ICBSS 2016 PAPER FORMATTING GUIDELINES

ICBSS 2016 papers must be formatted using the following guidelines:

Formatting Guidelines
*Please Make Sure You Read All Instructions Carefully and meticulously from A through

L.

*Also Please Look at the Sample Paper Before Reformatting.

*Refrain from making any Table, Figure, Chart, Equation etc. that does NOT fit
in a single page within our prescribed margins.
* Try to Refrain from constructing any Landscape (sideways) table. We Prefer all tables to
be of PORTRAIT (upright) kind. We accept Landscape only when you have to.
*Please DO NOT Paginate Your Paper.

A. Margins - Top: 1.00; Bottom: 1.00; Left: 1.00; Right: 1.00.

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Page Size: A4 (Width 8.27, Height

B. Font:

Times New Roman 10 point for the whole text and references. For Abstract, Contents of Tables, and
Endnotes 9 point.

C. Title of the paperTitle must be all caps and centered 16 point bold as for
Example.

PROSPECTS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SUBSISTENCE

ECONOMIES: AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
D. Authors name - Authors name in bold italics should be followed by the name of affiliation and
country as for
Example:
Robert Hayes
Tennessee State University, USA
Patrick Hayes
University of Adelaide, Australia

E. Acknowledgement If you want to add any acknowledgement to your paper, you should put a *
with your name and then, put the text of acknowledgement under the ENDNOTES with the same * above all other
endnotes.
Example:
Robert Hayes*
For text of acknowledgement, see guideline for ENDNOTES below.

F. Abstract - Abstract should consist of about 250 words.

Abstract must be typed in the format below.
Abstract must be 10 pt.
At the end of the abstract, include
JEL Classifications for your paper,
Keywords of the paper,
and Corresponding Authors Email Address:
Example:
ABSTRACT
As exports from regions of developing economies to higher income economies grow, business cycle linkages
between these areas also increase. This study applies a transfer function ARIMA methodology to the analysis of
maquiladora sector employment in a non-border region of Mexico as a means for measuring its international
business cycles linkages to the export market in the United States. Statistically significant payroll responses are
found in response to variations in the exchange rate, domestic wage levels, foreign investment, and United States
industrial production. Simulation testing is also completed as an additional means of model reliability verification.
Because data requirements are not excessive, replication for other developing country markets is feasible.
JEL Classifications: O19, F15, B28
Keywords: Maquiladoras, International Business Cycle Transmission, Applied Econometrics
Corresponding Authors Email Address: jda@tnstate.edu

G. Text - The entire text should be in 10 point Times New Roman in single space.
All tables, charts, and figures must be located in the appropriate places in the text as you would like to see them in
final print.
Headings in 10 point bold all uppercase.
Subheadings 10 point bold all lowercase with the first letter of each word being uppercase.
Sub-subheading: 10 point bold Italics all lowercase with the first letter of each word being uppercase.
Both sides should be justified fully.
The beginning para for all Sections, Sub-Sections, and Sub-Sub-Sections should NOT be indented. All subsequent
paras should be indented.
Example:
HEADING FOR SECTIONS:
BENEFITS OF THE INTERNET AND PROBLEMS OF ITS ACCESS
There are tremendous benefits from having access to information in almost every industry including business,
health, education, sports, recreation, etc. From an economic perspective, Petrazzini & Kibati (1999) argued that the
Internet is being developed in many countries around the world under the premise of interconnecting the resources
of those countries. Information, together with capital and labor, is an essential factor for production. It is a major
contributor to labor productivity. An increase in information content has significantly changed the concept of
production, signifying the importance of timely information flows.
On a social note, during the 2000 Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire, a neighboring country, Zambia was able to
use the Internet to check details about similar cases in the Zambian Copperbelt; and doctors working in rural
hospitals could promptly access medical information on various diseases. However, the underdeveloped regions of
the world continue to face obstacles in accessing the Internet (Petrazzini & Kibati 1999).

HEADING FOR SUB-SECTIONS:

Business Benefits
Firms failing to incorporate new information can be left behind in gaining productivity and competitiveness. ICT
has also significantly changed corporate behavior and organization structure in an effort to increase
productivity (Brynjolfsson & Hitt 2000). The Internet allows big and small companies to easily engage in business
transactions within the country and overseas. On a social note, during the 2000 Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire, a
neighboring country, Zambia was able to use the Internet to check details about similar cases in the Zambian
Copperbelt; and doctors working in rural hospitals could promptly access medical information on various diseases.
However, the underdeveloped regions of the world continue to face obstacles in accessing the Internet (Petrazzini &
Kibati 1999).
Information, together with capital and labor, is an essential factor for production. It is a major contributor to
labor productivity. An increase in information content has significantly changed the concept of production,
signifying the importance of timely information flows.
HEADING FOR SUB-SUB-SECTIONS:
Benefits for E-Business and E-Commerce
Today, 96 percent of Internet host computers reside in the highest income nations with only 16 per cent of the
worlds population. For instance, there are more Internet hosts in Finland than the whole of Latin America and the
Caribbean, more in New York City than on the entire continent of Africa (UNDP 2000). This inequality (often
referred to as the digital divide) in development among countries is growing and has greatly concerned many
researchers including the United Nation (UN) about the imbalance of access to Internet facilities; and it raises
questions about the perspective of e-commerce in these regions.
Information, together with capital and labor, is an essential factor for production. It is a major contributor to
labor productivity. An increase in information content has significantly changed the concept of production,
signifying the importance of timely information flows.

H. Tables - Table Titles must be part of the TEXT so that I can edit it. If you include it in the imported image,
then I will not be able to edit it to maintain consistency with the rest. Title must Bold, 10 pt, all caps and centered.
Please spell out the word Table and put a period after the number.
Tables should not have no lines to separate the columns and rows
Sources and notes must be 9 pt. There should be a colon after the words Sources (Sources:)
And Notes (Notes:). Sources and notes must have a period at the end of the sentence. Please
align the sources and notes with the table. Italicize the Note contents.
Please make every effort to fit the whole table in one page. In order to do so, you may further reduce the
font size to lower than 9 point up to 7 point. Even then if you cannot fit it in one page, then you may extend it to
more than one pages. If a table is too wide, change the page format into Landscape (Sideways). Also please make
sure it stays within our prescribed margins.
Example:
TABLE 4. COMPARISON OF PER CAPITA INCOME INCREASE
Member
Men
Women
BRAC
352.20
308.23
387.0
Proshika
493.73
402.08
509.2
SB
674.3
789.02
448.30
GB
623.50
639.14
736.63
BRDB
200.00
277.85
365.67
Source: M. Hossain, Rural Development Study.
Notes: Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC).

I. Figures

- Figure titles must be a part of the TEXT so that I can edit it. If you include it in the imported
image, then I will not be able to edit it to maintain consistency with the rest. Figure Title must be Bold, 10 pt, all
caps, and centered. Please spell out the word Figure and put a period after the number.
Figures must be 9 pt
Sources and Notes must be 9 pt. There should be a colon after the words Sources (Sources :) and
Notes (Notes:). Sources and notes must have a period at the end of the sentence. Please align the
sources and notes with the figure. Italicize the Note contents.
Please reduce the size of the paper appropriately to fit within our page margins.
FIGURE 1. THE NUMBER OF BOYS VERSUS GIRLS

Number

50
40
30

Boys

20

Girls

10
0
1

Classes
Source: Computed from GSO
Note: The data are from the Education Department.

J. Equations - Please remember that the font size of all equations must be 10 point as well.
Example:
Following Bayoumi and Eichengreen (1992) this study uses a four-variable Structural VAR (SVAR) model to obtain
the underlying shocks of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries.
Economic variables of the SAARC countries can be explained using a Moving Average (MA) representation as:
=

(1)

In matrix form it is,

(2)
where i 1, 2,..., N ; K, the lag order, is the same for all cross sections of the panel and the panel is balanced; the
autoregressive parameters i and the regression coefficients slopes i are constant over time but differ across the
(k )

(k )

cross-section units of the panel and the model is a fixed coefficients model with fixed individual effects.

K. Endnotes - Endnotes should always come before the References.

The heading Endnotes should be in all caps, bold, and 10 pt.
The superscripts for the endnotes should always be Arabic numbers (i.e. 1, 2, 3)

ENDNOTES
* Text of acknowledgement, if any.
1
For more on the relation between official exchange rate and the black market rate see Bahmani-Oskooee et. al (2002).
2
As an additional exercise we thought of including additional variables such as rate of change of GDP, rate of change of
population, a measure of openness, and a measure of education. While there was no significant change in the reported results in
Table 1, most of the additional variables did not carry significant coefficients.

L. References---References should be the last section in your document.

The heading References should be in all caps, bold, and 10 pt.
References shall adhere to that of the Harvard style.
Examples:
Book with 1 Author:
Holt, DH 1997, Management principles and practices, Prentice Hall, Sydney.
Book with 2 or 3 Authors:
McCarthy, EJ, Willam, DP, and Pascale, GQ, 1997 Basic marketing, Irwin, New York.
Book Chapter:
Milkman, R 1998, 'The new American workplace: high road or low road?' in Workplaces of the future, eds P Thompson & C
Warhurst, Macmillan Press, London, pp. 22-34.
Journal Article-Print:
Conley, TG & Galeson, DW 1998, 'Nativity and wealth in mid-nineteenth century cities, Journal of Economic History, vol. 58,
no. 2, pp. 468-493.
Journal Article (Electronic Database):
Liveris, A 2011, 'Ethics as a strategy', Leadership Excellence, vol. 28, no. 2, pp.17-18. Available from: ProQuest. [23 June 2011].
Journal Article CMO:
Jennings, P 1997, 'The performance and competitive advantage of small firms: a management perspective', International Small
Business Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 63-75. Available from: The University of Western Australia Library Course Materials
Online. [1 September 2004].
Internet/Website:
Improve indigenous housing now, government told, 2007. Available from: <http://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms?page=10220>.
[8
February
2009].
For
more
details,
please
see:
http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east1.amazonaws.com/docs/380/49275/141024_Harvard_citation_style_-_All_examples_table.pdf
Conference Proceeding (Print):
Riley, D 1992, 'Industrial relations in Australian education', in Contemporary Australasian industrial relations: proceedings of the
sixth AIRAANZ conference, ed. D Blackmur, AIRAANZ, Sydney, pp. 124-140.
Conference Proceeding (Online):
Fan, W, Gordon, MD & Pathak, R 2000, 'Personalization of search engine services for effective retrieval and knowledge
management', Proceedings of the twenty-first international conference on information systems, pp. 20-34. Available from: ACM
Portal: ACM Digital Library. [24 June 2004].
Thesis Unpublished:
Hos, JP 2005, Mechanochemically synthesized nanomaterials for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell membranes.
Ph.D. thesis, University of Western Australia.
Newspaper (Print):
Ionesco, J 2001, 'Federal election: new Chip in politics', The Advertiser 23 October, p. 10.