INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
- Editor |
- Editorial Assistant |
- Editorial Advisory Board |
- Development |
- Submission |
- Length and submission |
- Complimentary Subscription and e-alerts |
- Volume 52 |
- The editorial process |
- House style |
- Quotations |
- Notes |
- References |
- Copyright |
Editor
Wendy Harcourt
Email: wendyh@sidint.org
Editorial Assistant
Kitt Bohn Willebergt
Email: kittb@sidint.org
www.sidint.org/development
Editorial Advisory Board
Ana Agostino, Franck Amalric, Fatma Alloo, Lourdes Arizpe, Tariq Banuri , Nicola Bullard, Arturo Escobar, Caroline Knowles, Arthur Muliro, Helen O’Connell, Duncan Okello, Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius, Smitu Kothari, Khawar Mumtaz, Jacqueline Pitanguy, Shobha Raghuram, Sadig Rasheed, Sanjay Reddy, Nermeen Shaikh, Yvonne Underhill-Sem and Gillian Youngs.
Top of pageDevelopment
Development is the flagship journal of the Society for International Development (SID). Since 1957 Development has explored the cutting edge issues of human-centred development. With alternative perspectives on civil society, development policy and community based strategies for livelihoods, gender and social justice, Development keeps readers up-to-date on the challenging issues of today’s rapidly changing world. (See below information for subscription and email alerts).
Development is published as a quarterly journal in March, June, September and December by Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the Society for International Development (SID). Selected content is available to view for free.
Top of pageSubmission
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. A review process undertaken by Editor, Guest Editor, members of the Editorial Advisory Board and an outside reviewer will determine if the article is to be published.
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The Editor will indicate how long your article should be. Roughly Thematic Articles are 3,500 words, including references. Dialogue articles are 3, 000 and Local and Global Encounters 1,500.
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;
- 2-3 line bio-note and description of organization where relevant;
- a 5 line abstract;
- 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 are working on providing translation but we regret to date we do not have those facilities. Articles should therefore be submitted in English. Special care will be taken to edit articles submitted by authors whose first language is not English.
Top of pageComplimentary Subscription and e-alerts
Authors on request will be given a complimentary SID membership for one year that automatically includes an annual subscription to the journal. We also ask authors to recommend institutions that would be able to buy copies at the most advantageous rates through Palgrave Macmillan.
We invite authors to register on the Palgrave Macmillan website to receive the free table-of-contents alerting service – e-alerts – by e-mail.
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Development Volume 52 takes ‘culture and identity’ as its theme. The volume will look at how development is responding to the fault lines of our fracturing global world. Culture and identity underpins political and economic decisions but too often is invisible or assumed rather than understood and debated. The issues examine four aspects of culture and identity:
52.1 sexuality and development
makes visible the many different forms of sexual identity and cultural practices around sexuality, presenting sex as a source of positive expression of self and community rather than as a dangerous and taboo topic for development;
Deadline: 30 November 2008
Publication date: March 2009
52.2 power, movements, change
highlights the dynamic cultures and identities in peoples’ movements produced as a report from the International AWID Forum on the power of movements (www.awid.org);
Deadline: 20 February
Publication date: June 2009
52.3 beyond markets
presents a critical look at our globalized culture of consumption driven by markets that has fuelled the current financial, climate and food crises;
Deadline: 20 May
Publication date: September 2009
52.4 xenophobias, culture and identity
explores the racism and neo colonialism that lurks below the surface of many social and economic conflicts that cannot afford to be ignored by development policy.
Deadline: 10 July
Publication date: December 2009
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 on time.
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 followed by a review process by the Guest Editor, members of the Editorial Advisory Board and an outside reviewer to determine if the article is to be published.
The author will be requested to sign a copyright form or permission to publish once the article is accepted. See below.
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.
Top of pageHouse Style
Please write in a clear and accessible style, free from jargon and specialized technology. 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: 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).
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.
Top of pageQuotations
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.
Top of pageNotes
Explanatory notes should be indicated by a number in brackets, following the punctuation of the sentence of 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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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, Rome: IFAD.
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.
Copyright
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 for this version and format of the article. 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. You will receive a PDF on publication that you can use for your own distribution purposes.
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 or permissions form must be completed, signed and returned before publication to the Editor who will pass it on to Palgrave Macmillan. Failure to arrange for permission to publish will preclude the article from publication.
Corresponding authors will receive a copy of the journal, a PDF of their article and on request 25 off-prints of their paper. Where an article has more than one author, 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.
