Author Instructions
Governance is an international journal devoted to the study of executive politics, public policy, administration and the organization of the state. Papers that adopt a comparative perspective are of particular interest. The editors welcome articles employing any methodological approach that addresses themes of relevance to these topics. Articles addressing specific events, policies, politicians or structures must have some general theoretical significance. The editors strongly encourage civil servants and politicians as well as academics to submit articles that meet this criterion.
1. The editors are Robert Henry Cox (University of Oklahoma) and Michael Barzelay (London School of Economics). The editors strongly prefer that manuscripts be submitted electronically via the ONLINE SUBMISSION PAGE. In the event that electronic submissions are impossible for an author or should an author wish to submit hard copy back-up, three copies of new manuscripts should be sent to Robert Henry Cox, Governance, c/o School of International and Area Studies, The University of Oklahoma, 729 Elm Ave., Room 116, Norman, OK 73019, USA, and one copy to Michael Barzelay, London School of Economics and Political Science,
Houghton Street,
London WC2A 2AE,
England.
2. Manuscripts should be no longer than 10,000 words including all text, notes, references, and appendices. In addition, manuscripts should conform to the style guidelines of the American Political Science Association.
3. The editors will select some manuscripts for peer review. Manuscripts may be rejected outright if they are too long, not in acceptable format, or do not fit within the editorial scope of Governance.
4. Each manuscript selected for peer review will be reviewed anonymously by at least two referees. The co-editors will make the final decision on publication. Submission of an article implies that it has not been published, has not been committed to another publication, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
5. Books for review or book reviews for consideration for publication should be sent to the book review editor, Joseph Wong, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada (joe.wong@utoronto.ca) .
Governance Style Guide
1. References should be composed in a scientific format with a reference bibliography at the end of each paper. Examples:
Book: Pusey, Michael. 1991. Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes Its Mind, 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chapter of book: Hermann, Margaret G. 1984. "Personality and Foreign Policy Decision Making: A Study of Fifty-Three Heads of Government." In Foreign Policy Decision Making, ed. Donald A. Sylvan and Steve Chan. New York: Praeger, 133-152.
Journal article: Scott, Graham, Ian Ball, and Tony Dale. 1997. "New Zealand’s Public Sector Management Reform: Implications for the United States." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 16 (3): 357–381.
Note: Issue number, month of publication, and/or date of publication are only necessary for journals that are not standard scholarly quarterlies and for newspapers.
Source with website: Harding, Don. 1999. "What Incentives Does Job Network Create?" Mercer–Melbourne Institute Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends File 50. Available online at http://www.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/iaesrwww/mercer/content199.html (last accessed October 22, 2004).
Two references by the same author in the same year should be denoted by use of a lowercase letter beside the date in both the citation and the reference (e.g., 1997a).
If a source is in a language other than English, an English translation must be provided of both article title and (where applicable) journal or newspaper title. Exceptions to the latter include well-known periodicals such as Le Monde or Die Welt. The translation should be provided in brackets immediately after the non-English title. The capitalization conventions of each individual language should be followed.
Citations in the text should be in parentheses and should cite dates. Pages should be cited when there is a direct quote, a paraphrase, or a sufficiently specific point that is not otherwise a broad theme of the article, monograph, or publication being cited. When an author’s name is mentioned in the text, parenthetical citations should indicate the year of publication and, if appropriate, the page numbers, according to the above criterion; in that case, the parenthetical cite should appear directly after the name if possible. Multiple sources listed inside a single parenthetical note should be separated by semicolons and listed in alphabetical order. Sources by three or fewer authors should be cited with all author names; sources by more than three authors should be cited with all author names the first time they appear and cited as “[First author] et al.] every time thereafter.
Examples:
This emphasis applied especially to the hope that the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) would assume responsibility “for overall monitoring and coordination of policies” (Boston and Pallot 1997, 395; Elspeth, Jones, and McCready 1998; Sarahnen, Armstrong, Hopkins and Tuttle 1999).
However, its principal advocates betrayed a decidedly American view of the political process (Buchanan and Tullock 1962; Niskanen 1971; Sarahnen et al. 1999).
Delmer Dunn’s (2000, 142) more recent interview study of ministers and officials soon before the fall of Labor and early into the Coalition government corroborates Campbell and Halligan’s symbiosis thesis.
All references should be complete (contain page numbers, the name of the book in which the article appears, etc.) and self-contained. A chapter in an edited volume, for example, should repeat the full citation to the volume even if more than one selection in the volume has been cited elsewhere in the references.
All citations must be listed in the references list, and vice versa. Sources listed in references and not cited in the body of the paper will be struck.
2. First mentions of authors in the text of a paper (as opposed to parenthetical notes or references) should include both first and last names. Subsequent mentions can refer only to last names unless the paper cites more than one author by the same last name.
3. Endnotes are discouraged and are for discursive purposes only; however, these discussions may cite references. Endnotes should immediately precede the list of references in the manuscript. All nonimbedded figures or tables should come after the references section, and all figures should precede tables. Tables and figures should be either completely imbedded in the text or completely nonimbedded.
4. Define abbreviations the first time they appear in the text and then use the abbreviation consistently thereafter (e.g., use “the United Nations (U.N.)” the first time it appears in the text, then simply “the U.N.” thereafter.)
5. Close up simple prefixes (e.g., “reconfigure” or “predestined”); however, hyphenate compound adjectives (e.g., “decision-making role”).
6. All nonstandard non-English phrases should appear in italics the first time they are used, preferably with a definition. (If a non-English phrase can be found in a standard good-quality dictionary, it is considered to be standardized and is exempted from this rule.)
7. Specific titles of offices, etc., should appear in lower case unless they refer to a specific person (e.g., “U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan” or “The Secretary General observed that…”)
8. Use American English spellings, not British spellings. However, British words such as “whilst” are fine.
9. All references should be complete (contain page numbers, the name of the book in which the article appears, etc.) and self-contained. A chapter in an edited volume, for example, should repeat the full citation to the volume even if more than one selection in the volume has been cited elsewhere in the references. Please query the author if this information is not supplied. Also be sure that all citations are listed in the References list and vice-versa.
10. When a person is first mentioned in an article (particularly a political figure), list the person’s full name, not just the surname. Include the person’s title, such as “Prime Minister”, e.g., Prime Minister Tony Blair.
11. The terms “Right” and “Left” should be capitalized when used as nouns, but left in lowercase for adjectival forms. Proper nouns should be capitalized; common nouns should typically not.
12. Quotes of 60 words or more from a secondary source or an interview should be indented 0.5” on either side and set off from preceding and subsequent text by an extra line. Shorter quotes should be incorporated into the text.
13. Writing in the first person should be avoided whenever possible.
14. In the text of a paper, the numbers one through ten should be spelled out; the numbers from 11 and up can be expressed as numerals. Exception: if a sentence begins with a number, that number should always be spelled out.
15. Textual emphasis should be indicated with italics, rather than bold or underlined text. When text in a quote from a secondary source is italicized, please make clear whether that emphasis is in the original source or has been added by the Governance author.
16. The United States should be abbreviated U.S., and the United Kingdom the U.K.
17. Itemized lists should be numbered using Arabic numerals.
18. Interviews must be cited in the references section. Unless an interview is on the record, interview citations can be very general; authors need provide only general type of interview subject (e.g. “government official”, “ten-year-old boy”) date of interview, and name of interviewer, adding city/state/country if possible.
19. Major governmental documents – the American Declaration of Independence, the French Constitution – need not be cited in the references section. However, any discussion in the text of specific clauses, etc. in such a document should be accompanied there by a citation of the particular article, section, etc. in which that clause appears.
