Instructions for Authors:

***Note to Authors: please make sure your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of all packages you are sending to the Editors.***

Postcolonial Studies welcomes original and challenging contributions from all over the world, informed by a variety of theoretical perspectives, including postmodernism, marxism, feminism and queer theory. Its aim is to generate a productive dialogue and exchange between theorists and writers in disparate locations. All work submitted will be refereed by a range of international readers and editors. In addition to longer 7000 and 9000 word papers, we welcome photographic essays, review articles and collaborative essays.

Submissions will be accepted by email as an attachment in Word 6.0 or later program to: Nishad Pandey (pcs@netspace.net.au)

On a covering page, full names of the authors and the submission's title should be given, together with a correspondence address, a short biographical note (50 words) and, where possible, a contact fax number, telephone number and e-mail address. The submission proper should bear no identifying details other than the title of the submission.  In addition, three hard copies of the article, double-spaced throughout (including quotations and footnotes) on single sides of opaque paper, should be sent to:

Nishad Pandey
Postcolonial Studies,
Institute of Postcolonial Studies, 78-80 Curzon Street, Nth Melbourne, VIC 3051
AUSTRALIA

Presentation:

Please use endnotes for all references and citations.  Notes should be marked clearly in the text at the point of punctuation using superscript and listed consecutively at the end of your article.  Bibliographical references should always be provided in the form of endnotes; we do not publish separate bibliographies at the end of articles.  If the program Endnote is used, please remove all Endnote Fields from the file before sending.  Notes should not be listed at the bottom of each relevant page. Avoid over-numbering references: if one source is being cited for several references within a paragraph, number this only once at the end of the paragraph. The use of notes in general should be kept to a minimum.  When citing books, please use the following format, e.g.,

Summers, Lillian, Antipodean Alliances, London: Coolgardie Press, 1995, p 7.

Kirk, John Stuart, Middle East on Trial, London: Bodley Head, 1977, pp. 3-9.

When citing chapters in books, please use the following format, e.g.,

Birks, John, 'Middle East Labour' in Middle East Today, S Sinclair (ed), London: Frank Cass, 1987, pp. 28-36.

Menchev, Brian Lewis, "Disappearing acts: postcolonialism, autobiography and the spoken word" in Telling Tales: Narrating the Postcolonial Self, Barker Whitlam (ed), Melbourne: Barwon Heads Books, 2001, pp. 45-62.

When citing articles, please use the following format, e.g.,

Fredericks, Sara, "Disappearing acts: autobiography and the spoken word", Self and Society, 89(2), 1998, pp. 104-135.

Rubin, Brownwyn, 'Drowning in the Gulf', Foreign Policy, 69(4), 1987-88, pp. 120-134.

Unpublished theses, mimeographs and reports also receive full references including the name of the appropriate institution. For newspaper references, give the author, title, name of paper, town in brackets, date of issue and page numbers. Authors' names should be abbreviated to initials and surname in the footnotes.

Tables and Figures: Diagrams and figures should be suitable for photographic reproduction, and should be supported by appropriate permissions from copyright or intellectual property holders. Figures should be numbered in order of appearance. Clearly descriptive or identifying captions should be provided for each figure, followed (at the end of the caption) by appropriate references for any reproduced material. The author should take care to indicate clearly in the text where diagrams and tables are to appear.

House-style: Dates should be written as follows: 5 August 1966. Numbers from one to nine should be written out in full: figures should be used for numbers above 10.

Quotations of less than fifty words should be incorporated into the body of your text.  Please place closing punctuation marks outside the quoted material, e.g.,

Jackie Huggins refers to the interplay between her mother's voice and her own as a process of "fighting with our tongues".

Quotations of longer than fifty words should be set as block indented quotations separated by one line space above and below the block quotation.

Please spell out acronyms the first time they are used and provide the acronym in parentheses directly after.  For subsequent references use the acronym only, e.g.,

Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTAR)

 thereafter, use ANTAR only.

Please include a title for your article (if you do not supply a title the editors will create one at their discretion)

Please provide at the end of the article, a 50-100 word biographical note and a total word count for your article

Offprints: Authors are entitled to 50 free offprints of their article and a copy of the issue in which their article appears.

Proofs: Authors are expected to correct proofs of accepted articles.

Copyright: It is a condition of publication that authors vest copyright in their articles, including abstracts, in The Institute of Postcolonial Studies. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and the journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate.

If you have any queries about style, submission dates or any other matters, please do not hesitate to contact Nicola Nixon at pcs@netspace.net.au

Last updated: March 2007