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Spelling: British spelling should be used throughout, and -z- rather than -s- alternatives (e.g. organize rather than organise); -our rather than -or (except in proper names, e.g. Labor Party, if that is its formal title). For general guidance on spelling, hyphenation, etc., consult The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors.

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Notes and references: the number of notes should be kept to a reasonable minimum. They should be numbered consecutively throughout the article and indicated in the text by a raised numeral, without brackets, referring to the list of notes, which should be placed at the end of the article. Bibliographical references should use the following style.

Books: author's name as it appears on the book's title page, title underlined, with capitals for principal words, place of publication: publisher and date in parentheses, page reference:

Robert A. Dahl, Democracy and its Critics (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1989), pp.93-7.

Articles: author's name, title of article within single inverted commas with principal words capitalized, title of journal underlined, volume number, issue number, place of publication if in a book, page reference:

Nancy Bermeo, 'Democracy and the Lessons of Dictatorship', Comparative Politics, Vol.24, No.3 (1992), pp.273-91.

David Miller, 'The Competitive Model of Democracy', in Graeme Duncan (ed.), Democratic Theory and Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp.133-55.

Subsequent references: a reference to a single source in the previous note may be replaced by 'ibid.'; in later notes by author's surname and page number(s); several titles by one author may be replaced by shortened forms:

First reference: Iain McLean, Democracy and New Technology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989), p.21.
Next note: Ibid.
Subsequent notes: McLean, p.*.
Or if also other works by McLean are cited, McLean, Democracy, p.*.

Book Notes should be preceded by full publication information, in the following form:

Communism and Development by Robert Bideleux. London: Methuen, 1985. Pp.x + 315; index, bibliography, statistical appendix. £20. ISBN 0 416 73410 3.

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