Paper Competition Guidelines Please carefully review the following instructions for paper submissions. Papers not strictly adhering to the stated guidelines will be excluded from the prize competition. Carefully review the following guidelines for submissions into the WTAMU Student Research Conference paper competition for cash awards. Papers not strictly adhering to the stated guidelines will be excluded from the cash award competition. Format: Double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-pt font, 1-inch margins
Length limitations: 12 pages maximum (including notes, graphs and images). The 12 pages do NOT include the title page, abstract or bibliographic materials.
Title page: The title page shall contain ONLY the title of the paper, name of author and author's email address. No personal identifiers should appear on any other page.
Bibliography/Reference: Citation format should be consistent, and appropriate to the writer’s discipline.
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APA
MLA Papers to be included in the Student Research Conference paper competition require 3 steps: - the paper's abstract must be submitted through the conference website indicating that the submission is for the paper competition as well as the oral presentation portions of the conference.
- the paper must be submitted as a word document attachment via email to Dr. Pamela Lockwood at plockwood@wtamu.edu. You can expect to receive a confirmation of receipt within 24 hours.
- the author must present the submitted paper at the conference on Friday, April 13, 2012
The submission deadline for completed papers is Friday, March 30, 2012. Cash Prize Awards: 1st place undergraduate and graduate - $500 2nd place undergraduate and graduate - $300 3rd place undergraduate and graduate - $200 | 
