International Journal of Social Security and Workers Compensation - Submission Guidelines for Authors

1. General

• The contents of contributions must be original, unpublished material and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere without the agreement of the editors.
• Contributions are accepted for publication on the understanding that they are subject to editorial revision and that the right of publication is reserved by the editors.
• Contributions will be selected on the basis of anonymous peer review.
• Copyright in all contributions is vested jointly in the journal and the author.

2. Technical Requirements

• All contributions should be emailed as a Microsoft Word document to both editors
• Each manuscript should have a title which is both succinct and descriptive.
• An abstract of about 200 words should be included with all manuscripts.
• Manuscripts should be in English and should not exceed 7000 words.
• Manuscripts should be in double spaced type
• Biographical details should be included as a note, marked with an asterisk, at the bottom of page one of the manuscript and should include the contributor's name, academic and professional qualifications, current title and position.
• Language should be concise and gender neutral. The contributor bears the responsibility to ensure material submitted is not defamatory or litigious.
• A separate bibliography in the alphabetical order should appear at the end of the contribution.

3. Style Guidelines

The International Journal of Social Security and Workers Compensation is a multidisciplinary journal. Footnotes rather than endnotes should be used as the referencing method and should be placed at the foot of the page on which the reference appears. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively from the beginning of the contribution. Footnote numbers in the text should appear outside punctuation marks and should be followed by a full stop. Footnotes should not contain substantive arguments.  Footnote References should conform to the following style:

Books
JL Herman, Trauma and Recovery Pandora London, 1992 at 4.

Chapters in Books
NC Andreasen, "Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome" in  International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Sydromes eds JP Wilson and B Raohaek, Plenum Press New York, 1993.

Journal Articles
BA Singer ‘Forensic Considerations in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder' (1983) American Journal of Forensic Psychology 5.  

Page references other than the first page are followed by ‘at’ for example 5 at 7.  Journal names are in italics.

Case References
 The full citation of a case is required.  When first mentioned the entire citation is necessary such as Dooley v. Cammell Laird & Co Ltd [1951] 1 Lloyd's Rep 271 or. If the case is mentioned frequently throughout the manuscript it may be given an abbreviated reference, such as Dooley.  Page references after the first page of the case should be preceded with ‘at.  For example Jaensch v. Coffey (1994) 155 CLR 549 at 560.   Where the reference is repeated immediately following the initial citation it should appear as Ibid.  Where there is a different page reference for the same case the reference should be Id at 106.  Where the citation is referred to later in the text it should be repeated in full.

Legislation
References to legislation should show the short title in italics, for example Land Rights Act 1975 (NSW) s2.  

Headings
Headings in text shall appear as follows:

First level - A., B., C., D., etc.
Second level - I., II., III., IV., etc. 
Third level - 1., 2., 3., 4., etc.
Fourth level – a), b), c), d), etc.
Fifth level – aa), bb), cc), dd), etc

Dates should be referred to as follows: 28 August 2007.

Quotation marks When reporting a source's exact language, please use double quotation marks (" x ").

Capital letters should be kept to a minimum and used primarily when referring to proper nouns eg, Supreme Court of NSW or the Human Rights Commission, and thereafter, eg court, commission.

Tables, figures and graphs should be kept to a minimum and should each be numbered consecutively throughout the article. For tables, authors should use the "Table" (not "Graph") function of the word-processing application. Sources should be mentioned and the data on which figures are based should be provided.

Numbers, please use as few figures as possible, but do not abbreviate numbers between 10 and 19 eg, 28-9, 230-1, 340-51, but 10-11, 214-215.