ABSTRACT INSTRUCTIONS

Everyone who presents a paper, poster, or illustrated paper must submit an abstract. For your abstract to be accepted for publication, it must not exceed 250 words and must be submitted online after you pay your participation fee. The abstract must describe the presentation's purpose, methods, and conclusions. Please notice and adhere to the following format instructions for the body of the abstract:

• Do not put your name and affiliation in the body of the abstract.
• Do not enter the title in the body of the abstract.
• Do not use abbreviations.
• Do not use underlining, boldface type, italics, subscripts, or superscripts.
• Do not include any codes for justification, hyphenation, line height, line centering, margins, spacing, fonts, page centering, page numbering, suppression, or tabs, in your abstract.
• Do not use bulleted lists
• Do not include phone numbers or email addresses in the body of the abstract.

Your abstract will not be edited; you are responsible for avoiding spelling, grammatical, and typographical errors. Use the active voice for your abstract and presentation. Transmit your research results clearly and concisely. Avoid jargon.

Submission of an abstract grants permission for the AAG to include it in the meeting abstract compilation and to disseminate it electronically.

GUIDE TO SELECTING KEYWORDS FOR YOUR ABSTRACT Keywords may be compound (such as “political geography”). Keywords should generally be nouns, not adjectives or adverbs. Do not use abbreviations. In creating your keywords, try to think of how someone might want to search for your topic in the abstract volume.

If your presentation is about color cartography, an appropriate keyword might be “cartography-color.” Under no circumstance can you use a comma within a keyword.

Make certain your geography is not too specific. For example, suppose your paper is about southwestern Kentucky. A user of the abstract volume interested in Kentucky is going to look at the K’s, not at the S’s. Therefore, either use “Kentucky” or “Kentucky-southwest.”

In referring to a systematic sub field, do use the word “geography.” Use “economic geography” as the keyword and not “economic.”

If you have a choice between the plural and the singular form, use the plural. If your keyword could be “race” or “races,” use “races.”

SAMPLE: Keywords: cartography, atlases, United States

Please direct all queries to:

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