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Third World Quarterly is an independent and interdisciplinary journal of scholarship and policy in the field of international studies. It is a refereed journal published 10 issues annually in February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November.

Copyright and Submissions

Submissions: Articles should be original contributions and not under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If an author is publishing a related article elsewhere, this fact should be stated.

Submission should be made electronically:

1. Electronic Submission (preferably as a MS Word file; please do not use PDF format):-
   Shahid Qadir, Editor TWQ at editor@thirdworldquarterly.com

Manuscript Preparation

Word Count: Articles should normally be no more than 8,000 words, including footnotes and abstract. It is the author's responsibility to ensure length limits.

Abstract: Articles must include an abstract of approximately 150 words outlining the aims, scope and conclusions (but not containing sentences from the article).

Peer Review: All submissions must include a separate page with the author's name, current affiliation and contact information (email address, phone and fax numbers, and mailing address for proofs). To guarantee anonymity in the refereeing process, authors should omit their name from the title page and remove any reference to themselves from the manuscript.

Notes on Contributors: Current and recent academic professional affiliations should be supplied, together with a list of major publications (with dates) including forthcoming books. Manuscripts must be double-space typed with numbered pages and margins.

Presentation:

• Spelling: British rather than American spelling should be used.
  Use the s-suffix: for example, civilise, civilisation rather than civilize, civilization.
  Foreign words absorbed into English do not take a diacritical mark. Other foreign words are italicised.
• Acronyms and abbreviations: All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate - set in small caps. No need to spell out GNP, GDP, IMF.
  The following should use full caps, not small caps: USA, PRC, FRG, PRK, DK and G7, EU, UN. All periods to be deleted from contractions and abbreviations: PhD, BSc, Dr, St, Ltd, km, BC, am, pm. Try to edit ie and eg out of the text as far as possible.
• Punctuation: Punctuation should follow the British style, e.g. 'quotes precede punctuation'.
  Single 'quotes' are used for quotations not double "quotes", unless "within" another quote'.
  Em-dashes are used for parenthetical statements and should be clearly indicated in manuscripts by way of either a clear dash (-) or a triple hyphen (---)
  En-dashes are used for number ranges and the word pairings such as Iran–Iraq war and North–South relations (but not Anglo-Boer war or Sino-Soviet relations). They should be indicated in manuscripts by a double hyphen (--).
• Dates: Dates should be as follows: 5 August 1966. For decades write 1980s, no apostrophe. Centuries are written in full in lower case: sixteenth century, nineteenth-century novel.
• Numbers: Numbers from one to nine should be written out in full: figures should be used for numbers above 10.
  Percentages and decimals are written in figures; per cent is two words. Ages are written in words Fractions are written out: one-half, three-quarters. Label lists as 1., 2., etc.
  Money: follow the same guidelines, using currency symbol with figures. eg, one pound, $3.50, two Australian dollars, £245, DM20, Rs1 million, five Japanese yen.
• Endnotes: Notes should be marked clearly in superscript in the text at a point of punctuation, and listed consecutively at the end of the article. They should not be listed at the bottom of each relevant page. Avoid over-numbering references: if one source is being cited for several references within a paragraph, number this only once at the end of the paragraph. The use of notes in general should be kept to a minimum. Authors' names should be abbreviated to initials and surname in the footnotes. (Bibliographical references should always be given as notes: separate bibliographies are not published.)
  Books: author, title, place of publication, publisher, date, page numbers, Eg: J S Kirk, Middle East on Trial, London: Bodley Head, 1977, pp. 3-9.
  Journal articles: articles: author, title of article, name of journal, volume number, issue number in brackets, year, page numbers, Eg: B Rubin, 'Drowning in the Gulf', Foreign Policy, 69(4), 1987-88, pp 120-134;
  Chapters within books: J Birks, 'Middle East Labour', in S. Sinclair (ed), Middle East Today, S Sinclair (ed), London, Frank Cass, 1987, pp 28-36
  Unpublished theses and Mimeographs: also receive full references including the name of the appropriate institution.
  Newspaper References: give the author, title, name or paper, town in brackets (unless very well known, eg Times, Guardian, Wall Street Journal), date of issue and page numbers.
• Titles and Subheadings: Titles should be kept short. Brief sub-headings are encouraged and should be used at suitable points throughout the text to indicate major divisions in the argument. Third World Quarterly reserves the right to alter titles in consultation with the author.

Proofs

Proofs of accepted articles will be sent to authors as pdfs to the primary email address supplied by the author (or the corresponding authors in the case of multiple authors) for checking and correction of typesetting errors. Typographical or factual errors only may be changed at proof stage. The publisher reserves the right to charge authors for correction of non-typographical errors.

Free article access: Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website, Taylor & Francis Online, and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

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