Notes on Formatting

Social and Cultural Studies uses the APA author-date referencing system, following the fifth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Submitted texts should be double-spaced in Times New Roman, with margins of at least 2.5 cm all round. For peer review purposes, the author’s name or institutional affiliation should appear only on the cover-page, not in the rest of the manuscript. We accept pieces of varying length, from articles (30-40 pages) to monographs (50-80 pages).

• Abstract: An offset abstract of not more than 100 words should be placed immediately after the title of your article. Include a list of keywords after the abstract.


• Typography: Indent paragraphs 0.5 cm (do not use a line space to indicate paragraphs). Use footnotes for supplementary notes.


• Quotations: Use double, “smart” quotation marks. Place full stops and commas within closing quotation marks. Use single quotation marks for quotations within a quotation. Three spaced ellipsis points (four after a full stop) indicate material omitted. Ellipsis points should not be used at the beginning of a quotation except where necessary to prevent misinterpretation. Square brackets indicate insertions.
  
  Use in-text parenthetical citation (i.e. do not use footnotes for references). Give author, date, and, wherever possible, page number, as in the following examples:
  
  
  • See Bekerian (1993) for further information.
  
  
  • “The goal of freewriting is not absolutely limpid fluency” (Elbow, 1998, p. 24).
  
  
  • Janet Frame describes the process of writing her autobiography as an exercise in self-legitimacy, of “making [herself] a first person” (as cited in Hawes, 1995).
  
  


• References: Use a References list for sources cited in the article. Include a separate Bibliography for sources which were significant to the research but not cited.
  

  
  Sample references list:
  
  
  Bekerian, D. A. (1993). In search of the typical eyewitness. American Psychologist, 48, 574-576.
  
  Birks, R., Eng, T., & Walchli, J. (Eds.). (1998). Landmarks: A process reader. Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice Hall.
  
  Elbow, P. (1998). Freewriting. In R. Birks, T. Eng, & J. Walchli (Eds.), Landmarks: A process reader (pp. 20-25). Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall.
  
  Hawes, T. (1995, February). The self as other/othering the self. Deep South 1.1. Retrieved October 26, 2001, from http://www.otago.ac.nz/~dsouth/hawes.htm
  
  Hunter, D., Bailey, A., & Taylor, B. (1992). The Zen of groups: A handbook for people meeting with a purpose. Auckland: Tandem.
  
  True-blue union given the boot. (1999, January 9-10). The New Zealand Herald, p. A3.