Guidelines for Submitting Papers for VISTAS 2010

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Preparation of Your Paper

• Prepare a paper of 5,000 words or less targeting an issue currently important to the practice of counseling (at any level or in any setting). Pay particular attention to expressing the importance of your topic and how the outcomes of your research, or the program or practice you describe, can be adopted or adapted by other counseling professionals.
• If your paper is based on a conference presentation, under the title of your paper, include a line that states: “Paper based on a program presented at the [year] [association] Conference, [date], [location].”
• Use a straightforward, informative approach that is interesting and grammatically correct.
• Follow APA guidelines for references.
• Diagrams, charts, etc., may be used only if they are an integral part of the file and do not require special software to be opened.
• If your paper is based on a conference presentation, handouts that you will be offering to participants may be included as appendices to your paper.
• At the end of the paper, include a brief bio for each author using the following format:
  [Last name], [First name and Initial], is a [title/position] at [Institution/Organization].
  [Maximum of two sentences describing experience, expertise, and/or research interests].

Important: To be selected for inclusion in the VISTAS 2010 digital publication, your article must contain accurate, substantive, and useful information in addition to meeting the above technical criteria. If your article is accepted, no further editing and only minor formatting will be done before it is accepted for VISTAS 2010. Therefore, it is crucial that you use your best writing skills and do a final proofing of your article before you submit it.

Submission of Your Paper

Email your paper as an MS Word attachment to VISTASOnline@comcast.net.

Your article must be emailed to us by November 16, 2009 (updated) . An email notifying you that your paper has been received will be sent within one week of receipt of your paper.

Notification of the final disposition of your work will be e-mailed in January 2010.

Papers selected for inclusion in VISTAS Online will be copyrighted by ACA. A release form, granting copyright permission to ACA, will be forwarded to authors upon acceptance of their papers. The form must be signed and returned before the article can be included in VISTAS Online. This copyright will not preclude authors from submitting an altered or expanded version of their papers (with a different title) to other potential publishers.

Garry R. Walz, Jeanne C. Bleuer, and Richard K. Yep, Editors

Please direct all VISTAS questions to VISTASOnline@comcast.net. Directing questions to ACA staff will result in a delayed response.