STYLE SHEET Law
& Society Review Fall
2003
Because of the Law
& Society Review’s anonymous submission process, there are different requirements
for manuscripts submitted for review and articles accepted for publication.
1. The preferred electronic form is Adobe PDF; Word and
WordPerfect are also acceptable.
2. All materials must be included in a single file.
3. All identifying information must be removed from
title page.
4. Any note(s) of acknowledgment should be omitted from
manuscript.
5. All references to the author’s own work that would
identify the author must be changed (to third person references) or deleted.
1. Article must be in Word or WordPerfect format.
2. The full title page should be inserted.
3. The “author’s note,” which includes contact
information plus any acknowledgments and thanks that the author thinks
necessary, should be inserted at the
bottom of the title page. Because
this will ultimately appear at the bottom of the first page of the article as
an unnumbered footnote, it should not be
included as a footnote in the text of the manuscript.
Example: The author wishes to thank the ABC Foundation for generous financial assistance and X, Y, and Z for their able editorial assistance. Please direct all correspondence to [insert Author’s name, address, and email address].
4.
A brief (50-75 words) author’s biography
at the end of the manuscript (after all textual materials, but before tables
and figures); for mutli-authored manuscripts, the biography of each author
should appear as a separate paragraph.
The
manuscript need not conform in every respect to this style sheet at the time of
submission, although all manuscripts must include footnotes (if any) and a list
of references. Authors must revise
accepted manuscripts, however, to conform to the Review’s style.
The style rules for text
generally conform to The Chicago Manual of Style, with a few significant
exceptions, among them: percentages are
given as “98%,” not “98 percent;” numerals are used for quantities from 10 to
99 (rather than spelled out); two-letter ZIP abbreviations are used for states. Other differences can be noted in the
examples given below. The Review relies on Webster’s Tenth Collegiate
Dictionary for spelling, hyphenation, and word division.
General guideline on citing
titles: Use italics (not underlines) for
titles and subtitles of published books, pamphlets, proceedings and
collections, periodicals, and newspapers and sections of newspapers published
separately (New York Times Book Review).
For names of authors, use
full first name rather than initials, unless the author customarily uses only
initials.
Style rules for the five
basic components of a manuscript are:
1.
ABSTRACT: A single, brief paragraph (100 to 150 words)
summarizing the principal findings of the article should follow the
title page. No abstract is required for
review essays or comments.
2. TEXT: All
material (including footnotes and references) should be double-spaced with
1-inch margins.
3. FOOTNOTES: Footnotes
should be numbered sequentially. They
may be submitted as footnotes or endnotes, although articles appearing in the
journal all use footnote form. Notes
should contain only the following:
substantive comments and additional references not immediately relevant
to the text; references to material not generally accessible such as field
interviews or correspondence with the author; local government correspondence,
ordinances, and law reported in anthropological research; archival
material. Mere citations, regardless of
number, should be incorporated into the text as shown below. As described above, any “author’s note,” should
be placed on the title page of the final, accepted manuscript; it should not be included as a footnote with the
text of the manuscript. The author’s
note should be omitted from the draft submitted for review.
Examples of footnotes:
For a discussion of social and political freedoms and their restraints, see Bay 1958; Oppenheim 1961:ch. 4.
Interview with John Smith, Chief
of Police,
District Commissioner to the
4. APPENDIXES: Any appendixes or appendix tables giving detailed
information on sample design, methodology, and the like should be printed
before the References, tables, and charts.
5. TABLES
& CHARTS/FIGURES: Tables and figures
should be included in the same electronic file as the main text, following the
Reference list. Appropriate location
for them should be indicated in the text as follows:
______________________________
Table 1 about here
______________________________
Note,
however, that placement of tables and figures in the Review itself may
vary from the designated location because of page makeup requirements.
For figures, charts, and tables, do not use color, as the
distinction between colors often is lost when the graphic is published in black
& white. The preferred font for
graphics is Arial (or Helvetica).
For more information on preparing graphics, see the Web
site of the Review’s publisher, Blackwell Publishing, at
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp
.
General:
Do not use footnotes merely
to refer to sources listed in the References.
Instead, immediately following the author’s name give in parentheses the
year and the exact page number(s) referred to (if any); or following the
statement the Reference supports, include the last name of the author(s), the
year of publication, and the exact page number(s) referred to (if any). For example:
One source:
Ross and Foley (1987:324) point out that new laws imposing harsh sanctions are often evaded.
OR
New laws imposing harsh sanction are often evaded (Ross & Foley 1987:324).
Multiple
sources:
New laws imposing harsh sanction are often evaded (Ross & Foley 1987:324; Stigler 1975).
If you
refer to more than one source by the same author published in the same year,
differentiate as follows:
New laws imposing harsh sanction are often evaded (Ross & Foley 1987a:324; 1987b:75).
If the
author’s name has already been mentioned in the text, insert reference in
parentheses after the name. For example:
Peters (1986:445) describes some divorces as “no-fault.”
For three or more authors, cite as follows:
As Schwartz et al. (1975:239) have written …
OR
The theory is widely accepted…(see Schwartz et al. 1975).
Newspaper Articles:
If you are referring to a
news story with a byline, list the item in the References and refer to in text
as you would any authored item. If you are citing a story without a byline,
refer to as follows:
…from the
OR
…according to the
Web pages:
If no person is given as author, the owner of the
site may stand in for author:
A recent study of
resolution comparison (Federation of American Scientists) . . .
If no person is given as
author, refer to by agency or department.
Government
data (U.S. Census Bureau 1999:237) …
Cases:
Cases should be cited in the
text as follows:
… in Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) …
OR
… in the Commerce Clause (Hammer v. Dagenhart
1918) …
The one exception to the above
occurs when a citation to specific pages of a case is given at the end of a
paragraph discussing the case. Because
the date is given in the “pinpoint” citation at the end, it should not be given
in the text as well:
Likewise, in United States v. Jones, a man in a car . . . . [at end of paragraph] (1990:997-9).
Statutes:
All statutes should be cited
in the text as follows:
Under the Labor Management Relations Act (1947) …
OR
There is renewed interest in the Commerce Clause (U.S. Const. art. I, sec. 8).
For items with two authors,
separate the authors with an ampersand (&) rather than the word “and”; the
second author should be listed by first name, middle initial, last name. For items with three or more authors, list
only the first author, followed by “et al.”
Journal or Magazine Articles:
Last Name, First Name (year)
"Title of Article," volume number Journal
page numbers of article. (Give month or issue number if each is separately
paginated.)
Padgett, John F. (1990) "Plea Bargaining in Prohibition," 24 Law & Society Rev. 413-50.
Brill, Steven, & James Lyons (1986) "The Not-So-Simple Crisis," American Lawyer 12-15 (May).
In journal titles, the words
“Review” and “Journal” are normally abbreviated as “Rev.” and “J.”
respectively.
Books:
Last Name, First Name (year)
Title of Book. City: Publisher.
Lerner, Melvin J. (1980) Belief in a Just World.
Shearing, Clifford D., &
Philip C. Stenning, eds. (1987) Private
Policing.
Chapter in Edited Volume:
Last Name, First Name (year)
“Chapter title,” in editor’s first initial editor’s last name ed., Volume Title. City, State:
Publisher.
Glazer, Nathan (1979) "The
Judiciary and Social Policy," in L. Theberge, ed., The Judiciary in a Democratic Society.
Edelman, Lauren B., & Stephen
Patterson (1999) “Symbols and Substance in Organizational Response to Civil
Rights Law,” in K. Leicht, ed., Research
in Social Stratification and Mobility, vol. 17.
Newspaper Articles:
List only those newspaper
articles with a byline cited in the text by the author’s name:
Royko, Mike (1990) “Next to Last
Words from Slats,”
On-line Journals:
Last Name, First Name (year)
"Title of Article," volume number Journal
article number, paragraph number
Guth, Michael (1999) “An Expert System for Curtailing Electric Power,” 3 West Virginia J. of Law & Technology 2, paragraph 14 (Mar. 15), http://www.wvjolt.wvu.edu/v3i2/guth.html.
Web pages:
For online sources other
than periodicals, include as much of the following as can be determined: author
of the content by Last name, first name, year in parentheses (if the web page
has a “posted date”), title of the page, title or owner of the site, Web
address
Jones,
Smith, John (n.d.), “Rules for submitting
your application,” Nearby University Law School,
http://www.nearbylaw.edu/admissions (accessed
Evanston Public Library Board of
Trustees (2000) “Evanston Public Library Strategic Plan, 2000-2010: A Decade of
Outreach, “ Evanston Public Library,
http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html (accessed
If no person or group is
given as author, the owner of the site may stand in for author:
Federation of American Scientists
(2001) Resolution comparison: Reading
license plates and headlines, http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/resolve5.htm (accessed
If no person is given as
author, refer to by agency or department.
Institute/Department/Agency/Author
Examples:
National
Institute of Mental Health (1982) Television and Behavior: Ten Years of Scientific Progress. DHHS Publication No. ADM 82-1195.
Donnelly, Warren H., & Barbara Rather (1976) International Proliferation of Nuclear Technology. Report prepared for the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. 94th Cong., 2d sess. Committee Print 15.
Conference or Meeting Papers:
Last Name, First Name (year)
“Title of Paper.” Presented at Event,
Place, date if available.
Burstein, Paul (1987) “Race,
Religion, Sex and National Origin:
Barriers to Mobility.” Presented
at Conference on Longitudinal Research on Trial Courts,
Unpublished Papers:
Last Name, First Name (year)
“Title of Paper.” Unpublished paper, Author’s
Institution, Location, Place, date if available.
Working Papers:
Last
Name, First Name (year) “Title of Paper.”
Organization and Working Paper Series (including number if applicable),
location of organization, date.
Sarat,
Dissertations:
Last Name, First Name (year)
“Title of Dissertation.” Degree level,
Department or Field, University.
Smith, James (1983) “The Legal
Profession in
Cases:
All cases cited in text
should be listed separately under “Cases Cited” following the References. When the citation is not in parentheses, give
the name in full; when in parentheses, abbreviate according to the style set
forth in A Uniform System of Citation.
Some examples are:
Federal
Court of Appeals:
Environmental Defense Fund v. EPA, 465 F.2d 528 (D.C. Cir. 1972).
State
Courts:
Roybal v.
Schiffman v. Corsi, 182
Misc. 498, 50 N.Y.S.2d 897 (Sup.
Statutes:
All statutes cited in text
should be listed separately under “Statutes Cited” following the References and
Cases Cited. When not cited in
parentheses, give the name in full; when in parentheses, abbreviate according
to the style set forth in A Uniform System of Citation. Some
examples are:
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 102 U.S.C. 4332 (1970).
Parking Authority Law,
Materials not covered here:
Provide sufficient
information to enable others to locate your sources.
Last revised: April 11, 2005