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Author Guidelines
Finally, Affinities is a project that depends on volunteer editors for every issue. For this reason, please ensure that you follow all of the formatting and style guidelines offered below when submitting a piece. For those seeking refereed submissions, please make sure you follow the additional guidelines below the general guidelines.
Submission
Please email your submissions to [ ] with your paper attached as a .doc or a .rtf file.
Paper Abstracts
For each paper, please provide a 150-word abstract in English. These summaries should be placed immediately below the paper title, author and institutional affiliation. Each summary should be indented 2.5 cm (1/2") and double-spaced.
Author Bio
The author(s) ought to supply a brief bio giving name, group of affiliation or educational institutional, interests, and email address if desired. For example, Richard Day is teaches at the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, in Kingston, ON. He is active within the community autonomous space Marble Rock, anti-poverty, and labour organizing: dayr@post.queensu.ca
General Layout
1. The text should be single-spaced.
2. Start each paragraph at the margin (no tabs to indent first line). Place an extra blank line between paragraphs to separate.
3. Dashes should be keyed in as double-hyphens with no space at either end. For example: word--word
Font and Size
Please use 12 point font throughout except for the title of the piece, which ought to be 14 point.
Heading Styles
First level headings: (Boldface, first word capitalized, justified at right margin, on a separate line)
Second level headings: (Plain type, first word capitalized, justified at right margin, on a separate line)
Third level headings: (Italic type, first word capitalized, justified at right margin, on a separate line)
Citations in the Text
When titles of journals or books are mentioned, they should be italicized, not underlined.
Referencing
In order to avoid the way parenthetical references break up the text, Affinities adopts a system of referencing that uses endnotes. Authors are advised to follow as closely as possible the Chicago Style of Notation for references, the main points of which are offered below.
Endnotes
References to publications which you cite in your paper can be listed in an endnote list (1, 2, 3) called Endnotes. Please do not use footnotes. Please use "Ibid." (in the place of) to reference a work which has already been referenced in your article. Please also use an abbreviated form of the document citation in subsequent references. For example, if in one endnote you cited “Davis, Angela Yvonne (1981) Women, Race and Class. New York: Random House (p. 8)”, the next reference could be “Ibid, Davis, p. 19.”
Due to the hypertext formatting, use of endnotes in instances other than referencing a work should be exceptionally sparing. They should be used only where additional explanations are absolutely necessary and cannot be incorporated in the text.
For an example of how this looks in the end, and for handling interviews, web materials, etc., see the article "Outlaw" bicycling" by Chris Carlsson, Volume 1 No. 1 of this journal, or you might try other articles as well.
References
Please provide a list of all references used in the paper at the end of the paper, beneath the endnotes. The heading for the references should be bold and right-justified, as References. References are in alphabetical order and list only those works actually cited in the text.
Begin each entry at the margin and indent the subsequent lines by 1/2 inch; i.e., hanging indent.
Separate the main items in each entry by periods (i.e., name of author, title of book, etc.) Leave one space between a period and next part of the entry.
Publication date should be in parentheses following author name. Title of book should be in italics and only the first word and first word after a colon should be capitalized (see examples above).
For articles, the title should be in plain text, with only the first word capitalized; the title of the periodical or edited book should be in italics.
For journals the volume number of the periodical volume is in italics, with the issue number in plain text and parentheses. Page numbers are given at the end of the reference but without the requirement for "page" or "p".
Books - one author:
Davis, Angela Yvonne. (1981). Women, Race and Class. New York: Random House.
Books - two authors
Hardt, Michael, and Negri, Antonio. (2000). Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Article in a book
Maracle, Lee. (1993). “Racism, sexism and patriarchy.” In Banerji, Himani (Ed.), Returning the gaze: Essays on racism, feminism and politics (pp. 122-130). New York: Routledge.
Article in a journal:
Precarias a la deriva. (2004) “Adrift through the circuits of feminized precarious work.” Feminist review, 77(1), 157-161.
Internet Website:
Challenging White Supremacy Workshop. (2004). “About us.” URL: http://www.cwsworkshop.org/about.html [September 10, 2006].
Government document:
Royal Commission on Newspapers. (1981). Report. Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada.
Hyperlinks, Images, Audio and Video:
We encourage you to hyperlink passages or phrases in your submission. Please do this in the original document you submit.
Note: Include all figures/images as images in the manuscript file. Ensure that images are high-quality (BMP, TIFF, or EPS) formats
Please ensure that supplementary audio and video files are in MPEG formats (i.e. MP3 for audio and MPEG for video). To accomodate the widest readership possible and users with dial-up Internet access, higher compression rates and, consequently, smaller files are preferred.
Additional Guidelines for Those Seeking Peer-Review Publications:
If you would like to have your paper peer-reviewed, please remove all identifying author information from the submission file before attaching it and sending it to the email address offered in the Call for Papers. This includes any author names, affiliations, and/or other identifying information, including the author's name from the document's 'Properties', which in Microsoft Word is found in the 'File' menu.
The process is double-blind, meaning that two people competent in your field will assess your paper and offer one of four evaluations: Publish without revisions, Publish with revisions, Accept but not in the peer-review stream, Reject, or Unsure. In the last case the issue editor, in consultation with other members of the editorial collective, will make a decision based upon the information provided by the reviewers.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca).
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.
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