Submission Requirements for the

HUSITA-6 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Charleston, South Carolina

Jo Ann R. Coe and Dick Schoech, Editors

University of South Carolina

University of Texas at Arlington

We are producing a CD-ROM containing the conference proceedings that will be distributed at the conference for those participants paying a registration fee.  We will also put the HUSITA6 Web site, including proposals and presenter/topic index on the CD-ROM.  You may wish to send Jo Ann Coe your HUSITA6 PowerPoint presentation or handouts or any other information relevant to your presentation for the conference CD.  In order for us to provide the conference CD at the conference, we are asking authors to submit presentation information by August 24, 2001. 

All those with proposals accepted for presentation at the conference are eligible to submit papers for the Proceedings that will be published in several journals.  Papers submitted before August 24, 2001 will be placed on the conference CD- ROM and receive first priority for publication in the Proceedings.  Papers submitted via email to Dr. Coe by October 15, 2001 will also be considered for publication in the journals.  All papers published in Proceedings will go through the acceptance policies and processes of the respective journals.

The following information serves as a description of the requirements for each type of information you can submit:

Papers

In previous years, the University of South Carolina College of Social Work Technology Conference papers submitted for the conference proceedings were peer reviewed and some of them were selected for publication in special issues of Journal of Technology for Human Services (formerly Computers in Human Services) and Research on Social Work Practice.  This year we plan to select papers with a common theme to be published in the Journal of Technology for Human Services (http://www2.uta.edu/cussn/jths/default.htm) and New Technology in the Human Services  (http://www.chst.soton.ac.uk/nths/).  Those papers submitted for the conference proceedings will have first preference.  Although we will consider papers up to one month after the conference, you are strongly encouraged to submit to the conference proceedings a paper similar to the publication standards of the above journals.  In order to help you do this, we have developed guidelines with a checklist and a sample (see attached page) to help you with your submission:

Handouts

If you choose to use a presentational software package for your presentation, you may also want to include handouts that accompany your presentation.  If you would like them included in the conference proceedings, please submit them in a format supported by Microsoft PowerPoint Office 2000 version as this is the presentational software used by the conference equipment.  Your handouts will be submitted in the 3 or 6 page handout format depending on the number of slides.

Other Information

You may choose to include other information for your presentation as long as it can be submitted in an electronic format.  Please submit other information in a format supported by Microsoft Office 2000 version for Word, Excel, Access or PowerPoint as this is the software used by the conference proceedings editors.  If you use other software packages, you may send it as an RTF or possibly ASCI text file.  However, you are encouraged to contact the proceedings editors to make sure the information can be viewed.

Contact Information and How to Submit

For more information or questions, you may contact Jo Ann Coe (E-mail: jocoe@sc.edu or Tel: (803) 777-9763; (803) 407-2930 or Dick Schoech at schoech@uta.edu.

Conference Proceedings Information can be submitted in the following manner:

By Mail:         send a diskette containing the information that is labeled with the operating system/software package and version to Jo Ann R. Coe, University of South Carolina, College of Social Work, Columbia, SC 29208.

By E-Mail:      send an e-mail attachment of your proceedings submission to jocoe@sc.edu.   Please indicate on the e-mail which operating system/software package and version the attachment is. 

PLEASE NOTE: 

Due to time and labor constraints, the August 24^th deadline will

be strictly adhered to.  You are strongly encouraged to submit

early so that any submission problems can be resolved early.

We look forward to your submission!

Paper Submission Guidelines Checklist

PLEASE NOTE:   

All papers will be checked according to this checklist upon submission.  Thus, you are encouraged to use the following checklist prior to submission as only those papers strictly adhering to the following guidelines will be published.  IT IS THE AUTHOR'S RESPONSIBILITY TO SEE THAT THE PAPER MEETS THE GUIDELINES.  Papers that do not meet them will not be published.

SAMPLE PAPER

Paper Title in 13 Point Type and Bold (left justified)

 Jo Ann R. Coe

University of South Carolina

Include a 100 word maximum abstract at the beginning.  Indent the abstract 5 spaces on the left and right sides and put in 11 point italics.  Note that there is a double space between the title and the author and the abstract.  For author(s) information, only the university is listed, not the department. 

Start the introduction to the paper here with no heading.  The first paragraph of any section, including the introduction, is not indented.  To reduce confusion, the final format of the introduction should follow this example (font and size is Times New Roman-10 point):

“Distance education” is used to describe those formal teacher-learner arrangements in which the teacher and learner are geographically separated most or all of the time, and the communication between them is through a technology medium such as audiocassette, telephone, radio, television, computers, interactive videodisc and print (Blakely, 1994; Kahl & Cropley, 1986; Verduin & Clark, 1991; Conklin & Osterdorf; 1995).  Distance education is not a new concept but is considered an innovative approach to delivering education services due to the recent technological advances in the area of computers, multimedia and television  (Walsh, 1993).  These advances have provided educators with a wide variety of electronic tools to assist them in creating many more opportunities for institutions of higher education, including social work education, to offer distance education programs.

Schools of social work have increasingly used distance learning to deliver undergraduate, graduate and continuing education credit.  In 1993, a national survey of graduate, undergraduate and combined social work education programs indicated that 27 (11%) of 238 programs were providing curricula through distance education utilizing the audio-visual format (Conklin, Jennings & Siegel, 1993).  In 1996, the study was repeated and 41 (16%) of the 259 respondents indicated they were utilizing distance learning via an audio-visual format.  However, 33% of the schools indicated that they had been providing this education format for less than one year  (Siegel, Conklin, Jennings & Napolitano, 1996).  Because of the increasing number of schools of social work utilizing this type of learning, the Commission on Accreditation of the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) conducted a survey in October 1995 to “determine the usage of distance education technology among social work programs” (p.5).  A total of 126 programs (80 baccalaureate-only, 9 master’s only and 37 combined programs) responded.  Of those programs, one in six (17%, n=22) indicated that they offer all or part of their programs via distance education.   However, the survey noted that 43% indicated a moderate to high probability of offering one year or more of their course work via distance education and that it is master’s and combined programs which are primarily interested in distance education methods of course delivery (Lockhart and Wilson, 1997). 

                Subsequent paragraphs in any section are indented.  Note that after the major heading the first paragraph is not indented.

Major Heading

It is the author’s responsibility to determine the headings based on the content of your presentation.  The editor will make no changes to the content of your paper.  However, the format for your major headings should be left justified and bold with two lines above and one line below the heading to separate it from the text.  Note mixed case with major words capitalized.

                Second Heading Level    The second heading level should be bold and italicized with the major words capitalized.  The paragraph is indented. 

            Third Heading level.  The third heading level should be indented, italicized and major words capitalized.  Within text emphasis should also be added with italics like the first line of the next section. 

Tables and Figures

It is very difficult to specify table formats exactly.  Please follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and use tables and figures from other publications as models.

                Figures should be professional in appearance.  While we realize not everyone has access to graphics software, generally figures should not be drawn free hand.  If this presents a problem, contact the editor. 

References

Remember, do not start a new page for references.  Use APA format (3^rd  or 4^th Edition) but single spaced, no space between references.  Remember to indent according to reference format selected.

Deadlines

Final camera-ready copy must be delivered to the editor no later than August 24, 2001. Since we are in a very tight time schedule, early papers will be appreciated.  Remember that there will be very little time for the editors to request revisions if your paper does not meet the guidelines.  Early receipt of papers is encouraged so any necessary corrections may be requested.