2005 ACC-RAC: Call for Papers Announced

This is a call for papers in advance of next year's 12th annual Association of Chiropractic Colleges Educational Conference and the 10th annual Research Agenda Conference, to be held in Las Vegas March 17-19, 2005. Except where otherwise specified, all submission materials must be received no later than Sept. 1, 2004.

Research Categories

1. Basic Science: e.g., experimental trials, quantitative basic science research.
2. Clinical: e.g., experimental clinical trials, quantitative clinical research, case reports and qualitative clinical research.
3. Educational: e.g., experimental classroom research, quantitative educational research, case reports, qualitative educational research, description of innovative teaching methods and evaluation of faculty.

Completeness, the strength of the contribution to the profession and relevance to the conference will be evaluated, using the following criteria:

• practical significance;
• originality;
• theoretical or conceptual framework;
• quality of experimental or descriptive design;
• discussion/findings/results - clarity of presentation of findings;
• conclusions, interpretation of results, implications for chiropractic education, theory, research or practice;
• citation of appropriate literature;
• applicability for: the chiropractic profession, classroom use, further research, current/critical concerns, etc.;
• completed study; and
• overall rating of the paper.

Blinded Submission
2,200 words maximum
due electronically by 9-5-04

• Submit one file in MS-Word or rich text format, 12-point type with the paper title. Do not include author names or institutional affiliations anywhere in title or text.
• Submission must be 2,200 words or fewer.
• Submission must be a completed work. An incomplete submission (such as a proposed idea for a project not begun, or an article without data analyzed or collected) will be rejected.
• The submission must include appropriate sections, such as: Introduction (e.g. Background, Objectives, Purpose), Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion. References should be submitted and are not included in the word count.
• You may submit up to two of any combination of the following, embedded in the document: diagrams, figures, pictures (JPEG, TIFF or BMP), graphs or tables (e.g., one graph and one table). Only submit these if they are essential for the peer reviewers to evaluate the proposal. Do not submit tables, graphs or pictures as separate files. Do not submit other visual aids (such as videotape or MS Power Point presentations).
• Submissions that do not meet the above requirements will be rejected.

• If accepted, submission will be published in the Journal of Chiropractic Education proceedings.
• Submit one file in MS-Word or rich text format, with the paper title, full names and institutional affiliations of speakers or authors, and the text of the abstract.
• The abstract, which represents the submission, must be 600 words or fewer.
• The abstract should contain no images and should be structured, including appropriate sections such as: Introduction (e.g., Background, Objectives, Purpose), Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
• Abstracts that do not meet the above requirements will be rejected.

• The electronic submission form is available by e-mail from the Peer Review Chair as of Feb. 14, 2004.

• An authorship statement form on which to include all author signatures is available by e-mail from the Peer Review Chair as of Feb. 14, 2004.
• Information about what constitutes authorship can be found at www.icmje.org.
• The authorship statement/signature form is available online at www.chiropractic.freeservers.com.

As detailed above, the first three items are due by electronic submission on or before Sept. 5, 2004. The hard copy of author signatures is due postmarked Sept. 1, 2004.

For more information, contact Peer Review Chair Claire D. Johnson, DC, at 562-947-8755, ext. 653, or by e-mail: johnsondc@aol.com.