Journal Details
Contemporary Politics
Instructions for Authors
Contemporary Politics ranges across international relations, comparative politics and national politics, and is not constrained by disciplinary boundaries in any domain. It takes an interest in major conceptual and theoretical issues generated by current world politics.
Contemporary Politics is keen to uncover and explain politics in hidden spaces, and welcomes submissions that bring marginalized and misunderstood aspects of current international politics into focus and into the academic mainstream.
Contemporary Politics carries articles that are accessible to informed academic and non-academic audiences around the world. While the journal does not have a book review section, it does carry lengthy review articles that are both informative and theoretically rich.
Contemporary Politics publishes special issues on topics of especially broad interest and great moment. Proposals can be sent to the Editor at any time, and should include a full list of authors, article titles and abstracts.
Please note that articles should be original contributions and not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Articles greatly exceeding 10,000 words will not be printed. The house reference style is Harvard. Footnotes are discouraged.
- The article should be provided as an electronic document attached to an email sent to the Editor of Contemporary Politics, Ian Holliday. His email address for submissions is ian.holliday@hku.hk
- An abstract of approximately 100-150 words with a maximum of five key words should also be provided.
- In a separate file the author's name, full contact details and brief biography should be provided.
- A short title should be provided as a running page-head, but no author details should be given in the main file. This is to allow for blind refereeing.
Quotations:
Follow the punctuation, capitalization and spelling of the original. Quotations of more than three lines should be typed with an extra line space above and below, and indented. All quotations should use single quotation marks.
Follow English rather than American conventions.
Dates and numbers:
Follow as: 12 December 1970; 1834-5; 1980s (when representing the decades of a century, sixteenth-century (adj.) but the sixteenth century (noun).
Footnotes and References:
Footnotes and endnotes are discouraged; the house style is Harvard. However, it is possible for a small number of endnotes to be carried. These should be numbered consecutively and typed together at the end of the article. Numbering in the text should be in superscript at the end of the appropriate sentence after the full stop.
All unnecessary capitals should be eliminated, but above all, capitalization should be consistent. Use lower case for titular offices: the king, sultan, lord, prime minister etc except when titles immediately preface names, such as King William, Viscount Andover etc. Use lower case for institutions, government agencies etc.: the monarchy, the cabinet, the privy council etc.
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