INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

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Editor

Wendy Harcourt
Email: wendyh@sidint.org

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Introduction

Development is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the Society for International Development (SID). View a sample issue online.

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Submission

Each issue of Development has a thematic focus and most of the articles are commissioned and refereed by subject specialists. Unsolicited articles may be accepted for the 'Dialogue' section of the journal, after review by an external referee. Themes for Volume 49 (2006) are:

Development 49.1

Women's Rights in Development
Lead article Joanna Kerr
Papers from the AWID Forum on How Does Change Happen?

Development 49.2

Tracking the Money
Lead article Kleber Ghimire
With UNRISD a candid look at the relations between donors, NGOs and social movements.

Development 49.3

Conflict Over Natural Resources
Lead article Arturo Escobar
On natural resource management, the Earth Charter and conflicts over natural resources.

Development 49.4

New Technologies and Development
Lead article Marsha Tyson Darling
Exploring a cutting edge topic with international activists and scholars working on new technologies and its impact on development.

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Length and submission

Thematic articles are generally 3,000 words, including references, and shorter articles for the Upfront and Local/Global Encounters and Dialogue sections are up to 2,000 words. Please observe the word limit and given deadline.

Articles should be sent as a Word attachment to the Editor accompanied by the following information:

  • title of the article, author(s)' full names, position and affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address;
  • a 2-3 line bio-note and description of organization where relevant;
  • a 5 line abstract;
  • 5-7 keywords to describe the article (other than words featuring in the title).

This information will be used while preparing the article, for the Who's Who section and for follow-up on the journal's publication.

We regret that we do not have translation facilities at the SID Secretariat. Articles should therefore be submitted in English. Special care will be taken to edit articles submitted by authors whose first language is not English.

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The editorial process

The editorial and production process of each issue takes between 4 and 5 months and it is therefore necessary to submit your article well in advance of the month of publication.

The Editor is available to assist you at all stages in the preparation of your article, including help with language and commenting on earlier drafts. Once your draft is submitted, you will receive an acknowledgement and, unless major changes are necessary, a light edit will be carried out by the Editor to ensure that it is clear and coherent.

A complete process of copy-editing and proofing will then be done by the Editor working with a copy-editor at Palgrave Macmillan. After copy-editing a proof will be available on the Palgrave Macmillan e-proofing web site for authors to check within a specified time. Any small corrections and answers to queries must be returned to the Editor within that time. Please note all editorial queries must be directed to the Editor not to the publisher.

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Clearing Permissions

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing through any medium of communication those illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Add your acknowledgements to the typescript, preferably in the form of an Acknowledgements section at the end of the paper. Credit the source and copyright of photographs or figures in the accompanying captions.

Authors are required to grant an exclusive publishing licence to SID, so that we can ensure the best possible dissemination of the journal, including electronically. Of course, you may re-use your article after it has been published in Development, provided you acknowledge Development as the original place of publication.

The journal mandates the Copyright Clearance Center in the USA and the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK to offer centralized licensing arrangements for photocopying in their respective territories.

A copyright form must be completed, signed and returned before publication to Palgrave Macmillan. Please send to:
Emma Ross at
Palgrave Macmillan
Houndsmills
Basingstoke
Hampshire RG21 6X5
UK
fax: +44-1256-479476 or +44-1256-321469

Failure to sign a copyright form will preclude the article from publication.

Corresponding authors will receive a copy of the journal, a PDF of their article, and on request to Emma Ross (e.ross@palgrave.com) 25 off-prints of their paper. Where an article has more than one author, then the publisher will also supply those additional authors with a copy of the journal and a PDF of the article. In addition authors are encouraged to subscribe and to suggest names of people and institutions whom should receive a copy of the journal, with a view to subscription.

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House style

Please write in a clear and accessible style, free from jargon and specialized terminology. Essential technical terms should be defined, and acronyms spelt out when used for the first time. Please use non-sexist language, e.g. 'chairperson' not 'chairman', 'humankind' not 'mankind', 'they' not 'he', etc.

Title and main headings:

Please mark these in bold text. Use initial capital letters for important words before any colon but for only the first word after the colon, e.g. The Politics of Aid: A new framework for development cooperation.

Sub-headings:

Please mark these in bold text. Use lower case after the first word, e.g. Conclusions and policy implications.

Layout:

Please do not use complicated systems of indentation. Use bullet points not numbers.

Spelling:

Spelling is based on the New Oxford Dictionary of English. Use British English spelling (e.g. neighbour not neighbor, colour not color, etc.), and 'ize' ending (e.g. organize not organise, organization not organisation).

Capitalization:

Use capital letters for North, South, East, West but not northern, southern, eastern, western.

Numbers:

Please spell out one to twelve, and use figures from 13 onwards. Please give a US dollar (US$) equivalent of other currencies.

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Quotations

Quotations longer than two lines should be indented and do not need quotation marks. Short quotes should be included within the body of the text, marked with single quotation marks.

Quotations should be followed by indication of source with the full stop after the source and not before, e.g.:

The 'new information society' has nothing to do with the traditional concept of 'information'. Today 'information' includes many disciplines which - in terms of channels, contents, applications and components - are found in every process in contemporary society (Savio, 2002: 19).

The source should be indicated for all quotes (even very short ones) or any reference made to the work of other writers. Information obtained by means of personal communications should be acknowledged as such.

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Notes

Explanatory notes should be indicated by a number in brackets, following the punctuation of the sentence or phrase to which it refers.(1) Please do not use the Footnotes/endnotes facility. Notes should be laid out as normal text and placed all together at the end of the article before the Reference section.

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References

Please use the Harvard-style system (surname and date) indicated in the text (Rasheed, 1998: 133-35). Multiple references should appear in date order (Daly, 1989; Robertson, 1990: 34; Martinez, 1995).

References to material on the Internet should be given in brackets in the text, not in the reference list. The full URL should be given as well as the date of access.

Example: (http://www.unrisd.org/, accessed 15 July 2003)

All references in the text should be listed alphabetically in the References section at the end of the article. Books not quoted in the text but deemed important for research on the subject could be included in a list of Suggested reading after the References section. Authors will be asked to resubmit their article if they do not follow house style.

Please observe the following style:

Books

Griffen, Gabriele and Rosi Braidotti (eds.) (2002) Thinking Differently: A reader in European women's studies, London: Zed Books.

Chapters in a book

Colini, Marina (2002) 'Women's Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Biopolitics in Europe', in Gabriele Griffen and Rosi Braidotti (eds.) Thinking Differently: A reader in European women's studies, London: Zed Books.

Articles in journals

Hamelink, Cees J. (2002) 'Social Development, Information and Knowledge', Development 45(4): 5-9.

Unpublished reports

IFAD (2003) 'Women as Agents of Change: Roundtable discussion paper for the 25th anniversary session of IFAD's Governing Council', unpublished report, IFAD: Rome.

Conference papers

Karam, Azza (2002) 'Women, War and Religion', paper given at a conference on 'Religious Women, Children, Armed Conflict: Multiple Challenges, Unique opportunities', Cordoba, Spain, 18-20 March 2002.

Unauthored articles in newspapers

The Times (2003) 'Towards a Just Economy', 19 January.