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ISSUES RESOURCES Studies in Post-Communism and Occasional Papers Centre for Post-Communist Studies
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We are welcoming student papers dealing with any issues pertaining to communist and post-communist studies. Articles submitted to Perspectives should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. All articles are reviewed to ensure both accuracy and relevance, and amendments to the manuscript may be required before final acceptance. In order to speed up the reviewing process and ensure timely publication for accepted papers, we would like our contributors to adhere to the following writing style.
Note: All papers are subject to changes by the editor. Edited copies will be sent back to the author for review. There is no standard length for articles, but 10,000 words (including endnotes and references) is a useful target. See section on shorter items. Please submit your article as a double-spaced document, with all endnotes listed in a bibliography at the end of the text. The paper should have an introduction, a body (possibly divided into several sections) and a conclusion, and should be written in a direct, clear style. All sources of information used to write the paper should be given credit in the body of the paper. Diagrams, tables and figures should be clearly visible and referenced in the text. References to books should give the author’s name, title of the book (underlined), and place, publisher and latest year of publication. Example: Rakowska-Harmstone, Teresa and Andrew Gyorgy. Communism in Eastern Europe. U.S.A.: Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. 151-217. Dickerson, Mark O. and Thomas Flanagan. An Introduction to Government and Poltics: A Conceptual Approach. Scarborough: Nelson Thomas Learning, 2002. Pp. 99-107. References to articles in periodicals should give the author’s name, the title of the article within double quotation marks (with capital for principal words), title of periodical (underlined), the volume and (if known) issue number in Arabic, the year of publication in brackets and the page numbers. Example: Cross, William and Lisa Young. “Policy Attitudes of Party Members in Canada: Evidence of Ideological Politics.” Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 35, No. 4 (2002), pp. 859-880. References to electronic resources should give the title of the website, the homepage address underlined, the particular page you used, and the corresponding web address (underlined), followed by the year (if known). Example: Elections Canada. www.elections.ca. Thirty-Seventh General Election 2000: Official Voting Results: Synopsis. http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=gen&document=synopsis01&dir=rep/37g&lang=e&textonly=false. 2004. When quoting the same source more than once, please make a new footnote for each quote. If the quotes are consecutive, simply use Ibid. References Cited In a section entitled “References Cited”, please list all resources in alphabetical order, starting with last name. The language of articles published in Perspectives must be gender-inclusive. In keeping with this objective, authors are asked to observe non-sexist writing guidelines. The American Philosophical Association (APA) offers a comprehensive review of these guidelines at http://www.engl.niu.edu/freshman_english/nonsexist.html. Please submit your paper electronically as a Word file to: Managing Editor: Betsy MacDonald Email: x2003xdc@stfx.ca When submitting an article, please include a summary of around 200 words describing the main arguments and conclusions of the paper. Details on the author’s name and institutional affiliation should follow, together with a note on the exact length of the article. Checklist: Have you told you readers, at the onset, what they might gain by reading your paper? Have you made the aim of your work clear? Have you set your work in the appropriate context by giving sufficient background to your work? Have you addressed you research question convincingly? Have you structured your paper in a clear and logical fashion? Have you kept your content relevant to the topic? Have you considered the already-published works that are relevant to your subject?
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