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Submission Guidelines

  1. All readers will better understand your message through simple explanations and less complex sentences. Shorter sentences and paragraphs are best suited to electronic publications. Refer to the Writing Tips section for further information on creating concise text for a diverse international audience.
  2. Use consistency in style and format. The specified guidelines for style as well as abstract, citation, reference, and submission formats create a smoother editorial process for World Libraries staff members. Consistency in these elements also minimizes readers’ confusion about the treatment of various elements. (Refer to Style Guidelines and Reference Format for further information.)
  3. The entire document should be accurately typed and double-spaced. All pages should be numbered, starting with the title page. Use only a basic, widely available font like Courier or Times New Roman, 12 point. Do not justify or break words at the right margin.
  4. Each manuscript should contain the following elements:
    • A title
    • An abstract
    • Names of authors and institution affiliations (include e-mail addresses)
    • Brief biographical statement identified with the heading “About the Author”
    • Clearly labeled contents that include an introduction, discussion, and conclusion
    • Internal citations
    • Acknowledgments
    • Notes (if any)
    • References
  5. Submit one complete copy of your manuscript as an e-mail attachment to worldlib@dom.edu We accept Microsoft Word, HTML, PDF, or plain text formats. If submitting your manuscript as a PDF file,; send another copy of the manuscript as plain or ASCII text with all of the figures attached as separate, clearly labeled .GIF or .JPG files. If submitting your manuscript in HTML format, please keep the code as simple as possible. Or you may mail a hard copy or digital version to:
    World Libraries
    Dominican University
    Graduate School of Library and Information Science
    7900 West Division Street
    River Forest, Illinois 60305
  6. Material of any length will be considered. In certain cases, articles may be edited into "research summaries" or divided into parts over more than one issue. This will be done only with the author’s permission, however.
  7. Material submitted should not have been previously published in this form, nor should it be under consideration for publication elsewhere, unless by specific agreement with the editor of World Libraries. If the material has been previously published in some other form (as a conference paper, for example), that information should be specified after the title on the first page.
  8. Unsolicited book reviews will not be accepted. Book reviews are initiated directly by the Editor, who asks a specific person to review a particular book.
  9. Place the title of the paper at the top of the first page of the manuscript. Follow the title by the full name of all authors, their professional titles or positions, institutional affiliations, and e-mail addresses. If one author should function as the point of contact for questions or comments, please indicate this with the phrase "direct comments to" followed by the author’s e-mail address.

    Do not include the author(s) name anywhere else in the document, except the title page. This way, anonymity can be maintained when your manuscript is reviewed by our staff.

    Title and author information should appear on the first page as follows:

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  10. Illustrations, figures, and tables should be included as separate .GIF or .JPG files, named simply as figure1.gif, figure2.gif, etc. They should be embedded in their proper place in the document with captions or marked in the manuscript in this fashion: Insert figure1.gif here, caption. Additional data, illustrations, commentary, and complicated or long tables should be placed in consecutively numbered appendices at the end of the manuscript.
  11. Notes in the manuscript should be consecutively numbered, and collected at the end of the paper after the conclusion and before the References section.

Abstracts

All papers submitted to World Libraries for consideration must include an abstract, or a brief summary of a paper’s fundamental findings and conclusions. A well–written abstract will pique the interest of readers by succinctly presenting that facts and ideas that build a paper. Follow these guidelines: