International Sports Law Journal (ISLJ)

Authors’ Guidelines

K. Jones, Managing Editor

November 2011

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Submission for Publication(form)3

Font type and size4

Spacing and alignment4

Headings4

Quotations4

Paragraph Indentation5

Footnotes5

Bibliography5

Copyright 6

Keywords/Index6

Abstract6

Author’s Acknowledgement6

Publication Criteria Checklist6

Article/Manuscript Submission Form

International Sports Law Journal (ISLJ)

Managing Editor: Karen L. Jones

Email:

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All submissions should be made electronically. The Submission Form (scanned), Abstract and article should be submitted together to the e-mail address above. Please put “ISLJ Article Submission” in the subject of the e-mail.

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Submission for Publication

This article (Title)______, is being submitted for possible publication in The International Sports Law Journal (ISLJ). I/We acknowledge the article is my/our own original work. Where I/we use material or quotations from other works, these have been fully credited.

I/we recognize that ISLJ reserves the right to republish any material on its website, affiliate websites or in other publications where appropriate, with proper attribution to the author(s).

Date: ______Printed Name: ______

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Previous Publication

Has this article or manuscript been published or submitted previously for publication elsewhere?

____No____Yes (please provide details)

Abstract

Abstract attached?

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Thank you for your work and efforts in submitting your article or manuscript for publication!

Authors’ Guidelines

This document is intended only to provide some basic guidelines for those who are interested in publishing articles and/or manuscripts with Asser International Sports Law Centre, International Sports Law Journal. General adherence to these guidelines is appreciated.

Please use as little lay out styles as possible! Documents should be submitted in Word and saved in doc format; not as docx file. Do not use field functions.

Please use the style as indicated below, which saves the editors a lot of editing.

  1. Font type and size

Times Roman 10-point for the text; 9-point for the footnotes

  1. Spacing and alignment

1,5 throughout the text; 1 for the footnotes. All justified.

  1. Headings

II. CHAPTER
Name author
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE ROAD TO HEAVEN
2.1 ASPHALT OR COBBLESTONES
2.1.1 The advantages of asphalt
2.1.2 A golden path?
3. THE ROAD TO HELL
3.1 THE LACK OF CHOICE
3.1.1 Lava bricks
3. CONCLUSION
  1. Quotations

Quotations in italics, between single quotation marks. Quotations shorter than 3 lines incorporated in the text. Quotations longer than 3 lines: indented and italics. Foreign words in italics; no quotation marks. Quotations within a quotation double quotation marks.

The law remarks that ‘[t]he President of the session can interrupt any person not conforming to the speech taking modality without bawling or rushing him or her in a way or another.’ The sector and appeals gacaca start, in case of a confession, with the identification of the defendants and the plaintiff, and all charges against the defendant are read out loud as well as the minutes of the defendant’s confession. Each defendant may comment on the accusation. Then
‘any interested person takes the floor to testify in favour or against the defendant and responds to questions put to him or her. Every person taking the floor to testify on which he or she knows or witnessed, takes oath to tell the truth by raising his or her right arm, saying: “I take God as my witness to tell the truth”.’
The plaintiff describes all the offences suffered and how they were committed, upon which the defendant responds. Then the bench of the gacaca establishes a list of the victims and the offences each of them suffered, upon which the defendant can respond.

Source material should be documented in the body of the paper by citing the author(s) and date(s) of the sources, if necessary including the page (Smeulers 2008, 56). The reader can obtain the full source citation from the list of references that follows the body of the paper.

When the names of the authors of a source are part of the formal structure of the sentence, the year of publication appears in parentheses following the identification of the authors. Hagan (2008) concludes that …..

When a source that has two authors is cited, both authors are included every time the source is cited. When a source that has three or more authors is cited, all authors are included the first time the source is cited. When that source is cited again, the first author's surname and "et al" are used. De Brouwer et al (2010) show that …..

  1. Paragraph indentation

Do NOT use indentations when starting paragraph.

  1. Footnotes

Use footnotes, NO endnotes. Times New Roman 9-point, justified. Use footnotes only for necessary references; as little as possible for text.

It is the author's responsibility to make sure that all footnotes and footnote cross-references are correct. Authors must CAREFULLY check all footnote cross-references in the proof because footnote numbers may change during the typesetting process, and the typesetter will not automatically convert cross-references.

  1. Bibliography

Source references in the text (Babiker 2007) refer to the list of sources at the end of your article. These will be combined to one bibliography for the whole book. If an author has more publications in the same year, add a, b etc: (Bassiouni 2002a).

Book:

Alston, Ph. (Ed.) (2006).

Non-State Actors and Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Babiker, M. A. (2007).

Application of international humanitarian and human rights law to the armed conflicts of the Sudan: complementary or mutually exclusive regimes, Antwerp: Intersentia.

Bassiouni, M. C. (2002a).

Post-Conflict Justice, New York, Ardsley: Transnational Publishers.

Bassiouni, M. C. (2002b).

Proposed Guiding Principles for Combating Impunity for International Crimes, in: Bassiouni, M.C. (ed.), Post-Conflict Justice, New York, Ardsley: Transnational Publishers Inc.

Chapter in a book:

Barak, G. (1991a).

Toward a Criminology of State Criminality, in: Barak, G. (ed.), Crimes by the Capitalist State: An Introduction to State Criminality, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp. 3-16.

Bassiouni, M. C. (2002b).

Proposed Guiding Principles for Combating Impunity for International Crimes, in: Bassiouni, M.C. (ed.), Post-Conflict Justice, New York, Ardsley: Transnational Publishers Inc.

Article in journal:

Ashworth, A. (2000).

Is the criminal law a lost cause? Law Quarterly Review, 116: 225-256.

  1. Copyright

It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission(s) from the copyright holder to reproduce any text, photographs, tables, charts, figures, diagrams, maps or illustrations in the manuscript. The copyright holder can either be the author or the publisher of a work; a society; a museum; a family, trust or foundation. If the author is reproducing his/her own work but does not hold copyright of the publication, permission must still be obtained. Credit must either be included in the caption of the material, or annotated in the desired format of the copyright holder. It is also the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for quotations from unpublished material and for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract, or 500 words in total, from any work still in copyright. Please provide ALL letters of request and permission granted, to be submitted with the final article/manuscript.

  1. Keywords/Index

Though authors may choose to create their own index, it is preferred that a list of key terms is sent instead. We recommend that the author compile a list of keywords while writing. The keyword list should be sent in a separate file along with the final manuscript. The indexer will create an index using the keyword list provided. The index will be processed separately from the text of the manuscript (see Appendix III below for more information).

  1. Abstract

All articles submitted for publication must be accompanied by an abstract which summaries the main theme and nature of the article. The abstract should be no longer than 150 words.

  1. Author Acknowledgement

To ensure that we correctly acknowledge you as author of your article, please provide the following information:

  • Full name
  • Firm or organization
  • Position/title
  • Brief description of your area(s) of relevant expertise

You may also include a current copy of your CV for our future reference.

  1. Publication Criteria Checklist

This a summary of the general pointers explained above for submitting your article/manuscript for publication. The author should try to adhere to the following:

____Layout styles are limited

____MS Word processing is used

____Save as doc format

____Times New Roman 10-point for text and 9-point for footnotes

____Word count should not exceed 5000 words unless previously approved

____Copyright: all rights have been properly obtained

____Style: Make sure that the text is consistent with publication printing Style.

____Footnotes: make sure that all footnote cross-references are correct.

____Keywords/Index: list of key terms is provided.

____Format: The manuscript is 'clean':

– No bookmarks, running document footers, extraneous pagination, tracked changes, etc.

– Use as little formatting (type sizes, fonts, tabs, etc.) as possible.

– Underlining should be avoided if possible.

– Use left not full justification.

– Use bold and italics only sparingly.

– Do not use a space before or after a forward slash.

– There should be no double spaces present throughout the manuscript.

– Automatic hyphenation should be turned off.

– Avoid pressing 'Enter' at the end of a line, and only do so at the end of a paragraph, heading, etc.

– Avoid using the space bar for centering or laying out text, or any other line or page formatting, and use it only for separating words.

____Single file: final manuscript is submitted in a single file document (with the exception of manuscripts which include figures).

____Deadline: deliver their manuscript on or before the agreed deadline.

Thank you for your work and efforts in submitting your article for publication!

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