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# Preparing a document for submission

with WordPerfect

Abstract

> This document is a demonstration of how papers should be prepared when preparing with WordPerfect. In this document, each section will be formatted in the way that our conversion software expects to see it.

## Section Headings

Should be numbered, and in a VeryLarge font. You may want to make them bold, but that will have no effect in headers.

No blank lines should be left between paragraphs. You may want to turn on display of hard returns by doing Shift-F1 , 2 (Display), 6 (Edit-Screen Options), 4 (Hard Return), Control-V .

Note, that font changes are perfectly acceptable, so long as you use only bold , and italics . Italics will usually be shown, and many printers actually print underlines , but some will recall that this is just a convention that authors used to indicate italics to printers.

Our conversion software will not understand other kinds of font changes, and we depend on you indicating headings with specific size changes.

### Spacing of the document

Although we have shown an empty paragraph before and after a heading, there is no real requirement that you do the same. The heading, once recognized as a heading, will make its own space above and below it. It does look a bit odd while composing though.

### Subsections

Are just fine. In order to indicate the depth of the heading, you should use a smaller font.

In other words, use ExtraLarge for titles, VeryLarge for major headings, Large for the first level of subheadings, onwards through to Small and Fine . This gives you four levels of headings, and a title font, which should be more than sufficient. Number your headings if you like.

### Bibliography

The bibliography should be a heading on its own, with the word Bibliography as its heading. It should be formatted just like you would format any bibliography. Here is our suggest mechanism for formatting:

[Walthers80] Feline disposal methods for radioactive waste , Moron, J. et al, Cat's Quarterly, V. 3 winter, pp. 14-57.

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