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Style guidelines
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Manuscript style guidelines
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If authors rely heavily on their previous work and are concerned with possible overlap, we ask to discuss distinctions with the previous work in the Author Cover Letter.
Long quotations of about five lines should be indented and single-spaced without quotes. Authors should be aware, however, of the fair usage principle when quoting other authors’ works. Longer quotations of the work of other authors - more than five lines - will be discouraged in principle.
Numbers of 11 and higher should be in figures (e.g. five, ten, 15, 20).
Dates should be in the following forms:
- 5 September, 1990
- 1994–1998
- the 1990s
Preparing the final version
Authors are requested to use the JIRD template and follow the formatting instructions below to prepare the final version of their manuscript. Final versions that do not follow these instructions will be returned to Authors for corrections.
- JIRD template link
- paragraphs should be justified and double-spaced;
- font should be Times New Roman, 12, for the whole article, including footnotes and references;
- title and main section headings should be in bold, subheadings in italics;
- paragraphs should be indented, except for the first paragraph in every section.
References in the text
References should include the author’s name (without initials, unless there are two authors with the same name) and year of publication. Do not separate the name from the date with a comma. When including page numbers, use a colon after the year.
- (Wendt 1999: 4)
For publications with two authors, put both names separated by ‘and’ (not & or /). If there are more than two authors, put the name of the first author followed by ‘et al.’
- (Berger and Luckmann 1966)
- (Böhm et al 2006)
Publications in references which include different authors are separated by a semicolon.
- (Miller 1994a; Gordon 1976)
Publications by the same author(s) should be separated by commas. Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c.
- (Keohane 1984, 1986)
- (Miller 1994a: 32, 1994b)
If the year of first publication by a particular author is important, use the form (e.g. Marx 1857/1973: 31).
Publications which have not yet appeared are given a probable year of publication and should be checked at proof stage on author query sheet.
Unpublished data and personal communications should include initials and year. Interviews should include the date, and a list of interviews should be provided after the reference section.
- (Robinson 1989, personal communication)
- (personal interview by author, 12 April 2006).
When referencing material on the Internet include author(s) name(s) for internet/website references where possible. Where no identifiable author or authoring body is provided, use the title of the webpage or website and the year of the last update of the web page or document.
- (UN Women 2022)
References to periodical publications may be also given in brackets in the text together with the exact page(s). If the reference is included in the reference list, a short title without inverted commas and a year of publication is used for in-text-referencing. As a general rule, an exact web address of a particular article substitutes its exact page(s).
- (quoted in Europe Magazine (July 1998): 8)
- (Short Title of Article 1999)
List of References
References are placed in alphabetical order of authors. Examples of correct forms of references for alphabetical style:
Books:
Single authored books:
Gunnel, John G. (1998) The Orders of Discourse: Philosophy, Social Science and Politics, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Two or more authors:
Altvater, Elmar and Birgit Mahnkopf (2000) Grenzen der Globalisierung: Ökonomie, Ökologie und Politik in der Weltgesellschaft, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
Edited volumes:
Rittberger, Volker, ed. (1993) Regime Theory and International Relations, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Chapter in edited volume:
Smith, Charles A. (2007) ‘Judicialization: The Key to European Unification and Expansion’ in Yannis Stivachtis, ed., The State of European Integration, 127–39, Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishers.
Journal articles:
Printed journals:
Jackson, Robert H. (1992) ‘Juridical Statehood in Sub-Saharan Africa’, Journal of International Affairs 46(1): 1–16.
Online articles
Ziai, Aram. (2010) ‘German development policy 1998–2005: the limits of normative global governance’, Journal of International Relations and Development advance online publication 30 May, doi:10.1057/jird.2009.33.
Online editions of journals:
Hoffmann, Stanley (2003b) ‘America Goes Backward’, The New York Review of Books 50(10), available at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16350 (2 November, 2003).
Newspaper articles:
Printed editions:
Daalder, Ivo and James M. Lindsay (2003) ‘American Empire, Not “If” but “What Kind”’, The New York Times (10 May): B9.
Online editions:
Cooper, Robert (2002) ‘Why We Still Need Empires’, The Guardian Unlimited, 7 April, available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4388915,00.html (2 November, 2003).
Magazine articles:
Kaplan, Robert (2003) ‘Supremacy by Stealth: Ten Rules for Managing the World’, The Atlantic Monthly (July/August): 65–83.
Elliott, Michael (2002) ‘The Trouble With Saving the World’, Time (30 December): 108.
WORKING PAPERS AND PAPERS FROM CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
Szakolzai, Arpád (1994) ‘Thinking Beyond the East-West Divide: Patocka, Faucault, Hamvas, Elias, and the Care of the Self’, Florence: European University Institute, EUI Working Papers in Political and Social Sciences, No. 94/2.
Internet Resources:
References to the material on the Internet must be given in the reference list. The full URL must be given, and the date of access should be provided in brackets.
- UN Women (2022), 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, available at https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/take-action/16-days-of-activism (11 May 2022).
- Following the rule: Author (Year) Title of the webpage or document, Publisher (if applicable), date and month published (if applicable), available at URL (viewed Day Month Year).
Spelling and Punctuation
Please use UK spellings and punctuation consistently throughout, taking as a guide the new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors.
Use -ise rather than -ize as a verb ending (e.g., globalisation, conceptualise, recognise) and -our rather than -or (e.g. behaviour, neighbour).
Use single inverted commas rather than double (e.g. ‘quotation’ rather than “quotation”).
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