Notes for Contributors:

These instructions are provided as a set of guidelines. As the manuscript moves along the publication process, changes in formatting may be requested.

Peer-review Process   Articles accepted for publication in ACME must meet the highest standards of scholarly peer review. All manuscripts are reviewed by at least one of the editors, one member of the editorial board or editorial advisory board, and two additional peers in similar fields. We will do our utmost to ensure that at least three sets of review comments will be provided directly to the author(s). The process is open by choice — the author(s) and reviewers choose whether to reveal their own names. ACME editors encourage an open and constructive review process.

Copyright   Authors will assign limited copyright of their manuscripts to ACME for publication of their work in the journal in perpetuity. Authors will retain copyright of their manuscripts for all other forms of publication but must give due acknowledgement of original publication in ACME if their work is published elsewhere. 

In consideration of the publication of an article in ACME, authors warrant and undertake:

a. that their article is an original work, has not been published before, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere in its final form either in printed or electronic form;

b. that they have obtained permission from the copyright holder to reproduce in their article (in all media including print and electronic form) material not owned by them, and that they have acknowledged the source;

c. that their article contains no violation of any existing copyright or other third party right or any material of an obscene, indecent, libelous, or otherwise unlawful nature, and that to the best of their knowledge their article does not infringe the rights of others;

d. that they will indemnify and keep indemnified the Editors and Publishers of ACME against all claims and expenses (including legal costs and expenses) arising from any breach of this warranty and the other warranties on their behalf; and,

e. that in the case of a multi-authored article they have obtained copyright assignment from all co-authors to enter into this publishing agreement on their behalf and to bind them to it, and that all co-authors have read and agreed the above warranties.

Submission    Manuscripts are to be submitted to one of the editors as an attachment to an email.

Files   Submit manuscripts in 'Rich Text Format' (rtf), except for Word Perfect users who should submit their manuscripts in Word Perfect format.

Format   Text in manuscripts should be set out in double-spaced, indented (0.5 in. or 1.27cm) paragraphs. Please use a Times font (e.g. Times, CG Times, Times New Roman), size 12. Do not include extra lines between paragraphs. (More on the manuscript details below.)

Title Page    Include the title of your manuscript in bold capitalised text. You should also provide your name, affiliation, and contact information (including fax and e-mail address) on the first page of the manuscript. The title of the paper should also be included on the first page of themanuscript (prior to the abstract).

Abstract   Include an abstract of 200 words or less on the first page of the manuscript. Please make sure that this abstract is about the entire paper and not an introduction to the paper.

Manuscript

Length   The body of the text can vary in length from 1500 to 8000 words. As a general guideline, editorials, observations, and review essays tend to be shorter (1500 to 3000 words) than theoretical- and empirical-based research papers (5000 to 8000 words).

Type   Editorials, literature reviews, debates, pictorial essays, poetry, mini-collections on specific topics, and research papers.

Language   Reviews of manuscripts are conducted in English, French, or German. Manuscripts written in other languages may be accepted for review after consultation with the editors.

Writing Style   The style that ACME advocates emphasizes clarity, accessibility, and care in writing. Manuscripts are accepted in a wide range of writing styles, e.g. informal, personal, jargonistic, story telling, academic.

Use of Language   Manuscripts must be written in non-sexist, non-racist language.

Citations   Authors should use the author-date system for citations: (Corker and French, 1999; McDowell, 1999, 96-122; Bell et al., 1994).

Quotations   Quotations, both excerpts from other published material and from primary research (interview transcripts, for example), should be included in the text if less than 40 words. Quotations of more than 40 words should be indented (left side only) by .5" or 1.27cm, single-spaced with a line inserted both before and after the block of text. Do not use quotation marks (single or double) to mark the text.

Figures, Tables, Illustrations  All should be in electronic format and be included in the body of the paper. Please do not use tabs. Use the table creation tool in your word processor.

Section Headings  Use bold type for first-order section titles (i.e. Heading 1). Use type that is both bold and italic for second-order section titles (i.e. Heading 2). Use italics for third-order section headings (i.e. Heading 3). Do not indent paragraphs and begin text on the same line as third-order headings .

Spelling    There is no spelling style preferred. Consistency within the manuscript is expected.

Punctuation   Standard punctuation is expected. Use "..." for ellipses — in quotes to indicate that part of the quote is missing and in the text to indicate a pause.

Permission   Obtaining copyright permission for reproductions is the responsibility of the author(s). Due acknowledgement is expected.

Acknowledgments   Acknowledgments are to be included at the end of the body of the text, before the list of references.

Footnotes   Footnotes are to be used sparingly and placed at the bottom of the page. Use the word processing feature for creating footnotes. Please use Arabic numerals.

References

• List references alphabetically at the end of the manuscript.
• For more than one entry with same author(s) and date, use letters to distinguish them, e.g. 1999a, 1999b, 1999c.
• Arrange entries under a particular author's name chronologically, with the most recent listed first.
• All authors' names are to be part of the entry.

Examples

Bell, David, Jon Binnie, Julia Cream and Gill Valentine. 1994. All hyped up and no place to go. Gender, Place & Culture 1, 31-47.

Corker, Mairian and Sally French (eds). 1999. Disability Discourse. London: Open University Press.

Dyck, Isabel. 2002. Embodied knowledge in place: Body, gender, and space in immigration research. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, Belfast, January.

Gibson-Graham, J.K. 1997. Postmodern becomings: From the space of form to the space of potentiality. In, Georges Benko & Ulf Strohmayer (eds.), Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 306-23.

Klein, Melanie. 1946/1991. Notes on some schizoid mechanisms. In, Juliet Mitchell (ed.), The Selected Melanie Klein. London: Penguin, pp. 175-200.

McDowell, Linda (ed.) 1999. Gender, Identity & Place. London: Polity Press.