Notes for Authors
Progress in Human Geography is an international review of geographical research in the social sciences and humanities. It is currently published six times per year. PiHG focuses on reviews of current research in human geography, methodological and theoretical developments in the field, interconnections with related disciplines, and the relevance of such work to the wider world.
In preparing a paper for submission to PiHG, you should not be uncritically exhaustive in synthesizing research but might concentrate on the most promising and productive trends and developments. Aim at the widest possible international coverage and consider the relevance of tangential or parallel developments in other fields. Wherever possible, you should explore cross-disciplinary links and evaluate the wider intellectual and, where relevant, the wider practical significance of your arguments and the research to which they relate.
As a journal concerned primarily with critical reviews of current issues (philosophical, conceptual, theoretical, epistemological, methodological and ontological....) in human geography, PiHG does not publish the results of empirical work or accounts of detailed cases. Sometimes the inclusion of some empirical and/or methodological illustration in a paper submitted to the journal may be helpful in presenting the wider argument. But a paper which is primarily concerned with reporting detailed cases or the results of empirical work, no matter how well founded that work is in wider conceptual and methodological contexts, is probably not suited to PiHG and might best be sent to another journal.
Papers are accepted for consideration on the understanding that they are not being submitted elsewhere.
Papers should not normally be less than 4000 words in length and should NOT EXCEED 8000 words (inclusive of endnotes but excluding Bibliography).
The language of the journal is English.
Submissions:
All submissions should be made online at the Progress in Human Geography SAGETRACK website http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/PiHG
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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 (eg, 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 (eg, 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 (eg, use spelt-out forms at the beginning of a sentence).
(v) Capitalization: avoid excessive capitalization. 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.
(vi) Italics: use italics for emphasis very sparingly.
(vii) Abbreviations: the initial letter of abbreviations should be typed with no full point (eg, 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 (eg, Mr, St, BUT no., Str., etc.).
Headings:
In dividing articles under headings, please weight your headings by writing A, B, C 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 weights of subheading.
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 on a separate sheet), 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 156 mm. Figures should ideally be drawn for a reduction of one-third i.e., 3:2 or 150:100 mm. Where possible, all figures should be drawn for the same reduction.
Drawings should be on stiff white paper, white card or a drawing material such as kodatrace.
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 cost for reproducing figures in colour must be met by the author.
Tables:
Tables should be typed on separate sheets. Indicate in the text where the tables should be placed.
Footnotes:
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. Other notes are permissable but should be kept to a minimum and placed at the end of the text. Acknowledgements should be placed at the end of the article, under that heading.
References:
References should follow the Harvard system and should only include material already published or accepted for publication ie, not `submitted' or `in preparation'. In the typescript references should be indicated by giving the author's name and the year of publication (with page references where necessary).
For example:
'...a quality which Liebenstein (1967: 153) calls "x-efficiency"'.
'Piaget points out that "between two structures of different levels there can be no one-way reduction, but rather there is reciprocal assimilation..." (1972a: 93)'.
The references should be listed in full at the end of the article double-spaced, in alphabetical order and in the following form:
(a) Journal article
Liebenstein, H. 1966: Allocative efficiency versus x-efficiency. American Economic Review 61, 392-415.
(ie, no quote marks round the title of the article and minimum capitalization).
(b) Book
Olson, M. 1965: The logic of collective action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
(c) Article in a book
Wiesbrod, B.A. 1965: Geographic spillover effects and the allocation of resources to education. In Margolis, J., editor, The public economy of urban communities, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 33-50.
(d) Book in a series
Bunge, W. 1966: Theoretical geography, second edition. Lund Studies in Geography, Series C, General and Mathematical Geography 1, Lund: Gleerup.
Notes
(i) Please indicate in brackets at the end of the references the number of pages in mimeographed articles and publications.
(ii) If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b, c etc. should be added to the year of publication (eg, 1972a, 1972b etc.).
(iii) The use of the phrase et al. (= et alia) to indicate multiple authorship is permissible in the text, but not in the list of references, where all names should be given.
(iv) No journal titles should be abbreviated. If in exceptional circumstances any abbreviations are used, then they should be listed at the beginning of the references.
(v) If a reference is unpublished please indicate where it can be obtained.
(vi) For books where the author is editor of the volume this should be clearly marked in the references.
Supplemental online material:
The journal is happy to consider submitted supplemental materials online. Supplemental materials must be directly related to the article that they are connected with. They should be files that were used to create the research (such as datasets) or be additional pieces to the article that could not be included in the print version (such as audio/ video material that is impossible to produce in print form).
Supplemental files will be subjected to peer-review alongside the article.
Supplemental files will be uploaded as supplied. They will not be checked for accuracy, copyedited, typeset or proofread. The responsibility for scientific accuracy and file functionality remains with the authors. A disclaimer will be displayed to this effect with any supplemental material published. SAGE does not provide technical support for the creation of supplemental material.
File formats
General:
Any standard MS office format (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Access, etc.)
PDF
Graphics:
GIF, TIF (or TIFF), EPS, PNG, JPG (or JPEG), BMP, PS (postscript).
Embedded graphics (i.e. a GIF pasted into a Word file) are also acceptable.
Audio:
MP3, AAC, WMA.
Video:
Quicktime, MPEG, AVI.
All video clips must be created with commonly-used codecs, and the codec used should be noted in the supplemental material legend. Video files should be tested for playback before submission, preferably on computers not used for its creation, to check for any compatibility issues.
SAGE will not host codec files, or be responsible for supporting video supplemental material where the codec used is non-standard.
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