Author guidelines
1. All new submissions to the journal should be emailed to Dr. Mark Hide (opposite) as an attached file in MS Word, text or rich text format, with a covering letter giving the full contact details and position(s) held by the author(s). Articles should be anonymised, ready for reviewing by referees. Where articles have more than one author, the contact author should be clearly specified. Tables and figures should be emailed in separate attached files. Correspondence should be emailed to the same address, as far as this is possible. If it is necessary to correspond by mail, the address is: Dr. Mark Hyde, School of Sociology Politics and Law, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom.
 
2. Articles should generally contain between 6,000 and 10,000 words, including endnotes, acknowledgements and references.
 
3. Contributions should be accompanied by an abstract of between 100 and 200 words, plus up to six key words.
 
4. Headings should be typed in sentence case in bold, and begin from the left margin. Sub-headings should be typed in sentence case in italics, and begin from the left margin. Paragraphs should be indented, and should not be separated by a space. Articles should be double spaced.
 
5. References must be arranged alphabetically under author(s) names, and then chronologically if several publications by the same author are cited. The full title of the articles must be given together with first and last page numbers. Book titles should be followed by the place of publication and the publisher. The recommended style of referencing is:
 
Alcock, P., Erskine, A. and May, M. (2002) The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy, Oxford: Blackwell.

Anderson, G. F. and Hussey, P. S. (2000) "Population Aging: A Comparison Among Industrialized Countries", Health Affairs, 19, 3, pp. 191-203.

Cochrane, A. (1998) "What Sort of Safety Net? Social Security, Income Maintenance and the Benefits System", in G. Hughes and G. Lewis (eds), Unsettling Welfare: The Reconstruction of Social Policy, London: Routledge.
 
6. Where there are two authors, both names should be referenced in the text (eg. Barton and Johns, 2004). Where there are three or more authors, only the name of the first author should appear in the text (eg. Hyde et al., 2003).
 
7. Tables and Figures should be in monochrome, clearly laid out and designed to fit onto a page 234mm by 155mm. Vertical lines between columns should be omitted, and horizontal lines limited to the top and bottom of the table, with an additional line below the column headings. Totals and percentages should be labelled, and units identified.
 
8. Such notes as are essential should be referred to in numerical order throughout the text with the numbers shown as superscript. These notes should be placed after the body of the text and before the references.
 
9. Discriminatory language should be avoided.
 
10. Submission of an article is taken to imply that it has not previously been published, or is not being considered for publication elsewhere. If an author is publishing a related article elsewhere, this should be clearly stated.
 
11. Copyright for articles published in the journal is retained by the author(s), with first publication rights granted to the journal.