> Try
> \usepackage{babel}
> \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\refname{REFERENCES}}
>
Thanks Jurgen.. this worked!
> Maybe something else renames it after your .sty-file?
>
> Have you been able to make it work by itself? (i.e. just renaming it in
Christian.. I tried putting \renewcommand{\refname}{REFERENCES} in the preamble
directly but that didn't work.. nothing else renamed it after the sty file
either.. unless the .bst file had something to do with it since I used the bst
file provided by the organizers...
Thanks,
nirmal