 1.
Type of article
1.1 Scottish Affairs publishes articles on matters of
concern to people who are interested in the development of Scotland.
This includes articles
about similarly placed small nations and regions throughout Europe
and beyond. The articles are authoritative and rigorous without being
technical
and pedantic. No subject area is excluded, but all articles should
pay attention to the social and political context of their topics.
1.2
Thus Scottish Affairs takes up a position between informed journalism
and academic analysis, and provides a forum for dialogue between
the two. The readers and contributors include journalists, politicians,
civil servants, business people, academics, and people in general
who
take
an informed interest in current affairs.
1.3 A quarterly cannot be
wholly topical, but the editors try to find articles which are of current
interest. Contributors should
bear in
mind that many people will read the journal some time after it
was published.
1.4 Articles should be written in a readily understandable
style. The use of acronyms and jargon should be avoided if possible.
2.
Submission of manuscripts
2.1 Our preferred form of submission
is email; submissions should be emailed to Lindsay
Adams, Business Manager. If you are emailing an article, it must
be as an attachment in Word or in Rich Text Format. No other format
can be accepted.
Manuscripts (three copies, please) may alternatively
be sent to
The editor,
Scottish Affairs,
Institute of Governance,
Edinburgh University,
Chisholm House,
1 Surgeon Square,
High School Yards,
Edinburgh.
EH1 1LZ
2.2 The submission of an article constitutes an assurance
by the author or authors to the editors that it contains
no libellous matter or breach of copyright,
and no material that would contravene the Sex Discrimination
or Race Relations legislation.
2.3 Manuscripts should be typewritten or
word-processed on one side of A4 paper, with wide margins all round
and double-spaced.
Articles are
normally between
1500 and 6000 words in length. Authors should keep a copy of
the manuscript.
2.4 A detachable title page should give the title,
the name and address of the author(s), and the text of
a biographical note that will appear
as a
footnote on the first printed page of the article. This biographical
note should be
about
three sentences long, and should concentrate on matters that
are relevant to the author's or authors' qualifications
for writing
the article.
It should include any acknowledgements that you want to make.
2.5
Please supply an abstract of about 200 words. This is not printed in
the journal, but is made available on the
Scottish
Affairs web
site, which
is at: http://www.scottishaffairs.org
2.6 A selection of articles in the journal
is made available electronically on the Scottish Affairs web site some
time
after the issue in which
they appeared is published. The editors will assume that
you have no objection
to your article's
being made available in this way, unless you inform the
editorial office otherwise.
2.7 Please break up the text
by using headings. The headings should be left-justified, bold, and
not in capitals.
There should be an
extra line-space
above each
heading.
2.8 All articles are refereed.
2.9 The editors reserve
the right to require even commissioned contributions to be rewritten
to conform to the goals
and audience outlined in
section 1 above.
2.10 An electronic copy as an
email attachment or on floppy disc should be made available to the
editors
once final
corrections have been completed.
This copy
must be in Word or be an RTF file.
2.11 Authors
receive a free copy of the journal in which their articles appear.
3.
Honorarium
Scottish Affairs is not in a position to pay
a fee for articles which it publishes.
The costs of production
do not receive
financial subsidy
from
any source, and
have to be met by sales and advertising.
However, the editors recognise that expecting freelance
writers to
contribute
without some financial
reward would
be unreasonable. Therefore an honorarium
is offered to contributors whose income is directly dependent
on their
writing. The
editors ask contributors
to inform
them whether this is indeed the case. Any
honorarium is payable on publication only.
4. References
and
technical
material
4.1 Extensive technical material
that cannot be included in the main text should
be
put in an appendix:
an
example would
be the
technical
details
of a statistical
survey.
4.2 The preferred style for
references is exemplified below (sometimes known
as the
Harvard style);
there should be
a single alphabetical
list at the
end that contains full details of
the references as illustrated (see also
note 5.6 below). Scottish Affairs
does, however,
accept references in the footnoted
style that is common in humanities
journals
and
books.
Books
In the text as Kellas (1984), and
in the alphabetical list at the
end as: Kellas, J. (1984). The
Scottish Political System. Cambridge:
University Press,
third edition.
Journal articles
In the text as Farrar (1990),
and in the alphabetical
list at the
end as: Farrar, S. (1990). Scottish
construction industry: 1990
assessment. Scottish
Economic Bulletin,
vol 42, 25-36.
Government
publication
In the text as Scottish Home
and Health Department
(1979), and in
the alphabetical
list as:
Scottish Home
and Health Department (1979). Structure
and management
of the NHS in
Scotland. Edinburgh:
HMSO.
Chapters in books
In the text as Cohen
(1991), and in the
alphabetical list as:
Cohen, B. (1991). Developing
childcare services
in Scotland: whose
responsibility?
Scottish
Government Yearbook 1991, eds A.Brown
and D.McCrone,
217-227. Edinburgh: Unit for
the Study of Government
in
Scotland.
Articles
in newspapers or magazines
In the text as
Harvie (1992),
and in the
alphabetical
list as:
Harvie, C. (1992).
Czech-mate
trumpets the beginning
of the end.
The Scotsman, 13
June 1992,
9.
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