Style Sheet for Authors
Social Philosophy & Policy

All manuscripts should conform to the guidelines set forth in The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Some of the more important of these guidelines follow.

I. Endnotes

Notes should be numbered consecutively throughout the text and gathered at the end. They should be double-spaced. Use authors’ full names. The following are examples of the endnote style that we use.

Book

Robert H. Lowie, The History of Ethnological Theory (New York: Rinehart & Co., 1937), 142-43.

Edited Anthology

Robert Jones, ed., Long Way Home (New Haven: Yale, 1998).

Edited [Translated] Book

Tom Brown, Sex and Love, ed. [trans.] Allen Brand (New York: Penthouse, 1968), 14.

Article in Journal

Steven J. Smith, “An Economic History of Pulp Fiction,” Popular Culture and History 6, no. 7 (1980): 233-34.

Article in Edited Book

Bob Brown, “Sex and Money,” in Terry Blank, ed., Race and Sex (New York: MacMillan, 1972), 82.

Website

George A. Green, “Sustainable Farming,” http://www.farming.com/articles/001.

Use ibid., followed by a page number, for successive references to the same work. Ibid. is not underlined, and is only capitalized if it’s the first word in a sentence.

References to books or essays that are forthcoming should include as much information as possible, including publisher information and projected date of publication, if known. This is especially important if the work is to appear in print before our journal issue has been published.

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II. Quotation Marks

When a quotation comprises only a part of a sentence and is separated from the rest of the sentence by other punctuation, placement of the quotation marks is determined by the following rule: commas precede the end quotation marks but colons and semicolons follow the quotation marks. (If the quoted material ends with a colon or a semicolon, this punctuation should be dropped.)

Examples

Smith claims that the Soviet leadership was “out of touch with the real world,” but this hampers his attempts to explain...

Smith claims that the Soviet leadership was “out of touch with the real world”; however, he doesn’t...