Irish Political Studies is a refereed journal publishing articles and reports in the area of politics that have a significant Irish component. Articles submitted to Irish Political Studies should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission

MANUSCRIPTS
All submissions should be made online at the Irish Political Studies Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as “File not for review”. 

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There is no standard length for articles but 8,000 words (including notes and references) is a useful target. Authors will be asked to inform the editors of the exact length of the article at the time of submission. The article should begin with an abstract of 100-200 words, which should describe the main arguments and conclusions of the article.

All diagrams, charts, graphs and maps should be referred to as figures and consecutively numbered. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Each figure and table must be given an Arabic numeral, followed by a heading, and be referred to in the text. Sources should be given in full for tables, maps and figures.

Figures must be saved individually and separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.

§ Avoid the use of colour and tints for purely aesthetic reasons.

§ Figures should be produced as near to the finished size as possible.

§ All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. figure 1, figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1(a), figure 1(b)).

§ Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.

§ The filename for the graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.

§ Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).

Please note that it is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please do not hesitate to contact our Production Department if you have any queries.

STYLE

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. The editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication.

Notes and references:

The number of notes should be kept to a minimum. They should be numbered consecutively throughout the article and indicated in the text by a raised numeral, without brackets, referring to the list of notes, which should be placed at the end of the article. Acknowledgements should be included as unnumbered and unreferenced notes at the beginning of the notes section.

References should follow the Harvard style and be inserted in the text in parentheses, indicating author, year of publication and page reference, e.g. (Smith, 1996: 21-4), (Smith and Jones, 2001). If there are more than three authors, use the first name followed by 'et al'. Full bibliographic references should follow at the end of the article, under 'References', in alphabetical order. The following examples are for (1) books; (2) multi-authored books; (3) journal articles; (4) articles in books:

1. Gallagher, Michael. 1982. The Irish Labour Party in Transition 1957-82. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
2. Laver, Michael, Peter Mair and Richard Sinnott. 1987. How Ireland Voted: The Irish General Election 1987. Dublin: Poolbeg Press and the Political Studies Association of Ireland Press.
3. Coakley, John. 'Religion, National Identity and Political Change in Modern Ireland', Irish Political Studies 17:1, pp.4-28.
4. McIntyre, Anthony. 2001. 'Modern Irish Republicanism and the Belfast Agreement: Chickens Coming Home to Roost, or Turkeys Celebrating Christmas?', in Rick Wilford, ed., Aspects of the Belfast Agreement (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp.202-22.

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