Author Guidelines
The Sydney Journal invites authors to submit manuscripts that fall within the ‘Focus and Scope’ of the journal. Acceptance of an article for publication in the Sydney Journal is made on condition that authors accept the parameters described in About the Journal.
Submitted articles must not be under consideration elsewhere and must be previously unpublished. Copyright for articles published in the Sydney Journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. Articles may also be published in the Dictionary of Sydney online at www.dictionaryofsydney.org Where necessary, articles may be reformatted for presentation on that site.
By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to be used, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings. The names and email addresses entered in the Sydney Journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Authors should post their submissions online after registering and logging in at http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/SydneyJournal/.
No hard copy submissions will be accepted. Receipt will be automatically acknowledged and registered. After an assessment of the paper’s suitability for publication in the Sydney Journal, the editors will send it electronically to two referees, who will decide whether to recommend rejection or publication with or without changes. The process is tracked electronically, including any communication with the author.
Authors and reviewers remain anonymous. Authors should not identify themselves in any way in their article.
Accepted articles, when in final form, are assigned to an issue of the Sydney Journal, copyedited and formatted for publication. On the date of publication, the issue will be announced and subscribers notified. Subscribers can read articles as published or retrieve them later through searches.
Articles must be:
• in English, using Australian spelling
• accompanied by an abstract of up to 300 words and up to six key words
• in typeface Times New Roman 12pt
• left justified
• without indented paragraphs
Headings must be
• limited to three levels
• level 1 in 16 pt bold, level 2 in 12 pt bold and level 3 in 12 pt italic
• in sentence case
• without extra returns following
Use no spaces before question marks or closing quotation marks, and a single (not a double) space after full stops and other punctuation.
Insert page numbers on the bottom right hand corner of each page.
Please do NOT submit compressed files. Do not use any word processing options/tools, such as strike through, hidden text, comments and merges.
Style Guide
Use capital letters only for proper nouns or to avoid ambiguity.
Spell out abbreviations on the first appearance, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses – do not use abbreviations unless the abbreviated item will be used more than twice in the article.
Use single quotation marks for quotes. Use double quotes inside single quotes for quotations within quotations. Quotations of more than three lines should be indented.
Use an ellipsis (…) for a break within a quotation but not at the beginning of quotes.
Use italics sparingly for emphasis or uncommon or foreign words.
Write dates in the format 25 December 1988. Avoid starting a sentence with a date.
A more detailed Style Guide is available by emailing Emma Grahame at emma.grahame @ dictionaryofsydney.org (remove spaces to email).
References
All endnotes must contain full citations, even if the work has already been cited above. This is because readers may not read every note or paragraph of the article.
Citations should follow the format:
Firstname Surname, Title of book, Publisher, Place, Date, page no.
Firstname Surname, ‘Title of article’, Journal Title, vol X, no X, Year, page range.
Firstname Surname, ‘Title of article’, in Editor Name, (ed), Book Title, Publisher, Place, Date, page range.
Here are some examples of the journal's endnote style:
1 Peter Read, Returning to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1996, p2.
2 John McMahon, ‘Not a rum rebellion but a military insurrection’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol 92, no 2, 2006, pp12-30.
3 K. Anthony Appiah, 'Identity, Authenticity, Survival: Multicultural Societies and Social Reproduction', in Amy Gutmann (ed), Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1994, p159.
5 Lyell Davies, 'Republican Murals, identity and communication in Northern Ireland', Public Culture, vol 13, no 1, 2001, pp155-8 and Susanne Kuchler, 'The Place of Memory', in Adrian Forty and Sussanne Kuchler (eds), The Art of Forgetting, Berg, Oxford, 1999, pp53-72.
