This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

These guidelines are to aid you in preparing your article for publication in Anthropological Forum. Following these instructions exactly will help us to get your contribution into print as quickly as possible. Manuscripts, including abstract, endnotes and references, must not exceed 10 000 words. For initial review of your manuscript, please submit an electronic copy by email attachment. Please also return revised manuscripts by email attachment. If your manuscript is not acknowledged within a week, please email for confirmation of its receipt. Any queries should be addressed to Dr Catie Gressier, Assistant Editor, at forum-anthropology@uwa.edu.au.

Layout

Use Times New Roman font in 12 pt throughout, including indented quotes, endnotes and reference list. Use 1½ line spacing throughout.

Your manuscript, including title, subheadings, author's name and quotes to be indented, should be aligned flush left throughout. Do not centre or justify any text. Do not use the automatic hyphenation feature in your software.

Words in the title and subheadings, other than articles, prepositions and conjunctions, should be capitalised; for example, Death and the Regeneration of Life. The title and first level of subheadings should be in bold, the second level in italics.

Your title and subtitle should be informative, but concise (ideally, max. 15 words).

Put the author's name after the title two lines down (followed by your department and university affiliation, full postal address, and email address)

Follow this with a concise Abstract, preferably much less than the limit of 250 words.

Up to 5 Key Words should then be supplied, separated by semi-colons, initial letters capitalised.

Leave two lines before starting your first paragraph.

Do not indent the first line of paragraphs. Rather, use an extra carriage return to separate paragraphs.

Put one blank line before and after each subheading.

Use one space between sentences. Do not use two spaces.

Do not put page breaks into the electronic version of your article, except at the end before an accompanying illustration or table.

General

Avoid Latinisms [e.g., i.e.] where possible; use English equivalents instead. When Latin abbreviations are used, they are italicised. Strictly limit your use of etc. or et cetera.

Do not begin sentences with conjunctions like ‘But' or ‘And'. Such sentences will always be altered by us during the copy-editing.

Excessive use of the dash should be avoided. Use commas instead where possible.

When you do use the dash, use an em dash [—] or, if you do not know how to, use a double hyphen [ -- ], which we will convert.

Avoid using ‘he or she' by rewording the sentence (when possible) with the subject in the plural, so that you can refer back to it as ‘they' in following clauses.

Keep in mind that Anthropological Forum has an international readership; do not assume that your readers will understand references to particular place names, customs, or historical events. Spell these out in sufficient detail. For example, Broome should be referred to on first use as Broome, Western Australia; Aboriginal should be modified on first use by Australian.

Authors have responsibility for checking accuracy of quotations and of publication dates cited. In our recent editing and publishing experience, we have been astounded at the number of inaccurate quotations and incomplete or wrong references in submitted manuscripts. We uncover many errors and correct them, but we cannot check every quotation and every reference. Responsibility for letter- and punctuation-perfect quotations and correct references lies with the author.

Remember to number your pages. Also, make sure your proofing/spellchecking function is ON, and be sure to use it.   

Quotations

Short quotations are not indented and are set off with single quote marks [‘Beginning of quote … end of quote']. Use double quote marks [“…”] for quotations within quotations.

As a rule, punctuation marks should appear outside quotation marks. This differs from North American convention. Example: The diplomat commented, ‘Not all that we do is sanctioned'. The papers were classified ‘Top Secret'. If the whole sentence is a quotation, the full stop should be placed inside the closing quotation mark. Example: ‘The history of printing is in large measure the history of the title-page.'

Indented quotations (which are quotations longer than three lines) must not be indented, but must be separated from other text before and after by an extra carriage return, and should begin and end with double square brackets and quote marks: [[‘ … ']]. See note above about new paragraphs following indented quotations.

Use three dots [word … next word] to indicate ellipsis. Do not retain commas or full stops following the word before the ellipsis. The only punctuation forms that may be retained are quotation marks, question marks or exclamation marks. Do not use three dots at the beginning or end of a quotation.

Retain the original spelling in all quotes, and check that you have not missed out any words or punctuation marks, or made any typing errors.

It is obligatory to provide the page number of the source from which a direct quote is taken, however short the phrase quoted. To help your readers follow up indirectly cited material, it is also desirable to provide a page number or numbers in the source.

Endnotes

Place footnote text as endnotes following the end of the text (under the subheading Notes) and before the bibliography. Use your word processor's endnoting facility. In the text, the endnote indicator follows the punctuation, such as full-stop or comma. Any acknowledgments should be indicated as the first endnote following the author's name.

Spelling

Anthropological Forum uses Australian English spelling as defined by The Macquarie Dictionary. Australian authors must follow these conventions. International authors may write in their own form of English. We will do the conversions.

We use -ise rather than -ize, -isation rather than -ization. Do not, however, change proper names, such as World Health Organization, or titles of books.

In-text referencing

References should appear in the text (not as footnotes), following the Chicago style; for example, Sahlins (1972, 231). Please note that this differs slightly from the style used in pre-2004 issues of Anthropological Forum. Do not use ibid, loc.cit, op cit., passim.

For two joint authors, use (Brown and Smith 1975). For three, use (Brown, Black and Smith). For more than three authors, use (Larsen et al. 1975).

If more than one work is cited, separate authors with a semicolon, author's dates (in chronological order) with a comma: (Larsen 1971, 1982; Carruthers n.d.). Use:

Daly n.d. (for works for which there is no reliable publication date)

Daly c. 1751 (for approximate publication date)

Daly, forthcoming (for works not yet in process of publication)

Daly, in press (for works in the process of publication, but date unknown)

References to several works published in the same year by the same author should be distinguished by attaching lower-case letters to the date, based on alphabetical order of the titles (disregarding initial ‘The' or ‘A'): Bell (1981a, 1981b). Be sure to use the same order in your bibliography.

If the author of a newspaper article is unknown, use:

(Canberra Times 24 Jan. 1987, B6)

The Weekend Australian (24–25 Jan. 1987, 19) reported…

(Financial Review 23 Jan. 1987, editorial)

References (Use References, not Bibliography, for the heading)

Multiple entries for each author should be presented in chronological order beginning with the earliest date.

Bibliographic entries must be formatted exactly as they are in the examples below. All book and article titles should appear in lower case except for the first letter of proper nouns and the first letter of the first words of the title and subtitle. Please note that this is different from the capitalisation to be used in the title of your article and in its subheadings.

For authors who know how to insert the symbol “en dash” instead of a hyphen between dates and between page numbers, please do so (e.g., pp. 79–85, not 79-85; 1939–1945).

Journal articles

Altman, J. 1999. Anthropology and indigenous public policy: One view from academia. Anthropological Forum 9 (1): 75–82.

Zorn, J. 1991. Making law in Papua New Guinea. Pacific Studies 14: 1–34.

Books (Monographs)

Berndt, R. 1962. An adjustment movement in Arnhem Land. Paris: Mouton.

Books (Edited volumes)

Berndt, R. M., and C. H. Berndt. 1988. Body and soul. In Aboriginal Australians and                  Christian missions, edited by T. Swain and D. B. Rose, 422–37. Bedford Park, South Australia: The Australian Association for the Study of Religions.

Thesis titles, and titles of other unpublished works, are not italicised.

Arrange the list of references under the subheading References (aligned left) at the end of the article, following the section headed Notes (aligned left). Do not include items that are not cited in the text.

Maps, Figures, Tables

Authors whose articles have been accepted for publication must submit maps and figures and tables in final form, and with captions. They should be submitted on separate pages at the end of the document, NOT inserted into the text. You may, however, insert a note for each in the text. For example, [[PLEASE INSERT TABLE 2 ABOUT HERE]]. It is the author's responsibility to get clearance for publishing any pre-published illustrations.

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