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DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Manuscripts and copyright
Manuscripts are normally accepted on the understanding that they are unpublished and not on offer to another publication. Once published by the Development Studies Network (the Network), however, manuscripts, articles and reports may subsequently be published elsewhere. Acknowledgement of the Network as the source would be appreciated. No acknowledgement is needed for conference reports, other notices or lists of publications. The Network cannot assume responsibility for any loss of or damage to manuscripts. Contributors are therefore encouraged to retain a complete copy of their work.

Word length
Submitted papers are to be short and concise, with a minimum of 1,000–1,500 words and a maximum of 2,500–3,000 words. The word limit includes subheadings and footnotes and excludes references.

Feature papers, Viewpoint, Update, and From the Field sections of the Bulletin are 2,500–3,000 words maximum. Book reviews: 800–1,000 words. Conference reports: 800–1,000 words.

Presentation and style
Manuscripts should be double spaced with at least 2.5 cm margins. Subheadings, footnotes and references need to be clearly indicated in the text. Quotation marks should be single, double within single. Spelling is English (OED with ‘- ise’ endings).

Documents can be sent as email attachments, on disk or in hard copy. Documents sent electronically should be saved as Microsoft Word files, or in .rtf format. Email attachments are preferred in Word or .rtf format. A virus check is requested prior to any material being electronically sent. No .pdf files please as these cannot be edited or corrected prior to printing. 

Referencing
A minimum of references and/or footnotes is requested due to space constraints. All references must be included in the text using the author–date system, with author/s surname and publication date in round brackets, for example (Jones 1983). Where direct quotes are used, the in-text reference must also include the page number/s, for example (Jones 1983:19–23). 

A reference list should be included at the end of the text, alphabetically listed by authors’ surnames and there should be strict correspondence between names and years cited in the text and those in the reference list. All references referred to or cited in the text must be included in the reference list. 

The Harvard style of referencing is preferred: author’s surname, forename and/or initials, date of publication, title of publication, publisher and place of publication. Journal references should include volume and issue number, date and page numbers. Book titles and journal names are italicised or underlined; titles of journal articles and book chapters are in single inverted commas.

Internet documents
These should be fully referenced, with, where applicable, author, title, date, publisher, place of publication, URL and date accessed.

Examples
Hamilton, C 1996a, Capitalist Industrialisation in Korea, Westview Press, Boulder.

Hill, HM 1986, ‘The Jackson Committee and women’, in P Eldridge, D Forbes and D Strachan (eds), Australian Overseas Aid: Future Directions, Croom Helm, Sydney.

Palmer, D 1995, ‘“Getting shown a thing or two”: The adoption of Nyungar cultural forms by youth workers’, Youth Studies Australia, 14(4), 22–28.

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