INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

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Submission

Authors must submit their article electronically at our online submission site.

Book reviews should also be submitted to this address.

Enquiries about the appropriateness of manuscripts for Feminist Review should be directed to the Editorial Office at feminist-review@londonmet.ac.uk.

Submission of a paper to the journal will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Please read the instructions carefully before submitting your manuscript making sure your main manuscript file is anonymous (and contains the abstract and keywords which will also need to be pasted into the submission form) and that you upload a separate contact details/biographies file as directed. Incomplete submissions will be returned.

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Presentation of the paper

Submissions should be in English, typed in double spacing (including all notes and references) on one side of the paper, preferably of A4 size (English or US). Articles should be between 6,000-7,000 words in length. Print a word count at the end of the text, together with the date of the manuscript. Provide an abstract of 200-300 words with the article, plus a list of up to six keywords suitable for indexing and abstracting services.

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Electronic version

Authors are requested to send an electronic version of their article on disk, preferably as a Word file on acceptance of the manuscript. It is important that your typescript should be an exact printout of what is on the disk.

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Permissions

It is the author's responsibility to seek permission to reproduce both written and visual material in the text. The Feminist Review Collective does not have the resources to undertake these tasks on behalf of individual authors. Under a convention known as 'fair dealing', permissin is usually given free of charge for short extracts of not more than 400 words in one extract or a total of 800 words in a series of extracts, none to exceed 250 words. Permission must however be sought for one or more lines of poetry and for song lyrics. Permission must also be obtained to reproduce all illustrations, whether supplied by museums, agencies or private individuals, or taken from existing publications. Acknowledgement of source and copyright should be given in the caption. If you have had to obtain permission to reproduce such material, please supply copies of all relevant correspondence.

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The journal's policy is for the copyright to all contributions to be assigned to the Feminist Review Collective. Before publication authors assign copyright, but retain their rights to republish this material in other works written or edited by themselves subject to full acknowledgement of the original source 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.

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Illustrations, tables and figures

Each illustration, table and figure should be supplied on a separated sheet at the end of the article, with its position within the text clearly indicated in the margin on the page where it is introduced. Provide typed captions (including sources and acknowledgements) on a separate sheet. Illustrations, tables and figures should be numbered for identification. The text should always refer to 'Table 1' or 'Figure 1', never to 'the table below' or 'the above figure'. The typesetter will fit the tables and figures as near to the relevant reference as possible.

Tables should be prepared with the minimum use of horizontal rules (usually three are sufficient) and avoiding vertical rules. It is important to provide clear copy for figures (not photocopies or faxes) which can be reproduced by the printer and do not require redrawing. Photographs should be high-contrast black and white glossy prints. Each illustration, table and figure should be labelled on the back in soft pencil with the first author's surname, identification number and orientation.

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Notes

Notes should be avoided (they can often be taken into the text itself, sometimes in brackets). If notes are deemed necessary, however, they should be kept to a minimum and placed at the end of the article before the references on a separate sheet. Footnotes should be avoided. Notes should be indicated with superscript letters. Distinguish between notes, which elaborate or explain a point in the text, and references to sources and other published material.

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References

The Harvard reference system is used in this journal. In the text give the name of the author (use et al. for three or more authors), the date of publication and, following quoted material, the page reference - e.g. 'Many composers...have attempted to return to this state of childhood' (Swanwick, 1988:56); several authors have noted this trend (Smith, 1970; Jones and Cook, 1968; Dodds et al., 1973).

The date of publication cited must be the date of the source referred to; when using a republished book, a translation or a modern version of an older edition, however, the date of the original publication may also be given. Where there are two or more works by one author in the same year, these should be distinguished by using 1980a, 1980b, etc. References to material on the internet must be given in brackets in the text, not in the reference list. The full URL must be given (e.g. www.nature.com/onc/v18/n1/1234567.html).

The reference list should include every work cited in the text. Please ensure that dates, spelling and titles used are consistent with those listed in the reference list.

The content and form of the reference list should conform to the following examples. Please note that page numbers are required for articles, both place of publication and name of publisher should be given for books and, where relevant, translator and date of first publication should be noted. Do not use et al. in the reference list; list each authors' surnames and initials.

The following are sample references for different types of work. Please note the order of the items and the punctuation.

  • Thomson, R (1993) Unholy Alliances: The Recent Politics of Sex Education, London: Lawrence & Wishart.

  • Aggleton, P, Hart, G and Davies, P (1991) Editors, AIDS: Responses, Interventions and Care, London:Falmer.

  • Hunt, J (1975) 'Women and liberation' Marxism Today, Vol. 19, No.11:326-37.

  • Holland, J, Ramazanoglu, C, Scott, S, Sharpe, S and Thomson, R (1991b) 'Between embarrassment and trust: young women and the diversity of condom use' in Aggleton, Hart and Davies (1991).

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Proofs

The corresponding author receives a copy of the proofs, which should be returned within 48 hours. The only corrections made should be to answer copy editing queries or to correct typesetting errors.

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Offprints

A copy of the printed journal and article offprints (25, to be shared with co-authors) are dispatched to authors shortly after publication.

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Notes on style

Subheadings

Please check all your subheadings for consistency. It is not advisable to use more than three levels of subheadings as this leads to difficulties in setting and can also confuse the reader.

Quotations

Use single quotations for quoted material within the text; double quotation marks should only be used for quotes within quotes. Do not use leader dots at the beginning or end of a quotation unless the sense absolutely demands. For ellipsis within a quotation use three leader dots for a mid-sentence break, four if the break is followed by a new sentence. Quotations of more than forty words should begin on a fresh line and be distinguished by indentations. Quotation marks are not necessary for quotations set out this way. Do not change the spelling or punctuation in a quotation unless there is an obvious error, e.g. quotations from American books should retain American spelling.

Justification of text

If you are using a computer or wordprocessor, use unjustified mode. Leave the right margin ragged and avoid word divisions and hyphens at the ends of lines. Only insert hard returns at the end of paragraphs or headings.

Punctuation

Use single (not double) space after a full point, and after commas, colon, semicolons, etc. Do not put a space in front of a question mark, or in front of any other closing quotation mark.

Initial capitalization

Please keep capitalization to a minimum. When possible, use lower case for government, church, state, party. North, south, etc. are only capitalized if used as part of a recognised place name e.g. Western Australia, South Africa; use lower case for general terms e.g. eastern France, south-west of Berlin.

Spelling

Use Oxford spelling generally. Note that the house style is for the modern English - ize/yse spelling (organize, realize, analyse), but there are certain exceptions, such as the following:

  • advertise,
  • disguise,
  • premise,
  • advise,
  • enterprise,
  • prise (open),
  • comprise,
  • excise,
  • revise,
  • compromise,
  • exercise,
  • supervise,
  • despise,
  • improvise,
  • surmise,
  • devise,
  • televise,
  • treatise

Use the following spellings:

  • connexion,
  • good-bye,
  • near by (adv.),
  • near-by(adj.),
  • storey/storeys,
  • dispatch,
  • good-night,
  • today,
  • tomorrow,
  • tonight

Full points

Use full points after abbreviations (p.m. e.g., i.e., etc.) and contractions where the end of the word is cut (p., ed., ch.). Omit full points in acronyms (HMSO, USA, BBC, NATO, plc), after contractions which end in the last letter of the word (Dr, Mr, St, edn, Ltd) and after metric units (cm, m km, kg).

Numerals

In general spell out numbers under 100, but use numerals for measurements (e.g. 12 km) and ages (e.g. 10 years old). Insert a comma for both thousands and tens of thousands (e.g. 1,000 and 20,000). Always use the minimum number of figures for ranged numbers and dates, e.g. 22-4, 105-6, 1966-7; but use 112-13, 1914-18, etc. for 'teen numbers. Use the percentage sign only in figures and tables; spell out 'per cent' in the text using a numeral for the number (e.g. 84 per cent).

Dates

Set out as follows: 8 July 1990 (no comma), on 8 July, or on the 8th; 1990s (not spelt out, no apostrophe); nineteenth century (not 19th century and insert hyphen when used adjectivally (e.g. nineteenth-century art).

Book reviews

Please head your reviews with full publication details for the books reviewed in the following order:

  • Book title
  • Authors/editors (full name(s) as credited on the book)
  • Publisher/place of publication/Date of publication (year)
  • ISBN and price for paperback edition; ISBN and price for Hardback edition