Liberty and Justice: America and the Middle East

Guidelines for Submitting Papers for the Proceedings Volume

All conference presenters are encouraged to submit their manuscripts for possible inclusion in the proceedings volume. All registrants will receive a copy of the volume. Although the papers will not be sent out to external reviewers, the volume will be internally reviewed. Session chairs have been asked to comment on papers in their own sessions; then the CASAR Executive Committee and a special Publication Committee will review and select papers for inclusion.

Please submit your manuscripts by 14 March 2008 to casar@aub.edu.lb as an email attachment in the form of a Microsoft Word document (that can be accessed using Microsoft XP). The manuscripts are limited to fifteen pages (double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman) inclusive of endnotes, bibliography and illustrations. Please find below a sample of the manuscript format:

For referencing procedures and other stylistic issues, please follow the Chicago Manual of Style using the endnotes method.  Please refer to the examples below for citing articles, books and other material. The following examples are copied from the Chicago Manual of Style (p.596):

Citations of books, articles, and other materials in endnotes include the following elements: author (or editor or complier standing in place of author), title (and usually subtitle), and date of publication. For books, the place and publisher are also given; for articles, the journal name, volume number, year of publication, page number (s), and, often, the issue number. For other printed sources - electronic works or audiovisual material, for example - the medium is indicated. For online works, retrieval information and sometimes the date of access are included. Certain elements are omitted in shortened citations.

When referring to the same citation more than once, please include all elements when citing the first time (as in examples 1-3 below), and then use the basic short form afterwards. The most common short form consists of the last name of the author and the main title of the work cited, usually shortened if more than four words, as in examples 4-6 below. 

Examples:

1. Samuel A. Morley, Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: The Impact of Adjustment and Recovery (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1995), 24-25.
2. Regina M. Schwartz, "Nationals and Nationalism: Adultery in the House of David," Critical Inquiry 19, no. 1 (1992): 131-32.
3. Ernest Kaiser, "The Literature of Harlem," in Harlem: A Community in Transition, ed.
    J. H. Clarke (New York: Citadel Press, 1964).
4. Morely, Poverty and Inequality, 43.
5. Schwartz, "Nationals and Nationalism," 138.
6. Kaiser, "Literature of Harlem," 189, 140.

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