STYLE
GUIDE FOR ASSH PUBLICATIONS
Compiled
by Rob Hess and Ian Warren
January
2006
Submission
of Manuscripts
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All
editorial correspondence should be directed to the respective members of the
Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH) Publications Committee, namely:
Lionel
Frost,
Editor of Sporting Traditions
Department of Economics
Monash University
PO Box 1071
Narre Warren VIC 3806
Australia
Email:
Lionel.Frost@buseco.monash.edu.au
Tara
Magdalinski, Editor of the ASSH Bulletin and the ASSH website
Centre for Sports Studies
University
College Dublin
Woodview House
Belfield
Dublin 4
Ireland
Email:
tara.magdalinski@gmail.com
The position of Editor, ASSH Studies, is
currently vacant.
NOTE: The ASSH Studies series is
currently in abeyance.
Rob Hess,
Publications Officer and Reviews Editor of Sporting Traditions
Sport History Unit, F022,
School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance
Victoria University
PO Box 14428
Melbourne City MC VIC 8001
Australia
Email:
Robert.Hess@vu.edu.au
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All
manuscripts submitted for publication should be typed and follow the general
conventions of Australian style as set out in the Style Manual for Authors,
Editors and Printers, sixth edition, John Wiley & Sons, Canberra,
2003. Submission of articles by email is preferred. The manuscript should be
attached either in Word or Rich Text format. Submissions by disk should be in
Word for Windows (IBM format). All graphics imported into the Word document
must also be supplied as separate files, preferably in high quality, 300 dpi,
jpeg, tiff or eps format. Any alternative formats must be negotiated with the
relevant Editor prior to submission.
Material
for consideration should deal with the economic, political, social, legal or
philosophical significance of sporting activity. While most ASSH publications
and articles in the past have been on Australian sport and have had a strong
historical focus, material on other societies and on contemporary sport may be
submitted. Manuscripts must not be under review for any other publication at
the time of submission. Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication must
also transfer copyright to ASSH.
All
articles appearing in Sporting Traditions are initially refereed by two
anonymous reviewers. For an explanation of the peer-review process, see
Appendix 1 below. Manuscripts for the journal should not normally exceed 7,000
words in length, including notes. The submission of reviews and review essays
should be negotiated beforehand with Rob Hess, the Reviews Editor.
The length of articles, chapters or theses for publication as part of the ASSH
Studies series must also be negotiated beforehand with Ian Warren, the
Editor of ASSH Studies. The maximum length of an ASSH Studies
volume is 50,000 words. Longer works may be considered by the ASSH
Studies editor in consultation with the Publications Committee. Shorter
items of topical interest, reviews or notices should be submitted for
publication in the ASSH Bulletin, edited by Tara Magdalinski. The
submission of material for publication on the Society’s website should also
be negotiated with Tara Magdalinski.
Style
Guide for Publications
It is important that all
publications produced by ASSH are of the highest quality. To this end, it is
necessary that material submitted for publication should be written in clear
English, be free from errors, and be formatted in a consistent style. While
original manuscripts may be submitted in a style of the author’s choosing,
it should be noted that all material eventually accepted for publication must
be re-submitted according to the guidelines listed below. Adherence to the
guidelines not only ensures consistency, but assists the work of the designer
of ASSH publications and leads to the publication of material in a timely
manner. It is recommended that the guidelines be used as a checklist.
Instructions
for Authors and Editors
Contributors
to Sporting Traditions and Guest Editors of ASSH Studies volumes
should ensure that manuscripts are appropriately formatted before submitting
their text for review or pre-publication editing. The following list serves as
a guide to formatting, with more extensive instructions provided in the Style
Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers, sixth edition, John Wiley &
Sons, Canberra, 2003.
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All
text, including titles, abstracts, and indented quotes, and material in
tables, should be single-spaced and left-aligned in 12 point Times New
Roman font
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One
space should be left after every full stop
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One
line should be left between paragraphs
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The
beginning of paragraphs should not be indented
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Use
single tabs only between columns and/or tables
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Lengthy
quotations (of three or more lines) should be indented (without quotation
marks or the use of italics) on the left: for example:
...
the identification, analysis and degree of control exercised over risks that
have the potential to threaten the assets or well-being of an enterprise.
Control implies both the physical and financial steps which may eliminate or
transfer the risk.
Or
Back
in the pre-war days, tennis was generally considered an effeminate sort of
game, which could only be played by wealthy people. Masculine fancy tended
rather towards football and cricket than to lawn tennis, and the man who was
seen carrying a tennis racquet was subjected to the good-natured ridicule of
the passers-by.
M.
Crotty, '"Loyal Scions of the British Race": Sport and the Construction of
the Australian Public Schoolboy, c. 1870-1920', in M. Crotty and D. Scobie (eds),
Raiding Clio's Closet: Postgraduate Presentations in History 1997,
History Department, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 1997, p. 51.
Or
Murray Phillips, ‘Football, Class and War:
The Rugby Codes in New South Wales, 1907-1918’, in John Nauright and T. J.
L. Chandler (eds), Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity, Frank
Cass, London, 1996, pp. 158-180.
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Use
endings with ‘… ise’, rather than ‘… ize’
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Dates
should be given as follows in both endnotes and within the text of any
work: 20 November 2003; 1939-45; 1970s. For example:
R.
Hinds and J. Niall, 'Public on the Outer', Sunday
Age, ‘Sport’, 6 April 1997, pp. 12-13.
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Numbers
up to twenty should appear in words (for example, five, nineteen), while
numbers including and greater than twenty should appear as numerals (for
example, 20, 600, 5,000).
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Notes
must be kept to a minimum, numbered consecutively, be grouped at the end
of the article, and be left-aligned. In the case of ASSH Studies
volumes, notes should appear as a separate file or at the end of the
document, should start with ‘1’ at the commencement of each chapter,
with notes for each chapter placed in sequential order and sub-headed in
order to be clearly identifiable to the editor
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Initial
references to a book must adhere to the following format: Author (first
name and surname is preferred, or initials and surname), Title (in
italics), Publisher, Place (city of publication), Year, Page numbers.
Examples of Citations:
Books,
Monographs and Edited Volumes
Eric
Dunning and Kenneth Sheard, Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A
Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football, Routledge,
London, 1979.
Articles
in Journals
Tony
Collins, ‘From Bondi to Batley: Australian Players in British Rugby League,
1907-1995’, Sporting Traditions, vol. 16, no. 2, May 2000, pp. 71-86.
[Note: Lower case for volume and issue number is preferred. The month and year
of publication should also be provided]
Reports
Australian
National Audit Office, Commonwealth Agencies’
Security Preparations for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games,
Performance Audit Report, no. 5, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra
1998.
Organising
Committee of the XVI Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956, The Official Report of the
Organising Committee for the Games of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne, 1956,
Government Printer, Melbourne, 1958.
Legislation
Olympic
Games Act (Vic.), Government Printer, Melbourne, 1955.
Judicial
Decisions
Blackler
v. New Zealand Rugby Football League (Incorporated)
[1968] NZLR 547-573.
MacNamara,
Carter, Beckett, Adamson, Silva, Farrer and Mundine v. New South Wales Rugby League and another [1997]
NSW IR Commission, p. 123, 2 October 1997 at www.austlii.edu.au/rugbyleague.
Newspapers
Martin
Blake, ‘Collingwood’s Great Win’, Age, ‘Sport’, 20 August
2000, p. 3. [Note: The in the title of a newspaper is usually omitted]
C.
Le Grand, J. Madden and B. Crawford, ‘Sport and Poetry in the Eire’, Weekend
Australian, 1-2 November 2003, p. 1.
Argus,
27 July 1898. [Where no author or article title is recorded]
Bowling
and Lawn Tennis, vol. 14, no.
26, 1913, p. 13.
Outing,
no. 4, 1889, p. 289.
Unpublished
Theses and Dissertations
M.
Stranger, ‘Risk Taking and Postmodernity: Commodification and the Ecstatic
in Leisure Lifestyles: The Case of Surfing’, Unpublished doctoral thesis,
University of Tasmania, 2001, p. 31. [Note: Where the Department or School is
known, this should precede the institution.]
Websites
and Electronic Sources
The
link provided should direct the reader to the precise location of the material
cited, and the date when the source was accessed by the writer should be
noted. The authors of specific articles on websites, or at least the
organisation generating the website, should be listed whenever possible.
Australian
Racing Board, http://www.australian-racing.net.au/admin.html,
accessed 6 December 2002. [Note: The website address should be underlined]
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Subsequent
references to the same item should appear in abbreviated form as follows:
Author surname, Short title, Page number. Latin terms such as ibid
or op. cit. should generally be avoided. For example:
Cashman,
Paradise of Sport, pp. 3-5.
Hammersley
and Atkinson, Ethnography: Principles in Practice, p. 124.
Mealey,
‘Controversy Over Team Name’.
Stedman,
‘From Gidget to Gonad Man’.
Jennifer
Hargreaves, Sporting Females. Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of
Women’s Sports, Routledge, London, 1994.
Sandy
Gordon and Ruth Sibson, ‘Global Television: The Atlanta Olympics Opening
Ceremony’, in David Rowe and Geoffrey Lawrence (eds), Tourism,
Leisure, Sport: Critical Perspectives, Hodder
Education, Rydalmere, 1998, pp. 204-215.
Or
M.
Duncan and M. Messner, ‘The Media Image of Sport and Gender’, in L.
Wenner (ed.), Media Sport, Routledge, London, 1998, p. 180.
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Use
single inverted commas for quotations, titles of newspaper articles,
titles of chapters, and titles of journal articles. For example:
‘Digger
History: An Unofficial History of the Australian & New Zealand Armed
Forces’, http://www.digger history.info/pages-help/faq.htm,
accessed 15 May 2005
R.
Mealey, ‘Controversy Over Team Name’, AM Archive, ABC Radio, 3 August
2001, http://www.abc.net.au/ am/stories/s340269.htm, accessed 16
April 2004.
Conventions
for a Bibliography in an ASSH Studies Volume
For
a bibliography in an ASSH Studies volume, the convention reverses, so
that the surname appears before the author’s name or initial. This applies
to each of the above forms of publication. The total number of pages in
articles and chapters in edited anthologies should be provided. For example:
Appendix
1: The Blind Peer-Review Process
The
following explanation of the peer-review process, by Rob Hess, was originally
published as part of an editorial in, ‘The Blind Peer-Review Process’,
Sporting Traditions, vol. 21, no. 1, November 2004, p. v.
Many
readers of this journal will be aware that the quality of the material
appearing in Sporting Traditions is underpinned by what is known as the
blind peer-review process. All articles submitted for publication are first
‘de-identified’, whereby the details of the author or authors are removed
from the manuscript. Two suitable reviewers, usually peers in the academic
community, are then approached, and asked if they would provide anonymous
reports on the manuscript, at this stage identified only by its title. If the
reviewers respond positively to the request, an electronic version of the
manuscript, along with a template for comments and feedback, is forwarded to
them. Reviewers agree to provide ‘blind’, or anonymous, feedback to the
editor, who weighs up the recommendations contained in the reports, and makes
a decision as to whether the manuscript is publishable or not. The reports,
along with the recommendation of the editor, are then forwarded to the
author(s), who must respond suitably to any critique or advice on corrections
in a revised manuscript that is eventually re-submitted to the editor for
proofing. At this point, biographical, or identifying, information about the
author(s) is added to the text. When the reports of the reviewers vary widely,
as they occasionally do, the editor may adjudicate, or a report from a third
reviewer may be sought. Occasionally manuscripts that undergo major revisions
may be sent back to the original reviewer for further comment. Although Sporting
Traditions has an experienced international Editorial Board, members of
this board do not constitute the sole ‘pool’ of reviewers for this
journal. Indeed, Editorial Board members are often asked to recommend other
appropriate reviewers, and generally act as a ‘sounding board’ on a range
of editorial matters. In case readers are wondering, neither the editor, nor
the reviewers, receive any payment for the duties they perform …
Note:
Any other queries relating to style or format should be directed to the
Editor.
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