Journal Details
Journal of Southern African Studies
Instructions for Authors
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2. All submissions will be acknowledged on receipt, and will be refereed if they fall within our remit. Only those receiving favourable recommendation will be accepted for publication. Submissions by email attachment (ideally as a Word file) to jsas@stoneman.karoo.co.uk are preferred, (if you do not receive acknowledgement within a week, please check by telephone (+44-1482-811227) in case an overactive spam-blocker is to blame). Submissions in hard copy by post are also welcome; in this case submit three copies (to JSAS, Old School, Swine, Hull HU11 4JE, UK) on one side of good quality A4 (or similar) paper. All submissions should be word processed, double-spaced with wide margins. Number the pages. Keep a copy yourself. Please follow the stylistic guidelines below closely for your submission. Note in particular the referencing system we use. If in doubt check articles in a recent issue of the journal for guidance.
3. Books for review should be sent to Dr Donal Lowry, School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK
5. Article length: should normally be no longer than about 8,500 words of text.
Any initial footnote that comes after the title and includes acknowledgements and thanks should be marked with an asterisk. The next footnote to follow thereafter should begin as number one.
Work/authors referred to in the text should be cited in full in the footnotes. The first letter of most words in titles of books, articles and chapters should be capitalised (except words like 'a' and 'the').
For articles in journals, list the author's initials and name, the title of the article in single quotes (comma outside the quote mark), the name of the journal in italics, the volume number (without vol.), the number or issue, the date in parentheses and the page number(s). For example, when an article as a whole is cited:
K. Barber, 'Popular Arts in Africa', African Studies Review, 30, 3 (September 1987), pp. 1-78.
Where a particular page reference is cited, give only the relevant page number(s).
For books give the author's initials followed by his/her name, the title of the book in italics (without a following comma), the volume number where relevant, the place of publication, the publisher and the date, all in parentheses and separated by commas, followed by the page number(s) if a particular passage is being referred to. For example:
T. Lodge, Black Politics in South Africa Since 1945 (Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1983), p. ix.
Chapters in books, when cited as a whole, should be as follows:
W. Tanaka and R. Moorsom, 'Underdevelopment and Class Formation in Ovamboland, 1844-1917', in R. Palmer and N. Parsons (eds), The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977), pp. 96-112.
Where a particular page reference is cited, give only the relevant page number(s).
For theses use the following style:
J. Cobbing, 'The Ndebele Under the Khumalos, 1820-1896' (PhD thesis, University of Lancaster, 1976).
For unpublished papers use the following style:
J. Alexander and T. Ranger, 'Competition and Integration in the Religious History of Northwestern Zimbabwe' (unpublished paper, Oxford, 1996).
For archival references give the source and series and details of the deposit cited (archive first), although abbreviations (explained in full in the first instance) and shortening of dates are acceptable. For example:
Zambia National Archives (hereafter ZNA) 2/8/19, R.B. Draper, PC (Provincial Commissioner), Tanganyika Province, to CS (Chief Secretary), 4 April 1932.
For interviews give as many details as possible e.g. name of interviewee, date and place of interview, and nature of survey and sample described in the first interview cited.
For Internet references provide author (if possible), document title or description, date (either the date of publication or update or the date of retrieval) and a workable URL address. For example:
W. Mothapo, 'On the Question of Collective Leadership', Umrabulo, 13 (December 2001), available at http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pubs/umrabulo/umrabulo3.html, retrieved on 14 February 2005.
Throughout footnotes do not use op. cit. and cf., although ibid. is acceptable. Where books and articles are referred to more than once, a short title should be used. For example:
Lodge, Black Politics in South Africa, p. 14.
Blainey, 'The Jameson Raid', p. 20.
12. Miscellaneous:
(ii) Pounds sterling and other currencies thus: £5.00, R80,000. For pence or cents write out in full: ten pence, 30 cents
(iii) UK spelling to be followed, as in 'colour' and 'labour'.
(iv) Set article out with title in italics, followed by author's name in capitals and, on next line (indented, uncapitalised and in brackets), institution. At end of article, repeat author's name in capitals, with (on next line, uncapitalised, in italics) full institutional postal address and email.
15. Back Issues: Taylor & Francis retains a three-year back issue stock of journals.
Older volumes are held by our official stockists, to whom all orders and enquiries should be addressed: Periodicals Service Company, 11 Main Street, German Town, NY 12626, USA; Tel: + 1 518 537 5899; Email: psc@periodicals.com ; Website: www.periodicals.com/tandf.html
16. Copyright: It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to the Journal of Southern African Studies. 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 generally 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 can be found at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authorrights.pdf. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
