INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

• Notes to contributors |
• Presentation |
• Spelling |
• Proofs |
• Offprints |
• 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.

Alternatively you can send a disk to:

• Glynis Morrish
  Editorial Assistant, Centre for Psycho-Social Studies
  Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
  University of the West of England
  Coldharbour Lane
  Frenchay
  Bristol, BS16 1QY
  UK

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

Do not use footnotes. Keep endnotes to a minimum. Indicate endnotes with superscript numbers, and *type* the notes between the end of the article and the beginning of the bibliography. Do not use the foot/endnote macro in MS Word as this data is lost in the production process.

References

The Harvard (name, date) style of referencing should be used, which entails a full bibliography at the end of the text. Please note the following:

• Quoting references in the text

  For Bion, projective identification was originally a procedure for 'unburdening the psyche of accretions of stimuli' (Bion, 1962, p 31).

• A long direct quote:

  Bion argues:
  The activity we know as "thinking" was in origin a procedure for unburdening the psyche of accretions of stimuli and the mechanism is that which has been described by Melanie Klein as projective identification. (Bion, 1962, p 31)

• In the bibliography:

  Books:

  Bion, W. (1962). Learning From Experience. London: Karnac Books.

• Journal Articles:

  Dalal, F. (2001). Insides and Outsides: A Review of Psychoanalytic Renderings of Difference, Racism and Prejudice. Psychoanalytic Studies, 3 (1), pp. 43-66.

• Chapters in Books:

  Žižek, S. (1998). Love Thy Neighbour? No, Thanks!. In Lane, C. (ed.), The Psychoanalysis of Race. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 154-175.

• Collections:

  Freud, S. (1933, 1964). The Dissection of the Psychical Personality. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol 22. London: Hogarth Press, pp. 57-80.

• Conference paper

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

• PhD thesis

  Zito, A. (1994). Epistemic Communities in European Policy-Making. PhD dissertation. Department of Political Science: University of Pittsburgh.

• Website

  Skyrme, DJ. Online Knowledge Markets: How Do They Work? [WWW document] http://www.skyrme.com/insights/28kmkt.htm (accessed 09 September 2003).

If you refer to two or more publications by the same author that have been published in the same year, distinguish between them by using a, b, c, and so on: (Clarke, 2003a, 2003b).

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.

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.

Offprints

Article offprints (25, to be shared with co-authors) are dispatched to the corresponding author shortly after publication.

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.