Editorial policy:
For editorial policy and types of paper accepted for Discourse
& Society see Aims
and Scope and Preferred
Articles.
Before submitting your paper,
please read the Criteria for Preferred Articles carefully, and make
sure your descriptions of fragments of discourse are
theory-based analyses, and not paraphrases, repetitions (quotes),
summaries or mere "comments-on-content": More than 70% of all papers
submitted to DISCOURSE & SOCIETY are rejected on these grounds.
Copyright:
Before publication authors are requested to assign copyright to SAGE
Publications, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in
other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be
published at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.
Typing: Articles
submitted for publication must be typed double spaced throughout.
Length: The
recommended length is 7000 words, including footnotes and references
with an abstract of up to 150 words and up to 10 key words.
Titles: Titles
and section headings should be clear and brief.
Quotations:
Lengthy quotations (over 40 words) should be displayed, indented, in
the text, without quotation marks. Short quotations in the text itself
should be marked as such, either with quotation marks or by italics.
Language and Spelling:
Only papers in English are published. Quotations of text fragments in
othere languages should be followed by an English translation.
Consistent UK or US spellings may be used.
Tables and figures:
Tables and figures should have short descriptive titles and
camera-ready artwork should be supplied for all figures.
Notes: Essential
notes should be indicated by superscript numbers in the text and typed
at the end of the text.
References:
References cited in the text should read: Brown (1987: 63–4),
Brown and Smith (1984, 1989). Use ‘et al.’ for more
than two authors. The letters a, b, c, etc., should be used for
different works by the same author in the same year. All text
references should be listed alphabetically after the notes, as follows:
Books: Van Dijk, T.A. and Kintsch, W. (1983) Strategies of Discourse
Comprehension. New York: Academic Press. Articles: Billig, M. (1988a)
‘Rhetorical and Historical Aspects of Attitudes: The Case of
the British Monarchy’, Philosophical Psychology 1:
191–217. Please make sure to double check that all references
in the text appear in the References section of the paper,
and vice versa, that all names+years in the References also
appear in the text.
Biography:
Authors should supply an auto-biography of 50–100 words.
Cover sheet: The
paper should have a "cover sheet" with the following information:
* Journal submitted to: DISCOURSE & SOCIETY (our editorial
office receives papers for 4 journals).
* Title of paper
* Full names of all authors
* For the first (or corresponding) author: institutional, private and
email address, address for proofs and offprints, telephone and fax
numbers
* Short title (for running head)
* Size of the paper in words
The cover sheet should be part of the same file as the paper, on top of
the paper.
Offprints:
Authors receive proofs and a final PDF of their papers plus one copy of
the journal and are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for
reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations
previously published elsewhere.
Discussion section:
Contributions should be 1000 words maximum with a short descriptive
title (not ‘Comments on . . .’) and a cover sheet
with details listed above for article submissions. Proofs will not be
sent but each author will receive 5 copies of the printed version.
Mailing instructions and
editorial address: Papers should be sent by
e-mail only, in one file (including cover sheet, abstract, bionote,
references, figures, tables, and appendices) preferably in WORD
(formats .doc or .rtf), to the editor at the following address:
journals at discourses dot org. Please write on the subject
line: Paper for DISCOURSE & SOCIETY. The file should
be attached to an accompanying message, in which you should identify
yourself with your full name and address, and address the editor by
name, one of the ways to distinguish your submission from
--unfortunately all too frequent -- SPAM. For the same reason, it is
also strongly recommended that you add your full name to your e-mail
address in the header of your message when that address does not
clearly identify who you are; if necessary please edit the settings of
your e-mail program accordingly. Do not attach your paper to
an empty message or a message without a personalized letter to the
editor.
Questions and information:
For questions about submissions and editorial policy, write to the
editor:Revistas
at
discourses dot
org.