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Report on Publications Submission Guidelines

The purpose of the Report is to illustrate the contributions that the faculty and academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire have made during the academic year as indicated by their scholarly publications, creative achievements, faculty/student research collaborations, and extramural grant awards.

General Instructions

  • Do not use abbreviations.
  • For co-authors, please indicate their proper order as well as their affiliation.
  • If a co-author is an alumnus, please be sure to note this fact as well as the present affiliation.
  • Provide COMPLETE bibliographical information.
  • Do not include items that were completed/ published after May 1. They should be submitted for the next year's Report.

Items for Submission

Within the bounds of editorial discretion, the following employment-related publications and creative achievements of professional relevance and importance that meet recognized standards in their professional fields will be catalogued:

  1. Articles/essays/abstracts editorially reviewed and published in scholarly journals or in the proceedings of professionally-recognized organizations.
  2. Books or essays/chapters in books that have been editorially reviewed and published.
  3. Fiction (e.g. poetry or prose) and translations that have been editorially reviewed and published in scholarly journals or in books.
  4. Musical compositions that have been performed in a full recital/concert or in a significant stage production and/or editorially reviewed and published.
  5. Pamphlets, booklets, monographs, and substantive/final reports written for institutions or agencies. They must show the applicant's name, and they must have been editorially reviewed, published, and library-circulated.
  6. Photographs, slides, and artwork in a published work that has been editorially reviewed.
  7. Reviews of published works, creative achievements, and non-print media editorially examined and published in scholarly journals/books.
  8. Creative events in the arts, e.g. adjudications, exhibitions, full recitals, full stage productions, significant solo and concert performances.
  9. Non-print scholarly media, e.g. computer software, film/filmstrips, sound recordings, video programs, etc., that is publicly available with either for-profit or nonprofit distribution.
  10. Faculty/student research and creative collaborations that have resulted in a tangible product, such as a paper, a poster, a non-print media form, a musical composition, a performance, a new chemical compound, etc. This category includes independent studies mentored with undergraduate and graduate students, directed studies, internships, and any class projects that involve student collaboration (not required class assignment) directly with faculty/academic staff.  

Items Submitted for You

The following items will be automatically submitted for you. Do not submit:

  • UW-Eau Claire Student Research Day presentations
  • UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity presentations
  • National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) presentations
  • Posters in the Rotunda
  • Faculty/Student Research Collaboration awards funded through the Office of Research
  • Extramural grant awards

However, if a student research collaboration resulted from another internal or extramural grant, include that collaboration.

Items Not Eligible for Submission

The Editorial Advisory Board reserves the right to exclude entries that do not appear to be of scholarly or professional nature and that do not appear to have been editorially reviewed. Do not submit:

  • Testimonies before legislative bodies
  • Someone else's work of which you are the subject
  • Correspondence courses
  • Course syllabi
  • Graduate student theses
  • Course handouts
  • Secondary and similar outreach endeavors
  • Conference presentations with no published abstract
  • Adjudications, clinics, exhibitions, performances, or productions that are primarily public service events rather than scholarly achievements
  • Feature stories in newspapers and magazine articles may be submitted only if they have a byline, if they are employment-related and of professional relevance and importance, and if they meet the standards in their professional fields.

Submission Instructions

Please simply email your citations – preferably in a Word document – to our graduate assistant, Emily Elsner Twesme (elsnerea@uwec.edu) with Subject line “ROP.”  This upcoming edition of the Report will cover publications and achievements between May 1, 2007 and April 30, 2008. You may also submit eligible items that were not submitted to last year’s Report. Submit your entries to Emily (see instructions below) as soon as is convenient for you, preferably by the beginning of August. 

Please include the following citation information for each of your publication entries (please see sample citations below).

  • Title of Work
  • Author(s) – for each co-author please indicate one of the following:
    • Students: indicate undergraduate or graduate student
    • UW-Eau Claire employees: indicate their department or unit
    • Non-UWEC co-authors: indicate their institutional affiliation
  • Publication Information: name of scholarly journal OR book publisher’s company name/city
  • For items published in conference proceedings please also include the conference title, location, and date (month/year).
  • Publication date
  • Page Number(s) for articles, chapters, abstracts, etc.

Sample Citations

Some samples of the format we are using are shown below.  Bold means UW-Eau Claire affiliation, bold and italics are undergraduate students, and bold and underlined are graduate students.  We would appreciate it if you can take the time to convert your citations to this format.

Book:

  • The Family Context of Childhood Delinquency. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2006. Justin Patchin.

Journal article:

  • Review of How the Indians Lost their Land, by Stuart Banner. American Indian Culture & Research Journal 30.2 (2006): 160-162. James Oberly.
  • How Reliable Are the Different Website Rankings? Implications For E-business Advertising and Information Search on the Internet. Issues in Information Systems VII.2 (2006): 233-238. Bruce Lo and R. S. Sedhain.

Journal article published online:

Published conference abstract:

  • GPR Imaging of the Subsurface in 3D: Examples from a Coastal Sites (USA) and an Archaeological Site (Israel). Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 2006. Abstract published on CD-ROM: 38(7): 60. S.K. Neuman, Harry M. Jol, C.D. Peterson, Portland State University, J. Bode, and M. Fischer, Tel Aviv University.

Essay or article within a book:

  • Chromium Compounds Without CO and/or Isocyanides. Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III. London: Elsevier, 2006. 291-390. Ed. Robert H. Crabtree and D. Michael P. Mingos. Michael Carney.

Collaborative performance

  • Pavane for a Dead Princess/Faure, arr. Wrobleski, Sonata for Tuba and Piano/T.R. George, Six Studies in English Folksong/R. Vaughan-Williams, arr. Wagner, Summertime/G.Gershwin, Georgia on My Mind/Hoagy Carmichael, Doxy/Sonny Rollins. Gantner Concert Hall, UW-Eau Claire, 22 October 2006. Jerry A. Young, Barbara G. Young, Robert Baca, Phillip Ostrander, Jeff Crowell, and Brian Plank. 

We appreciate your assistance in documenting your articles, books, research reports, student research collaborations, and other scholarly and creative achievements. Please either email either Emily Elsner Twesme (elsnerea@uwec.edu) or Karen Havholm (havholkg@uwec.edu) OR call 36-3405 if you have questions.

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