Notes for Authors
Cultural Geographies publishes scholarly research and informed commentaries on the cultural appropriation and politics of nature, environment place and space. Rather than being a sub-disciplinary journal, it welcomes contributions from the growing numbers of scholars and practitioners across the arts, humanities and social and environmental sciences who are interested in these cultural geographies.
Cultural Geographies is especially committed to the development of interpretative approaches to these issues. It does not restrict its remit to any particular methodological or theoretical orientation, but publishes both scholarly papers and more speculative pieces designed to further understanding and debate.
Submission
Cultural Geographies is hosted on ScholarOne™ Manuscripts, a web based online submission and peer review system - SAGE track. Please read the Manuscript Submission guidelines below, and then simply visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/culturalgeog to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is possible that you will have had an account created.
All papers must be submitted via the online system. If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, please refer to the contact details below.
Cultural Geographies is a refereed journal.[ Articles should not normally be be less than 4000 words and average about 8000].
Dr Tim Cresswell
Department of Geography
Royal Holloway
Egham Hill, Surrey
TW20 0EX
UK
E-mail: tim.cresswell@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Dydia DeLyser
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
USA
E-mail: dydia@lsu.edu
Cultural geographies in practice
This section of the journal offers a space for critical reflection on how practices within the artistic, civic and policy fields inform and relate to the journal's cultural geographic concerns. It acknowledges, presents and discusses the intellectual and practical engagement with the journal's interests beyond a narrowly conceived academy. As well as academic reviewers we particularly encourage submissions from practitioners beyond the academy or from collaborations between academics and other individuals and groups. The cultural geographies essay exists as a forum for shorter, more reflective pieces and allows authors to submit material which might not be appropriate for full-length articles. Pieces for the 'Cultural Geographies in Practice' section of the journal will normally be between 800 and 2000 words (or of equivalent length). Submissions should be through SAGE Track as above. Enquiries should be addressed to:
George Henderson
Department of Geography
University of Minnesota
414 Social Sciences
267 - 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
E-mail: hende057@umn.edu
David Matless
School of Geography,
The University of Nottingham,
University Park,
Nottingham,
NG7 2RD
UK
E-mail: david.matless@nottingham.ac.uk
Book Reviews
Any book reviews or books for review should be sent to the book reviews editor Scott Kirsch:
Scott Kirsch
Department of Geography
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3220
E-mail: kirsch@email.unc.edu
1. Article Presentation
Your paper should be submitted in double-spaced typescript.
2. The Copy
Microsoft Word is the preferred word processor. No artwork should be included in the text files. Any artwork provided should be in either TIFF or JPG format. Each piece of artwork should be saved as a separate file. When preparing your paper:
- Use the minimum formatting.
- Roman, bold and italic type can be used, but use only one typeface and size.
- Capitals should be used only where they are to appear in the finished text.
- The text should be ranged left and unjustified, with hyphenation cancelled.
- Indents, underlining and tabs should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
- Headings and paragraphs should be separated by two carriage returns.
- There should be only one space between words and only one space after
any punctuation.
3. The Typescript
The typescript should be prepared on good quality A4 or quarto paper, double-spaced and with generous margins at head, foot and left- and right-hand margins. The right-hand margin should not be justified.
The title page should give (a) the title of the paper; (b) a running title of up to 8 words; (c) the name(s) and address(es) of the author(s); and (d) the address, telephone and fax numbers; and email address of the corresponding author (to whom queries, proofs and pdf offprints will be sent).
4. Style
Please follow these notes:
(i) Use `z' not `s' where there is an alternative, and in general follow the first variant
given by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (e.g., realize, idealize, analyse, advertise).
(ii) Use SI units.
(iii) Dates: `16 January 1990' not `January 16, 1990'.
(iv) Numbers: adopt a rule that all numbers under 10 should be spelt out in letters
except where attached to a unit of quantity (e.g., 1 mm or 3 kg), and that all numbers of 10 or more should be rendered in digits except where the context makes this awkward (e.g., use spelt-out forms at the beginning of a sentence). Write numbers as 1-3, 113-4, 1,003-14. Write 0.5, 0.67 not .5, .67 etc.
(v) Capitalization: avoid excessive capitalization.
Titles:
King John. The King says but a king must. The Minister for Information, but the minister of a church. The Foreign Secretary, the Duke of Buccleuch, but a duke, a bishop. Hyphenated titles are capitalized in both parts; Major-General, Vice-President, etc.
Geographical:
North, South, East, West if part of the title of an area or a political division, e.g. South Africa, Western Europe, Western capitalism, but not if they are descriptions in general terms, e.g. the south of Scotland, south-west California, western winds.
Brand names:
Vaseline, Thermos, Spitfire.
Institutions:
The state, the church but the State of Indiana, the Roman Catholic Church. Parliament but parliamentary behaviour, parliamentarians. Communism and Fascism take capitals but capitalism, syndicalism, social democracy, socialism, the press (of newspapers).
Political/Military:
The Republican Party, but the party; the Tory government and the government, government policy. The Great War was the war to end all wars. The British Army, the officer corps, army ways, the army fought till death. A coalition was formed, the Lloyd George Coalition Government. The left of the party, left-wing politics. The Roman Empire, the politics of empire, Roman imperialsm. The Ministry of Defence, the Ministries of Defence and Agriculture.
(vi) Italics: use italics for emphasis very sparingly.
(vii) Abbreviations: the initial letter of abbreviations should be typed with no full point
(e.g., UK, UNESCO, BBC). Abbreviations in which the last letter of the abbreviation is the same as the last letter of the word should also have no full point (e.g., Mr , St, BUT no., Str., etc.).
5. Headings
In dividing articles under headings, please weight your headings by writing A, B, C etc. in the margin of the page:
A: subheading numbered I, II, III etc.
B: subsubheading 1, 2, 3 etc.
C: subsubsubheading a, b, c etc.
Please avoid using more than three levels of subheading.
6. Illustrations
All maps, diagrams, figures and graphs should be submitted in the form of completed artwork suitable for reproduction. They should be separate from the typescript (with a list of captions in a separate file)), but their place in the text should be marked.
(i) Line diagrams: No illustration (including caption) will be given more space than the text area of the journal page ie, 204 mm x 144 mm. Figures should ideally be drawn for a reduction of one-third (remember labelling will be reduced too) i.e., 3:2 or 150:100 mm. Where possible, all figures should be drawn for the same reduction.
All lines in a drawing should be of even weight. If tints are required the letraset range is the most suitable. Do not use too fine a tint as this may result in a blotchy appearance after reduction. Lettering should be of graphic design standard, should be of even weight and should follow the usual typographical style.
(ii) Photographs: Photographs do not have to be of a constant reduction. The degree of reduction should, however, be marked on the back, and any areas which are not required should also be marked. The limitations as to size are the same as for line diagrams. The prints should be high-quality glossy prints, showing as much contrast as possible. All costs for reproducing figures in colour must be met by the author.
7. Tables
Tables should be saved as separate files. Indicate in the margin of the text where the tables should be placed.
8. Footnotes
Footnotes should be avoided, although a title-page footnote may be used to give details of the address at which work pertaining to an article was carried out if this is different from the author's current affiliation. All other acknowledgements should be placed at the end of the article.
If used,footnotes should be double spaced and be presented at the end of the main text.
9. References
References should follow the 'Humane' System. They should be double-spaced and numbered in the order in which they appear in the text, and should be given in endnotes. For titles of books and articles, capitals should be used for the initial letter of the first word only. For the titles of journals and series, the initial letter of all principal words should be capitalized.
References should be set out as follows:
(a) Book: Author, title, (place of publication, publisher, date), volume number (in roman capital numerals), page reference.
e.g., Increase Mather, Life and death of Richard Mather (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1969), pp. 10-11.
subsequently: Mather, Richard Mather, p.12.
(b) Edited text
e.g., Edward, Earl of Clarendon, History of the rebellion ed. W.D.Macray (6 vols.,
Oxford, 1888) V, p.288.
subsequently: Clarendon, History V, p. 384.
(c) Edited documents
e.g., S.R.Gardiner, ed., Constitutional documents of the Puritan revolution (Oxford, OUP 1906), p.102.
subsequently: Gardiner, Constitutional documents, p. 114.
(d) Manuscript documents
e.g., Calendar of state papers domestic (CSPD) 1640, p. 634.
subsequently: CSPD 1640, p.555.
(e) Journal articles: Author, title, journal, volume number (date), page references.
e.g., P.Roebuck, `The constables of Evingham', Recusant History 9 (1956), pp.75-77.
subsequently: Roebuck, `Evingham', p.75.
(f) Collections of essays or articles: Author, title of essay, in editor, book title (place
of publication, publisher, date), page reference.
e.g., K.Lindley, `The part played by the Catholics', in Brian Manning, ed., Politics,
Religion and the English Civil War (London, Edward Arnold, 1973), p.145.
subsequently: Lindley, `Catholics', p.150
The above system obviates the need for `ibid.', except in consecutive endnotes, e.g.,
endnote 1: CSPD 1640, p.555.
endnote 2: ibid., p.123.
Please avoid other Latin or latinate terms, such as `op. cit.', `loc. cit.' etc.
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