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EDITOR
Barbara Stallings
Brown University

MANAGING EDITOR
Frederick F. Fullerton
Brown University

EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES
Erin Beck
Sukriti Issar

EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE
Peter Andreas
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Katrina Burgess
Melani Cammett
Nitsan Chorev
Linda Cook
Patrick Heller
Jose Itzigsohn
Pauline Jones Luong
Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Simone Pulver
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Marilyn Rueschemeyer
Richard Snyder
Barbara Stallings
Kay Warren

EDITORIAL BOARD
Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
Kenneth A. Bollen, University of North Carolina
Michael Carter, University of Wisconsin
Ruth Collier, University of California, Berkeley
Marc Edelman, Hunter College, City University of New York
Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley
Carol Graham, Brookings Institution/University of Maryland
Béla Greskovits, Central European University
Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University
Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego
Atul Kohli, Princeton University
Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University
Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, University of California, Berkeley
Gay W. Seidman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Diane Singerman, American University
Alfred Stepan, Columbia University
Ivan Szelenyi, Yale University
Robert Hunter Wade, London School of Economics
Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley
Meredith Jung-En Woo, University of Michigan
Deborah Yashar, Princeton University

General Requirements

Manuscript submissions should be sent in both hardcopy (3 copies, 2-sided encouraged) and electronic form (disk or e-mail attachment)-preferably MS Word, which allows our editors to revise texts electronically. Articles should be submitted to: SCID, Watson Institute, Brown University , 111 Thayer Street, Box 1970 , Providence , RI 02912-1970 and scid@brown.edu .

  1. 1. Authors should put name, address, phone, fax, and e-mail address on a separate cover sheet and remove identifying information from the title page and body of the manuscript. They should also include an abstract of no more than 200 words and a brief biographical statement. Authors should not submit articles that have been previously published or that are under review for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words in length, including notes and references.


  2. Include the article and all tables and figures in the same electronic file, if possible. You may either insert tables and figures into the body of the article or include them at the end, with indications in the body of article for where they should be placed (e.g., "INSERT FIGURE 1 HERE").


  3. If included, acknowledgements should be indicated by an asterisk at the end of the article title, and should be placed at the beginning of the endnotes.


  4. American rather than British spellings should be used (e.g., labor vs. labour; while vs. whilst; democratization vs. democratisation; center vs. centre).
    • If foreign spellings appear as part of quoted material or titles, leave as is.
    • Single quotation marks should be used only when a quotation appears within another quotation.
    • It may be helpful to run a spell check using the American dictionary in MS Word.

Sources

Sources should be identified using the author-date style described in The Chicago Manual of Style , 15 th Edition. Citations should appear in the text, with full documentation in a list of references at the end of the article. Endnotes should be used rather than footnotes, and only when referring to substantive issues. In the final edit of your article, check that all in-text citations (including sources for tables and figures) correspond to sources listed in the references; after the revision process, changes in the text may not be reflected in the final reference list.

The following briefly outlines the SCID style for acknowledging sources.

  1. The basic form of the author-date citation in running text or at the end of a block quote consists of the author's last name, the year of publication of the work, and any pages specifically cited.

    (Amsden 2001: 8)

    (Collins and Wortmaster 1953: 50-82)

    (Whipsmith 1988: 34; Ohmstead 1990: 28)

    (Aoki, Murdock, and Okuno-Fujiwara 1996)

    (Stern et al. 1995)

    (Kang 2002a; 2002b)

    • When listing page numbers, remember to insert a space between the colon and page number.


  2. Reference list entries providing complete information for the author-date citations given above should appear in the Vancouver Style as follows:

    Examples of several different kinds of references in the Vancouver Style:

    Number Type Example
    1. Journal article Smith JJ. The world of science. Am J Sci 1999;36:234–5.
    2. Journal article with DOI included O'Mahony S, Rose SL, Chilvers AJ, Ballinger JR, Solanki CK, Barber RW, et al. Finding an optimal method for imaging lymphatic vessels of the upper limb. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2004;31:555–63. doi:10.1007/s00259-003-1399-3.
    3. Journal article in a supplement Frumin AM, Nussbaum J, Esposito M. Functional asplenia: demonstration of splenic activity by bone marrow scan. Blood 1979;59 Suppl 1:26–32.
    4. Book chapter Wyllie AH, Kerr JFR, Currie AR. Cell death: the significance of apoptosis. In: Bourne GH, Danielli JF, Jeon KW, editors. International review of cytology. London: Academic; 1980. p. 251–306.
    5. Book, authored Blenkinsopp A, Paxton P. Symptoms in the pharmacy: a guide to the management of common illness. 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Science; 1998.


  3. Internet sources should follow guidelines described by The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed.

For more information and to submit articles, contact scid@brown.edu

 

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