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for the correct indentation. You do not need to set
quotation marks around the block. [1] I. Thompson, “Women and feminism in technical
communication,” J. Bus. Tech. Commun., vol. 13, no. 2, pp.154–
Block Quote: Statements in the block quote will be 178, 1999.
indented and left justified only to identify the content
as different from the body text. [2] M. S. MacNealy, Strategies for Empirical Research in
Writing. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.
FOOTNOTES
[3] J. H. Watt and S. A. van den Berg, Research Methods for
To help your readers, avoid using footnotes altogether Communication Science. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
and include necessary peripheral observations in the text
(within parentheses, if you prefer, as in this sentence). [4] S. Kleinmann, “The reciprocal relationship of workplace
culture and review,” in Writing in the Workplace: New Research
Perspectives, R. Spilka, Ed. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (OPTIONAL) University Press, 1993, pp. 56–70.
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[5] K. St. Amant, “Virtual office communication protocols: A
contributions by others, please include your
system for managing international virtual teams,” in Proc. IEEE
acknowledgements at the end of your paper but before the Int. Professional Commun. Conf., 2005, pp. 703–717.
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[6] Structural Engineering Society–International. [Online]. skipping one line between authors. Try to limit the
Available: http://www.seaint.org. information to 75 words or less, but it is okay to have
more.
[7] M. Tohidi et al. "Getting the right design and the design
right: Testing many is better than one." in Proc. ACM-SIGCHI
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