Do not hyphenate words at the end of lines. Do not use contractions. Otherwise, you will have trouble with your spacing. Do not use a word processor to create italic, bold, or other special fonts. Instead, use underlining to indicate italics.
Margins Leave uniform margins of at least one inch at the top, bottom, right, and left margins.
Paragraph Indentations Indent five to seven spaces for the first line of every new paragraph. The only exceptions to this are in the cases of block quotations, titles and headings, abstract, and table titles, and figure captions. Order of Manuscript Pages Number all pages except the figures consecutively. This is the page header. The running head is limited to 50 spaces.