WU Online Papers in International Business Communication

Please keep in mind that your readers might not necessarily be experts in your field of
research. Therefore, please try to adapt your language and style to a broader audience.
Moreover, we advise you to present your findings in a manner comprehensible to
colleagues working in another (linguistic) discipline and/or language.

Checklist for Proofreading

Please make sure that …

 paper length including references does not exceed 8,000 words (recommendation)
 British or American spelling is consistent
 non-native English contributors have their papers carefully checked by a native
speaker
 non-English examples and quotations are followed by translations
 footnotes are kept to an absolute minimum
 the abstract contains 100-150 words
 citations are given in the following style (Name year, first page-last page)
 you use only regular and italic formatted text
 you avoid any landscape formatted parts (tables)
 the paper contains the most essential formal parts (introduction, methods,
hypotheses, main part(s), discussion, conclusion)
 tables and figures are numbered separately
 pictures have a minimum resolution of 300dpi

Please provide also …

 your personal data: name, institutional address, telephone, e-mail address

 a short title for running head
 a short academic CV (at the end of the paper)
 6-8 keywords

Example References

Last Name, First Name(s) YYYY, Title. City: Publisher.

Last Name, First Name(s)/ Last Name, First Name(s). YYYY, Title. City: Publisher.
Last Name, First Name(s). YYYY, Title. In: Title. Ed. By First Name Last Name. City: Publisher, P.
Page-Page.
Last Name, First Name(s). YYYY, Title. In: Journal vol. (issue), Page-Page.

July 2009