Annual Perspectives in Mathematics Education (APME) 2016: Mathematical Modeling and Modeling Mathematics Author Guidelines General Considerations Chapter manuscripts should make strong links between research and practice and highlight important issues as they relate to implementing models and mathematical modeling in the classroom. Preference will be given to chapters that include a researchto-practice base. • Aim for a writing style or voice that will appeal to a variety of readers as the APME anticipates and is aiming for a wide audience. • Manuscripts that feature the use of technology or specific materials to teach and learn mathematics should be as generic as is reasonable in describing products. Specific Technical Considerations for the Preparation of a Chapter Manuscript 1. All complete manuscripts should be submitted electronically by May 1, 2015 to [email protected]. Late or partial manuscripts will not be considered. A brief electronic acknowledgment will be sent upon receipt of your manuscript. Do not submit materials that have been published elsewhere or are being considered for publication by other outlets. 2. Submit your manuscript in a standard word processing program as Microsoft Word using a font size of 12 (preferably Times New Roman). Please do not box any text. Do not send your manuscript as a PDF file. 3. Put the manuscript title and name(s) of author(s) in a separate document in the order of authorship and including affiliation(s) (institution, city, state or province and country if other than the U.S.). The lead author should provide a current mailing address, cell and work phone numbers and e-mail address (changes in this information must be sent immediately to the editor). No author identification should appear within the manuscript. Do not reference your own work in a way that compromises the blind-review process— (use (AUTHOR, year) for citations in the manuscript). Use pseudonyms for colleagues’ or institutional names (schools, school districts, universities or city/state locations) and blind all project or grant information. Links to personal or institutional Web sites should also be blind. All blinded references can be re-inserted should your work be accepted for publication. 4. Please include an abstract of 200 words or less. You may wish to refer to your Intention to Submit form and edit what you have already provided as a possible abstract.

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Double-space all material, including abstract, quoted matter, lists, tables, notes, references, and bibliographies. Manuscripts should not exceed 3,500 words (14 pages) including references, but not including the abstract. Please include only essential tables and figures.

6. Leave 1-inch margins on the sides and at the top and bottom of each page. 7. Indicate a paragraph by indenting the first line rather than by including an extra space between paragraphs. 8. Provide accurate and complete bibliographical information. All references cited in the manuscript should be listed at the end of the manuscript. See the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), for additional details. For references, NCTM uses the humanities style, which gives the full names of all authors and editors. 9. Number all figures and tables (Figure 1 or Table 1, etc.); at this time these may be embedded where appropriate in the text of your chapter for the ease of the referees’ reading. Refer to them in the manuscript by number—for example, “see figure 1.” Include captions for all figures and tables; captions must be complete sentences. If your work is selected, the APME designer will prepare and position figures and artwork, so statements such as “insert figure 3 about here” are unnecessary. In addition to their inclusion in the manuscript, also include them in a separate file, numbered as they are in the text. 10. Do not use special formatting (color, underlining, text wrapped around art, etc.). If your work is accepted, all such formatting has to be deleted before the manuscript is typeset. 11. Do not use footnotes. Find a way to integrate whatever text would be in a footnote into the body of the manuscript. 12. Use mathematics editors (e.g., MathType) sparingly. Expressions and equations that can be typed using the keyboard, such as f(x)=3x2 and x < 3, should simply be typed as you would the general text. Other mathematics displays that contain characters not found on the keyboard should be set using an equation editor program. For example, y = 2^1/5 should be expressed using an equation editor as y= 13. Use a spell checker before submitting your manuscript and recheck it for grammar, completeness, spelling of all proper names, mathematical correctness, accuracy of references and full identification of all organizations and groups named by initials or acronyms.

Quotations, Photographs, Student Work, and Permissions Some components of this section are mainly for accepted manuscripts, but may be useful as you consider including or excluding these features. 14. Copy quoted material exactly. Do not change any words or punctuation. Mark each omission by ellipsis points and put each interpolation in brackets. If you want to add italics yourself, insert the phrase “(italics added)” or “(italics mine).” 15. Give the source of every quotation in full; provide a specific page number for each specific quotation. Likewise, credit all photographs and drawings and reference conference presentations. 16. You are invited to include diagrams, illustrations, and, where appropriate, photographs. But, you must obtain permission to quote copyrighted material and reproduce copyrighted photos or illustrations that are other authors’ figures and images (original figures and images are fine). It will be your responsibility to obtain the written permission for the use of any copyrighted material in your manuscript (do not provide documentation of permissions at this time). 17. Use dialogue and direct quotes sparingly. Incorporate the key ideas of conversations into the text when possible. Permission will also be needed for more than a single line of poetry and quotations of more than 25 words. Although NCTM will seek these permissions we suggest it is desirable to avoid the inclusion of lengthy quotations. 18. Submit photographs and student work (electronically) along with the manuscript. If selected you will need to provide parental/guardian permission if a photograph shows the student’s face (NCTM manuscript style is to delete students’ actual names in text and on worksheets). Also you will be required (if accepted) to obtain permission from any photographer whose work is submitted with the manuscript. If accepted; you will need to complete release forms that are available online at www.nctm.org/publications/content.aspx?id=7706. Do not provide any of this documentation at this time.