TopAuthor Guidelines

How to Submit an Article

The Editors welcome submissions from any social science discipline which meet the journal's aims and scope as set out elsewhere on this site. They may be based on substantial research or propose significant advances to major theoretical debates in the field. Contributions concerning any part of the world will be considered.

One copy of the manuscript in electronic form should be submitted as an email attachment to the Editorial Assistant, Christiane Kofri at kofri@mmg.mpg.de. The manuscript should be accompanied by a covering letter, which should include the following:

• Full names and contact details of all authors and, where appropriate, an indication of the 'corresponding author'.
• Confirmation that the manuscript is original and not under simultaneous consideration for publication elsewhere, either in part or full. It is general policy not to publish translations of articles already published in languages other than English.
• Confirmation that you have read the journal's aims and scope and consider that the submission falls within these boundaries.
• Confirmation that you have read the author guidelines and that the manuscript is prepared accordingly.
• A copy of the abstract.
• A word count, including all references, tables and supporting material. Submissions should be no longer than 8500 words. Longer articles may be referred back for further editing.
• Up to 6 keywords or phrases describing the article's content and approach, which may include geographical descriptors; these may be used to identify potential referees.

To take some examples, among the most common keywords and phrases in recent issues of the journal are:

Social Networks - World City Networks - Network Society - Global Social Movements - Networking Practices - Transnational Advocacy Networks - Transnational Migrants - Cosmopolitanism Transnational Families - Knowledge Networks - Diaspora - Global Care Chains - Elite Networks - Transnational Citizenship - Global Commodity/Value Chains Mobility - Global Production Networks.

Given the high rate of submissions to the journal, editors may refer back articles that do not fulfil the above stated criteria and conditions.

Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs - GUIDELINES

Articles should be original and not under simultaneous consideration for publication elsewhere, either in part or full. It is general policy not to publish translations of articles already published in languages other than English.
The preferred length of manuscripts is no longer than 8500 words, including notes and references. Longer articles may be referred back for further editing.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as an email attachment. The text should be 1.5 spaced and pages should be numbered consecutively. Tables, figures, diagrams, maps, copies of illustrations and a list of captions where applicable should be on separate pages at the end of the paper: their eventual position should be clearly indicated in the text. There should be an abstract of not more than 150 words, which should summarize the content and conclusion of the article. Advice on abstracts and titles can be found here. A title page should include the institutional affiliation, full name(s) and address(es), (including email where applicable) of all authors. Where there are joint or multiple authors a principal author for purposes of editorial correspondence should be identified.

All manuscripts that meet the journal's aims and scope will be subject to anonymous peer review by at least three independent and specialist referees. The editor shall forward constructive comments to the author(s).

Manuscript preparation
Footnotes should be avoided, but if necessary there may be a limited number of endnotes, numbered consecutively, at the end of the text. Authors should not use automatic footnote formats, but should use superscript numbers and list the notes as ordinary text at the end of the text.

The number of levels of sub-headings should not exceed three and each level should be clearly identified as A, B, or C.

Acknowledgements should appear at the end of the text.

All acronyms should be defined in full at the first citation unless widely understood, for example, USA, and thereafter may be typed without full points, for example, UNESCO. Where the abbreviation is partially or wholly lower case, no full stop is needed if the final letter of the word is used in the abbreviation: Mr, St, Ltd; but ed., no. Units of measurement do not require a full stop. Initials in proper names require a full stop.

Authors should provide English translations of passages, phrases or terms in other languages. Foreign words, other than those common in English, should be underlined to indicate italic, unless in quotation. Racist or sexist language should be avoided. Spelling should accord with the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language. Use the suffix 'ize', not 'ise' and 'ization' not 'isation' for words where either spelling is possible. Use 'yse' not 'yze' in words such as analyse.

All numbers under 10 should be spelled out except where attached to a unit of quantity, for example 10 km. Write per cent in text but % in tables and figures. Write 1,200 and 12,000. Elide numerals where possible, for example 1934-5, 56-7, but 11--9.

Quotations of more than 60 words should be set out from the text with spaces above and below. Quotations should not normally exceed 250 words in a single passage.

The use of ibid., op. cit., loc.cit., should be avoided.

Measurements should be in SI metric.

Special type or layout requirements should be clearly indicated.

Wiley-Blackwell's house style is available at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/House-style-2.pdf.

References
Secondary works cited in the text should follow the Harvard system, for example Hill (2000: 64), (Hill 2000: 64) or (Hill 2000b) when two or more references to the same author have the same year. The abbreviation et al. may appear in the main text but all authors should be named in the references. Multiple references cited in the text should appear in alphabetical order, separated by semi-colons. An alphabetical list of references by author's last name should appear after text, notes and acknowledgements. Where there are no named authors, the name of the appropriate body should be used, for example (World Bank 1996). Only works cited in the text should be listed, and all references given in the text must be listed. Full reference details should include all authors, titles, publishers and place of publication, and where unpublished material may be obtained, and for journal articles the volume and issue number and pages. The reference style to be used should follow these examples:

Appiah, K. A. (1998) 'Cosmopolitan patriots', in P. Cheah and B. Robbins (eds) Cosmopolitics: thinking and feeling beyond the nation, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 91-114.

Bamyeh, M. A. (1993) 'Transnationalism', Current Sociology, 41 (3), 1-95.

Borger, J. (2000) 'US mounts $2bn offensive against cyber-terrorists', Guardian, 8 January, page 2.

Davis, M. C. (ed.) (1995) Human rights and Chinese values, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Stoler, A. (1989) 'Making empire respectable: The politics of race and sexual morality in 20th century colonial cultures', American Ethnologist, 16, 634−60.

Transnational Communities Programme (1999) 'Programme objectives', www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk, last accessed 13 April 2010.

Important Notice for those using EndNote
If you wish to submit your paper for publication, you must first remove all field codes, as they interfere with the software used by the publisher. Click on the Remove Field Codes button. You will see a warning message, explaining that this will preserve your original document (with EndNote field codes) and create a new, unsaved document (without EndNote field codes). Click on the OK button to continue. Save the new document under a new name, and send that version for publication. Keep the original document, as that it is the master copy which you will have to use if you wish to add or remove any references using EndNote.

Figures and tables
Figures and tables should be as clear and simple as possible, and placed on separate sheets with appropriate captions. Authors should try to keep the number of tables and figures to a minimum. Appropriate sources should be included. All tables and figures should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are referred to in the text. Tables may use horizontal rules but no vertical rules, and notes should be placed below and clearly identified a,b,c etc.. Line diagrams (including maps) should be submitted in a form suitable for reproduction without redrawing, i.e. camera-ready. Captions for figures should be submitted as separate copy and not included on the figure itself. Use billion to refer to a thousand million (10⁹) and trillion to refer to a million million (1012). Authors should make allowance for the reduction of figures and tables to fit the dimensions of the journal (168mm x 246mm).

Charts: If editable (i.e. MS Office Chart) then inclusion into the Word file is fine. Otherwise, please submit as:

• A picture file (e.g. TIF, JPEG) - This will not be changed (usually) and must be of sufficient quality to reproduce in print. It should NOT be incorporated into a Word file.
Or
• The data and an accurate picture of how the chart should look. This will allow a new chart to be made for inclusion in the article

Photos and Maps: as a picture file (e.g. TIF) NOT incorporated into a Word file. Resolution should be at least 300 dpi at an approximate width of 121 mm (preferably 600 dpi). No objection will be made if resolution is too high - it can always be reduced. Please note images taken from the web are unlikely to be suitable as they are usually 72 dpi. Logos and colophons: These are unlikely to be needed but, if used, ideally should be presented as vector graphics (e.g. EPS file). If this is not possible, then a high-resolution (1200 dpi) picture file (e.g. TIF) can be used. It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that any necessary copyright permission is obtained. It is possible for us to scan your originals (artwork/photographs/slides, etc.) but these would have to be sent by recorded delivery and, if they are to be returned, a prepaid, self-addressed envelope must be included.

Proofs Text proofs of all submissions will normally be sent to the author or nominated principal author, who must return them promptly within a specified period. Requests for amendments at proof stage must be kept to a minimum. The editors' decision is final. Authors will receive a pdf of their article.

Copyright and libel
Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. (Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various media/circumstances (please see the form for further details). To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here. Authors must obtain permission to reproduce material under copyright, including figures and diagrams, before submitting the final version of the manuscript. Authors will be consulted before any republication of material. Authors should be aware that the acceptance of an article is conditional upon its author's or authors' having ensured that it contains nothing which is libellous, defamatory or in breach of copyright. Agreement by authors to the publication of their material necessarily implies acceptance of this condition.

Pre-submission English-language editing
English-language editing Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.