Author guidelines

Formatting

It makes a huge difference to the ease of production if you read and adhere to the author guidelines when preparing your manuscript. If your submission does not follow these guidelines it may be returned to you for modification.

1. Title page
   The title page must be a single page and attached a the manuscripts first page and include all of the information below, in the same order. No further information should be included:
   
   
   1. Title of the manuscript
   2. Full name(s) of contributing authors including their institutions/affiliation and address, and their institutional email address (including ORCiD ID’s - see below note on ORCiD).
   3. The corresponding author(s) should be clearly identified and include their contact email address (normally this will be your university email address).
      
      
2. Abstract
   Present the abstract as an overview of your article (up to 250 words), giving a summary of the contents and major themes. (Note that this will ultimately be used by search engines, and it will form part of the meta-data that will be seen first by people searching your article.)
   
   
3. Keywords
   All articles must list a maximum of up to ten key words.
   
   
4. Main text
   The body of the submission should be structured in a logical and easy to follow manner. A clear introduction section should provide non-specialists in the subject with an understanding of the topic and a background to the issue(s) involved. Methods, results, discussion and conclusion sections may then follow to clearly detail the information and research being presented.
   
   
5. Headings and sub-headings
   Up to three level headings may be present and must be clearly identifiable using different font sizes, bold or italics. We suggest using Headings 1, 2 and 3 in MS-Word’s ‘Style’ section.
   
   
6. Notes
   The citation system used by this publication, requires the use of endnotes and a bibliography. Use endnotes rather than footnotes, for any additional notes and information. These appear at the end of the main text, before References. All notes should be used only where crucial clarifying information needs to be conveyed.
   
   
7. Funding and Acknowledgement statements
   1. Funding: All sources of funding for the research reported should be declared, including any project and grant codes and details.
   2. Acknowledgements: mentions everyone whose contribution to the work you wish to recognise.
      
      
8. Declarations and conflicts of interest statements
   Clearly state the following in the article as sub-headings:
   
   
   1. Conflicts of interest
      Clearly declare any possible conflicts of interest, including but not limited to financial and non-financial competing interests. Where there are no conflicts of interests or competing interests, authors must clearly declare this under the same heading. For further information, please refer to the journal’s Editorial Policy at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/editorial_policy.
      
      
   2. Ethics approval
      Authors are required to show in their articles that they have received ethical approval for their research from all relevant institutional review boards and that they have followed appropriate personal data protection regulations (e.g. EU General Data Protection Regulation and the UK Data Protection Act 2018) in the handling of personal data. Where such committees do not operate, authors are responsible for providing evidence of their adherence to relevant ethical guidelines for the subject. Where ethics approval is not applicable (e.g. due to the type of article) please indicate this as "N/A".
      
      
   3. Consent for publication
      For all articles involving human subjects, including any images, videos, and any other personal and identifiable information, authors must have secured informed consent to participate in the study and to publication before submitting to the journal, and a statement declaring this must be included in the article. Where consent for publication is not applicable (e.g. no such data is included) please indicate this as "N/A".
      
      
9. Data and supporting Information (including supplementary information and appendices, see below)
   


10. References/bibliography
    A full references list should contain all the sources cited in the text.

Data and supporting information

Data or information should not be submitted as supplementary information alongside the manuscript, but instead be included in the manuscript that forms part of the paper or deposited into a publicly available repository, depending on the type of data or information concerned. Where supporting information is included in the article that has no persistent identifier (for example, a Google survey), authors may be requested to deposit the information into a relevant data repository to ensure persistent access, have it registered to a DOI, and cite the DOI in the article.

ORCiD

ORCiD helps researchers record and report their work by providing researchers with a personal unique identifier that can be kept throughout their career. UCL Press journals now implement ORCiD in publications and authors are encouraged to register with ORCiD and enter their ORCiD details into their submission as a URL link or ORCiD number. To register, follow the instructions on the ORCiD web pages at https://orcid.org.

Referencing style

All references should follow the Notes and Bibliography (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html) or the Author-Date system (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html) of The Chicago Manual of Style (using British punctuation and spelling). 

Notes and Bibliography

The Notes and Bibliography system of documentation presents bibliographic information in a reference list; notes should be excluded from the reference list and made available as endnotes. In this system, sources are cited in numbered endnotes. Each numbered note corresponds to a raised (superscript) number in the text. Sources are also usually listed in a separate bibliography. If the bibliography includes the full reference details, the note need not duplicate the complete information. It is acceptable to use the shortened form in the note, even at first use, e.g. ‘Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, 101’. 

Avoid the use of ‘Ibid’, ‘As above’, etc. in endnotes when referencing. Please follow the examples below for style and punctuation (please note especially the use of capitals, italics and punctuation).

Important note: Please include the DOI for each referenced work as a full working link, for example:

Eichsteller, G., Cameron, C. ‘Editorial’. International Journal of Social Pedagogy, 2017, 6 (1), pp.1–5. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2017.v6.1.001

Book

Note

Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, 101.

Bibliography 

Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A natural history of four meals. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Chapter or other part of a book

In the note, cite specific pages. In the bibliography, include the page range for the chapter or part.

Note

Kelly, ‘Seeing Red’, 81.

Bibliography 

Kelly, John D. ‘Seeing Red: Mao fetishism, Pax Americana, and the moral economy of war’. In Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, edited by John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell, and Jeremy Walton, 67–83. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

E-book

For books consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database. For other types of e-books, name the format. If no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter or other number in the notes, if any (or simply omit).

Note

Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chap. 14.

Bibliography

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics, 2007. Kindle.

House style

Spelling

• Authors should consistently adopt British spelling conventions (except in quotations from other sources, where the spelling convention of the original should be retained, or where stipulated specifically in by the journal – for example World Health Organization).  

Punctuation

• Systems should consistently follow British conventions (except in quotations from other sources, where the punctuation convention of the original should be retained). British style uses single inverted commas, except for quotations within quotations (which have double inverted commas).
• Punctuation should follow closing inverted commas (except for grammatically complete sentences beginning with a capital).
• Punctuation should precede closing quotation marks (except for dashes, colons and semicolons, unless these are part of the quoted matter).

Hyphenation

• Please consult the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for guidance. Hyphenation must be used consistently throughout your text. 

Contractions and abbreviations

• If you need to use them please write in full at the first appearance with the abbreviation in brackets. You may repeat an abbreviation if it reappears later in your article.
• Abbreviations are usually expressed without full stops, e.g. GNP, USA, PhD
• British style contractions will have no full points (e.g. Mr, St, edn), though abbreviated words, which do not end with their final letter, will (e.g. vol., vols., ed., eds.) 

Capitalisation

• Keep capitalisation to a minimum and use only for proper nouns and formal names of organisations, etc.

Numbers and dates

• Spell out numbers up to but not including 10.
• Elide numbers to minimum digits, e.g. 233-4; dates, e.g. 1993-4. Do not elide in titles and headings.
• Centuries should be written as words not numbers, e.g. eighteenth century. Hyphenate if used as an adjective, e.g. eighteenth-century masterpiece.
• Dates as British usage: 18 August 2015.

Quotations

• Quotations should be indicated by single quotation marks but use double quotation marks for quotations within quotations.
• Indent quotations of more than 50 words.
• Quotations should remain exactly as they are in the original.

Acceptable language

• Please be sensitive in use of terms that might cause offence or be interpreted as racist or sexist; for example, avoid gender-specific pronouns where possible.

Revisions