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Notes for contributors

(see also Wiley's author guidelines)

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale is a refereed journal. Articles, which may be in English or French, should be original and should not be under consideration elsewhere.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES IN PREPARATION FOR SUBMISSION

1. Length of manuscripts
Articles should be no longer than 7000 words, including references and notes, but excluding the abstract.

2. Title page
A separate sheet should give the author's name and academic affiliation, the title, a short abstract of no more than 200 words, five key words, and a word count of the main manuscript.

3. Style of the text

• Subheadings should be typed flush left without preceding numbers or letters. Where subheadings are of a different order of importance this should be indicated by A, B, or C in the margin.
• Quotations: single inverted commas should be used except for quotations within quotations, which should have double inverted commas. Quotations of more than about 40 words should be set off from the text with an extra line of space above and below, and typed without inverted commas.

• Spelling: UK English (not American English) spelling should be used in English articles except in quoted matter which should follow the original. Use -ise not -ize word endings.

• Page numbering: all pages except the cover sheet to be consecutively numbered, starting with 1, to appear in the bottom right hand of each page.

• Margins: 1 inch/ 2.5 cm on all sides.

• Paragraphs: left justification; a single tab to begin new paragraphs; sections to be divided with a space.

• Line spacing: double-spaced.

• Font size: 12pt. Please use a font that is clear and easy to read.

4. Footnotes

Footnotes should be kept to a minimum, and should never be important to the main argument.

• Footnote numbers in the text: should always appear after punctuation; e.g. Scientists examined, over several years,¹ the fossilized remains of the woolly-woolly yak.² (These have now been transferred to the Chauan Museum.)³
• Location of the footnotes: at the end of the document (i.e. as endnotes).
• Footnote numbering: consecutively numbered, starting with the number 1 (not Roman numerals).

5. Citations, Bibliography and Websites

We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.

EndNote reference styles can be searched for here:
www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp

Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp

a. Citations within the text:

• Single author quotation: (Bayly 1993: 208)
• Two authors, more than one page: (Humphrey and Hugh-Jones 1991: 124-6)
• Several authors: (Goody et al 1987: 25)
• Citation of another author's work in secondary text: (Laidlaw 1996 cited in Lewis 1998: 45).

b. Bibliography:

The bibliography should come at the very end of your text, after any notes, appendices or illustrations, and follow the following conventions. Single author monograph:

• Single author monograph:
  Malinowski, B. 1922. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge.
• Two authors/ chapter in book:
  Bitušíková, A. and K. Koštialová 2009. Gender and governance in rural communities of postsocialist Slovakia, in L. Kürti and P. Skalník (eds.), Postsocialist Europe: anthropological perspectives from home, 29—50. Oxford: Berghahn.
• Journal article:
  Mangiameli, G. 2013. ‘The clouds of the paramount chief: interpreting the taboo of rainwater among the Kasena of North-Eastern Ghana’, Journal des Anthropologues 132—133: 339—359.

c. Websites

References to websites should be included in the main text or in footnotes and must mention the date you accessed the website. E.g.: http://savageminds.org/ (accessed 1/06/14).

6. Figures, tables, illustrations

Figures, tables, illustrations etc. should be numbered and their source or author must be included directly below the figure or illustration, even if the author of the paper also produced the figures, tables or illustrations. You may not use copyrighted material without the appropriate permissions.

Please note that each figure, table and illustration will count as 250 words towards the limit of 7000 words per submitted manuscript; e.g. if you include three images, your word count should not exceed 6250.Guidelines for the preparation of figures can be found here: Guidelines for the Preparation of Figures

7. Multimedia and moving images.

Links to sounds and moving images are permitted in a manuscript, though the manuscript should be able to work without them, as a print copy. Do not embed such materials into texts.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Authors should submit their papers to Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale online through ScholarOne Manuscripts, one of the industry standards in submitting journal manuscripts. It is easy and quick, and you can track the progress of your manuscript using this system. 

To make an online manuscript submission, please visit mc.manuscriptcentral.com/saas.

If for any reason you cannot use the online system, please contact the journal editors at sa-as@easaonline.org.

IF YOUR MANUSCRIPT IS ACCEPTED

Copyright Transfer Agreement

If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services. Here, via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS), they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.

• For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement:
  If the OnlineOpen option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs below:
  CTA Terms and Conditions
  
  
• For authors choosing OnlineOpen
  If the OnlineOpen option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
  - Creative Commons Attribution License OAA
  - Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA
  - Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA

To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services and visit www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html. If you select the OnlineOpen option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) or the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with your Funder requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy, please visit: www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement.

Proofreading
First proofs may be read and corrected by contributors provided that they can guarantee to return corrected proofs to the Editor within four days of receipt. Corrections in proof should be restricted to any printer's and publisher's errors.

Offprints
Once your article has been published, you will be provided with access to a PDF offprint of your article through Wiley-Blackwell Author Services. Once your article starts the production process, you'll receive an email inviting you to track your article through the Author Services system.

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