Basic Income Studies

This page provides details on copyediting, typesetting, and layout requirements and recommendations pertaining to final manuscript submission to Basic Income Studies (BIS). For your convenience, BIS has also created a PDF version of this page, which you may download here. Authors interested in the technical details of producing quality electronic documents in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) should consult the manual:
A Guide to PDF for Scholars Using the bepress System

The bepress system has been designed to improve the scholarly publication process for authors. Among the many improvements it offers over traditional journals, the most significant is that it dramatically shortens the period between initial submission and the final publication of a peer-reviewed article. Much of this time savings is due to innovative use of electronic publication.

1. Article Length

Because BIS uses a professional copy-editor we do operate length restrictions for our submissions. Please keep your manuscript within the following length restrictions:

• Research Articles: 7,500 words
• Book Reviews: 1,200 words
• Comments: 2,000 words (restrictions may be adapted by the guest-editor)

Please contact the BIS editors or book review editor in advance if you think you will exceed these restrictions. BIS is likely to insist on cutting length before sending it to the referee if your initial submission significantly exceeds the recommended length.

2. Copyediting

BIS manuscripts (articles, book reviews and comments or contributions to debate sections) will all be reviewed and formatted by a professional copy-editor. However, BIS does require that author's final submission satisfy a high standard of writing (spelling, grammar and style) to facilitate fast processing of the final manuscript. In particular we would like authors to pay attention to the guidelines below and, where in doubt, contact the editors at . Authors will have the opportunity to carefully review the page proofs before publication.

If you have reasons to doubt your proficiency with respect to spelling, grammar, etc. (e.g., because English is not your native language), we do recommend that you have it thoroughly proof-read before submitting it to BIS.

3. Submission Guidelines

• Do not include a title page, abstract, key words or acknowledgements to the actual paper. The electronic submission system will ask you to enter this information separately, and it will be added to your final manuscript by BIS.
• Do not include page numbers, headers, or footers: BIS will add the appropriate header with page numbers to the final manuscript.
• BIS only publishes articles written in English: either US or UK spellings are acceptable, but spellings should be consistently one or the other. Foreign terms should be set in italics rather than underlined.
• Submit your manuscript, including tables, figures, appendices, etc., as a single file (Word, WordPerfect, or RTF files are accepted).
• Page size should be 8.5 x 11-inches (US Letter format).
• All margins (left, right, top and bottom) should be 1.5 inches (3.8 cm), including your tables and figures.
• Double-space your text, including footnotes.
• Use a single column layout with both left and right margins justified.
• Font: for the main Body use 12 pt. Times or the closest comparable font available (10 pt. Times or the closest comparable font available for footnotes); BIS will reformat fonts of the final manuscript.
• Whenever possible use italics to indicate text you wish to emphasize rather than underlining it or using bold type-face.
• Include a proper bibliography following the detailed guidelines below.
• If figures are included, use high-resolution figures, preferably encoded as encapsulated PostScript (eps).
• Proofread your manuscript.

4. Detailed Formatting

Spelling Convention

• Either US or UK spellings are acceptable, but spellings should be consistently one or the other.

In-text Citations

• These references should be indicated by giving the author’s name and the year of publication, with page references when necessary, as follows:

  (Doe, 1936, pp. 78–79)
  as suggested by Doe (1936, pp. 78–79)
  see Doe (1936, pp. 78–79)
  (see Doe, 1936, for a discussion of this).

• Page numbers: use "p." and "pp." for all page ranges.

  Use full numbers for both the first and last page in a page range, and indicate the number range with an en dash "–" rather than a hyphen "-" (An en dash is inserted by holding down CTRL and pressing the keypad hyphen.):

  pp. 102–105, pp. 215–227 (not pp. 215-27).

  Page numbers should not comprise the entire citation: the author name and year need to be included.

• Multiple authors: If there are two or more co-authors in an in-text reference, list the first author’s last name, followed by "et al." (in roman font, not italics), as follows:

  (Doe et al., 1947).

  Multiple In-Text References: List author names alphabetically.

  (Doe, 1978; Jones, 1990; Smith, 1977).

• In-Text References within parentheses: Use commas—rather than parentheses or brackets—to separate the date.

  (see Doe, 1936, for a discussion of this).

• US State Names: Use two-letter US postal abbreviations (CA, NY, MI, IL, MA, etc.) for all US state names in citation entries.

Reference List (Bibliography)

• References should be cited in full, in alphabetical order, in a list placed at the end of the article.

• Capitalization: The title and subtitle should be capitalized in APA (four-letter prepositions are capitalized) “headline” style.

• Book: A reference list entry to a book, should be as follows:

  Doe, John (year) Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. City, State: Publisher.

  Article: A reference list entry to an article, should be as follows (including capitalization style and punctuation):

  Doe, A.A. (year) "Title of Article: Subtitle of Article," Journal Name vol. no. (issue no.), page range if any.

  Edited book: In a reference to part of an edited book, the chapter’s or article’s author’s name should be listed in reverse name order, followed by the book publication year (in parentheses), followed by the chapter or article title (in double quote marks).

  All the editors’ names should be in normal (first name, last name) name order (not in reverse). Their names should be preceded by "in" lowercased and followed by "(ed.)" or "(eds.)" lowercased and ending with a period. Then, the publisher information is given. Thus, the format and order should be as follows:

  Doe, S. (2001) "Comment," in E. Block and R. van Dyke (eds.) Examining Welfare. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Multiple Authors:

  List the full author names (not initials) for all the authors, as in the following: Brock, Thomas, Michael Kane, Jane Polson.

  Two or three co-authors, name order:

  Name order—the name order should be reversed (last name, first name) for the first author only. The remaining author names should be in normal name order (first name, last name) , as shown in the following:

  1. First author—Last name; first name;
  2. Second author—First name; last name;
  3. Third author (if any)—First name; last name.

  More than three co-authors:

  If a reference list entry has more than three co-authors, list the first three (in the name order described just above). Then add "et al." in roman font, not italics) for any remaining authors:

  Brock, Thomas, Michael Kane, Jane Polson et al.

• Page ranges: Use "p." and "pp." for all page ranges. For a page number range, use full numbers for both the first and last page in the range, and use en dashes rather than hyphens: pp. 102–105, pp. 215–227 (not pp. 215-27).

• Editions: The edition information should be given using an ordinal number symbol with superscript, followed by "ed." as in the following format—to indicate second and third editions: 2^nd ed., 3^rd ed. If it is a revised edition, the citation should read "Rev. ed."

  The edition information should follow the book title and end with a period (stop): Doe, John (year) Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. edition information. City, State: Publisher.

• Use two-letter US postal abbreviations (CA, NY, MI, IL, MA, etc.) for all US state names cited, as in the following examples: "Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press"; "New York, NY: Basic Books"; "University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press."

• For volume information, the volume and issue numbers should be in Arabic numerals, not in Roman numerals; and "vol." should be lowercased (for example, "vol. 2").

  The volume information should follow the book title and end with a period (stop): Doe, John (year) Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. vol 2. City, State: Publisher.

• Co-authored work is listed after solo-authored work by the same first author: Doe, John would precede Doe, John and Jean Barthélemy.

• Meetings, symposia and conferences:

  The author’s name comes first, followed by the year. The article title follows and must be in regular title capitalization, with no quotes around it, and in roman — not italics, since it is an unpublished work. The titles of the meetings, symposia, conferences, and so forth should not be italicized, and should be given regular title capitalization. The meetings dates must be the last piece of information:

  Noguera, J.A. (2006) Freedom, Justice, and Work: Why Republicans Cannot Be Against Workfare.
  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy,
  Dublin, University College, 28 June–1 July, 2006.

URLs and Website Access Dates

URLs and website access dates, whether in references or footnotes, should conform to the following examples.

Footnote:

¹Convention on Biological Diversity. http://www.biodiv.org/doc/legal/cbd-en.pdf [Accessed 28 July 2005].

²For all documents circulated under TRIPS, see http://www.wto.org/english/tratope/tripse/art273be.htm.

Reference list entry:

Posted Dates: While the date that information was posted on a website is not required, if for some reason the author wants to include this information in a reference or footnote, the information should be placed in square brackets at the end of the citation and the note "Posted" should precede the date: [Posted September 15, 2005].

Access Dates: The date a website was accessed is not needed and is not to be included in a reference or footnote.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be numbered consecutively and indicated by superscript numbers within the text.

Diagrams and Figures

Diagrams and figures should be suitable for good quality reproduction. The author should indicate clearly where in the text the diagrams, figures and tables are to appear. Avoid the use of overly small type.

If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact the editors at .