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Nature, Society, and Thought welcomes contributions representing the creative application of methods of dialectical and historical materialism to all fields of study. We also welcome contributions not explicitly employing this methodology if the content or subject matter is in an area of special importance to our readers. Submissions will be reviewed in accordance with refereeing procedures established by the Editorial Board. Manuscripts will be acknowledged on receipt, but cannot be returned. Proposals for special issues or sections are also welcome.
Submit articles,
with an abstract not exceeding 100 words, in word-processor format to
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Changes to 1999 MEP Publications Style Guide
(ALERT:
15TH EDITION OF CMS IS NOW OUR AUTHORITY! plus reminders of
frequently encountered editing points)
MEP Publications, including Nature, Society, and Thought (starting with NST vol. 16, no. 1). follow the 15th edition (2003) of The Chicago Manual of Style (designated below as CMS) as the basic
style authority on such matters as
punctuation and hyphenation, capitalization, numbers, names and terms, and
quotations, as well as documentation style. Dictionary authority is the 11th
edition (2003) of Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary (designated below as Dictionary).
Follow CMS 7.82-7.90. Also individual words in Dictionary.
Special terms: nation-state (as in Dictionary)
Capitalize names of ethnic and national groups (CMS 8.4143), but note that MEP includes Black when used to mean African American (which is not hyphenated).
On prefixes, see esp. p. 307. Normally closed, but separate two is, two as, and anything confusing.
Examples of hyphenated compounds:
anti-imperialist
anti-intellectual
de-emphasize
pro-life
Examples of closed compounds:
midnineties (but mid-1990s)
preempt
proindustrial
reedit
reenact
reentry
reestablish
reinforcement
Basic system remains parenthetical citations in the text (author date, page) keyed to a Reference List at the end of the article (all works cited, alphabetical by author). See CMS, chap. 16, especially 16.9016.120.
Request to authors: Please take pains to include all necessary information about the works you cite; it is much easier in editing to rearrange, fix punctuation, etc., than to track down missing data. In text parentheses, for instance, include date of publication of work cited and page numbers for quoted or cited material. In Ref. List: be sure to give authors full first name (middle initial optional), not initials only; place of publication and name of publisher; inclusive pages of journal articles and parts of books (Authors please notebe sure to do this!). See CMS, chap. 17, especially 17.17 and 17.149.
For style in citing electronic sources, see CMS 17.417.15.
NB: MEP exception to CMS: Title capitalization
(not sentence capitalization) for titles of books and journal articles. Hobsbawm,
Eric. 2003. Interesting Times.
Abbreviate University to Univ. in names of presses.
Capitalize seasons (in refs only); Spell out months.
Journal issue numbers in parens. See CMS 17.163.
Secondary sources (quoted in . . .): cit both original and secondary source (CMS 17.274).
Two letter postal abbreviations for states: MN, DC (in refs only)
See Glossary of Troublesome Expressions, CMS 5.202
Use that, not which, to introduce restrictive clauses (except in direct quotes, of course). See CMS, p. 230, and 5.585.62.
1999 MEP Publications Documentation
Style Guide
The fourteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (1993) is the basic style authority for MEP Publications, including Nature, Society, and Thought (beginning with volume 7). We follow CMS on such matters as punctuation and hyphenation, capitalization, numbers, names and terms, and quotations, as well as documentation style. Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed., 1994) is our first-reference authority.
The author-date system of documentation
consists of parenthetical citations in the text keyed to a Reference List at
the end of the article (list of sources cited, alphabetical by author). The
examples below should be sufficient; if more are needed, see CMS chap.16.
Author-date text citations
When referring to a source in the text, put within parentheses the authors last name, year of publication of the work, and-if specific reference is needed-page numbers. In running text, the citation comes after the closing quotation marks and before the period.
The invented tradition is a rope that stretches between the present and the past, but with the peculiarity that this connection is artificial (Hobsbawm 1992, 63).
The parenthetical citation is best placed just before a punctuation mark, preferably at the end of a sentence or clause. If the authors name and/or the date of the work appear in the text, do not repeat in the citation.
These ghosts do not speak to protect us in our power, in McGraths phrase from the poem The Restless Night, in our immortality which is only lifelong (1988, 95).
Following a block quotation, the parenthetical citation follows the final period:
No
poem, certainly, has lived to see so many of its heresies so widely accepted
before its author turned forty. (Hodgson 1976, 323)
Notes
When discussion in addition to source
documentation is needed, use endnotes-superscript numbers in the text keyed to
notes at end of article or chapter. Citations within these notes should be in
the same author-date style as in the text.
1. Sidney Honan notes these exchanges but provides a different interpretation (1981, 163). See also Abel 1963 for an early metadramatic reading of Hamlet.
Reference list
Full bibliographic information on all sources
cited in the text is given at the end of the article in a single list of
references, arranged alphabetically by authors last name. Works by the same
author are listed in chronological order. Several works by same author in same
year are designated 1900a, 1900b, etc. in parenthetical citation
and are alphabetized by title in Reference List. Examples and detailed
descriptions of entries appear in CMS 16.1816.209. MEP uses authors full
given names (rather than initials), with dates immediately following, headline
capitalization (or up style) for all book and article titles, no quotation
marks around article titles, and no abbreviated names of journals. Names of
Books and parts of books
Jameson,
Fredric. 1994. The Seeds of Time.
Lashley, Marilyn
E., and Melanie Njeri Jackson, eds. 1994. African Americans and the New
Policy Consensus: Retreat of the
Walker, Scott.
1993. Editing for a Small Press: Publishing the Way It Used to Be. In Editors
on Editing, 2d ed., edited by Gerald Gross, 26066.
Note above: inclusive pages are given for the part of the book cited.
Journal articles
Bidwell, Charles E. 1966. The Moral Significance of the Common School. History of Education Quarterly 6:5091.
If the journal is paginated consecutively through a volume (as are most academic journals), the issue number and season or month are not necessary. Either (not both) may be included, however, especially for recent articles not yet bound into volumes by libraries. Give inclusive pages for article.
Henderson,
Mae G. 1994. Where, by the Way, Is This Train Going?: A Case for
(Re)framing Black Cultural Studies. Journal of the
Russell, Kathryn. 1994. A Value-Theoretic Approach to Childbirth and Reproductive Engineering. Science & Society 58 (fall): 287314.
Weekly or monthly magazines may be cited by date only (without volume and issue numbers):
Baker,
Nicholson. 1994. Annals of Scholarship: Discards. New Yorker,
Book reviews
Spitzer, Steven. 1985. Review of The Limits, by Hans Zeisel. American Journal of Sociology 91(November): 72629.
Newspaper articles
Include all information for citations of newspaper articles in the running text, or put most in text and the rest in parentheses. Give section, edition, and page numbers if available; include headline only if significant.
Do not list the newspaper or article title in the Reference List. See CMS 16.117 (more details in 15.23415.242).
Electronic sources
CMS gives no guidelines. For detailed
examples, see Harnack and Kleppinger, Online!
A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources or Diana Hacker, The Bedford
Handbook (both from
To cite a World Wide Web site:
Roland, Patrick. Alice Cunningham Fletcher. http://vms.
www.uwplatt.edu/~wise/fletcher/fletcher.html (accessed 4 April 1997).
End with date accessed in
parentheses. Always cite printed source (in addition to or instead of
electronic source) if possible; Web sites and E-mail addresses may change.
Citations from the classics of Marxism
For the convenience of readers, authors are asked to cite the following standard English-language editions of Marx, Engels, and Lenin: Progress Publishers (Moscow) edition of Marx and Engels, Collected Works (also issued by International Publishers, New York, and Lawrence & Wish art, London), and Progress Publishers edition of Lenins Collected Works.
Engels, Frederick. 1987. Anti-Dhring. In vol. 25 of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected works, 1309. New York: International Publishers.
Lenin, Vladimir
I. 1963. Questions of principle in politics. In vol. 19 of V. I. Lenin:
Collected works, 35053. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
[Please note that inclusive pages are given for the entire article in the case of journal articles or articles in book collections.]
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