Advice to authors
About the conference proceedings
In 2000, the committee decided to make the society's conference proceedings, including those given at the Northern Research Network Seminars, available online (subject to the permissions of the authors). This is an exciting venture for the Society for Caribbean Studies as it has long been our aim to make the papers presented to the annual conference and the Northern Network Research Seminars widely available. Although the Society for Caribbean Studies is a UK based Society, given our growing international membership, we have chosen to publish select papers electronically to enable our members' research to be made more widely and easily available. There is also a print collection of archived past papers held in the Library of The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Russell Square, London. Our publication seeks to make select papers from the conferences and seminars much more accessible by providing a yearly issue which is both online and free. Our aim is to disseminate new research in all disciplines which share a common focus of the Caribbean and its diaspora and to build a searchable archive of research papers on our web site. The online papers are in "PDF" format and are set so that electronic copying is not possible.
Contributors to the conference and Northern Research Network Seminars are invited to submit their research papers for online publication, please use the 'Advice for Contributors', below.
Advice for Contributors
General
Style, spelling and punctuation
Paragraphing
Endnotes
Citations from electronic sources
Submitting articles
Electronic Submission
Submitting by post
Author's Declaration
Notes on Contributors
General
Submissions are papers presented at the Annual Conference of the SOCIETY FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES and the Northern Research Network Seminars. No particular discipline or theoretical position is privileged and the work reflects our members' research interests, typically in the disciplines ofhistory, literature, politics, culture anthropology and sociology. All articles must be accompanied by the abstract, a declaration of originality and a brief biographical abstract (available online - see below). The author should also declare if the paper is published elsewhere.
Style, spelling and punctuation
Copy should be in standard English spelling and punctuation. Authors should use a recognised scholarly style for referencing and citations for the humanities or the social sciences, eg. see Modern Humanities Research Association Stylebook, MLA Stylebook or Harvard – details of how to order are available online. For opening quotation marks use the ' key (i.e. the apostrophe) rather than `.
Paragraphing
Authors should bear in mind that short paragraphs are easier to read onscreen than long ones and are advised to adjust their style accordingly. New paragraphs should be separated by two blank lines.
Endnotes
Endnotes must be used rather than footnotes. See relevant style books. Full bibliographic details of all references should be provided in the end notes.
Citations from electronic sources
Citations from electronic journals should take the following form:
Author. Year. 'Title.' Journal Title volume:number. Available: Address. [Access date], paragraphs.
Hirst, Derek. 1996. 'Making All Religion Ridiculous: Of Culture High and Low: The Polemics of Toleration, 1667-1673.' Renaissance Forum 1:1. Available: http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v1no1/hirst.htm [1 April 1996], 1-3.
Electronic Submissions
Electronic submissions should be sent to the technical editor S Courtman as an email attachment in any version of Microsoft Word.
Submission by Post
Please submit one hard copy and a copy on disk in any version of Microsoft Word to:
Dr Sandra Courtman
University of Sheffield,
Institute of Lifelong Learning
School of Education
196-198 West Street
Sheffield
S1 4ET
Author's Declaration
An 'Author's Declaration' must be included (see below)
Notes on Contributors
Please include a brief biographical statement ofbetween 60 and 200 words
The information above maybe downloaded in a Microsoft Word document by clicking here or you can view it as a seperate web page here.