Last revision: March 18, 2009
The Globality Studies Journal (GSJ) is electronic, interdisciplinary, and translocal. Contributors to GSJ should thus heed three ground rules:
GSJ articles are to be comparable to those appearing in peer-reviewed academic paper journals. All submitted papers will be reviewed prior to being accepted for publication and revisions may be requested.
Submission: Please submit your manuscript in Times New Roman, size 12, aligned left (not justified), in Microsoft Word (preferably in the newer .docx format) as an e-mail attachment to gsjsubmission@gmail.com with “submission” in the subject line.
Everything (text, endnotes, bibliography) should be double-spaced with 1-inch (2.5 cm) margins on all sides. The first page (cover page) of the manuscript should contain the title of your paper, followed by your name, affiliation, postal and e-mail address, Telephone numbers, an Abstract of maximal 150 words, and up to seven Keywords. (The information on this page can be single-spaced.)
Sentences should only have one space between them, as modern variable width fonts and computerized typesetting have removed the need for an extra space.
Please set your spell checker in MS Word to use American English (English US). This will allow you to maintain consistency of spelling in your article with the journal. (British spellings are acceptable in the titles of citations, however.)
Authors may want to consult the Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition) and should follow the example of already published GSJ articles.
Review copies of books should be sent to :
Globality Studies Journal
Stony Brook University
Center for Global & Local History
Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794-4348
Copyrights: Authors are responsible for securing photographic and other reproductions and acquiring permission to publish them on the web.
Images, Tables, Figures etc. should have a caption above or below. The caption should also provide source, copyright and other relevant information either directly or via an endnote.
Length: Articles 3000 words and up; Views 600 to 1500 words; Reviews 1000 to 3000 words.
Numbering scheme: GSJ articles use consecutive paragraph numbering (from first to last paragraph) instead of page numbering starting with the first paragraph after the abstract. The paragraph number is put in parenthesis, thus: (1). Please note that the parenthesis is omitted when the paragraph is cited. For example,
www.stonybrook.edu/globality/Articles/no1.html (accessed 15 July 2006), no. 1, June 5, 2006, 5.
Explanation: The last number points to paragraph five of the article reading: “A third point builds on Barraclough’s list of insights: During the first half of the long twentieth-century, local histories were drawn into global history proper…”
The rationale for paragraph numbering is that traditional page numbering of print publications does not work for Web pages. Paragraph numbering, however, makes it possible to quote electronic texts rather precisely.
Foreign Terms: All foreign terms should be in italics followed by an English translation in parenthesis, for example: The Kim Young Sam administration’s saegyehwa (globalization) drive…
Citations: Manuscripts may be either in the Notes-Bibliography style (endnotes with bibliographical information) or in the parenthetical Author-Date style with a bibliography in alphabetical order at the end.
Internet sources should include an access date in parentheses. For example,
www.stonybrook.edu/globality/Articles/no1.html (accessed 15 July 2006).
GSJ indicates endnotes by consecutive numbers (Times New Roman, regular style, size 12, inside square brackets). For example,
Looking beyond the Atlantic in the mid-1950s, Barraclough saw a “Pacific age” in the making and “the transition from a ‘modern’ to a ‘post-modern’ history.” [13]
Quotations: All quotations, including emphasized words, should use double quotation marks. Single quotation marks are only for a quote within a quote. Here are four examples:
1) The “stakeholder model” of capitalism.
2) “Cultures can be very small, whereas civilizations are always large conglomerates” (Schäfer 2001: 304).
3) For Levy and Sznaider, cosmopolitanism is “a process of ‘internal globalization’ through which global concerns become part of local experiences of an increasing number of people” (2002: 87).
4) Biblap Dasgupta concludes, “There is no evidence that structural adjustment works.” [17]
Punctuation in quotations: Please note that the period closing the last example above is inside the double quotation mark whereas the endnote reference is outside. All punctuation signs (commas, semicolons, or periods) should be inside your citations, and all reference numerals outside.
Entering square brackets [ ] on non-English keyboards can be a challenge. The German keyboard, for example, hides these brackets but provides them if one presses the right Alt key and the numbers 8 or 9, respectively. The ASCII values for square brackets are 91 and 93 (accessible on a Windows machine via the left Alt key with NumLock on).
Bulleted lists are welcome (if used sparingly) but numbered lists should be avoided since they would conflict with the paragraph-numbering scheme. However, if it is necessary to insert a numbered list, use the legal style numbering system (x.1, x.2, x.3 etc.) to indicate that 1, 2, and 3 are a subset of paragraph x. Online Example,
www.stonybrook.edu/globality/Articles/no2.html (accessed 15 July 2006), no. 2, June 5, 2006, 23.1–23.6.
Explanation: The twenty-third paragraph of this article has six consecutive sub-points (each of which could also be quoted individually) detailing items of Table 4.
Inquiries not answered by these guidelines may be sent to the Editor or the Editorial Assistant.