Dennis Inc. 13-25.
Report
Author Last name, Initial. (YEAR) Report title. Place of Publication.
eg:
David, R.A. (1991) DCBC memo 122. Review of recent developments in quality management. Columbine, OH: Baxter Memorial Institute, Quality Information Centre.
Thesis
Author Last Name, Initial. (YEAR) Title. Place of Publication. PhD thesis.
eg:
Corncob, R.C. (2001) The study of quality systems in the energy sector. Christchurch: University of Canterbury. PhD thesis.
- Please do not include any titles of journal and conference papers, as the journal Title, volume number and page number is adequate information.
- No spaces are required between the references.
EXAMPLE HEADING FOLLOWS:
IDENTIFICATION OF SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITIES AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS
L.B. Coburn 1,2, I. Cantu 1,2,3, C.W. Spearment 2,4 and P.J. Blunt 2,5
1 New Zealand Organisation for Quality, Palmerston North 6666, New Zealand
2 Value Added Systems Ltd, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand
3 Faculty of Quality Systems, University of Improvement, Christchurch 8099, NZ
4 Quality Science New Zealand, Gore 5555, New Zealand
5 Innovation Breeding Institute, University of Risk Management, Auckland 1111, NZ