Guidelines for Contributors to Journal of Developing Societies
1. Please send your manuscript to the editor, Richard L Harris as an email attachment, preferable in MS Word format (e-mail: rharris@csumb.edu). Prospective contributors are encouraged to view the journal website [http:/jds.sagepub.com] and recent issues of the journal before submitting manuscripts.
2. 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.
3. Manuscripts should be double-spaced, with ample margins and bear the title of the contribution and the name(s) of the author(s) on a separate sheet of paper. The full postal address/phone/fax/email details of each author plus short biographical notes should also be included.
All pages should be numbered.
Contributions should normally be between 4000 and 10,000 words in length. They should include an abstract of about 100 words and up to six key words. The abstract should cover the overall purpose or research problem, stated early in the abstract, the methodology used, including the research design, sample, and data collection methods, a concise discussion of a few significant research findings and an overview of the main conclusions of the paper.
The journal uses notes where necessary. Historical documentary or archival sources should be cited in endnotes. Discursive endnotes are also allowed. Endnotes are signalled in the text by superscript numbers.
References in both the text and in any endnotes should follow Harvard style. References are cited in the text thus: author, date: page; and alphabetical References section should follow the text (and endnotes if any), using the Harvard system. Titles of journals should not be abbreviated.
Sample end references:
Rakowski, C. (2000) 'Obstacles and Opportunities to Women's Empowerment
Under Neoliberal Reform', Journal of Developing Societies 16(1): 115-38.
Stone, E. (1981) Women and the Cuban Revolution. New York: Pathfinder.
Keddie, N. (1992) 'Material Culture, Technology and Geography: Toward a
Holistic Comparative Study of Middle East', in J. Cole (ed.) Comparative Muslim Societies and State in a World Civilization, pp.23-48. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Kakuchi, S (2000) 'Reformers Shakes up Japan's Status Quo', Asia Times, 21
June, 39. [Accessed 17 January 2004 (http:/www.atimes.com/japam-econ/BF21Dh01.html).]
4. 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.
5. 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 preferable be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. Slides are also acceptable. Illustrations can also be supplied electronically at a resolution of at least 300 dpi, as .eps, .tif or .jpg files. They should be saved separately from the article file. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet.
6. Articles must be written in English. Use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms of acronyms must be included, define them when first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than he/she.
7. UK or US spellings may be used with '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize)
8. 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).
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