Moderator Guidelines

Formatting Guidelines - Microsoft Word (Suplemental Information / Curriculum Vitae)

Please make sure your material has been edited, proofed and is complete with all graphics already embedded in the document or presentation. We cannot edit your material.

We can receive documents and presentations created with Word XP and earlier

  • Paper Size - 8.5 x 11 inches
  • Margins - Make sure your margins are not outside of the printable area. Do a test print to make sure your document looks correct. Watch for orphan headings and shifting of text and images.
  • Cover Page - Create a cover page for your presentation with the title, author(s) and pertinent information including any copyright statements.
  • Inserted Images - Place your images in the appropriate places instead of leaving a placement marker (i.e. insert fig. 1 here). This will insure that your document looks correct. We cannot take responsibility for placement of your images.
  • If it won't fit - If you have large landscape tables, graphs, or images that will not fit within the document, append them to the end of your document and add annotations in the document instead.
  • Excel spreadsheets - Spreadsheets can be appended to the end of a document as separate pages. We will not edit your document by adding references to the spreadsheets. Later versions of Word allow the user to insert spreadsheets directly into the document.
  • Fonts - Use common fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, or Helvetica. This will alleviate any font problems on other computers.
  • Creating Hyperlinks - When adding Internet hyperlinks to your Word document, please make sure you use the hyperlink tool to create the links, as opposed to just coloring them blue and underlining. This allows the links to be maintained in the document during conversion to the PDF format. Please check to make sure the conversion process into MS Word formats your paper properly.