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We ask authors to follow these guidelines on style and format as far possible when preparing papers for submission to Development Southern Africa. This will help us to produce the journal more speedily and efficiently.

Articles being considered for publication will be submitted to at least two referees.

Submission of papers

1 Information

On a separate page, please give the following details in full:

• Author's/Authors' first name(s), and surname(s), e.g. Jane Mfundisi, James L Brown.
• Designation/position, e.g. Senior Lecturer, Professor.
• Programme/department/organisation/institution, e.g. School of Government, University of the Western Cape, Bellville.
• Full postal address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address.

2 Submission

Submission can be done via e-mail or post.

Use your surname to label your file(s), e.g. 'Anderson.doc' and 'Anderson tables.doc'.

Via e-mail: Submit paper (using Microsoft Word only) to dsa@dbsa.org Printouts and disk are not required when the paper is submitted via e-mail.

Via post: Submit three printouts and a stiffy disk or CD (using Microsoft Word only). Label the disk with the author's name, the title of the paper and the last revision date. Provide a printout of tables and figures.

3 Tables and figures

Submit all tables and figures (diagrams, graphs, maps) in a separate file from the text file. Mark in the text the places where these are to go.

Supply an appropriate heading for each table and figure. Headings for figures must be outside, not inside, the text box containing the figure.

Do not create a table or figure using tabs or the space bar. Use the appropriate table function on your computer program, or even draw the table, diagram or figure by hand to save time and make the structure clear.

Please send diagrams in MSWord or MSDraw, and graphs in MS Excel.

Maps should contain essential information only and be as clear as possible. Details and features should not be cramped or too small. Use only high resolution jpeg or tif files.

4 Copyright

Your paper must be accompanied by a signed statement by the author(s) that publication in Development Southern Africa would not contravene any copyright or other contractual relevant to the paper or the research upon which it is based.

Copyright. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or licence the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

5 Quality control

Please get another person to edit and/or proofread your paper before submitting it.

6 Editor's queries

Any queries the copy editor may have will be emailed to you. Please reply to these promptly (within days). Be clear and specific in your responses and eliminate guesswork.

Length and layout

• Maximum length: 25-30 pages (not including tables and graphs), or 8 000 words.
• Submit papers in 12 pt Times New Roman or Arial, double line spacing.
• For printouts, use A4 paper and leave wide margins (e.g. a minimum of 2.54 cm on all sides) and print on one side of the paper only.
• Remember to number the pages (at the bottom, centred).
• Use bullets for lists and not dashes, asterisks or letters of the alphabet.

Content and style

1 Abstract

Provide a brief abstract (100-150 words). Type this in italics under the title of the paper.

2 Concepts

Bear in mind that certain concepts are self-evident to people in your field, but DSA has many readers from other disciplines, including non-economists. Therefore, consider including a brief definition of concepts early on in the paper.

3 Acronyms

Give the names of organisations, institutions, etc. in full the first time you use them, followed by the abbreviated form or acronym in brackets. This applies to the text, tables, figures and list of references.

Note that acronyms that are usually read as a word have an initial capital letter only (e.g. Cosatu, Nedlac, Unisa), whereas those that are spelt when pronounced are written all in upper case (e.g. ANC, DBSA).

4 Sources

Acknowledge all sources of ideas, statements, tables, graphs, etc. that are not your own. Use only references that are relevant to your discussion.

5 Style

When referring to yourself, write 'the author'.

Your general style of writing should neither overestimate nor underestimate the comprehension of the readers.

Do not use italics, underlining or bold to emphasise 'keywords'. Rather achieve the required emphasis with an effective style of writing.

6 Footnotes/Endnotes

Do not use endnotes. Use footnotes only when absolutely necessary and keep them short. Do not use footnotes to elaborate on the text.

Spelling, punctuation and referencing style

1 Spelling

For purposes of standardisation DSA uses UK English conventions and spelling rules. For these, follow the most recent edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (currently the tenth edition), but note that we use '-ise/-isation' rather than '-ize/-ization'.

2 Italics

Note that Latin words and some French words are not routinely italicised. For example, terms such as per capita, vis-à-vis, et al., inter alia and in situ are no longer italicised, whereas words and phrases from other languages, e.g. isiZulu, German, are.

3 Quote marks

Use single quote marks. Use double quote marks only for quotations within quotations. For long quotations, double indent the text in a separate paragraph and omit the quote marks.

4 Spacing between sentences

Leave a single space after a full stop in the text, not a double space.

5 Full stops

Use full stops after abbreviations such as e.g., i.e., et al., etc.

Do not use a full stop when the abbreviation ends on the same letter as the full word, e.g. Dr, Mr, Ms. (Note that Prof. has a full stop.)

Do not use a full stop after a person's initials, e.g. D Coetzee, AB Smith.

6 Percentages

Use 'per cent' or 'percentage' and not the % sign, except in tables and figures.

7 Capital letters

Use lower case as far as possible (e.g. parliament, government, state, president, director-general, regional council), except in specific, direct references such as 'Mr P Mabena, Deputy Director-General and President of XYZ, said that…'.

Use lower case for the first letter of a generic ethnic group (e.g. black, white, coloured) but upper case for the first letter of a specific group (e.g. Chinese, Indian, Swedish).

8 Dates and numbers

Write dates as 20 July 2005. Not as 20th etc. (Do not use superscripts.)

Express ranges of dates and pages in the smallest number of digits, e.g. 1974--94 and not 1974--1994, and 315--7 and not 315--17 or 315--317.

Use a space, and not a comma, to indicate tens of thousands etc., e.g. 10 000. Write thousands without a space, e.g. 1000, except in tables, where the space is needed to get the alignment right.

For fractions use the decimal point, not comma, e.g. 3.85.

9 Section headings

Please number the sections of your paper, beginning with 1. Introduction, using DSA heading styles:

Main headings in upper case, bold, e.g.
4. AGRICULTURE

Subsections and subsubsections in sentence case, bold, e.g.
4.1 Market for existing crops
4.1.1 Maize and wheat

Please number sections manually and not with the auto numbering function.

10 References

Use the Harvard system of referencing.

Please use DSA's referencing style. (See examples below or refer to any recent issue of DSA.)

Include in the reference list ONLY the works you refer to in the text.

Please check that all the works cited in the text are in the reference list, and vice versa.

Give full details for each reference. Remember to give the date and place of publication, the name of the printer or publisher, the volume and issue numbers of journals and the page range of articles, and the dates (day and month) of seminars, workshops, conferences, etc.

If a publication by two authors is referred to in the text, use the ampersand (&) and not the word 'and', e.g. Brown & Jones (1999:267).

If a publication by more than two authors is referred to in the text, write 'et al.' from the start, e.g. Skosana et al. (1997:14), but provide the names of all the authors in the reference list.

References to more than one publication by an author in the same year should be distinguished alphabetically, for example Fields, 1984a, Fields, 1984b.

Book:

SEN, A, 1988. On ethics and economics. New York: Blackwell.

Chapter in a book:

TIMMER, CP, 1988. The agricultural transformation. In Chenery, H & Srinivasan, TN (Eds), Handbook of development economics. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Journal article:

FRY, B, 1995. Crocodile farming in Natal. Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, 4(8): 291--5.

Conference paper:

DELGADO, CL & SIAMWALLA, A, 1997. Diversification in developing countries. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of Agricultural Economists, 10-16 August, Sacramento, California, USA.

Official document:

NDA (NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE), 2001. The strategic plan for South African agriculture. Pretoria: Government Printer.

Newspaper article:

BOOTH, J, 2004. Blair plans annual UK-China summit. Guardian, 11 May, p. 6.

Thesis:

LEVINE, D, 1993. A parallel genetic algorithm for the set partitioning problem. PhD thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Electronic text:

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 2002. National service framework for diabetes: Delivery strategy. London: Department of Health. http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/03/28/23/04032823.pdf Accessed 5 May 2004.

Please note that website references should include the date the site was accessed.

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