ISA Compendium Supplemental Style Guide
Created March 3, 2008
UpdatedNovember 21, 2008
No Style Guide is perfect. Issues may be overlooked, anomalies emerge in the process of production, and directions may be contradictory. The existing Wiley-Blackwell-Compendium Style Guide is the product of numerous revisions and will not be updated. Instead, we offer this Supplemental Style Guide that will be updated when necessary and marked to make it easy to identify additions.
1. In-Text Citation Style
Use the following forms:
(Smith 2007:1-2, 4-5; 2008:79; Jones 2008:14; Smith and Jones 2009:44-7, 152-60)
Or
“. . . Smith (2007:14) notes that Martians have rarely intervened in ongoing revolutions in and around the solar system, calling such a practice “barbaric” (2007:79). . . “
2. Preferred Form for Tables
The Style Guide specifies that tables should be submitted in separate files. We now think that this is likely to create more work for authors without benefiting the production process. Please, therefore, set all tables as part of the text. Place them where you wish them to appear in the text, and set them as they should appear in the printed version, with a caption as detailed in the Style Guide.
3. Personal Information Alert!
This is a peer reviewed publication, and as a result we ask that everyone remove all personal identification from the draft manuscript and the electronic file. We also ask that authors provide a full set of author-information and a mini-bio. Could this be more contradictory? We are asking all authors to please submit the first draft of the review essay without author information. Mini-bios are going to be submitted at the same time as the first draft, but there will be a special place to upload these when uploading the essay. Author title/affiliation information must be provided to the section editor separately. Please be sure that your electronic file is not tagged with personal information. If in doubt, please ask your section editor.
4. Author Mini-Bios
Authors will be asked to upload their mini-biowhen they upload the first draft of their review essay at the author submission website. If there are multiple authors writing the essay, the lead author will be asked to submit the mini-bios for all of the authors.
5.Online Resources
In the electronic version, titled International Studies Online (ISO), the review essays will be
enhanced with live links to archives, datasets, cases, pedagogical aids, and other relevant
materials that reflect ongoing research in the field. With this in mind, we ask authors to list between 5 and 10 online resources relevant to their review essay by title, noting website addresses (see Text Formatting Guidelines). Annotate each of these sources in a few short sentences. In addition, please include a “date accessed” for each online resource, indicating the date you accessed the website. The title, address, and annotation should run to about 50 words.