Journal Details
Middle Eastern Studies
Instructions for Authors
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Articles submitted to Middle Eastern Studies should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission. Each manuscript should be submitted in duplicate, and sent to:
Sylvia Kedourie
75 Lawn Road,
London,
NW3 2XB,
England.
Please do not send submissions by special delivery
Articles should be typewritten on A4/Letter paper, on one side only, double-spaced and with ample margins. All pages (including those containing only diagrams and tables) should be numbered consecutively.
There is no standard length for articles but 8,000 words (including notes and references) is a useful target. The article should begin with an indented and italicized summary of around 100 words, which should describe the main arguments and conclusions of the article.
Details of the author's institutional affiliation, full address and other contact information should be included on a separate cover sheet. Any acknowledgements should be included on the cover sheet as should a note of the exact length of the article.
All diagrams, charts and graphs should be referred to as figures and consecutively numbered. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Each figure and table must be given an Arabic numeral, followed by a heading, and be referred to in the text.
Following acceptance for publication, articles should be submitted by email in rich text format (.RTF). To facilitate the typesetting process, notes should be grouped together at the end of the file. Tables should also be placed at the end of the file. Tables should be saved as text using the appropriate function within your word processor. If this function is not available then tables should be prepared using tabs. Any diagrams or maps should be copied to a separate disk separately in uncompressed .TIF or .JPG formats in individual files. These should be prepared in black and white. Tints should be avoided, use open patterns instead. If maps and diagrams cannot be prepared electronically, they should be presented on good quality white paper. If mathematics are included 1/2 is preferred over ½.
It is the author's responsibility to ensure that where copyright materials are included within an article the permission of the copyright holder has been obtained.
Copyright. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license 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 may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from Taylor & Francis, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as the original source of publication, and that Taylor & Francis is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised. Authors retain a number of other rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies documents. These policies are referred to at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authorrights.pdf for full details. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright materials from other sources.
While every care is taken, the Publisher cannot accept responsibility for loss of, or damage to, authors' manuscripts. Authors should keep at least one copy of their article.
STYLE
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. Particular attention is drawn to the following points.
Spelling: British spelling should be used throughout, and where there is an alternative -ize (rather than -ise) endings (i.e. organize rather than organise).
Sub-sections within the article should be indicated by a two-line space.
Any acknowledgements should appear before the first note at the end of the article.
Notes should be numbered consecutively throughout the article and indicated in the text by a raised numeral, referring to the list of notes, which should be placed at the end of the article. Notes should be kept to a minimum. References to books should give the author's surname preceded by the initial letter(s) of his/her forename(s); the title of the book should be in italics; and the place, publisher and year of publication should follow in brackets. All of this information must be provided.
D. Swinfen, Imperial Control of Colonial Legislation 1813-1865 (London: Macmillan, 1970), pp.13-15.
P. Warwick (ed.), The South African War (London: Routledge, 1980), pp.186-209.
J.W.B. Merewether and F. Smith, The Indian Corps in France (London: Bell, 1918), pp.13-14.
References to articles should give the author's initials/forename and surname, the title of the article in single quotation marks, the name of the publication underlined, the number of the volume in arabic numerals, the year (and place/publisher, if a book) of publication in brackets, and the page numbers:
R.H. Wilde, 'Joseph Chamberlain's Proposal for an Imperial Council', Canadian Historical Review, Vol.37 (1956), p.229.
D. Denoon, 'Participation in the Boer War', in B.A. Ogot (ed.), War and Society in Africa (London: Macmilan, 1979), pp.396-418.
References to theses should be treated as articles, but the name of the University should also appear in brackets:
J.H. Synam, 'Die Afrikaner in Kaapland' (PhD thesis, Potchestroom, 1973), p.172. References to parliamentary debates should be in the form:
Canada, H.C. Deb., 110 (29 June 1965), p.227.
Subsequent references to a book or article, provided there are no other references to works by the same author, may be made by only the author's name (without 'op. cit.'):
Swinfen, Imperial Control, p.197; Wilde, 'Joseph Chamberlain's Proposal', p.235.
Shortened titles of documents may also be used, provided they are spelled out at the first reference:
Public Record Office, Foreign Office Confidential Print, Further Correspondence Respecting Opium, Part V, FO 415/5, 3, 41-50 (hereafter Opium V).
Ibid. may be used to refer to the previous note when it contains only one reference.
Book reviews should be preceded by full publication information, in the following form:
Malaysia: Economic Expansion and National Unity by John Gullick (Nations of the Modern World Series). London: Ernest Benn, 1981. Pp. xiii + 290, 6 maps, bibliography and index. £14.95 (paper).
The reviewer's name (in capital letters), and affiliation should appear, on separate lines, at the end of the review on the right.
HOUSE STYLE
Spelling: make consistent throughout. British spellings to be used. -ize ending: organize, politicize. Others: focused
Hyphenation: use sparingly (peacekeeping, ceasefire)
Capital letters: minimal use of capitals for titles and unique institutions, government, state; the West, western thought, but for geographical areas Western Europe, the North; the Left but left-wing politics. Labour Party, but the party.
Abbreviations (i.e., e.g., etc.) can be used in notes and tables, but should be spelled out in text.
Full points: minimal use of full points, as in UK, US, USSR, FO, Mr, Dr but ed., eds., Ltd., Co., Vol., No.
Latin/French: Italic: et al., sic, inter alia, de facto, ad hoc, fait accompli, per se, en masse, vis-à-vis.
Roman, not italic: ibid. (lower case except at beginning of a reference), op. cit., cf. a priori, prima facie, vice versa, status quo
US states: use postal abbreviation system: MA, CT, CA, Washington DC (no full points), rather than Mass., Conn. etc.
Acronyms (caps) in text: Spell out in full the first time any acronym is used.
Months in references: spell out March to July, but abbreviate Aug. to Feb.
Numerals: one to ten to be spelled out; 11, 12 and above in figures.
Percentages should be written as per cent in the text, as % in the list of notes and in tables.
Dates: 24 January 1963, not January 24, 1963. Use this system in references as well unless very frequent. Use nineteenth century, not 19th century. 'in his forties', the mid-1960s (Be sure to use 1930s, not '30s or 30's or 'thirties).
Shortening of years: always shorten to two digits: 1974-75 (not 1974-5) or 1974/75 (according to sense) - except 1907-8.
Page numbering in references: contract as far as possible: pp.22-3, 256-7, 256-84, 207-8. But be careful in these examples: pp.10-11, 16-17 and 210-11.
Fractions (two-thirds and so on) should be hyphenated.
(&) Ampersand should not be used instead of and (for example, between authors' names) except in the names of specific firms (especially in references to publishers, for example, Routledge & Kegan Paul).
Diacritical marks: restrict the use of diacritical marks in transliteration, except in a few cases where ambiguity could arise.
Free article access: Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article.
