Does the bibliography count toward the word total?
Abstracts and essays have separate word limits. Abstracts can have up to 300 words; essays can have up to 4000 words. Abstracts and essays cannot “borrow” word count from each other. The bibliography does not count toward the maximum length. Please limit your footnotes/endnotes to citations and do not use them for additional text or commentary. Please see our Evaluation Criteria section for more details.