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Social Movement Studies - Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest

Social Movement Studies

Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest

Increasing to 4 issues per year in 2009
Published By: Routledge
Volume Number: 9
Frequency: 4 issues per year
Print ISSN: 1474-2837
Online ISSN: 1474-2829
 

Instructions for Authors

Instructions for Authors:

Authors should submit papers for consideration by email attachment in Word or RTF format to the following address:social_movement_studies@keele.ac.uk 

Submissions should be in English, typed in double spacing (including all notes and references). English or American spelling is acceptable provided usage is consistent.

A cover sheet should be provided with the following details. An abstract of the paper, of up to 300 words, should accompany the article. In addition, a list of up to six key words, suitable for indexing and abstracting services, should be supplied. A brief biographical note about each author should be supplied. Details should be given of authors' full postal and e-mail addresses as well as telephone and fax numbers. If there are multiple authors one contact should be identified as primary. Abstract, key words, biographical note and addresses should be supplied on a separate cover sheet. All submissions are refereed anonymously and material identifying the author(s) should only appear on the cover sheet.

Submission of a paper to the journal will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished, work not under consideration for publication elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to the Publishers.

Permission to quote from or reproduce copyright material must be obtained by the authors before submission and any acknowledgements should be included in the typescript, preferably in the form of an Acknowledgements section at the end of the paper, before the Notes. Where photographs or figures are reproduced, acknowledgement of source and copyright should be given in the caption.

Research articles should not exceed 8,000 words in length, inclusive of bibliography and notes. If your word-processor is capable of doing a word count please use it to print this on the cover sheet, together with the date of the manuscript.
 
Articles for the 'Profiles' section should not exceed 3,000 words in length, inclusive of a short bibliography and notes. Profiles should provide an accessible, academically-biased account of a recent protests or developments within particular social movements.
 
Notes should be kept to a minimum and placed at the end of the article before the references.

'Interventions' are edited interviews or focus-group conversations with activists. To suggest an Intervention contact John Krinsky: jkrinsky@ccny.cuny.edu

In the Book Reviews section we publish short reviews (1000 words), longer review essays, and 'Author Meets Critics' roundtables that require contributions from at least two reviewers as well as the author of the work under review. Potential reviewers are encouraged to contact Kevin Gillan to discuss their ideas. For specific guidelines on these pieces, or to receive a list of books currently available for review, contact: kevin.gillan@manchester.ac.uk

Illustrations
Tables, figures and plates should not be inserted within the pages of the manuscript but should be submitted on separate sheets attached to the article.

Tables should be prepared with the minimum use of horizontal rules (usually three are sufficient) and avoiding vertical rules. It is important to provide clear copy of figures (not photocopies or faxes) which can be reproduced by the printer and do not require redrawing.

Photographs should be high resolution digital images, preferably in either TIFF or EPS formats. However we can also accept PICT or JPEG formats. The publisher will normally reproduce colour figures in black & white.

The desired position in the text for each table, figure and plate should be indicated in the margin of the manuscript. All captions for figures and plates (including sources and acknowledgements) should be listed on a separate sheet.

References
The Harvard reference system, preferred in this journal, uses the name of the author, the date of publication and, following quoted material, the page reference, as a key to the full bibliographic details set out in the list of references, e.g. Many composers . . . have attempted to return to this state of childhood (Swanwick, 1988, p. 56); several authors have noted this trend (Smith, 1970; Jones and Cook, 1968; Dobbs et al. 1973). [N.B. et al. to be used when there are three or more authors.] The date of publication cited must be the date of the source referred to; when using a republished book, a translation or a modern version of an older edition, however, the date of the original publication may also be given. Where there are two or more works by one author in the same year, these should be distinguished by using 1980a, 1980b, etc.

The reference list should include every work cited in the text. Please ensure that dates, spelling and titles used in the text are consistent with those listed in the References. The content and form of the reference list should conform to the following examples. Please note that page numbers are required for articles, both place of publication and name of publisher should be given for books and, where relevant, translator and date of first publication should be noted. Do not use et al. in the reference list; use surname and initials for each author.

Book/multiple author: Kay, J., Mayer, C. & Thompson, D. (1986) Privatization and Regulation (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

Article in edited volume: Kreile, M. (1992) The Political Economy of the New Germany, in: P.B. Strares (Ed.) The New Germany and the New Europe, pp. 55-92 (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution)

Article in journal: Streeck, W. & Schmitter, P.C. (1991) From Corporatism to Transnational Pluralism: Organised Interests in the Single European Market, Politics and Society, 19, pp. 133-64.

Edited text: Smith, A. (1976) [1776] An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Ed. R.H. Campbell, A.S. Skinner & W.B. Todd (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Translated text: Jaspers, K. (1983) General Human Resource Management, 7th edn, trans. J. Hoenig & M. Hamilton (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

Article in newspaper: Barber, L. (1993) The Towering Bureaucracy, Financial Times, 21 June 1997.

Unpublished: Zito, A. (1994) Epistemic Communities in European Policy-making, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Internet references
If your source of information is a book, a journal, a journal article which is published and just reproduced on the internet then follow the guidelines above, also adding the type of medium (e.g. on-line), how it is available (e.g. HTTP, Gopher, e-mail) and then the actual electronic address with the date the source was last accessed in brackets.

Internet source: As for print reference, plus:on-line. Available HTTP: http://www.ingres.com/~astanart/pritzker.html (accessed 4 June 1997) Journal etc. Not published elsewhere other than on the internet, then as above but leaving out the place name and publisher.

Electrohippies, (2001) Who Does the Internet Server?, On-line. http://www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/ehippies/archive (accessed 20 March 2001).

Message on a discussion board: Jones, A. (1997) Subject of message, Title of Discussion List. on-line posting. Available e-mail: listserv@american.edu (1 February 1998).

Personal e-mail message: Smith, B. (1996) Subject of message. On-line. E-mail: bsmith@org.com (30 July 1996)

Notes on style It would be helpful if contributors were to bear in mind the following points of style when preparing their papers, particularly if they are being submitted on disk.

Justification of text. If you are using a computer or wordprocessor, use unjustified mode. Leave the right margin ragged and avoid word divisions and hyphens at the end of lines. Only insert hard returns at the end of paragraphs or headings.

Punctuation Use a single (not a double) space after a full point, and after commas, colons, semicolons, etc. Do not put a space in front of a question mark, or in front of any other closing quotation mark.

Spelling. We prefer spellings to conform to the new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and to follow the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors. Use -ize, in preference to -ise as a verbal ending (e.g. realize, specialize, recognize, etc.). Note, however, several words correctly end in -ise (e.g. advertise, enfranchise, exercise, etc.); note also analyse (English spelling), analyze (American).

Initial capitalization. Please keep capitalization to a minimum. When possible use lower case for government, church, state, party, volume, etc.; north, south, etc. are only capitalized if used as part of a recognized place name e.g. Western Australia, South Africa; use lower case for general terms e.g. eastern France, south-west of Berlin.

Full points. Use full points after abbreviations (p.m., e.g., i.e., etc.) and contractions where the end of the word is cut (p., ed., ch.). Omit full points in acronyms (HMSO, USA, BBC, NATO, plc), after contractions which end in the last letter of the word (Dr, Mr, St, edn, eds, Ltd) and after metric units (cm, m, km, kg). Note especially ed. eds; vol. vols; no. nos; ch. chs, etc.

Italics. Indicate italics using either the italic font or by underlining, and use for titles of books, journals, newspapers, plays, films, long poems, paintings and ships. Extensive use of italic for emphasis should be avoided.

Quotations. Use single quotation marks for quoted material within the text; double quotation marks should only be used for quotes within quotes. Do not use leader dots at the beginning or end of a quotation unless the sense absolutely demands. For ellipsis within a quotation use three leader dots for a mid-sentence break, four if the break is followed by a new sentence. Quotations for over forty words should be extracted and indented and no quotation marks used.

Numerals. In general spell out numbers under 100; but use numerals for measurements (e.g. 12 km) and ages (e.g. 10 years old). Insert a comma for both thousands and tens of thousands (e.g. 1,000 and 20,000). Always use the minimum number of figures for ranged numbers and dates, e.g. 22—4, 105—6, 1966—7; but use 112—13, 1914—18, etc. for teen numbers. Use the percentage sign only in figures and tables; spell out per cent in the text using a numeral for the number (e.g. 84 per cent).

Dates. Set out as follows: 8 July 1990 (no comma), on 8 July, or on the 8th; 1990s (not spelt out, no apostrophes); nineteenth century (not 19th century) and insert hyphen when used adjectvally (e.g. nineteenth-century art).

En rules. Since there is no en rule on a standard keyboard, use a double hyphen for en rules, use these to link number spans (e.g. 24—8); to connect two items linked in a political context (e.g. Labour—Liberal alliance, Rome—Berlin axis) and to link the names of joint authors (e.g. Temple—Hardcastle project).

Proofs. Authors are expected to correct proofs quickly and any alteration to the original text is strongly discouraged.

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