APA Paper Submission Guidelines

2007-2008

Guidelines For All Three Divisions

Individual Division Guidelines:

Eastern Division
Pacific Division
Central Division

Address Information for all Paper Submissions

Online Paper Submissions

Anonymous Review: Papers in any area are welcome. All papers are anonymously reviewed. Author's name, institution, or references pertaining to the identity of the author should be omitted from the paper, abstract, notes, and bibliography. Submitted papers are not returned to authors. Papers not accepted by one Division may be re-submitted for consideration to another Division. In submitting papers, authors warrant that those papers are entirely their own work or the joint work of the authors identified in the cover letter, and that, where appropriate, acknowledgement of the contributions of others has been made.

Graduate Student Travel Stipends and Awards: To be considered for a Stipend or Award, papers must be accompanied by a separate cover page indicating that the paper should be considered for a Stipend/Award. Papers to be considered for Stipends/Awards must include a letter from the department chair or graduate advisor verifying that the author of the paper is a student in residence. Stipend letters should be sent to Evonda Acevedo at The American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, 31 Amstel Avenue, Newark, DE 19716. For more information, see www.apa.udel.edu/apa/divisions/stipends.

Postmark Deadlines (prior to meeting):

Eastern Division	February 15
Pacific Division	September 1
Central Division	JUNE 1 --New Deadline

Paper postmark deadlines falling on a weekend or holiday will be extended to the next business day.

Guidelines For All Three Divisions:

*Guidelines 6, 7, 9, and 10 only apply to authors who are submitting papers in hard copy.

1. Authors must be members in good standing of the APA.

2. 1 copy of the paper.

3. 1 copy of the abstract.

4. Colloquium papers are limited to 3,000 words.

5. Abstracts for colloquium papers are limited to 150 words.

*6. Title or cover page, which must include: a) title; b) word counts for all papers and abstracts; c) author's contact information; d) the Division the paper is to be submitted for.

*7. Papers must be typed on one side of page, double spaced, 1 inch margins on all sides, all pages numbered, 10-12 pt. font.

8. No more than one submission by the same author for the same Division will be considered.

*9. Indicate name of Division on outside lower left side of the envelope containing the paper.

*10. Include a self addressed stamped envelope to the National Office if you wish the receipt of your paper to be acknowledged.

11. Any paper which is under consideration for publication elsewhere will be considered, provided that it will not appear in print until after the Divisional meeting is held. If this is the case, indicate when and where the paper is expected to be published.

12. Papers are not accepted by e-mail.

13. Authors are advised to provide accurate email addresses as part of their contact information because they may be contacted by email, sometimes under urgent circumstances. Authors who expect to relocate between the date of submission and the date of the meeting should arrange for email forwarding, or else provide both current and new email addresses with their contact information.

14. No one who is scheduled to appear in an invited session on the Main Program of a meeting may also present a submitted paper as part of that same Main Program. Because of this policy, members who have already agreed to participate in invited sessions on the Main Program of a meeting are asked not to submit papers for that same meeting. Please note that this does not concern sessions organized by APA Committees or by affiliated groups.

EASTERN DIVISION:

Meeting is held December 27-30.

Selections are announced in May or June.

Papers accepted by either the Central Division or the Pacific Division may not be presented at any subsequent meeting of the Eastern Division.

Papers exceeding 3,000 words will not be considered as colloquium papers.

Submissions for consideration as symposium papers must not exceed a length of 5,000 words. Abstracts for symposium papers must not exceed a length of 300 words. Authors should be aware that only a few papers are selected for presentation as symposium papers. If authors wish to have a shortened version of their paper considered as a colloquium paper, they should submit the appropriately shortened version, along with a shortened abstract, simultaneously with the submission of the symposium paper.

Any paper submitted without an abstract will not be considered. Any paper whose abstract is deemed unacceptable by the Program Committee will not be accepted. No revised abstract submitted after the paper's acceptance will be published in the Proceedings and Addresses of The American Philosophical Association without the approval of the Program Committee.

PACIFIC DIVISION:

Meeting is usually held at the end of March.

Selections are announced in January.

A paper that has been on the Main Program at a past APA meeting (any division), or will be on the Main Program at a future Central or Eastern division meeting, cannot be presented as a Main Program colloquium/symposium paper at the Pacific Division meeting.

Submissions for consideration as colloquium papers must not exceed 3,000 words.

CENTRAL DIVISION:

Meeting will now be held in February.

Selections are announced in August or September.

Papers exceeding 3,000 words will not be considered as colloquium papers.

The Central Division will not include a paper on its meeting program if that paper has already been presented or is scheduled for presentation on the Main Program of another APA Divisional meeting.

SUBMISSIONS FOR EASTERN, CENTRAL, AND PACIFIC DIVISIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO:
Evonda Acevedo
ATTN: [Eastern, Pacific or Central] Division Papers
The American Philosophical Association
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
(302) 831-2012

NOTE: Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a copy of their abstract by e-mail to the National Office.