ISSN 1832-6919
Introduction
Editors
Advisory Board
Submission Guidelines and Style-guide
Local-Global
is a collaborative international journal concerned with the resilience
and difficulties of contemporary social life. It draws together groups
of researchers and practitioners located in different communities
across the world to critically address issues concerning the relationship between
the global and the local.
It emphasises the following social themes and over-arching issues that inform daily life over time and space:
Authority-Participation
Belonging-Mobility
Equality-Wealth Distribution
Freedom-Obligation
Identity-Difference
Inclusion-Exclusion
Local Knowledges-Expert Systems
Mediation-Disconnectedness
Past-Present
Power-Subjection
Security-Risk
Wellbeing-Adversity
Series Editors
Martin Mulligan
Yaso Nadarajah
Peter Phipps
Associate Editors
John Callinan (Hamilton)
Thangavelu Vasantha Kumaran (Chennai)
Managing Editor
Todd Bennet
General Editor
Paul James
Copy Editor and Proofreader
Pia Smith
Masthead Design
Brad Haylock
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Professor Perry Anderson, (University of California)
Dr Alan Chun, (Academica Sinica)
Professor Jonathan Friedman, (Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Social)
Emeritus Professor Jack Goody (Cambridge University)
Professor Krishan Kumar (University of Virginia)
Professor David Lyon (Queens University)
Professor Walter Mignolo (Duke University)
Professor Juliet Mitchell (Cambridge University)
Ashis Nandy, (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
Professor Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania)
Professor Fazal Rizvi (University of Illinois)
Professor Jan Aart Scholte (University of Warwick)
Professor Peter Sellers (University of California)
Professor Manfred Steger (RMIT University and University of Hawai’i)
Professor Jukka Siikala (University of Helsinki)
Professor Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University)
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Instructions to Authors
Submission Guidelines and Style-guide
Local–Global welcomes
contributions from interested authors and researchers. Authors should
consult the style-guide below. Authors wishing to submit articles
to be considered for publication in Local-Global should please
email contributions as a Microsoft Word file to globalism@rmit.edu.au.
Papers in the 'Research Papers' section of Local–Global are
academically refereed articles. Manuscripts are read initially by
the editors. If considered to fall within the journal's brief, the
manuscript is forwarded to two referees who conduct a blind review.
Referee's comments are forwarded to the author, and the editors determine
whether the article has been adequately corrected or adjusted for
publication. The editors reserve the right to alter the normal refereeing
process in exceptional circumstances.
Manuscripts should be sent in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format, and be between 4500 and 6000 words in length. A short abstract of the article and author contact details
should be supplied as well.
Articles should use no more than two levels of heading. The use of bullet-points, or other forms of point
listing, is discouraged in favour of a discursive statement of ideas the author wishes to convey.
Authors are requested to keep to an absolute minimum the styling and formatting functions of the word
processing software they use. If figures or diagrams are to be included in the article, they should be
sent as separate attachments in 'gif', 'jpg' or 'png' format. If the article includes tables, these
should be constructed using the table-building functions available in most word processing software,
rather than being constructed manually.
Style-Guide
Download these instructions as a pdf
Background
In general, in editing documents the Globalism Institute follows
the Australian Government Publishing Service Style Manual
(latest edition) on questions covered in 'Part One' of that manual:
for example, capitals, italics, and punctuation. There is no special
need to familiarize yourself with the minute details of that style,
but the following variations are worth noting.
Spelling
Use first spellings as listed in the Oxford Dictionary
(in particular, the Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary).
In particular, note the following:
the use of 'z': e.g. 'organize' and 'globalization' rather than
's' in suffixes;
the use of the suffix 'our' rather than 'or' as in 'labour' not 'labor' (except where referring to a formal name with a specific spelling such as the 'Labour Party'; co-operation not cooperation.
Exceptions include, 'program' not 'programme'
Conventions
Spell out numbers to one-hundred, thereafter in numerals.
… except for
round numbers such as a thousand or ten million when the written form
is shorter.
percentages: e.g., 47 per cent; not 47 %.
Use BCE and CE (no stops and in small capitals) rather than BC and AD.
Dates in the form 'day month year', for example, '8 May 1958' except for colloquial phrases such as '9-11' or 'September 11'.
Referencing
Consistency in this area is perhaps the most important given how much editing time it takes to change from other styles. All textual notes and references are to be integrated sequentially into the endnote or footnote system.
Examples:
Damian Grenfell and Anna Trembath, 'A Spectre Haunting the Refugee Movement?', Arena Magazine, no. 68, 2003, p. 21.
Zygmunt Bauman, 'Wars of the Globalization Era', European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 4, no. 1, 2001, pp. 11-28.
Tom Nairn, 'The Curse of Rurality: Limits of Modernisation Theory', in John A. Hall, ed., The State of the Nation: Essays on Ernest Gellner, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, Routledge, London (translated 1970), 1991.
Christopher Ziguras, Self-Care: Embodiment, Personal Autonomy and the Shaping of Health Consciousness, Routledge, London, 2004.
Note the order of publication details (with periodicals discussed in brackets):
author's first name, and initials if used
author's surname
title of publication, essay in collection or book, ('Title of Article')
name of collection editor and title of collection, if applicable (title of journal in italics)
volume number in Arabic, e.g. Vol. 1 if in the title of a book (or volume and numbers: e.g., vol. 1. no. 4 in the case of a journal)
edition (edn), if applicable (spring, summer, etc.), but not if already using the 'vol., no.' system in which case convert 'spring' to no. 1, winter to 'no. 2', etc.
publisher
place of publication - this means city of publication
date of publication
page number or page numbers, applicable in the case of articles only, or for specific reference, in the form of 'p. x' or pp. x-y. (Note the spaces and the use of the en-dash rather than a hyphen between pages numbers. Note also that the second number in a sequence is abbreviated: e.g. 'pp. 25-6' or 'pp. 320-35').
N.B. the following particularities:
use the author's full name as it appears in the text cited, including middle initials if applicable.
the publisher's name appears before the place of publication appears.
the use of 'ed.', 'eds', '2nd edn', 'vol.', 'no.' as the accepted abbreviations
* all these details to be punctuated by commas only
Use author's name and short title for second and subsequent references
to the same book or article. Use 'Ibid.' for a cited text
that has been cited in the immediately-preceding footnote.
Textual forms
em dash: x—x , that is, without spaces
ellipses: x … x, that is, with spaces
use single quotation marks 'as the entry into a quote and then double quotation marks "within those marks" for citations within the quoted material'.
subheading: (level 2)
Bold, Capitalized
sub-subheading: (level 3)
Italic, nonbold, capitalized only on the first word: And the first word after a colon, with no space between the heading and the following text.
indent quotes of over 40 words
Word list including accents
Always include accents on words where the script form is available:
al-Qa'ida (except where in inverted commas or as quoted from somewhere else)
Examples: Jürgen Habermas; Lévi-Strauss, Claude;
Qur'an
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