General
Authors should send typed and double-spaced copies of their contributions as e-mail file attachments to the editor, Jim Newell: j.l.newell@salford.ac.ukAll work should be formatted either in Word97 or in rich text format.
Submission
Articles of more than 7,000 words will not normally be accepted. Shorter articles, including research notes and comments, are welcome. Review articles should normally be no more than 4,000 words in length. Book reviews should normally be between 800 and 1,500 words.
The first page of the typescript should bear the title of the paper together with the names(s), institutional affiliation(s) and titles (e.g. 'Lecturer in Politics' or 'Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Voting Behaviour') of the authors. The second page of the typescript should repeat the title, followed by the main body of the text, which should conform strictly to the instructions given below. Only main headings and sub-headings should be used. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum. They should be numbered consecutively, typed on a separate page at the end before the bibliography, and supplied as a separate file.
References
Contributions should adopt the Harvard system of referencing set out below.
In this system, references in the body of the text are placed between parentheses and contain the last name of the author (with initial only if you refer to different authors who happen to have the same last name), a comma and the year of publication (suffixed with 'a' or 'b' or 'c' if that author has published in the same year more than one piece of work which you want to refer to), and then a colon and the pages to which you are referring.
(Smith, 1994: 35-6)
If you refer to more than one work at the same time, enclose all the references within the same parentheses and separate each reference from the next by a semi-colon. For example:
(Smith, 1984: 89-90; Jones, 2001: 86)
References in the bibliography should be listed alphabetically by the author's(s') name(s). The name of the author is followed by his or her initials, a full stop and then the date of publication. The entry then continues with different formats depending upon whether the contribution is a book, an article or a chapter in an edited collection.
For example:
Books
Dahl, R. A. (1956), A Preface to Democratic Theory, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Journal articles
Bürklin, W., M. Klein and A. Ruß (1996), 'Postmaterieller oder anthropozentrischer Wertewandel? Eine Erwiderung auf Ronald Inglehart und Hans-Dieter Klingemann', Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 37:3, 517- 536.
Newspaper and magazine articles
Bloggs, J. (2001), 'Leader of the Opposition Does a Runner', Guardian, 29 April, pp. 11-12.
(Do not include the/The in references. NB The should only be used for The Times; all other newspapers should use 'the' (e.g. the Observer)
Chapters in edited books
Kirchheimer, O. (1966), 'The Transformation of the Western European Party Systems' in J. LaPalombara and M. Weiner (eds), Political Parties and Political Development, Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Quotations
When quoting directly, single quotation marks should be used. Any quotations over five lines in length should remove the quotation marks and be indented (0.5 both left and right margin).
Tables and Illustrations
Tables and illustrations should be submitted on separate sheets, with their location notes in the text. Graphs and diagrams (illustrations) must be in a form suitable for reproduction without retouching.
Other style notes
· Spelling: use UK spelling and punctuation. Use ~ise/~isation/~ising throughout.
· Punctuation/spacing:
· single space only after all punctuation (full points, commas, colons, semi-colons, closing parenthesis etc.)
· Initials should be spaced: A. J. Smith not A.J. Smith.
· Use full points after abbreviations (e.g., i.e., etc.) but not after units of measurement or contractions (kg vols eds)
· Use minimum capitalisation for all headings i.e. only use capitals for the first letter and proper nouns ('The title of the article' not 'The Title of the Article')
· Numbers: spell out numbers (whether ordinal or cardinal) below 100. Exceptions:
a series of numbers appearing close together;
numbers giving exact measurements or with abbreviated units of measurement such as 7 kg, 15.8 mm;
in usual cases like 5.00 p.m. (but five o'clock);
phrases involving hundreds, thousands, millions etc. where round numbers are given (e.g. two hundred, fifteen thousand)
· per cent (not percent); use % only in tables
· Dates: use the style, 31 January 1984; use 1930s, not thirties, 30s or '30s.
Editing
The editors retain the right to make minor stylistic changes to the finally accepted typescript. Any substantial changes will, of course, be referred back first to the author.
