Notes for Contributors
Electronic Submission
Authors should send submissions by word email attachment to both Jan Parker (jan.parker@open.ac.uk) and Alison Phipps (a.phipps@educ.gla.ac.uk). Articles originating from North America should be sent to both Mary Huber (Huber@carnegiefoundation.org) and Jan Parker (jan.parker@open.ac.uk).
All submissions falling within the journals guidelines, including maximum word lengths (articles, 7000 words, case studies, 6500) will be doubly, anonymously and internationally refereed. Authors should ensure that they cannot be identified by in text references, citations or institutional affiliation.
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 submissions
o Articles should be between 4000 and 7000 words: AHHE will not publish overlong articles.
o Text should be clearly organized, with a clear hierarchy of heading and subheading and quotations exceeding 40 words displayed, indented in the text.
o For the purpose of blind refereeing, the 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. Authors should take responsibility for ensuring that they cannot be identified in any way in the main body of the article in order to protect anonymity.
o Submissions should be headed by an abstract of 100-150 words.
o The journal allows the use of notes where necessary. Endnotes should be signalled in the text by the use of superscript numbers and notes listed separately at the end of the article.
o References in both the text and in any endnotes should follow the Harvard system. References are cited in the text thus: author, date: page.
o An alphabetical references section should follow the text, using the standard form below:
~Books
Garber, M., ed. (2001) Academic Instincts. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
~Chapters in books
Bernstein, C. (2000) 'The art of immemorability', in J. Rothenberg and S. Clay (eds) A Book of the Book: Some Works and Projections about the Book and Writing, pp. 504-18. New York: Granary Books.
~Articles
Heath, J. (1999) 'Socrates redux: Classics in the multicultural university?'. Echos du Monde Classique/Classical Views 18: 85?101.
~Papers
Gibbons, M. (1998) 'Higher education relevance in the 21st century'. Paper presented at the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education, Paris, October.
~Websites
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (2000) 'Framing the questions: New visions from the arts and humanities at Berkeley'. University of California, Berkeley. Available at http:/1s.berkeley.edu/divisions/hum/framing/ (accessed 18 June 2000).
Tables
Tables should be typed (double-line spaced) on separate sheets and their positions 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, or if possible, on disk as either eps (all fonts embedded) or tiff files with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi (b/w only). Photographs should be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. For electronic supply, files should be of either tiff or eps format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. All artwork should be reproducible to a final printed area of 115 mm 185 mm.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproduction of any illustrations, tables, 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 used define them when first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language.
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).
Proofs and offprints
The corresponding (or first named) authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send corrections to the editors within two weeks. They will receive a complimentary copy of the journal per author and controlled access to a PDF of the final version of their article. Reviewers also receive controlled access to a PDF.
Books for review and review manuscripts should be sent to Michael Coventry, Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University, 3520 Prospect St. NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
