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The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics is a refereed journal.

Articles submitted to The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 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 triplicate to Professor Stephen White, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RT, United Kingdom. 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 10,000 words (including notes and references) is a useful target. The article should begin with an indented 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 on high density 3 1/2 inch disks (IBM PC or Macintosh compatible) in rich text format (.RTF) together with a hard copy. 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 is involved 1/2 is preferred to ½.

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STYLE

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. A guide to style and presentation is obtainable from the Editors or from the publisher.

Quotation marks: single in text throughout; double within single, single within indented quotations.

Dates and numbers: 12 July 1996; July 1996; 12 July (no punctuation). Abbreviate years to two digits: 1993-94; 1980-81; the 1980s (not 'the eighties' or 'the 80s'); but 1907-8.

Months: in notes, abbreviate Aug. to Feb.; spell out March to July.

Capitals: minimal use; in titles and proper names; 'Party' in reference to 'the Russian Communist Party'; 'party' in reference to 'the party at that time'; 'the powers of the president', but 'President Yeltsin'; for political entities: the West/Western; Eastern Europe; Third World.

Notes: number consecutively throughout the article, with a raised numeral corresponding to the list of notes placed at the end.

1. References to books should give the author's name, title of book (italicised), and the place, publisher and year of publication in brackets.
   
   Examples:
   
   Archie Brown, The Gorbachev Factor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p.78.
   
   Ian Bremmer and Ray Taras (eds.), New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp.322-43.
   
   Subsequent references to the same book may be abbreviated to the author's surname and page number(s); if more than on work by an author is cited, use author's surname and abbreviated title.
   
   
2. References to articles in periodicals should give the author's name, the title of the article within single quotation marks (with capitals for principal words), title of periodical (italicised), the volume and (if known) issue number in arabic, the year of publication in brackets, and the page numbers.
   
   Example:
   
   Kathleen Young, 'Unemployment Benefits in St. Petersburg: The Poverty Link', Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.49, No.8 (1997), pp.1451-70 (p.1463).