The Editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) welcomes the submission of material on race and ethnic relations, racial inequality, racism, ethnicity, migration and related subjects. The main focus of the journal's coverage is advanced societies, particularly, but by no means exclusively, in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific. Manuscripts should be sent to: The Editor, JEMS, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9SJ, UK. Submissions should also be made by e-mail attachment to jems@sussex.ac.uk – please follow the guidance below. All submissions will be acknowledged.

The preferred length for articles is between 5,000 and 8,000 words. Longer articles may be accepted at the discretion of the Editor. All submitted articles must be original and not be under consideration by any other journal. Unsolicited articles are referred to specialist readers for anonymous comment before a decision is made on publication. The Research Note section carries shorter pieces, typically of 2,000–3,000 words. Comments on any aspect within the journal's field of coverage which is of current interest and importance, along with comments on articles previously published in JEMS may be submitted to the journal's Debates section. Authors' attention is also drawn to the information on style and presentation which is given below. Articles which do not conform to the following will be returned for modification before being read. Please read this carefully.

Format

• Submissions should be accompanied by a covering letter confirming that the manuscript is original and not under consideration elsewhere. Full contact details for the author(s) should be supplied.
• Submission by post: authors should submit one double-spaced, typed copy on A4 paper with margins on all four sides of at least 2½ cm. Each page, including tables, figures, maps, references and notes, should be numbered. Use only one side of the paper. An electronic version should also be submitted to jems@sussex.ac.uk – see below for details.
• Submission by e-mail: When submitting an electronic version of their paper (this can be done by e-mail, or by posting a CD), authors should indicate the software used, and whether the disk has been processed on a PC or on an Apple-MacIntosh computer. Tables, figures and maps should be saved in separate files and not embedded in the text. For notes and references, please use numbered/alphabetical lists rather than automatic note or bookmark formats. Please also note the further guidance given below on tables and figures, and on notes.
• Title, author name(s) and a brief biographical note on each author should be typed on a separate page. An abstract of 100–200 words should accompany article submissions. Authors should supply up to five keywords. Abstracts are not required for Debates.
• Up to three categories of sub-titles may be used. The first paragraph after a subtitle is not indented, whereas subsequent paragraphs are.
• Tables and figures should submitted as separate electronic files, be kept as simple as possible, clearly set out, with adequate headings and source information. Do not place illustration files within the text. Where possible, tables should be created as Word Tables, and graphs should be created and saved in Excel. All tables, graphs and figures must be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are referred to in the text (eg ‘Table 1 about here'). No table, graph or figure must exceed the page dimensions of 125 x 210mm.
  All figures originating from drawing programmes (eg Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw) should be submitted in both the originating programme and as .jpg files. Continuous tone images (e.g. photographs) should be saved as .tif files at a minimum of 300dpi. Use Ariel or Helvetica fonts for text within figures, ensuring that text size does not fall below 7pt when the illustration is at page size.

 

Style

• Authors who do not have native or equivalent proficiency in English are encouraged to have the manuscript read by someone with this proficiency prior to submission.
• Numbers up to ten should be written in words, except for measurements. Metric measurements are preferred. Percentages should be written ‘per cent', not ‘%'.
• Abbreviations are written without full stops (USA, ILO, etc.). Quotations should be enclosed in single quotation marks, except for quotes within quotes which should be enclosed in double quotation marks. Long quotations (three lines or more) should be typed as an indented paragraph, single spaced, without quotation marks.
• Dates should be written 21 October 1961, the 1940s (no apostrophe), twentieth century (no capital, hyphen only when used as an adjective).
• Spell with –ise rather than –ize. Underline or italicise the titles of words and phrases not in English. Titles of chapters or articles in the references are not italicised, regardless of the language they are in.

 

Terminology

• Male or female nouns and pronouns should not be used to refer to people of both sexes. Terms such as ‘black', ‘Asian' or ‘foreigner' should be used with care to ensure, as far as possible, that those so designated accept these labels or that they are accurate. Terminology with derogatory connotations (e.g. ‘immigrant' for non-migrants, ‘coloured' etc.) is not permitted.

 

Notes and acknowledgements

• A limited number of explanatory end notes are permitted and these should be indicated serially within the paper. For technical reasons of computer software compatibility, authors should not use automatic note formats, but simply indicate notes with superscript numbers and list the notes as ordinary text at the end of the article, before the references. Endnotes should not be used for citations.
• Acknowledgements appear under a separate subtitle and are positioned before the Notes and References.

 

References

• Secondary works are cited in the text as follows: (Stewart 1997: 21) and an alphabetical listing of references appears at the end. Where there are no named authors, the name of the appropriate body should be used, e.g. Commission Nationale Consultative des Droits de l'Homme (1991). Only works referred to in the text should be listed and conversely, all references given in the text must appear in the listing. References to more than one publication by the same author in the same year should be distinguished by a, b, c etc. The abbreviated author and date reference should be placed in parenthesis unless the name forms part of the text, e.g.:
  
  Alejandro Portes (1996) has suggested….
  
  A page number must be given where a direct quotation is made, e.g.:
  
  As Barbara Tizard and Ann Phoenix contentiously suggested, 'the psychological objections to transracial adoption are not well grounded in either empirical data or theory' (1989: 436).

The style for the references is as follows:

• for books:
  Banton, M. (1997) Ethnic and Racial Consciousness. New York: Addison Wesley Longman Ltd.
• for articles in books:
  Vishnevski, A. and Zayonchovskaya, Z. (1994) ‘Emigration from the former USSR: the fourth wave', in Fassman, H. and Münz, R. (eds) European Migration in the Late 20th Century. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 239–60.
• for articles in journals:
  Meinhof, U.H. and Galasinski, D. (2002) ‘Reconfiguring East–West identities: cross-generational discourses in German and Polish border communities', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 28(1): 63–82.

 

Libel

• Attention is drawn to the fact that the acceptance of an article, report or review is conditional upon its author or authors having ensured that it contains nothing which is libellous, defamatory or in breach of copyright. Agreement by authors to the publication of their material necessarily implies acceptance of this condition.

 

Reviews

• Book reviews should follow the format and style indicated above and should be submitted by email to jemsbks@sussex.ac.uk Reviews should not exceed 750 words for single books, or 1,000 words for double reviews. The extent of multiple reviews or review essays should be agreed with the editorial office. The following details should appear at the head of a review: author or editor name(s), title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, number of pages, price and format (cloth/hardback/paperback), along with ISBN number. Book reviews are proof-read internally. Reviewers do not receive a fee, but may normally retain the book.

 

Proofs

• Near-final page proofs of articles, research notes, debates and review essays are sent to the author, who must return them within the specified deadline to JEMS. Requests for amendments must be kept to a minimum and the Editor's decision will be final. Final page proofs are checked by the JEMS editorial team.

 

Author issues and offprints

• Authors receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which their contribution appears. In the case of a jointly-authored paper, one complimentary copy of the issue is sent to the lead author only. Corresponding authors are also entitled to perpetual access to the online version of their article at www.informaworld.com/jems. Fifty complimentary reprints of the article may be ordered through Rightslink® — details will be sent to the lead author by email.

 

Copyright

• It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis [or society name] . 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 retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.