General Instructions

The Conference Proceedings will be produced directly from the electronic versions of texts submitted by authors. Please therefore follow our instructions carefully, and do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions. Your text should be laid out in the same way as these notes, in terms of style, titles, spaces, etc.

Submissions

Full paper submission: July 3, 2007

All papers will be presented orally at the conference. English is the official language of the conference. The BC Health Authorities Conference considers that all papers are the property (copyright) of the submitting author(s) and that copyright will be transferred to the BC Health Authorities Conference if the paper is accepted.

Text Format

Preparing your text
The text (maximum of 4 pages) must be emailed as an attachment to info@bchealthauthoritiesconference.com in electronic form (PDF file with all fonts embedded). Please give your file a unique name; including your name and identification number (the identification number will be included in the notification of acceptance).

The text should be fully justified, and the Abstract should be surrounded by horizontal rules.

• The first page should contain the following information, in the order shown:
      1. The title of the text,
      2. The authors’ names and affiliations
      3. The abstract should be 75-200 words long, summarizing
          the work and placing it in an appropriate context.
          Five key words on the following line
• The text should be laid out to fit on 8½ x 11” paper (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm), portrait style.
• Margins of 3.5 cm should be left at the top, bottom, left and right.
• The entire text, including titles, must be flush with the left-hand margin, except for the authors’ names and affiliations, which must be centred.
• Texts must be single-spaced and presented in 10-point Helvetica or Arial.
• Do not use headers, footers, or page numbers

Titles and subtitles

• Type the title of the text in bold upper-case letters.
• Type section titles in bold upper-case letters and subtitles in bold lower-case letters.
• Titles must be flush with the left-hand margin.
• Sections should not be numbered.
• Leave a blank line under each section title.

Authors

The author’s names should be centered and bolded with first name followed by initial and then by surname. The affiliation should appear on the following line, also centered. Include the address for the first author only.

Figures and tables
Figures and tables must be of good quality. Photographs should be digitized at a maximum of 200 dpi. Insert figures, tables and photos in the appropriate places in the body of the text. Excel tables should be converted to Word format for insertion. Numbering (in Arabic figures) should appear below figures and photos, but above tables.

If you are using photos from a digital camera, please remember to use a photo editing program to reduce the image sizes. When you insert a digital photo into WORD and use the “handles” to decrease the image sizes, this does not change the actual file size of the photo and will make the overall file size of your paper extremely large. You must first reduce the image size and then insert it into the document.

Acknowledgements

Place any acknowledgements after the main text and before the references. The heading for Acknowledgements, Appendix and References should be treated as main headings, except that they should not be numbered.

References

References to cited works should be presented in alphabetical order (see sample list below). In the text, references should be included in brackets with the date e.g. (Marras et al., 2002).

Frank, J.W., Brooker, A.S., Kerr, M.S., Shannon, H.S., & Cole, D.C. (1995). Limitations on the use of attributable risk estimates for deciding workplace attribution of occupational health outcomes. Proceedings of PRIMUSL: Second International Conference on Prevention of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders. Montréal, 43-45.

Frederickson, B.L. (2000, March 7). Cultivating positive emotions to optimize health and well-being. Prevention & Treatment, 3, Article 0001a. Retrieved November 20, 2000, from http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/pre00030001a.html

Mitchel, T.R., & Larson, J.R., Jr. (1987). People in organizations: An introduction to organizational behaviour (3rd. ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Teiger, C., & Montreuil, S. (1996). The foundations and contributions of ergonomic work analysis in training programs. Safety Science, 23(2/3), 81-95.