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Author Guidelines
Submission Guidelines for Articles
As the journal is online, we can accomodate submissions of all sizes and there is no word limit for submissions. This said, the suggested length of a submitted article is 25 to 30 pages, double spaced. Please include an abstract at the start of the article. Do not include your name or any identifying information on the article itself. If accepted you will be asked to provide an author's bio.
Check with the editor about the deadline for submissions to Special Issues. Other submissions are open and not subject to a deadline. See referencing guidelines below:
Submission Guidelines for Reviews
Note: The Editor reserves the right to edit reviews received for publication and to reject or return for revision reviews that do not adhere to the Submission Guidelines.
Book reviews in the journal are important scholarly contributions and/or advance the dialogue of contemporary social critique. Reviews are one way to help evaluate the quality of scholarship and critique, to keep other intellectuals informed, and to examine important social and ecological issues. A review should be looked at as an opportunity to critique ideas and practices. In its own right, a review can be an original and creative intellectual contribution. Emphasis should be given to the strengths, weaknesses, and possible implications of the work being reviewed. A careful analysis of the author's thoughts as well as the depth and breadth of the book is desirable. The reviewer should thus draw from his or her own knowledge, experience, and individual style when writing a review. The desired length of a review is 1500 to 2,000 words, though longer and shorter reviews are allowed. Please provide a word count at the end of the text. Lay out the bibliographic information and reviewer's name at the top of the first page as in the following example:
Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Public Schools. David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990. iv; 369 pp. $29.95; $XX.XX (include the cost of a paper edition if there is one).References
Provide complete, formatted references, text citations, and notes according to the following examples:
Journal: Carr, Lynn C. 1998. Tomboy Resistance and Conformity: Agency in Social Psychological Gender Theory. Gender and Society 12: 528-553.
Book: Butler, Judith. 1991. Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge.
Contribution to a Book: Norberg-Hodge, Helena. 1996. The Pressure to Modernize and Globalize. in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books: 33-46.
Illustrations
Illustrations submitted (line drawings, halftones, photos, photomicrographs, etc.) should be clean originals or digital files. Digital files are recommended for highest quality reproduction and should follow these guidelines.
Tables and Figures
Tables and figures (illustrations) should be embedded in the text, and not be included as separate sheets or files. A short descriptive title should appear above each table with a clear legend and any footnotes suitably identified below. All units must be included. Figures should be completely labeled. Captions should be typed.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or capable of being read by software as a .docx, .doc, or .rtf document.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). However, we expect that any work published in this journal has not been published in another journal or a source that claim's copyright ownership.
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