Gender & Development is the only journal to focus specifically on gender and development issues internationally, and to explore the connections between gender and development initiatives and feminist perspectives. Gender & Development draws on Oxfam GB's strength as a leading NGO working to promote gender equality as an end in itself, and an essential prerequisite for poverty eradication, peace and sustainable human development. Since its launch in 1993, the journal has become essential reading for all who share this vision.
Gender & Development aims to inform and improve development policy and practice through debating experience, identifying lessons, and advancing new ideas. Contributions are welcome from all involved in development initiatives: policy-makers and practitioners, researchers both inside and outside academia, and feminist activists. In recognition of common causes of poverty and marginalisation across the world, writers focus on both Southern and Northern contexts.
For those who have not written for a journal before, part of the Editor's role is to offer support and advice during the writing process.
Gender & Development has a constituency which ranges over many disciplines, countries, and levels. We request writers to assist us in our aim of reaching the widest readership possible, while retaining intellectual rigour and factual accuracy, by using a clear, accessible style. Essential specialist and technical terms should be defined, and acronyms explained in full. In this way, complex ideas can be discussed across cultures, classes and constituencies, assisting women and men to empower themselves and determine their own development.
Gender & Development appears three times a year, in March, July and November, in both print and electronic form (please contact the distributor, Taylor and Francis, for details - fax +44 (0) 207 017 5198 tf.enquiries@informa.com; or visit www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/gender/gad/index.htm
Book Review Guidelines
For more information on Book Review Guidelines please visit www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/cgdeBookReview.pdf
Submitting an article to Gender & Development
Articles are commissioned nine months prior to publication, and the deadline for copy for each issue is six months prior to publication. While unsolicited articles are welcomed, the journal is thematic, and therefore the majority of articles are commissioned. The Editor should therefore be contacted as early as possible if you have a proposal for a contribution.
Contributions should be sent to: The Editor, Gender & Development, Oxfam, Oxfam House, John Smith Drive, Cowley, Oxford, OX4 2JY, UK. Fax: + 44 (0) 1865 472393 or send an email to gadeditor@oxfam.org.uk. Free article access: Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk
Forthcoming themes are:
- March 2009 - Climate Change
- July 2009 - Work
- November 2009 - Age/Generations
- March 2010 - Water
- July 2010 - The Economic Crisis
- November 2010 - Migration
Articles and reviews should be previously unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Articles for inclusion in the main section of the journal should be between 3,000 and 4,500 words long.
G&D also commissions non-thematic shorter articles (750-1,000 words long), interviews, and conference reports, for inclusion in its Views, Events, and Debate section, as well as book reviews. Please contact the Editor if you would like further information about contributing to these sections of the journal.
Key words
Authors should include up to six key words with their article for electronic searches. For example, these may include: gender; development and the region/country discussed by the article.
Presentation
Please observe our presentational requirements. If you are in doubt about any aspect of our style, please consult the editor or a recent issue of the journal.
- Please contribute the article in Microsoft Word or as a rich text file. E-mail address and fax details appear below. Alternatively, submit one paper copy, typed in double spacing on one side of the paper only. Please supply a word count. Include your name, contact details, and brief details of your current work.
- Ensure that the main title clearly reflects the content of the paper; the full title should not exceed 12 words. Start the article with a 100-word summary (abstract) giving the main points.
- Use bold for main headings and italics for sub-headings. Use italics for emphasis. Do not use underline.
- Please don't use any embedded layout features other than those in (3) above: do not use embedded codes (i.e. page justification, page numbering, indentation, footnotes/endnotes, textboxes, headers, or footers). Indicate notes with a number in brackets either within the text (7), or after the sentence. (7) Collect these at the end of the text. Do not use the automated footnote/endnote facility and do not embed Tables and Figures in the main body of the electronic version of the text.
- Define acronyms, abbreviations, and all technical and specialist terms. Italicise non-English words and phrases and give a translation in brackets. Use metric measurements (or state the equivalent) and give a US dollar equivalent of other currencies.
- Include Tables and Figures only if these are essential to the argument. Present them on separate pages in the hard copy, preferably in camera-ready form, and in separate electronic files; in both cases clearly labelled with the author's surname, e.g. Smith-Table1, Smith-Figure1. Make sure that the text indicates where the figure or table should be placed. Photographs/other visuals, or line drawings/graphics (all with good contrast), are welcome. Write the fullest possible captions separately.
- References to secondary data should be cited in the text, as (Ellerbrock 1979); if the reference is a direct quotation, please give page number, e.g. (Ellerbrock 1979, 18). Where you are citing more than one reference they should be separated using semi- colons, e.g. (Ellerbrock 1979; Hanyane 1990).
Full references should then be listed at the end of the article using the following styles. Do not use indentation when formatting your references. For more details, please the Reference List.
Copyright material
It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission to use material that is the copyright of another author or publisher. This applies to photographs, tables, and figures, and to any passage of text that exceeds 100 words.
Copyright Assignment
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