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Submission of manuscripts

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An abstract of the paper, of up to 300 words, should accompany the article. In addition a list of up to 6 keywords, suitable for indexing and abstracting services, should be supplied.

Articles should not normally exceed 5,000 words in length. Please contact the Editor prior to the submission of articles in excess of 5,000 words. If your wordprocessor is capable of doing a word count please print this at the end of the text, together with the date of the manuscript.

Notes should be kept to a minimum and placed at the end of the article before the references; footnotes should be avoided.

A brief biographical sketch about each author should be supplied on a separate sheet. Details should be given of author's full postal and Email addresses as well as telephone and fax numbers.

Copyright
It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license 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 may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from Taylor & Francis, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as original source of publication, and that Taylor & Francis is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised. Authors retain a number of other rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies documents. These policies are referred to at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authorrights.pdf for full details. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Illustrations

Tables, figures and plates should not be inserted within the pages of the manuscript but should be submitted on separate sheets attached to the article.

Tables should be prepared with the minimum use of horizontal rules (usually three are sufficient) and avoiding vertical rules. It is important to provide clear copy of figures (not photocopies or faxes) which can be reproduced by the printer and do not require redrawing.

Photographs should be of high-contrast black and white glossy prints.

The desired position in the text for each table, figure and plate should be indicated in the margin of the manuscript.

All captions for figures and plates (including sources and acknowledgements) should be listed on a separate sheet.

References

The Harvard reference system, preferred in this journal, uses the name of the author, the date of publication and, following quoted material, the page reference, as a key to the full bibliographic details set out in the list of references- e.g. 'Many composers ... have attempted to return to this state of childhood' (Swanwick 1988: 56); several authors have noted this trend (Smith 1970; Jones and Cook 1968; Dobbs et al. 1973). [N.B. et al. to be used when there are three or more authors.]

The date of publication cited must be the date of the source referred to; when using a republished book, a translation or a modern version of an older edition, however, the date of the original publication may also be given. Where there are two or more works by one author in the same year, these should be distinguished by using 1980a, 1980b, etc.

The reference list should include every work cited in the text. Please ensure that dates, spelling and titles used in the text are consistent with those listed in the References.

The content and form of the reference list should conform to the following examples. Please note that page numbers are required for articles, both place of publication and name of publisher should be given for books and, where relevant, translator and date of first publication should be noted. Do not use et al. in the reference list; spell out each author's full name or surname and initials.

Book/ multiple author:
Kay, John, Mayer, Colin and Thompson, David (1986) Privatization and Regulation, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Article in edited volume:
Kreile, Michael (1992) 'The political economy of the new Germany', in Paul B. Stares (ed.) The New Germany and the New Europe, Washington DC: Brookings Institution, pp. 55-92.

Article in journal:
Streeck, W. and Schmitter, P.C. (1991) 'From corporatism to transnationalism pluralism: organised interests in the single European market', Politics and Society 19: 133-64.

Edited text:
Smith, Adam (1976) [1776] An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ed. R.H. Campbell, A.S.Skinner and W.B. Todd, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Translated text:
Jaspers, K. (1983) 'General Human Resource Management, 7th edn, trans. J.Hoenig and M. Hamilton, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Article in Newspaper:
Barber, L. (1993) 'The towering bureaucracy', Financial Times, 21 June.

Unpublished: Zito, A. (1994) 'Epistemic communities in European policy-making', Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Notes on style
Contributors should observe the following points of style.

Justification of text:
Use unjustified mode. Leave the right margin ragged and avoid word divisions and hyphens at the end of lines. Only insert hard returns at the end of paragraphs or headings.

Punctuation:
Use a single (not a double ) space after a full point, and after commas, colons, semicolons, etc. Do not put a space in front of a question mark, or in front of any other closing quotation mark.

Spelling: We prefer spellings to conform to the new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and to follow the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors.

Use -ize, in preference to -ise, as a verbal ending (e.g. realize, specialize, recognize, etc.). Note, however, several words correctly end in -ise (e.g. advertise, enfranchise, exercise, etc.); note also analyse (English spelling) analyze (American).

Initial capitalization Please keep capitalization to a minimum. When possible, use lower case for government, church, state, party, volume etc.; north, south, etc. are only capitalized if used as part of a recognized place name e.g. Western Australia, South Africa; use lower case for general terms e.g. western France, south-west of Berlin.

Full points:
Use full points after abbreviations (p.m., e.g., i.e., etc.) and contractions where the end of the word is cut ( p., ed., ch.). Omit full points in acronyms (HMSO, USA, BBC, NATO, plc), after contractions which end in the last letter of the word (Dr, Mr, St, edn, eds, Ltd) and after metric units (cm, m, km, kg,).

Note especially ed. eds; vol. vols; no. nos; ch. chs, etc.

Italics:
Indicate italics by underlining, in preference to the italic font, and use for titles of books, journals, newspapers, plays, films, long poems, paintings and ships. Extensive use of italics for emphasis should be avoided.

Quotations:
Use single quotation marks for quoted material within the text; double quotation marks should only be used for quotes within quotes. Do not use leader dots at the beginning or end of a quotation unless the sense absolutely demands. For ellipsis within a quotation use three leader dots for a mid-sentence break, four if the break is followed by a new sentence. Quotations of over forty words should be extracted and indented and no quotation marks used. Numerals:

In general spell out numbers under 100; but use numerals for measurements (e.g. 12km) and ages (e.g. 10 years old). Insert a comma for both thousands and tens of thousands (e.g. 1,000 and 20, 000). Always use the minimum number of figures for ranged numbers and dates, e.g. 22-4, 105-6, 1966-7; but use 112-13, 1914-18, etc. for 'teen' numbers. Use the percentages sign only in figures and tables; spell out 'per cent' in the text using a numeral for the number (e.g. 84 per cent). Dates:

Set out as follows: 8 July 1990 (no comma), on 8 July, or on the 8th; 1990s (not spelt out, no apostrophe); nineteenth century (not 19th century) and insert hyphen when used adjectivally (e.g. nineteenth-century art). En rules:

Since there is no en rule on a standard keyboard, use a double hyphen for en rules; use these to link number spans (e.g. 24--8); to connect two items linked in a political context (e.g. 'Labour--Liberal alliance', 'Rome--Berlin axis') and to link the names of joint authors (e.g. Temple--Hardcastle project).

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Proofs

Authors are expected to correct proofs quickly and any alteration to the original text is strongly discouraged. Authors should correct typesetter's errors in red; minimal alterations of their own should be in black.

Copyright: notes for contributors

The journal's policy is to own copyright in all contributions. There are two reasons for this:

ownership of copyright by the publisher ensures maximum protection against piratical infringement anywhere in the world;

it also ensures that requests by third parties to reprint a contribution, or part of it, are handled efficiently in accordance with our general policy which encourages dissemination of knowledge inside the framework of copyright.

We will not withhold permission for any reasonable request from you to publish the whole or any part of your Contribution in connection with any other work by you, provided the usual acknowledgements are given regarding copyright notice and reference to first publication by us.

You will be informed, wherever practicable, of all requests, to which we have agreed, to reprint your contribution, or a substantial part of it in any other publication.

The journal mandates the Copyright Clearance Center in the USA, and the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK, each of which offers centralised licensing arrangements for photocopying in their respective territories.

The Contribution may be stored by electronic (including digital) means by us and then transmitted to meet individual requests.

You hereby agree to the journal making the necessary arrangements to include the Contribution in a document delivery service.

If you are a US Government employee and the Contribution was made in that capacity the assignment applies only to the extent allowable by US law.

If you are an employee of the British Government then HMSO will, as standard practice, grant a non-exclusive licence to publish this paper in the journal in any form or media provided British crown copyright is reserved.