Journal of Consciousness Studies

Submitting Papers and Books for Review

Style Sheet and Guide to Authors

A Multi-Disciplinary Journal

The Journal of Consciousness Studies is a refereed journal aimed at an educated multi-disciplinary readership. Authors should not assume prior knowledge in a subject speciality and should provide background information for their research. The use of technical terms should be avoided or made explicit. Where technical details are essential (for example in laboratory experiments), try and include them in footnotes or appendices, leaving the text accessible to the non-specialist reader. The same principle should also apply to mathematics, unless essential to an argument.

General Points

Contributions should be clearly typed in double spacing leaving a wide (c. 2 inch) margin at the left hand side of the page for editorial marking. Three copies should be submitted and contributors should retain a copy for proof-reading purposes. A short 150 word summary should accompany each submission. Articles should not normally exceed 9,000 words (including footnotes). In general authors should adhere to the usages and conventions in Fowler's Modern English Usage which should be consulted for all questions not covered in these notes. Please note that manuscripts can only be returned if postage is prepaid. Please include a short CV for the ``about authors'' section.

Text

  1. Quotations of more than six lines should be indented and double spaced. For shorter quotations use single inverted commas. All references should appear in the bibliography. Use square brackets for interpolations; use three dots to indicate the omission of material within a quotation. Original spelling and punctuation should be retained unless otherwise stated.
  2. Capitals should be used sparingly. Capitalize proper names and substantives where they refer to particular individuals. Thus, ``the King fled to Dover'', but ``kings do not habitually depart in haste''; ``The Parliament refused to be threatened'', but ``parliaments are malleable''.
  3. Dates and numbers should take the following form. For dates the form is, ``14 July 1789''. Write ``seventeenth century'', not ``C17th''. Numbers under 100 should be spelled out, apart from page numbers, dates and month, or where they occur as part of a series. The second or subsequent number of a pair or series may be abbreviated as appropriate, thus 253-6, and 254-61.
  4. Italics, abbreviations. Use italics for non-naturalised words of foreign origin. Thus Weltanschauung but elite. Omit full stops from common abbreviations and acronyms: MP, USA.

Footnotes, References and Bibliographies

Footnote numbering should be consecutive superscript throughout the article.

References to books and articles should be by way of author (date) or (author, date). Multiple publications from the same year should be labelled (Skinner, 1966a, b, c ...). A single bibliography at the end should be compiled alphabetically observing the following conventions:

  1. References to books should take the following form:
    Jantsch, Erich (1980), The Self-Organizing Universe (Oxford and New York: Pergamon).
  2. References to articles should take the following form:
    Black, Antony (1993), `The juristic origins of social contract theory', History of Political Thought, XIV, pp. 157-76.

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Addresses for Submissions

Articles for Publication

These should be submitted to the Managing Editor:

Books for Review; Advertising and Subscription Enquiries

These should be sent to the publishers:

Imprint Academic,
PO Box 1,
Thorverton,
Exeter EX5 5YX,
UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1392 841600. Fax: +44 (0)1392 841478
sandra@imprint.co.uk.

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Submission of Manuscripts by Email

JCS operates a highly-distributed review process, and strongly encourages the submission of manuscripts by email. Authors are encouraged to email their native wordprocessor files (retaining italics, accents, superscripts, footnotes etc.) There are two alternative ways to do this:

  1. Save the file as RTF (Rich Text Format) and send this as an ordinary (ascii) email (LaTex documents can also be sent as ascii email);
    or
  2. Most email programs have a MIME facility to encode and send binary files, such as ``insert file'', or ``transmit from file''. We can handle most standard PC and Mac programs this way. Send all submissions to jcs@imprint.co.uk. Alternatively send in a floppy disk with your manuscript, stating clearly what machine and program was used.

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