SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR MOUNTAIN PLAINS CONFERENCE

We look forward to your submission to the annual national meeting of the Mountain Plains Management Association. We are making every effort to make this submission process as easy and convenient as possible.

We ask that all submissions be electronic, and that you send them to the Conference Chair at the host institution for dissemination to the appropriate track chairs. The Conference Chair will serve as the clearing house for all submissions, will be responsible for putting together the proceedings of the conference, and will also be responsible for putting together the “Best Paper” awards.

Accordingly, all submissions should be titled <YourName.MountainPlains> and sent as an attachment to the Conference Chair. Please submit <YourName> (last name) followed by your first two initials, just in case we have more than one person with the same last name. Also, for <MountainPlains> please number your submission 1 or 2 etc if you are making more than a single submission. Only use the lead author’s name in your submission heading.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

- Authors should submit manuscripts electronically in MSWord.

- Submissions of full papers should include a title page, a 100 word abstract, and three to five key words or phrases describing the focus of the article.

- For blind review purposes, your identification is withheld from the reviewers.

- Manuscripts should range from 8 to 20 double-spaced pages including tables, references and exhibits, all in 11 point Times Roman font.

- Manuscript and references must be prepared using the style and format rules from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition.

- Name, title, affiliation, cite, state, zip code, telephone and email address for each author needs to be included on the title page. A primary author for communication purposes needs to be identified.

- Any references to the authors in the paper itself must be listed in third person (i.e. “Jones (2004) reports…”) to retain unknown author status.

- Please self select a major category where your paper best “fits” from the following list: Management and HR, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Marketing, Information Systems, or Pedagogy, and include this in your cover note with your submission.