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ScholarlyCommons Submission Instructions

Title

Title is a single line text field that displays the title of the article, book chapter, report, working paper, or other type of work. 

Screenshot of title search

Enter the full title of your paper using Headline Style Capitalization:

  • Capitalize the first word of the title (and subtitle), as well as every “major” word (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns) in the title/subtitle, including the second part of hyphenated major words (e.g., Self-Report not Self-report).
  • All words of four letters or more are capitalized.

If you have words in bold, italics, Superscript, Subscript, or special characters (e.g., ä, é, β, ñ, etc.), you will need to format them using HTML tags. Please see this HTML special characters page for more information.

Book Reviews

Please use the following format for your title, inputting your own data in the bracketed areas:

  • Review of [Author Firstname and Lastname], <em>[Title of book being reviewed]</em>
    • Example:  Review of Richard Marius, <em>After the War</em>
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