Word Length
Original Articles: 6,000–8,000 words
Counterspace: 3,000–5,000 words
Book Reviews: 1,500-3,500 words
Please note these word limits are inclusive of references and ensure the above stipulations are adhered to at the submission stage.
Presentation
All manuscripts should be in English, 12 pt. Times New Roman, double-spaced and submitted in MS Word or a compatible word processing software file. Once the Word document has been uploaded in the online system it will then be converted to PDF format. Please note that the manuscript should not be uploaded in PDF format and must be uploaded as a Word document in the first instance.
As the journal operates a blind review policy, author names should be listed only on the cover sheet which should be uploaded separately. No identifying author information should be included in the manuscript. User names should be removed from ‘Tools’, ‘Options’ and ‘User Information’ in Word. A cover sheet should detail the author's full postal and email addresses as well as telephone and fax numbers. To enable indexing, an abstract of 40–100 words and 3–5 keywords should be provided after the article title on a separate page. Care should be taken to craft a title and an abstract that are direct, informative and ‘reader-friendly’; furthermore, in line with good academic practice, it is recommended that abstracts should not merely reduplicate portions of the text.
For more information on how to submit your paper through our submission system, please click here
Book Reviews
Please use the following template for supplying the following information at the beginning of your review:
Book Reviews
Please use the following template for supplying the following information at the beginning of your review:
Title
Author, publisher, year, pp. count, price, paper/hardback, ISBN
Example:
Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect
Mari Ruti, Bloomsbury, 2018, 246 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-5013-3378-1
For an example of a book review, please click here.
US/British English
Authors should be consistent in their use of either British or US English in regard to orthography, punctuation and related style. For UK spellings, authors may wish to consult the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors or Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary as appropriate. US spellings will typically prefer ‘-ize’ to ‘-ise’ as a verb ending.
Footnotes/endnotes
We discourage the use of footnotes as far as possible. Likewise, endnotes should be used only where absolutely necessary and should be kept to a minimum. Please indicate these 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 reference list. Please do not use the foot/endnote macro in MS Word as these data are lost in the production process.
Hyphenation
Please ensure that automatic hyphenation is turned off in your word processing package. The final version of your submitted article should not include hyphenation to split words over line breaks.
Author biographies
A concise paragraph (subtitled 'About the Author') detailing his/her current professional affiliation(s), research orientation and publication record should be included at the end of the text before the List of References.
References
(a) In-text references
These should be enclosed within parentheses (author surname, year) if not a natural part of the surrounding sentence; the year only should be enclosed within parentheses if the name(s) form a natural part of the surrounding sentence.
Citations of works by two authors should incorporate an ampersand between the names (e.g. Miller & Smith, 2001).
Citations of works by three or more authors should have the first author followed by ‘et al.’
Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ etc. (e.g. 2008a, 2008b) closed up to the year.
Personal communications should be listed as such where they are cited in the text and need not be listed in the reference list.
Display quotes (indented without quotation marks) should be used for direct quotations running to more than three lines of text.
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.
Examples:
Since Paterson (1983) has shown that…
This is in results attained later (Kramer, 1984).
Results have been reported (Don Graham, 1989, personal communication).
Sharp Parker, A.M. (forthcoming) Cyberterrorism: An examination of the preparedness of the North Carolina local law enforcement. Security Journal, in press.
(b) List of references
References should be listed alphabetically by author last name. Journal names and book titles should be italicized. In the references use sentence case for the titles of articles, books, reports and other works, i.e., capitalize only the first word in the title plus any proper nouns and the first word after a colon. In referencing online content, the date the source is accessed is only required in citing a source that is likely to change. Most references to online sources do not require retrieval dates; where they do, place ‘Retrieved [date] from’ before the URL.
Examples:
Book
Slovic, P. (2000). The perception of risk. Earthscan Publications.
Translations
Lacan, J. (2007). The other side of psychoanalysis: The seminar of Jacques Lacan, book XVII (R. Grigg, Trans.). W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1991)
Lacan, J. (2006). Response to Jean Hyppolite’s commentary on Freud’s ‘Verneinung’ (B. Fink (Trans.). In, Écrits: The first complete edition in English (pp. 318–333). W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1966)
Edited volume
Nye Jr., J. S., Zelikow, P. D., & King, D. C. (Eds.). (1997). Why people don’t trust government. Harvard University Press.
Chapter in book
Flora, P., & 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 (pp. 17–34). Transaction Books.
References to Freud's works
References to Freud's works should be to the English translation of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works and be given in the following format:
Freud, S. (1955) Analysis of a phobia in a five-year old boy. In J. Strachey (Ed.) Standard edition: Vol 10 (pp. 3–149). Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1909)
Note: In-text references to translated works should be in the format Freud (1909/1955). The earlier date is the date of original publication; the latter date is the date of the translated work.
Article in journal
Thompson, K., Griffith, E., & Leaf, P. (1990). A historical review of the Madison model of community care. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 41(6), 21–35.
Article in newspaper
Hall, R. (2022, February 28). Cambridge lecturers accuse university of ‘excessive workloads’. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/feb/28/cambridge-lecturers-accuse-university-workloads-staff-low-pay
Article online
Gardener, T., & Moffatt, J. (2007). Changing behaviours in defence acquisition: A game theory approach. Journal of the Operational Research Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602476.
Authored article on news website or other online resource
Bologna, C. (2019, October 31). Why some people with anxiety love watching horror movies. HuffPost. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anxiety-love-watching-horror-movies_l_5d277587e4b02a5a5d57b59e
Webpage on a website with no named author
World Health Organization. (2022, January 19). Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Mythbusters. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters#oxygen
Conference proceedings
Duckworth, A. L., Quirk, A., Gallop, R., Hoyle, R. H., Kelly, D. R., & Matthews, M. D. (2019). Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 116(47), 23499–23504. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910510116
Conference presentation
Evans, A.C., Jr., Garbarino, J., Bocanegra, E., Kinscherff, R.T., & Marquez-Greene, N. (2019, August 8–11). Gun violence: An event on the power of community [Conference presentation]. APA 2019 Convention, Chicago, United States.
Unpublished conference paper/talk
Martin, S. (2003, August 31). An exploration of factors which have an impact on the vocal performance and vocal effectiveness of newly qualified teachers and lecturers. [Paper presentation]. Pan European Voice Conference, Graz, Austria.
Note: The bracketed description is flexible (e.g., Conference session, Paper presentation, Poster session, Keynote address, etc.)
Dissertation/thesis
Zambrano-Vazquez, L. (2016). The interaction of state and trait worry on response monitoring in those with worry and obsessive-compulsive symptoms [Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona]. UA Campus Repository. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/620615
Research papers/reports/working papers
Bloom, G. et al. (2005). Poverty reduction during democratic transition: The Malawi Social Action Fund 1996–2001. Institute of Development Studies.
Unpublished paper
Bond, S. A., Hwang, S., Lin, Z., & Vandell, K. (2005) Marketing period risk in a portfolio context: Theory and empirical estimates from the UK commercial real estate market [Unpublished paper]. Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.
Film
Fleming, V. (Director). (1939). Gone with the wind [Film]. Selznick International Pictures; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Video on online platform
University of Cambridge. (2021, January 29). Ghosts, genies and the science of sleep paralysis [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTuaxTqEWj4
Note: The group or person that uploaded the video appears in the author element of the reference.
Artwork
Picasso, P. (1937). Guernica [Painting]. Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/guernica
Exhibition
Kinchin, J. (2009–2010). The new typography [Exhibition]. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States. https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1013
Note: The curator of an exhibition appears in the author element of the reference.
