How to submit:

All submissions should be made online at the Journal of Peasant 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.

If you are having trouble using Manuscript Central, contact JPS directly at jps.editorial@gmail.com. However, we expect submitting authors to make an attempt to use the online system.

Grassroots Voices will be a thematic cluster of short texts about grassroots perspectives on and analysis of important agrarian issues. It encourages views that are written and presented in non-academic style that provide important insights, analysis, and information relevant to critical rural development studies. In terms of content, the emphasis should be on material and perspectives that are not already easily available to English speakers with internet access. Essays and other materials in this section, which are generally shorter (at about 3,000 - 4,000 words) include: commentaries, interviews, reflections, legacies, field mission reports, event analyses, movement profiles, and key documents. (See detailed descriptions below.)

The thematic Grassroots Voices is put together by a guest editor. The prospective guest editor should consult the Editor about the planned project before submitting a proposal. The proposal should include a brief explanation of why the topic, material, or perspective is important, a complete list of essays and texts, short indicative note of these, notes on possible contributors, and target delivery date. The JPS Editor and Editorial Collective will review the proposal. Upon acceptance of the proposal, the guest editor is responsible for making sure that essays/texts meet the high quality requirement of the JPS. All contributions to this section are peer-reviewed ('light and comradely'), and the review process will be managed by the JPS Editor. Email ideas and proposals to jps.editorial@gmail.com.

Commentary - incisive analysis of an important policy (e.g. market-led agrarian reform), document (e.g. World Development Report 2007/08), or initiative (e.g. new Green Revolution in Africa)

Interview - interviewees are important actors in the rural development world (from an ordinary movement participant to a celebrity rural social movement leader)

Reflection - by important thinkers in peasant studies

Legacy - analysis of contributions of key scholars or activists

Field mission report - synthesis of fresh action field research or missions about very current and hot topics

Event analysis - brief but substantial presentation and examination of an important event (e.g. the Food Sovereignty world assembly in Mali in 2007)

Movement or network profile - analytical profile of a relevant social movement organization or network

Key documents - short but very important documents or manifestos by key rural social movements (e.g. Via Campesina manifesto on the Bali Climate Change conference) or other institutions

 
General Instructions for Manuscripts

Length - There is no standard length for regular articles, but 8,000-10,000 words (including notes and references) is a useful target.

Abstract - Each manuscript should include an abstract of around 100 words, which should describe the main arguments and conclusions of the article.

Author bio - Notes on the author(s) containing institutional affiliation, research interests, and full address and other contact information should be included on a separate cover sheet; it should not be more than 80 words.

Keywords - Keywords should be included for each manuscript. They are placed below the abstract, separated by semicolons, and should be lowercase except for proper nouns.

Acknowledgments - Include these as a footnote on the first page.

Copyright - It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or licence the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Free article access - Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

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

 Headings - The following heirarchy of headings should be followed:

Bold initial cap only

Bold italic initial cap only

Italic initial cap only

Italic initial cap only. Text runs on ...

All ranged left, numbers to be included if supplied, no indent below.

Tables and Figures - All diagrams, charts and graphs 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. Any diagrams or maps should be prepared in black and white. Tints should be avoided, use open patterns instead. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that where copyright materials are included within an article the permission of the copyright holder has been obtained. Confirmation of this should be included on a separate sheet.

Footnotes - Comments and references with comments should appear as footnotes, not endnotes.

Quotation marks - Use single quotation marks throughout. Use double marks for quotations within quotations. Indent quotations longer than 40 words, and use a smaller font for indented quotations. All cited quotations should include a page number.

Initials - do not have full points between them (e.g. US, NJ, BBC). For names of article authors and in references, no space between initials (e.g. J.P. Smith).

Lists - (1) for numberd lists. Bullets, if preferred.

Dashes - Spaced en rules for parenthetical dashes. Also use en rule between spans of numbers (e.g. 20-40), including page numbers in references.

Numbers and units - Spell out one to nine. Use % (e.g. 10%) rather than percent or per cent, except at the beginning of a sentence.

Dates - Examples: 4 October 2005, in the twenty-first century, in the 1970s.

References

How to cite references in your text:

If the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence, the year is given in parentheses:

In a popular study Agarwal (1994) argued…

As Agarwal (1994, 21) said, …

If the name does not occur naturally in the sentence, both name and year are given in parentheses:

A more recent study (Harriss-White 2008) has shown…

Food sovereignty movements have started to gain momentum in their advocacy work worldwide (McMichael 2008).

If two or more references by the same author published in the same year are cited, distinguish these by adding a,b,c, etc. after the year:

Hart (1994a) discussed…

If you want to include two or more references within the same parentheses, use chronological order and separate with commas:

…as discussed by several authors (Friedmann 2005, Weis 2007, McMichael 2009).

If more than two authors, give the surname of the first author followed by et al.

Southern African rural livelihoods have been transformed partly by limited land reforms (Scoones et al. 2008)

If you refer to a source quoted in another source, cite both in the text, but only list the work you read in the bibliography:

A study by James Scott (1976 cited in Kerkvliet 2005) showed that…

A reference list should be placed at the end of the paper. It should contain all the works referred to, listed alphabetically by author's surname (or name of sponsoring body where there is no identifiable author). Where two works by the same author appear these may be differentiated in the reference and the reference list by affixing a letter to the publication.

Style should follow: Author's or editor's surname, initial(s), date of publication, title of publication, place of publication, and publisher. Titles of articles and books should have only the first word capitalized. Book titles and journal names should be italicized. Do not put quotation marks around article titles. Examples are shown below:

Book

Bernstein, H. 1998. Social change in the south african countryside? Land and production, poverty and power. Journal of Peasant Studies, 25(4): 1-32.

Byres, T.J. 1996. Capitalism from above and capitalism from below. London: Macmillan.

Chapter in a book

Ludden, D. 2001. Subalterns and others in the agrarian history of South Asia. In: J.C. Scott and N. Bhatt, eds. Agrarian studies: synthetic work at the cutting edge. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 206-34.

Journal article

Kay, C. 2002a. Why East Asia overtook Latin America: agrarian reform, industrialization and development. Third World Quarterly, 23(6): 1073-102.

Kay, C. 2002b. Chile's neoliberal agrarian transformation and the peasantry. Journal of Agrarian Change, 2(4): 464-501.

Website

Monsalve, S. 2008. The FAO and its work on land policy and agrarian reform. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute; Brussels: Coalition of North-South Movements. Available from: http://www.tni.org/detail_pub.phtml?&know_id=266&menu=11f [Accessed on 10 September 2008].

Newspaper article

Gott, R. 1989. Crumbs and the capitalist. The Guardian, 20 Jan.

Other

Agutter, A.J. 1995. The liguistic significance of current British slang. Thesis (PhD). Edinburgh University.

Via Campesina 2004. Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform. Jakarta, Indonesia.