Journal Submissions

Submitting Papers and Books for Review

Articles for Publication

Contributions should be submitted by email as attached files (saved in Word, or in Rich Text Format, or as PDF). Any figures/tables should be included in the file itself and not sent separately. Anonymised submissions are now mandatory so please fully blind your papers before submitting by email. A short 150 word summary should accompany each submission (placed at the beginning of the paper), along with confirmation that the work complies with our AI policy (see below; this should be included within the paper). Articles should not exceed 9,000 words (including abstract, footnotes, references, etc.). Please note that JCS does not publish very short research notes or ‘letters to the editor’. The vast majority of the papers published in the journal fall between 5,000 and 9,000 words (9,000 being the upper limit). Please carefully consider whether your paper meets the requirements for a stand-alone academic paper – very brief contributions will not usually be considered. Please note that authors are only allowed to have one paper under consideration at a time - multiple submissions are not permitted.

Please include a short CV/bio paragraph for the ‘about authors’ section.

They should be submitted to the Managing Editor:
Graham Horswell graham@imprint.co.uk or graham.jcs@gmail.com
(Please whitelist both addresses in order to ensure you receive our correspondence.)

If a paper is accepted for publication following external peer review, we offer a standard ‘subscription only’ route with no charge to authors, or a ‘gold open access’ option which requires the payment of a fee. Please see the following page for details: Open Access Information

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Style Sheet and Guide to Authors

A Multidisciplinary Journal

The Journal of Consciousness Studies is a refereed journal aimed at an educated multidisciplinary 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.

Quotations, Footnotes, References and Bibliographies

Please follow the Harvard referencing system. See our examples page: JCS Referencing (you must also include DOI numbers where available).

Quotations of more than six lines should be indented. 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.

Images, graphs, and tables

Images graphs, and tables should be included in the submission file itself. Should a paper be accepted for publication, the author should provide alternative description, also known as alt text, (and/or a summary for complex graphs and tables), provided the image/graph/table is not sufficiently described by the surrounding text and/or caption or is purely decorative.

How to Write Alt Text

Alt text should be as objective as possible. Generally, alt text should be concise, clear, targeted, and formatted properly.

What this means in practice:

• Most images/graphs/tables only need a short description of the salient features. Alt text should, therefore, be between 25 to 30 words in length, but no longer than 100 words.
• All contractions, numbers, and non-Latin letters should be spelled out.
• Information must be presented within a logical and consistent order.
• Alt text should reflect the context and intent of the image/graphic/table within the article.
• Alt text should not e formatted (no bullet points, italics etc.) and be concluded with a full stop.

Publishing Ethics Guidelines

Please see the following page for details regarding publication ethics, including declarations of interest, authorship issues, data sharing, etc. Publishing Ethics

AI Content

Please see our policy statement here: AI Policy. All submissions should now come with a declaration that our AI policy has been complied with.

Books for Review

These should be sent to the Book Reviews Editor:
David R. Gruber
GUA Bld., 4th Floor
4505 S. Maryland Pkwy.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas
NV 89154
USA
david.gruber@unlv.edu

Advertising and Subscription Enquiries

These should be sent to the publishers:

Imprint Academic
PO Box 200
Exeter
EX5 5YX
UK

Tel: +44 (0)1392 851550. Fax: +44 (0)1392 851178
ellie@imprint.co.uk

Submitting Papers and Books for Review

Articles for Publication

Contributions should be submitted by email as attached files (saved in Word, or in Rich Text Format, or as PDF). Any figures/tables should be included in the file itself and not sent separately. Anonymised submissions are preferred but we do not currently insist on it. A short 150 word summary should accompany each submission (placed at the beginning of the paper). Articles should not normally exceed 9,000 words (including abstract, footnotes, references, etc.). Please include a short CV for the ‘about authors’ section.

They should be submitted to jos@imprint.co.uk

If a paper is accepted for publication following external peer review, we offer standard ‘subcription only’ route with no charge to authors, or a ‘gold open access’ option which requires the payment of a fee. Please see the following page for details: Open Access Information

 

Style Sheet and Guide to Authors

A Multidisciplinary Journal

The Journal of Sortition is a refereed journal aimed at an educated multidisciplinary 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.

Quotations, Footnotes, References and Bibliographies

Please follow the Harvard referencing system. See example pages (please also include DOI numbers where available).

Quotations of more than six lines should be indented. 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.

Images, graphs, and tables

Images, graphs, and tables should be included in the submission file itself. Should a paper be accepted for publication, the author should provide alternative description, also known as alt text, (and/or a summary for complex graphs and tables), provided the image/graph/table is not sufficiently described by the surrounding text and/or caption or is purely decorative.

How to Write Alt Text

Alt text should be as objective as possible. Generally, alt text should be concise, clear, targeted, and formatted properly.

What this means in practice:

• Most images/graphs/tables only need a short description of the salient features. Alt text should, therefore, be between 25 to 30 words in length, but no longer than 100 words.
• All contractions, numbers, and non-Latin letters should be spelled out.
• Information must be presened within a logical and consistent order.
• Alt text should reflect the context an dintent of the image/graphic/table wihtin the article.
• Alt text should not e formatted (no bullet points, italics etc.) and be concluded with a full stop.

Publishing Ethics Guidelines

Please see the following page for details regarding publication ethics, including declarations of interest, authorship issues, data sharing, etc. Publishing Ethics

AI Content

Please find our policy on AI content here: AI Policy.

Books for Review

These should be sent to the Book Reviews Editor:
Keith Sutherland
Imprint Academic Ltd.
Unit 1, Seychelles Farm
Upton Pyne EX5 5HY
UK
jos@imprint.co.uk

Advertising and Subscription Enquiries

These should be sent to the publishers:

Imprint Academic
PO Box 200
Exeter
EX5 5YX
UK

Tel: +44 (0)1392 851550. Fax: +44 (0)1392 851178
ellie@imprint.co.uk

Submitting Papers and Books for Review

General Points

Contributions should be clearly typed in double spacing and paginated, leaving a wide (c. 2 inch) margin at the left hand side of the page for editorial marking. Copy should be submitted as an email attachment to the relevant editor (see below). A short 100 word abstract and a bibliography of works cited should accompany each submission. Copies should not contain any information that identifies the author. In general authors should adhere to the usages and conventions in Fowler’s Modern English Usage (second revised edition, Oxford, 1968), which should be consulted for all questions not covered in these notes. Word limit: none.

Despatch of accepted manuscripts by Email

Once it has been accepted for publication please email a copy of the accepted article, preferably in MSword or  RTF format (retaining italics, accents, superscripts, footnotes etc.).

Articles for publication and books for review (pre-1600)

Please send to: hpt@exeter.ac.uk addressed to Professor Janet Coleman.

Articles for publication and books for review (post-1600)

Please send to: hpt@exeter.ac.uk addressed to Professor Iain Hampsher-Monk.

Text

Quotations of more than six lines should be indented and double spaced. For shorter quotations use single inverted commas. All references should appear as footnotes. 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.
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 of 1642 refused to be threatened’, but `parliaments are malleable’.
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.
Italics, abbreviations. Use italics for non-naturalised words of foreign origin. Thus Weltanschauung but elite. Omit full stops from common abbreviations and acronyms, thus, MP, USA.
Greek: Please use Times New Roman Special G1 or Symbol GreekP fonts.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be embedded in the text. Numbering should be consecutive throughout the article.

Standardized text references

DOIs should be included if available.

Standardised reference schemes (eg stephanus, bekker nos.) should be used where they exist.

References to books should take the following form for the first reference: J.P. Sommerville, Politics and Ideology in England (London and New York, 1986), pp. 120-6, and subsequently: Sommerville, Politics and Ideology, p. 140.
Reference to articles should take the following form: Q. Skinner, `The Ideological Context of Hobbes’s Political Thought’, The Historical Journal, 9 (1966), pp. 286-317, p. 290, and subsequently: Skinner, `Ideological Context’, p. 290.
Use Ibid. only to refer to the preceding footnote and taking care to avoid any ambiguity. In all other cases use the name and short title; do not use op. cit.
MSS sources, Tracts, Ephemera. Where such material is quoted the standard catalogue number (e.g. Wing) should be given, or the source library’s accession or reference code, thus, The Afflicted Man’s out-cry (1653), British Library, E711 (7).

Any thanks, acknowledgements etc. should be made in an initial footnote, which may be added to the final text.

Images, graphs, and tables

Images, graphs and tables should be included in the submission file itself. Should a paper be accepted for publication, the author should provide alternative description, also known as alt text, (and/or a summary for complex graphs and tables), provided the image/graph/table is not sufficiently described by the surrounding text and/or caption or is purely decorative.

How to Write Alt Text

Alt text should be as objective as possible. Generally, alt text should be concise, clear, targeted, and formatted properly.

What this means in practice:

• Most images/graphs/tables only need a short description of the salient features. Alt text should, therefore, be between 25 to 30 words in length, but no longer than 100 words.
• All contractions, numbers, and non-Latin letters should be spelled out.
• Information must be presened within a logical and consistent order.
• Alt text should reflect the context an dintent of the image/graphic/table wihtin the article.
• Alt text should not e formatted (no bullet points, italics etc.) and be concluded with a full stop.

GUIDE FOR CHECKING PROOFS

Please answer all queries on the proof itself and ensure that all queries are responded to. If you agree with a change then a simple ‘Ok’ will do. If you disagree cross out or mark change with ‘no’. Please note that only minor author amendments can be accepted at this stage.

 

Save a PDF of our Author’s Guide here.

Guidelines for Submissions

1. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words and be made to the managing editor Carlos Vidales (carlos.vidales@academicos.udg.mx). We only accept electronic submissions.
2. COVER SHEET: Prepare a cover sheet with paper title, author’s name, and contact information (postal address, email address, and telephone numbers). You may provide a running header on this page as well.
3. PAGE 1 OF MAIN TEXT: The first page of the main body of the paper should include the paper title, an abstract, and key words. Author’s byline should NOT appear on this page.
4. FORMATTING TEXT: We accept Word doc(x) or RTF files. Prepare text using Times New Roman size 12 pts. Indent paragraphs. Single space lines.
5. APA STYLE: Please consult an APA (7th ed.) for guidance in the preparation of reference entries, in-text citations, and in the proper use of italics and quotation marks. Note that APA does not use single quotation marks except in the instance of a quotation within a quotation. You may request a style-sheet detailing common APA guidelines as used by this journal by contacting the editor Carlos Vidales (carlos.vidales@academicos.udg.mx ).
6. FIGURES AND TABLES: Maximum width of figures and tables is 5 inches. See APA for proper formatting of tables. Figures should appear in the appropriate place in the text AND each figure should be provided in a separate file saved in an appropriate graphics format (jpg; tif; png; pdf). Resolution: Our standard is 300 ppi.
7. EMBEDDED COMMANDS: Text should be clean of embedded commands (e.g., hyperlinks, hyphenation, etc.) The only exceptions to this rule are footnotes and anchored frames (for graphics).
8. FOOTNOTES: Should appear at the bottom of the relevant page.
9. JARGON AND ACRONYMS: Our readership is diverse; text should be aimed at an intelligent but non-specialized reader. Jargon should be avoided. Acronyms should be used only if repeated frequently throughout the text; they should be defined when first introduced.

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Instructions for Contributors

 

1. Manuscripts (in English) should be submitted to the Editorial Office of Mind and Matter at editor@mindmatter.de or to the postal address of the editors. Submitted manuscripts are processed if they have not been published previously and are not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

2. Together with our publisher Imprint Academic we offer two options for our authors to access and disseminate their publications in Mind and Matter: the traditional access option with transferred copyright and gold open access where copyright remains with authors. Detailed information about both options can be found here; see also (11) below.

3. Mind and Matter encourages the submission of LaTeX documents. Electronic submission should include the original source file (together with all style files and figures) and a pdf-version (including the figures) of the complete submission. Alternatively, three copies of a manuscript (including copies of all illustrations and tables) are requested in case of hard-copy submissions.

4. Papers should be as short and concise as possible. An abstract is to be provided, preferably no longer than 150 words, containing the background, rationale, and main conclusions of the manuscript.

5. Illustrations (photographs, drawings, diagrams, and charts) with captions are to be numbered in one consecutive series of Arabic numerals. Photographs should be large, glossy prints with high contrast. Either original drawings or good-quality photographic prints are acceptable. All electronic artwork should be in eps or pdf format (1200 dpi for line drawings and 300 dpi for half-tones and gray-scale art).

6. Tables should be numbered (preferably with Roman numerals) and referred to by number in the text. Each table should be typed on a separate sheet of paper.

7. References should document that the submission engages in a well-balanced way with both other and own relevant work. All references cited in the text are to be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order under the first author's name. Citations in the text should be by author and publication year in parentheses.

8. Footnotes should be numbered using a separate set of numerals and should be typed at the bottom of the page to which they refer. Place a line above the footnote, so that it is set off from the text. Use the appropriate superscript numeral without parentheses for citation in the text.

9. Submissions will be professionally peer-reviewed by experts to be selected by the editorial staff. If a submitted manuscript has been accepted for publication, electronic source files and a pdf version of the final manuscript should be submitted to the Editorial Office.

10. Page proofs show the final layout of the paper as it will appear in the journal. It is therefore essential that manuscripts are submitted in their final form, ready for the printer, and that the approximate desired positions of figures and tables are marked. Proofreading should be limited to the correction of typographical errors. Any other changes involve time-consuming and expensive work, and the costs will be charged to the author(s). If absolutely necessary and space permits, additions may be made at the end of the paper in a "note added in proof".

11. The journal makes no page charges under the traditional access option with transferred copyright under (2). The gold open access fee amounts to GBP 950.- (incl.V

See more here: https://www.mindmatter.de/journal/mminstruct.html

 

Stylesheet

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 as footnotes. Use square brackets for interpolations; use three ellipsis marks 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, thus, MP, USA. 

 

Footnotes

Footnotes should be typed separately at the end of the text in double spacing. Numbering should be consecutive throughout the article.

1. References to books should take the following form for the first reference: R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, revised edition, ed. Jan van der Dussen (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993), pp.120-6, and subsequently: Collingwood, Idea of History, p. 140. Or in the text (IH, p. 140).

2. Reference to articles should take the following form: Q.Skinner, `The Ideological Context of Hobbes's Political Thought', The Historical Journal, IX (1966) pp. 286-317, p.2 90, and subsequently: Skinner, `Ideological Context', p. 290.

3. Use Ibid. only to refer to the preceding footnote and taking care to avoid any ambiguity. In all other cases use the name and short title; do not use op. cit.

4. MSS sources, Tracts, Ephemera. Where such material is quoted the standard catalogue number (e.g. Wing) should be given, or the source library's accession or reference code, thus, The Afflicted Man's out-cry (1653), British Library, E711 (7). Or, R. G. Collingwood, ‘Lectures on the Philosophy of History [1932]’, Bodleian Library Oxford University, Dep. Collingwood 14, 15/1 

HARVARD REFERENCING

We also accept articles referenced using the Harvard system. Referencing should follow the following pattern.

• If a reference follows immediately a person mentioned in the text, e.g. Collingwood, please place in parentheses the year of publication followed by a colon, space and page number (1994: 64).

• If the reference follows a quote or a paraphrase of ideas, but which is not prefaced by the author’s name, then please reference (Collingwood, 1994: 64).

• If you are referencing works by the same author that were published in the same year please distinguish them by adding letters to the numerals, e.g. 1994a, 1994b, 1994c etc.

The bibliography at the end of the article should take the following form:

AGUILAR, JOSE MANUEL DE (1946), ‘The Law of Nations and the Salamanca School of Theology’, Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, vol. 9, pp. 186-221.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (2008), Amnesty International Report, 2008. ANSCOMBE, ELIZABETH (1997), ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’, in Virtue Ethics, (ed.) Roger Crisp and Michael Slote, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 26-44.

ANDERSON, OLIVE (1991), ‘The Feminism of T. H. Green: A Late-Victorian Success Story?’, History of Political Thought, XII, pp. 671-693.

All correspondence and submissions should be sent electronically to the Executive Editor: Professor David Boucher, Collingwood and British Idealism

The Collingwood and British Idealism Centre,

School of Law and Politics,

Museum Avenue, Cardiff University,

CARDIFF,

CF10 3AX,

UK.

e-mail: boucherde@cardiff.ac.uk