MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS

All submissions should be made online at the International Journal of Philosophical Studies Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

All manuscripts sent to the journal are independently refereed. Two referee's reports are solicited before a decision to publish is taken. Normally, the readers' unsigned reports are made available to the author of the submission. Refereeing is 'double-blind' for all submissions, so authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as “File not for review”. Furthermore, the manuscript should not bear any marks that could lead to the identification of the author; i.e. all forms of self-reference should be omitted in the submitted manuscript. Most articles are accepted for publication only after some revision. The Editorial Board is able-in normal circumstances-to reach a decision on a submission within three to six months.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Contributors may be asked to supply a version of their contribution on computer disk, as well as a printed copy. The manuscript should be typed double-spaced, on one side only and footnotes (also double-spaced) should be at the end of the text. A margin of at least one inch on each of the four sides of the sheet should be left. Do not justify the right hand margin of text. Paragraphs should be indented or marked by a double return. Block quotations (usually anything over forty words) should be indented two spaces from the left, without quotation marks. Use single quotes and double within for quoted matter in the text itself. Please mark all sub-headings clearly and flag them A, B or C in the margin if necessary to show their relative importance.

Footnotes should be brief and kept to a minimum. Citations of works should be presented as follows in footnotes:

Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology, trans. F. Kersten, 2nd edn, Vol. 2 (The Hague: Martinuns Niijhoff, 1983), pp. 46-8.

Annette C. Baier, 'The Intentionality of Intentions', The Review, 3(3) (March 1997), pp. 389-414.

The Harvard author-date system is also acceptable with a text reference reading, for example (James, 1910: pp. 66-7). Give full details in a reference list in alphabetical order: James, G. (ed.) (1666), London's Burning, London: Routledge. An article in a journal: Bannan, N. (1988) 'Singing and Synthesis', Music Teacher 67(3): 19-21. A chapter in an edited book: Bannan, N. (1988) 'Singing', in J. Beek (ed.) Music, London: Routledge.

Titles of articles should be in single quotes, as should technical terms and other quoted words or phrases. Use italics (or underlining) for book titles, journal titles, foreign terms and so on.

Numbers: Spell out numbers from one to ninety-nine unless used with units, e.g. 2km; ages, e.g. a 10-year-old girl; or passages with a lot of statistics. Use minimum digits, e.g. 121-7 not 121-127.

Percentages: Use 10 per cent in the text, % is acceptable in tables.

Abbreviations and contractions: Use full stops after abbreviations (p., Ch.) but not contractions or acronyms (Dr, St, BBC, USA). Please note: ed. eds, etc.

Spelling: In general, use -z- spellings in words like organize and -s- in words like analyse, but above all be consistent.

Figures: We welcome figures sent electronically, but care and attention to these guidelines are essential as importing graphics packages can often be problematic.

·        Figures must be saved individually and separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.

·        Avoid the use of colour and tints for purely aesthetic reasons.

·        Figures should be produced as near to the finished size as possible.

·        All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. figure 1, figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1(a), figure 1(b)).

·        Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.

·        The filename for the graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.

·        Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).

Please note that it is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please do not hesitate to contact our Production Department if you have any queries.

Free article access: Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased 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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