Notes for Contributors

Capital & Class welcomes all contributions within the scope of the CSE. The journal normally divides into three sections. Behind-the-News items (maximum 3,000 words) provide critical background analysis and reference to current events and issues; main articles (between 6,000 and 10,000 words maximum, including endnotes, references and bibliography), which should make reference to other critical work in the field; book reviews (usual maximum 1,000 words) where Capital & Class would welcome overseas contributions which introduce to an English language audience debates and publications in other languages. In addition Capital & Class publishes review articles or longer book reviews where the subject-matter merits it, occasional Survey articles offering a Marxist overview of particular fields, and Polemics - shorter, controversial pieces with a maximum length of 3,000 words.

Please send two typewritten copies of submissions. Please also e-mail one electronic copy as an e-mail attachment to cseoffice@gn.apc.org preferably in Microsoft Word format. Include a cover sheet with your name, address, telephone number, and word count, and a couple of lines describing your area of work/research. Also indicate on the cover sheet whether the submission is a main article, BTN or Polemic. Please present the article clearly, using double line spacing (including quotations) and wide margins. Single quotation marks should be used, and double marks for quotations within quotations.

Capital & Class Style. If we want socialist ideas to become the common sense of our age we must write accessibly - form, too, is political. Authors should avoid sexist formulations. An article should make clear, at the beginning, why it is worth reading, summarising the argument and explaining its political significance. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to sub-edit articles to improve readability. Authors may be asked to re-write parts or the whole of an article.

Contributors are asked to provide the raw data where Graphs are used so that, if necessary, they may be redrawn to fit the page. Illustrations and photographs, not subject to copyright restrictions, are welcome.

Notes. Capital & Class articles do not have notes at the bottom of the page. Instead, they are cued by number and collected at the end of the text, under the heading Notes. Such notes should be used sparingly, to expand on points in the text.

Sources of information are detailed under the heading References. Capital & Class prefers a modified version of the Harvard referencing system. In the text, author, date of publication and page number are quoted in brackets. Then at the end of the text, after the Notes, a list of sources is provided. In this list of References, works should be listed in alphabetical order of the author's surname. Begin with the author, followed by the date in brackets. Underline the title of books, and the title of journals. Use minimal punctuation.

All rights reserved: no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without either the prior written permission of the Publishers, or a licence permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by the CLA Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE, or in the USA by the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, Mass 01923. It is a condition of publication in this journal that author's assign copyright to Conference of Socialist Economists. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In assigning copyright, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that Capital & Class is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and the CSE is notified in writing and in advance.

Procedure. The members of the Editorial Committee are elected at the annual conference of the CSE, with the principle of balance of sexes, and normally serve for three years. All submissions are read by at least two members of the Committee initially, and in addition, all main articles published will have been read by two external referees who are not members of the Committee. In the case of a submission by a member of the Editorial Committee itself, the opinions of three external referees are sought.

Eva Kaluzynska's article on writing for Capital and Class, Getting it Write, may also be of interest.