The John and Janice Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology
Article Layout Guidelines

ARTICLE DRAFT LAYOUT

Each draft of the team article needs to now include:

  1. A cover page that contains your team name, the topic title and a list of team members;
  2. The article draft itself with the topics presented in the order that your team perceives it would be presented in the article;
  3. Added comments that provide citation information for reviewers; and
  4. Pages that are numbered, with each page containing line numbers so that reviewers can directly reference page and line numbers in the comments section of their review.

CITING REFERENCE SOURCES BY INSERTING COMMENTS

Instead of referencing your information using an APA format, the project will use a similar but more abbreviated referencing style. This will enable reviewers to track down and note information sources during the review process, but permit a finished copy of the article to be quickly developed without too much extra editing out of text. To add a citation to your document narrative, using ‘Comments' feature in MS Word, follow these steps:

  1. Place the screen cursor at the point in the text where you wish to have your reference citation noted.
  2. Click on the Insert menu option at the top of the screen and select the Comments option from the list provided.
  3. A colored box now appears at the side of your document in which you can now type in the reference.
  4. Make sure you include your initials, the first author's last name, and the year of publication in your reference information. Reviewers can then go to your bibliography to find the full reference and then to the filing cabinet to check any information source concerns they may have.