Aims and Scopes
Now in its third year as an ISI rated journal Ethnicities is a fully peer reviewed journal with an impressive international reputation and focus. As a genuinely cross-disciplinary journal centred on sociology and politics Ethnicities provides the very best critical, interdisciplinary dialogue on questions of ethnicity, nationalism and related issues such as identity politics and minority rights.
Submission of mss
Authors should retain one copy of their manuscript and send two identical copies, each fully numbered and typed in double spacing throughout, on one side only of white A4 or US standard size paper, and a CD version to: Stephen May and Tariq Modood, Editors, Ethnicities, Sociology Department, University of Bristol, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UQ, UK. Email: ethnicities-journal@bristol.ac.uk
Covering letter
Please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal.
Format of mss
Each manuscript should contain:
· title page with full title and subtitle (if any). For the purposes of blind refereeing, full name of each author with current affiliation and full address/phone/fax/email details plus short biographical note should be supplied on a separate sheet.
· abstract of 100-150 words and up to 10 key words
· main text and word count -- suggested target is about 7000 to 8000 words. Text to be clearly organized, with a clear hierarchy of headings and subheadings and quotations exceeding 40 words displayed, indented, in the text.
· end notes (if necessary) rather than footnotes, which should be signalled in the text by superscript numbers and supplied as a list at the end of the ms
· references should be cited in the text by author and date (Parekh, 2000) with a full alphabetical listing (examples below) at the end of the article:
Books and articles in books
Parekh, B. (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory. London: Macmillan.
Hamelink, C. (2000) 'Human Rights: The Next Fifty Years', in R. Phillipson (ed.) Rights to Language: Equity, Power and Education, pp. 62-6. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Journals
Levine, H. (1999) 'Reconstructing Ethnicity', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5(2): 165-80.
Papers
Costa, J. and Wynants, S. (1999) 'Catalan Linguistic Policy Act: External Protection or Internal Restriction?', paper presented to the Nationalism, Identity and Minority Rights Conference, University of Bristol, September.
Websites
Indigenous Delegates Consensus Statement (1994) Fourth World Documentation Project [http://www.cwis.org/fwdp.html], file IPPM_4.TXT
Tables
Tables should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables.
Illustrations
All line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing), each on a separate A4 sheet. They should be reproducible to a final printed text area of 115 mm x 185 mm. Photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. Slides are also acceptable. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
Style
Articles must be written in English. Use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, define them when first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than he/she.
Spellings
UK or US spellings may be used with '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize).
Punctuation
Use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Dates should be presented in the form 1 May 1998. Do not use points in abbreviations, contractions or acronyms (e.g. AD, USA, Dr, PhD)
Copyright
Before publication authors are requested to assign copyright to Sage Publications, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be published preferably at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.
Proofs
Authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send corrections to SAGE. Authors will receive a bound journal copy and access to the final pdf of their article. A maximum of 5 journal copies will be supplied for multi-authored articles. These will be supplied to the main author
Books for review and manuscripts of reviews should be sent to the Editorial Assistant, Ethnicities, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Sociology Department, University of Bristol, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UQ, UK.
Email: ethnicities-journal@bristol.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Sociology
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