JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES
Submission Information and Style Guide

REQUIREMENTS

    1.The Journal of Australian Studies is a fully refereed international quarterly produced in the Australian Studies Centre at Curtin University of Technology and published by the University of Queensland Press. All editorial correspondence should be sent to:

SUBMISSION
  1. Manuscripts must be submitted in hard copy. Authors within Australia should send 3 copies, and those outside Australia 1 copy.
  2. Authorial details should be placed on a separate page to preserve anonymity. Include your name, title, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
  3. For articles, include a professional profile of 50-100 words for the Notes on Contributors.
  4. For articles, include an abstract of no more than 200 words.
  5. Articles should not exceed 7,000 words (the preferred size is 5,000-7,000 words including endnotes). Submissions for New Talents 21Cshould not exceed 5,000 words. Book reviews should normally be 600-800 words and should not contain endnotes.
  6. Your article should be an original piece of work not previously published nor currently being considered elsewhere for publication. It must be the sole work of the author(s) and not involve third parties with a claim to copyright. Permission to reproduce photographs and illustrations is the responsibility of the author(s).
  7. On receipt of an article a formal acknowledgment will be forwarded to the author. Contributors should note that after the receipt of their article some time will elapse before notification of acceptance or otherwise of the article is made, as articles are sent to referees for assessment.
ACCEPTANCE
  1. When an article is accepted for publication the editor will give some indication of the issue in which the article will be published.
  2. Upon acceptance of the article, you will be offered an 'Agreement to Publish' contract. This confers in JAS the sole rights to publish the article. Copyright on the article will be assigned to the JAS for the purposes of initial publication, reprints, re-issues and electronic publication. Authors may apply to JAS to re-publish their materials elsewhere on the proviso that full acknowledgment is made to JAS including full details of the article's publication in JAS.
  3. If necessary, the article will be returned with editorial corrections marked on the hard copy to be corrected by the author(s).
  4. The final corrected version of the article must be supplied to JAS in electronic form compatible with MS Word. Email delivery is preferred, or a disk may be sent. Please specify the file type (e.g. MS Word .doc or .rtf).
  5. Photos or illustrations must either be supplied as hard copy originals (not photocopies or printouts) for JAS to scan or as separate electronic image files (in .jpg or .tif format) which have been scanned at 300 dpi or better.
  6. One complimentary copy of the Journal will be forwarded to each contributor. No offprints are available.
  7. All articles must conform to the style guide below.
STYLE GUIDE

JAS uses the Australian Government Publishing Service's Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers (5th ed.). Please refer to it where style issues are not covered by the following:

Endnotes:

Endnotes containing bibliographic references are the preferred format. Always check your endnotes against the manuscript. Use standard size numbering from 1 to 99 then from 1 onwards again.
When citing a work the following format is used: Author name (with initials or first name before last name), title of work, publisher, place of publication, date, page numbers. Commas separate each item of citation. Where a work is published in book form the title should be in italics. Where an article appears in an edited book or journal single inverted commas around the article title are used with the book or journal title in italics. Use maximal capitalisation for book or journal titles and subtitles but minimal capitalisation for articles.
A book:
    Gail Reekie, Measuring Immorality: Social Inquiry and the Problems of Illegitimacy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, pp 64-7.
A chapter in a book:
    Ania Walwicz, 'Look at me, ma - I'm going to be a marginal writer' in Heather Kerr and Amanda Nettlebeck (eds), The Space Between: Australian Women Writing Fictocriticism, University of Western Australian Press, 1998, p 274. (NB: (ed.) when single editor.)
An article in a journal:
    James Jupp, 'An anxious nation fears the worst', Journal of Australian Studies, no 55, 1997, p 4.
A thesis:
    Masayo Tada, 'Representations of Australia in a Japanese National Newspaper: 1970s � 1990s', MA thesis, University of Queensland, 1998, p 67.
Other official publications:
    New South Wales Parliamentary Papers, (NSWPP), vol 1, second session, 1938-40, Report on Technical Education ... 1937, p 25.
    Victorian Parliamentary Debates, (VPD), vol 183, 1930, Legislative Assembly, p 2748.
    Constitution Amendment Act (Victoria), 1958.
Newspapers:
    Age, 28 June 1998.
    Sydney Morning Herald, 30 June 1998.
    Herald-Sun, 29 June 1998.
    Courier-Mail, 16 August 1998.
Use of ibid., op. cit. and loc. cit.:

Use these where applicable after the initial citation. The should appear in roman type (straight text) and always in lower case.

5 ibid.
6 Jacobs, op. cit., p 63.
7 Jacobs, ibid.
8 Holst, loc. cit.

Multiple publications by the same author in the same year:

Where two or more publications in the same year by the same author are cited in the endnotes, cite the first reference fully and thereafter use author's last name and title, or part thereof, to distinguish which work you are referring to:
    Reynolds, This Whispering, p 92 [refers to the earlier cited work which appeared as Henry Reynolds, This Whispering in Our Hearts, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1998].
Numerous publications within the one footnote are separated by semi colons.

Full Points/Full stops:

JAS uses as few full points as possible in citations and throughout the text:
  1. When author names contain initials no full points are used. eg. K S Inglis not K. S. Inglis or KS Inglis.
  2. No full points in referencing volumes of publications. eg. Southerly, vol 1, no 3 not vol. 1, no. 3 or Vol. 1, No 3.
  3. No full points when referencing page numbers. eg. p 160 and pp 160-6 not p. 160 and pp. 160-6.
Use of Capitals:

Capitals are used for proper names, but are otherwise employed as sparingly as possible. When in doubt use lower case.

Personal prefixes and titles: No capital initial is used for official ranks or titles unless combined with the name of the holder:
    the duke; the general; the minister; the prime minister, the assistant commissioner; But Duke of Argyll; General Paul Brown; Mr Kim Beazley.
Titles of institutions, organisations, groups, etc: No capital is used unless the full title is being given:
    the society; the ministry; the council; the commission; the government; But the National Trust; the House of Representatives; Parliament (when referring to a specific parliament).
Historical periods of time, eras, events, etc: No capital initial is used if the term is used in a vaguely general sense:
    in post-industrial Australia, the children wept ...
    the second world war, on the home front ...
    the great depression of the 1930s ...
Spelling:

The Macquarie Dictionary should be followed. NB realise, liberalise, fossilise, etc. � 's' not 'z'.

Abbreviations and acronyms:

Titles, Qualifications, Initials, etc: No full points are used after initials signifying qualifications, honours or appointments. Omit the apostrophe in plurals. eg. 1920s not 1920's:
    Dr; PhD; BSc; FRSA; MP; MPs; QCs.
All abbreviations and acronyms for proper names must be written in full the first time they are used accompanied by their acronym in brackets. Subsequent use of the acronym is then preferable:
    Australian and New Zealand Army Corp (Anzac);
    Australian Labor Party (ALP);
    University of Queensland Press (UQP).
Quotations:

Where quotations are less than four lines long single quotation marks are employed, with double quotation marks for a quote within a quote. Quotations of more than four lines should be typed as a separate paragraph, indented by 5mm on both sides and appear without quotation marks. Quotations are indented on both sides. A colon should precede indented quotations.

Within the quotation use the style and punctuation of the original. Quotations are to be kept in their original context even if the case is wrong as in 'aborigines'.

If omitting a piece, indicate by ellipsis points ...

If interpolating a work or phrase, indicate by square [ ] brackets.

Punctuation:
    Full stops.� 1 space follows before beginning next sentence.
    Colons:� 1 space follows.
    Semi colons;� 1 space follows.
    Dashes-� should be shown as 'em' dashes �
    Ellipsis points�� should have a space before and after.
Spacing of paragraphs:

No carriage returns (double spacing) are necessary between paragraphs or footnotes.

Numbers:

In descriptive matter: Numbers under 100 are spelt out in full. Over 100 use figures. (Note, though, that words and figures are not mixed: 99 to 101, Not ninety-nine to 101).
Millions are printed as figures and words when given as round numbers:
    12 million: But 12,136,000.
For a sequence of quantities please use figures:

It was reported that 21 children aged 12, 16 children aged 9 and 15 children aged 6 were timed over 50 metres.

Additions to the library's stock included 125 novels, 110 children's books, 5 biographies, 12 travel books and 15 technical manuals.

Where figures are employed use the fewest number possible:
    67-9 (Not 67-69), 312-20.
    But (in teens) 112-14, Not 112-4.
Please insert the comma in numbers of more than three figures (1,066) except of course in dates (1066) or mathematical workings.

Collective numbers are expressed as: from 160 to 200.

Percentage as 10 per cent, except where there is frequent use within an article, then 10%.

Distances, dimensions, weights, etc: All numbers appear in figures unless used in a vague and general sense:
    For 21 kilometres the road ...
    For something like twenty kilometres the road ...
Use words for seventies, the nineties, the forties But not �the 1960s and seventies�:
    Use �the 1960s and 1970s� or �the 1960s and '70s�.
Do not convert miles to kilometres or pounds to dollars. Retain them in their historical context.

In giving a sequence of dates, use the least number of figures as possible:
    1971-2 But 1815-17, Not 1815-7.
    Omit the apostrophe in plurals: 1870s.
Dates:

These are shown as: 15 January 1970 and the 1870s.

Institutional Names:

Be careful to use correct titles of institutions. University of Sydney - not Sydney University. However, where an institution is intent on being grammatically incorrect in its endeavour to build its status, e.g. use of a capital 'T' for 'the' in, for example, The Gentle Ladies' Secondary College, use lower case for the 't'.

Figures and Tables:

Figures, diagrams, tables, charts and maps should be labelled consecutively as Figure 1, Figure 2, etc and placed in the text in their correct positions. They should always have a title and include source or copyright information if applicable. If required, footnotes should be placed immediately below each Figure.

Tables must be formatted in Word using the Table menu commands to create a proper table object. Tables must Not be presented as text seperated with tabs or by other manual spacing.

Illustrations:

Illustrations such as photographs and drawings are not labelled as Figures but should always carry a caption explaining the image and its source, including any copyright information.

Poetry:

Poems are left justified and centred on the page.

Book Reviews:

Book reviews should be 600-800 words and should Not contain Endnotes.

The format for the bibliographic details are as follows: Author/Editor Name(s), Book title, Press, Year, pp no, pb/hb price (in AUD$ if possible). ISBN no.

For example:
    Laksiri Jayasuria and Kee Pookong, The Asianisation of Australia? Some Facts About the Myths, Melbourne University Press, 1999, pp 114, pb $16.95. ISBN 0522848540.
Page references to texts in reviews should be in the form (p 27).