Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

This page provides details on typesetting and layout requirements pertaining to final manuscript submission to Humboldt Journal of Social Relations.

Citations

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations uses the American Sociological Association (ASA) Citation Style. There are many free style guides available online to direct how you format your in-text citations, references, and tables and figures. Some tips are provided below, but authors should seek out an official style guide for full details.

Formatting Requirements

• Do not include a title page or abstract with the manuscript. You will copy and paste the abstract into the system. (Begin the document with the introduction; a title page, including the abstract, will be added to your paper by the editors.)
• For most submissions, please select "Article" in the "Document Type" field.
• Do not include page numbers, headers, or footers. These will be added by the editors.
• Submit your manuscript, including tables, figures, appendices, etc., as a single Word or RTF file.
• All margins (left, right, top and bottom) should be 1 inch.
• Double space your text.
• Text should be left justified.
• Remove personally identifying information from the document. If this information is required for context, highlight the text and alert the editors when submitting.
• Font be 12pt. for the main text, 10pt for footnotes, and Times Roman or Times New Roman or the closest comparable font available
• Embed all figures in the document. Also attach all figures separately as attachments during the upload process. These figure file should be a minimum 300dpi jpg/png (minimum 2000px wide).

Additional Recommendations

Indenting, Line Spacing, and Justification

Indent all paragraphs except those following a section heading.

Do not insert extra space between paragraphs of text with the exception of long quotations, theorems, propositions, special remarks, etc. These should be set off from the surrounding text by additional space above and below.

All text should be left-justified (i.e., flush with the left margin—except where indented).

Language & Grammar

HJSR is an English language publication. That said, we understand and value writing genres where authors integrate words, phrases, or quotations in more than one language to capture meaning, cultural significance, or theoretical points.

Authors should use proper, standard English grammar. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White (now in its fourth edition) is the "standard" guide, but other excellent guides (e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press) exist as well.

Article Length

We invite manuscripts of 3,000 to 6,000 words, including an abstract (150-200 words), notes, and references.

Colored text

Set the font color to black for the majority of the text. We encourage authors to take advantage of the ability to use color in the production of figures, maps, etc., however, you need to appreciate that this will cause some of your readers problems when they print the document on a black & white printer. For this reason and general accessibility, you are advised to avoid using colors as the sole method to convey context or information. Options include using different patterns or shapes instead of solid colors or lines, using lighter-to-darker colorblind accessible color schemes that will render in distinct shades when viewed in grayscale (see http://colorbrewer2.org for sequential color options), or using text signifiers to differentiate information.

Please ensure that there are no colored mark-ups or comments in the final version, unless they are meant to be part of the final text. (You may need to "accept all changes" in track changes or set your document to "normal" in final markup.)

Emphasized text

Whenever possible use italics to indicate text you wish to emphasize rather than underlining it. The use of color to emphasize text is discouraged.

Font faces

Except, possibly, where special symbols are needed, use Times or the closest comparable font available.

Font size

The main body of text should be set in 12pt. Avoid the use of fonts smaller than 6pt.

Foreign terms

Whenever possible, foreign terms should be set in italics rather than underlined.

Headings/Subheadings

Use subheadings to organize the body of the manuscript. Usually, three different levels of headings should be sufficient. There should be space above and below headings.

THIS IS A FIRST-LEVEL HEAD (all caps, left justified, no bold)

This is a Second-Level Head (title caps, left justified, italicized)

This is a third-level head (capitalize first word, left justified, indented, italicized)

Main text

The font for the main body of text must be black and, if at all possible, in Times or the closest comparable font available.

Titles

Whenever possible, titles of books, movies, etc., should be set in italics rather than underlined.

Footnotes

Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced rather than at the end of the paper. Footnotes should be in 10 pt. Times or closest comparable font available, they should be single-spaced, and there should be a footnote separator rule (line). Footnote numbers or symbols in the text must follow, rather than precede, punctuation. Excessively long footnotes are probably better handled in an appendix. All footnotes should be left-justified.

Tables and Figures

To the extent possible, tables and figures should appear in the document near where they are referenced in the text. Large tables or figures should be put on pages by themselves. If the caption does not adequately make a figure understandable to a screen reader, then include alternative text below the captions in brackets. Ex. [ALT TEXT: This alternative text will make the figures legible for screen readers.]

All figures also must be submitted as attachments during the upload process. Figures can be attached individually or as a zip file. Figures should be a minimum of 300dpi (minimum 2000px wide) and formatted as jpg or png.

Avoid the use of overly small type in tables. All tables and figures must fit within 1" margins on all sides (top, bottom, left and right) in both portrait and landscape view.

Number tables consecutively (Table 1, Table 2, Table 3).

Number figures consecutively (Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3).

In tables, give full headings for every column and row, avoiding the use of abbreviations whenever possible. Spell out the word percent in headings. For screen reader accessibility, do not merge or split table cells. Every column and row should have an identical number of cells. Titles referring to the entire table should be listed in the caption, instead of within the table structure.

Mathematics

Roman letters used in mathematical expressions as variables should be italicized. Roman letters used as part of multi-letter function names should not be italicized. Whenever possible, subscripts and superscripts should be a smaller font size than the main text.

Short mathematical expressions should be typed inline. Longer expressions should appear as display math. Also expressions using many different levels (e.g., such as the fractions) should be set as display math. Important definitions or concepts can also be set off as display math.

Equations should be numbered sequentially. Whether equation numbers are on the right or left is the choice of the author(s). However, you are expected to be consistent in this.

Symbols and notation in unusual fonts should be avoided. This will not only enhance the clarity of the manuscript, but it will also help insure that it displays correctly on the reader's screen and prints correctly on her printer. When proofing your document under PDF pay particular attention to the rendering of the mathematics, especially symbols and notation drawn from other than standard fonts.

References

It is the author's obligation to provide complete references with the necessary information using American Sociological Association (ASA) style guidelines. After the last sentence of your submission, please insert the heading "References" and begin your references on the same page, if possible. References should appear right after the end of the document, beginning on the last page if possible. References should be left-justified. Each reference should give the last names of all the authors, their first names or first initials, and, optionally, their middle initials. The hierarchy for ordering the references is:

1. Last name of first author
2. First name of first author
3. Last name of second author (if any). Co-authored work is listed after solo-authored work by the same first author (e.g., Edlin, Aaron S. would precede Edlin, Aaron S. and Stefan Reichelstein).
4. First name of second author
5. Publication date
6. Order cited in text

The information to be given with each citation in the references is as follows:

Articles in traditional journals:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of article, name of journal, year of publication (or "n.d." if no date), volume number, page numbers.

Optional (but desirable): issue number and month/season of publication. For forthcoming (in press) articles, put expected year of publication and substitute "forthcoming" for the volume and page numbers.

Optional(but desirable): A hyperlink to the article.

Books:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of book, year of publication (or "n.d." if no date), publisher, publisher's address, edition (if not first). For forthcoming (in press) books, put expected year of publication and add "forthcoming."

Chapters in collections or anthologies:

Required: Name(s) of author(s) of chapter, name(s) of editor(s) of book, title of chapter, title of book, year of publication (or "n.d." if no date), publisher, publisher's address, and edition (if not first). For forthcoming (in press) books, put expected year of publication and add "forthcoming."

Working papers:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of working paper, year (or "n.d." if no date), location (e.g., "Department of Economics Working Paper, University of California, Berkeley" or "Author's web site: http://www.someurl.edu/author." If the working paper is part of series, then the series name and the number of the working paper within the series must also be given.

Other works:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of work, year (or "n.d." if no date), and information about how the reader could obtain a copy.

Within the references section, the citations should use the ASA citation style.

Author's full name, inverted so that last name appears first. Year. Book Title in Title Caps and Italicized. Publishing City: Publisher.

Author's full name, inverted so that last name appears first. Year. “Article Title in Title Caps and in Quotes.” Journal Title in Title Caps and Italicized Volume Number(Issue Number):page numbers of article.

"As noted by Smith (1776)..." 

"Edlin and Reichelstein (1996) claim . . . "

"First citation: (Carr, Smith, and Jones 1962)"

"Later citations: (Carr et al. 1962)" 

"(Milson et al. 1962)"

"Jones (1994b) provides a more general analysis of the model introduced
in Example 3 of Jones (1994a)."