INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

• Notes to contributors |
• Presentation |
• Spelling |
• Figures |
• Proofs |
• PDF |
• Copyright |
• Books for review |
• Submissions to Field Notes |

Notes to contributors

The editorial board welcomes articles, commentaries and shorter papers that address the intersection between psychoanalysis, culture, and society with particular reference to social and political issues, social justice and praxis. We also welcome papers that address the relationship between the social world and clinical practice. We are interested in ongoing research and as such we regularly publish field notes. Occasionally we publish articles that address key psychoanalytic concepts and the way in which these ideas have an impact on everyday life.

Articles and key psychoanalytic concepts should not normally exceed 8,000 words in length. Field notes should not exceed 3,000 words, and book reviews should range from 750-1,500 words. All articles are subject to peer review and the final decision to publish rests with the editors.

Presentation

All manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form as a Word compatible file. As the journal operates a blind-review policy author names should be listed only on the cover sheet of the manuscript and user names should be removed from 'Tools', 'Options', 'User information' in Word.

Please indicate whether your submission is an article, key concept, field note, or book review and send as a virus checked e-mail attachment with an accurate word count to: pcs@palgrave.com.

General style

All manuscripts should be in English, 12 point font, double line spaced and submitted in MS Word or a compatible software file. To enable indexing, five keywords should be provided after the article title and an abstract provided on a separate page.

A cover sheet should detail the author's full postal and email addresses as well as telephone and fax numbers. The abstract page should contain only the title of the article and a 40–100 word abstract. Please take care to craft a title and an abstract that are direct and 'reader-friendly'. Titles should be short, and abstracts should be informative for non-specialists.

Notes

Please do not use footnotes or endnotes. Please indicate notes in the article text with superscript numbers, and provide the notes themselves as text situated between the end of the article and the beginning of the bibliography. Please do not use the foot/endnote macro in MS Word as this data is lost in the production process.

References in the text

The whole citation should follow the Harvard style, enclosed within parentheses (author surname, year) if not a natural part of the surrounding sentence; the year should be enclosed within parentheses if the names do form a natural part of the surrounding sentence. Citations of works by two authors should have ‘and’ (not an ampersand) between the names. Citations of works by three or more authors should have the first author followed by et al in italics with no trailing stop.

Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c (e.g. 2008a, 2008b) closed up to the year.

Personal communications should be listed as such where they are cited in the text, and not listed in the references.

Example:
Since Paterson (1983) has shown that… This is in results attained later (Kramer, 1984). Results have been reported (Don Graham, 1989, personal communication).

Articles not yet published should show ‘forthcoming’ in place of the year (in both the reference and the citation). ‘In press’ should be used in place of the volume, issue and page range details.

Example:
Sharp Parker, A.M. (forthcoming) Cyberterrorism: An examination of the preparedness of the North Carolina local law enforcement. Security Journal, in press.

List of References

References are placed in alphabetical order of authors. Examples of correct forms of references for alphabetical style:

Book

Slovic, P. (2000) The Perception of Risk. London: Earthscan Publications.

Edited volume

Nye Jr, J.S., Zelikow, P.D. and King D.C. (eds.) (1997) Why People Don’t Trust Government. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Chapter in book

Flora, P. and Alber, J. (1981) Modernization, democratization, and the development of the welfare state. In: P. Flora and A.J. Heidenheimer (eds.) The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, pp. 17–34.

Article in journal

Thompson, K., Griffith, E. and Leaf, P. (1990) A historical review of the Madison model of community care. Hospital and Community PsychiatryS 41(6): 21–35.

Article in newspaper

Webster, B. (2008) Record bonus for Network Rail chief, despite Christmas chaos. The Times, 6 June: p1.

Newspaper or magazine article (without a named author)

Economist (2005) The mountain man and the surgeon. 24 December, pp. 24–26.

Article online

Gardener, T. and Moffatt, J. (2007) Changing behaviours in defence acquisition: a game theory approach. Journal of the Operational Research Society, advance online publication 28 November, doi: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602476.

Other online resource

Green Party. (2005) Greens call for attack on asylum ‘push factors’. Green Party report, 4 March, http://www.greenparty.org.uk/index.php?nav=new&n=1838, accessed 9 March 2005.

Conference proceedings

Sapin, A. (ed.) (1985) Health and the Environment. Proceedings of the Conference on Biological Monitoring Methods for Industrial Chemicals; 30–31 March 1984, Chicago, IL. Chicago: American Toxological Association.

Conference paper

Harley, N.H. (1981) Radon risk models. In: A.R. Knight and B. Harrad, (eds.) Indoor Air and Human Health. Proceedings of the Seventh Life Sciences Symposium; 29–31 October, Knoxville, TN. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp.69–78.

Papers/talks presented at a conference but not published

Martin, S. (2003) An exploration of factors which have an impact on the vocal performance and vocal effectiveness of newly qualified teachers and lecturers. Paper presented at the Pan European Voice Conference; 31 August, Graz, Austria.

Dissertation/thesis

Young, W.R. (1981) Effects of different tree species on soil properties in central New York. MSc thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Research papers/reports/working papers

Bloom., G. et al (2005) Poverty Reduction During Democratic Transition: The Malawi Social Action Fund 1996-2001. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies. IDS Research Report no. 56.

Mimeo

Bond, S. A., Hwang, S., Lin, Z. and Vandell, K. (2005) Marketing Period Risk in a Portfolio Context: Theory and Empirical Estimates from the UK Commercial Real Estate Market. Cambridge, UK: Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge (mimeo).

Speech

Blair, A. (2003) Britain in the World. Speech to FCO Leadership Conference. London, 7 January.

Spelling

Please use either UK or US spellings consistently throughout the text. For UK spellings follow the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors. Use Webster's Collegiate for US spellings. US spellings will prefer '-ize' to '-ise' as a verb ending.

Figures

Authors are requested to follow our instructions on how to prepare and submit their figures, for more information see www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/palgrave_artwork_guidelines.pdf.

Proofs

The corresponding author will be sent an email containing a link to an online PDF proof of the article. Please print a copy of the PDF proof, correct within the time period indicated and return as directed. Please make no revisions to the final, edited text, except where the copy-editor has requested clarification.

PDF

Corresponding authors will receive a PDF of their article. This PDF offprint is provided for personal use. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to pass the PDF offprint onto co-authors (if relevant) and ensure that they are aware of the conditions pertaining to its use.

The PDF must not be placed on a publicly-available website for general viewing, or otherwise distributed without seeking our permission, as this would contravene our copyright policy and potentially damage the journal’s circulation. Please visit www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/authors/rights_and_permissions.html to see our latest copyright policy.

Copyright

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders of any copyrighted material and for any costs incurred in the process. Add any acknowledgements as a separate section before the references. Credit the source and copyright of all photographs or figures in the accompanying captions. The journal's policy is to own copyright in all contributions. Before publication, authors assign copyright to the publishers, but they retain 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 centralised arrangements for photocopying in their respective territories.

Books for review

Books for review should be sent to:

• Jason B. Jones
  PCS Review Editor
  Department of English
  303 Willard Hall
  Central Connecticut State University
  1615 Stanley Street
  New Britain, CT 06050
  USA
  Email: jonesjason1@ccsu.edu

Submissions to Field Notes

Section Editors Jan Haaken and Margaret Whilde

The field notes section of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society consists of short commentaries (approximately 3000 words in length) on psychoanalytically informed activities or projects. These short papers focus on a range of topics that bridge psychoanalysis, culture or politics, such as clinical practice, conference reports, ethnographic research or field studies, dynamics of consultation or teaching, and analyses of issues related to the arts and/or political activism. Field notes should conform to the style of the journal, although they typically have fewer citations and include personal reflections on some area of applied psychoanalytic work.