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NADCA has adopted the following grammatical rules and preferred usages to provide uniformity of style throughout all publications that are written by a diversity of contributing authors. 1. GRAMMAR AND USAGE Standard American English language usage is appropriate for written text of any paper submitted for publication by the Association and when there is a question of dialect, foreign spelling, syntax or word meaning.2. THIRD PERSON All papers should be written in the third person narrative form in most cases. For example, use "he" not "I" and "they" not "we."3. PAST TENSE Technical papers are written in past tense for the purpose of style and ease of reading as well as formality.4. PARAGRAPHS Paragraphs should contain a complete thought within a larger structure. Each paragraph is set apart by a distinct thesis sentence with supporting statements that either precedes or follows the sentence. Paragraph length is determined by the number of supporting sentences used to clarify the topic in a concise progression of thought. 5. SUBHEADS The use of subheads within a paper serves to highlight major points while adding a firm structure to the text, and makes the paper more inviting to the reader's eye.6. REFERENCES When quoting or making reference to other published materials, a number corresponding to the bibliographical listing at the end of the paper should appear in superscript next to the cited source in the text. If quoting unpublished material, credit is given parenthetically in the body of the paper. Format for bibliographies are as follows: Schmeiser, David A. (1988). The Native Offender and the Law. Ottawa: Law ReformCommission of Canada. Turk, A.T. (1996) "Law, Conflict and Order: From Theorizing Toward Theories."Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 23(3) 282-294. The entries have the following elements: author(s); year of publication; title; and source (i.e., publisher and place of publication in the case of books and reports only). Book titles are underlined; titles of articles are enclosed with double quotation marks; journal titles are underlined. The journal title is followed by the volume number, then the number within the volume (or the month or season, depending upon the journal's style), and then the page numbers.Citing Internet Sources: The following information is from: Ivey, K. C., "Citing Internet Sources"; Department of Psychology. S.F.U. Handout, Psychology Research Reports; and Copyright 1996, The Editorial Eye eye@eei-alex.com Published by EEI, 66 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 200, Alexandria, Virginia 22314-5507, USANumbers Except for dimensions, numbers from one (1) to nine (9) that appear within the text of papers are to be spelled. Double digits appear numerically written thereafter. No comma is used between digits until five or more numbers appear together. Example: 2000, 35,000, 124,300. Numbers of rounded value containing many zeros are written as follows: $10 million, $25 billion, $49 trillion. A decimal point is used to indicate fractional numbers. If less than one, a zero must appear in front of the decimal. For example: 0.038 g, 0.2 mm, 0.5 L. When using an abbreviation after a number to which it refers, a space must appear between the number and the abbreviation. For example: 11 cm, 20 oz.
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