Style Guidelines for LSA Publications Authors

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LSA Publications Authors

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When you have been notified that your paper is accepted for an LSA Publications volume, please check it for adherence to the LSA style guidelines detailed here before sending your text to LSA Publications.

Your assistance from the earliest stages will increase accuracy, contribute to continuity throughout the volume, and will also help to speed the entire process of book production.

Please feel free to contact Myrene McFee mcfee@solutions-inc.co.uk at any time for fuller information.

1. Programmes and formats 6. Italics 11. Bibliographic references

2. Punctuation 7. Language other than English 12. Footnotes

3. Capitalisation 8. Underlining 13. Tables, charts, figures, photographs

4. Subheadings 9. Quotations 14. Dates

5. Acronyms 10. Referencing 15. Accuracy and completeness

1. WP programmes and disc formats

You may submit your work to LSA Publication using any word-processing programme. You may send files by e-mail attachment (preferred) or on any Mac or PC disc. Also send a paper copy to Myrene McFee at:
The Chelsea School, University of Brighton
Eastbourne BN20 7SP (UK)

2. Punctuation

Please take particular note of the punctuation shown in the examples given in the following sections.
Correcting punctuation, re-ordering the elements of a reference, re-entering text that has been typed-out in capital letters etc. ~ all add to the time it takes to standardise from authors' text on disc to LSA 'house style'.

3. Capitalisation

Use capital letters for proper nouns only ~ people's names, organisations and acronyms (see below).
Please do NOT use all capital letters for table or figure titles, sub-headings or captions, etc. If they do not happen to conform to the house style, all of these have to be re-typed ~ which is time-consuming and also creates an opportunity for errors to creep in!

4. Subheadings, table and figure titles, captions

These should be presented as in the numbered sections of this guide, using "bold", and ordinary capitalisation, without puncutation at the end.

5. Acronyms

Please do NOT add full stops or spaces between the letters of acronyms. Ensure that the full expression is included at the first time of use, no matter how obvious or common you think it might be.
Since a list of acronyms used by all authors throughout may be included in the volume, you should supply a separate alphabetical list of all acronyms used in your text, giving the full term for which the acronym stands ~ again, no matter how well-known they seem to you ~ as in the following example:

DIY 'do-it-yourself'

GHS General Household Survey

LAPD Los Angeles Police Department

MKDC Milton Keynes Development Corporation

6. Italics (text to appear italicised in final copy)

In transferring text from one programme/computer format to another, italics in the original may be lost.
Therefore, please use the underlining function of your word processor to indicate text which you wish to be presented in italics. Your underlining can then be automatically changed to italics in the reformatting stage.

7. Language other than English

Please use underlining to identify words or phrases in a language other than English.

There are many exceptions to this rule where foreign words have entered into common English usage ~ examples are: cul de sac; leitmotif; cliché; crèche, café. If in doubt, however, underline.

If you use a quotation in a language other than English, please include a translation in English, so that your point is not lost to readers who do not 'have' that particular language.

Please also be very clear about the need for any special accents or characters which do not appear in the standard English alphabet.

8. Underlining (text to appear as underlined in final copy)

All underlining in your text (as submitted on disc or by e-mail attachment) will be changed to italics. There is no underlining at all in the final copy.

9. Quotations

a. Quote in ordinary line of text should be surrounded by double quote marks (") and page number/s should be given:

According to the LSA Guidelines, "references are noted in the line of text" (McFee, 1995: p. 11).

NOTE colon + space after year; space after "p." In the above example, a reference for the source of the quotation has been given in the text.

b. A long verbatim quote is presented as an indented block of text, without quotation marks, as in the following example:

On the morning of June 22nd 1933, the following advertisement appeared in the personal column of The Times:

Mr. Malcolm Brereton thanks his many friends for the kind invitations which they propose to issue to him for sherry and cocktail parties at 6.00 p.m. and regrets that he will be unable to endure these functions. (quoted in Jones, 1984: p. 212)

In the above example a reference for the source of the quotation is included at the end of the block quote. The reference is given at the end of the quotation, outside the last sentence, in parentheses (round brackets):

10. Referencing

a) Referencing in text

A 'Harvard'-type system is used - references are noted in the line of text, as in the following example:

The 'Harvard'-type system of in-text referencing should be used (McFee, 1995: p. 11).

NOTE comma before date; full stop after bracket

b) Full bibliographic references at end of text

Full references to each work cited in the text are presented in alphabetical order at the end of the paper Please include all of the following elements:

author or editor/s
date of publication
book / article / chapter title
(for book) publisher and place of publication;
(for journal) journal title, volume number and page numbers.

11. Bibliographic references ~ examples

Note the order and punctuation for each common type of reference in the examples shown below. (Not every possible case is covered in the examples ~ just the more typical ones that make up the majority of bibliographical references.)
Please note especially that only journal titles (d) have each word capitalised.

a) Book ~ include publisher and place of publication

McFee, G. (1994) The concept of dance education. London and New York: Routledge.

Smith, M. L. and Glass, G. (1987) Research and evaluation in education and the social sciences. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

b) Edited book ~ include publisher and place of publication

Lash, S. and Friedman, J. (eds) (1992) Modernity and identity. Oxford: Blackwell.

McFee, G. and Tomlinson, A. (1993) Education, sport and leisure: Connections and controversies (CSRC Topic Report 3). Eastbourne: University of Brighton.

c) Chapter in edited book ~ give page numbers

Brennan, D. (1993) 'Adolescent girls and disco dancing', in C. Brackenridge (ed) Body matters: Leisure images and lifestyles (LSA Publication No. 47). Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, pp. 611.

Collins, M. F. (1995) 'Children's play Little Orphan Annie in the British leisure system', in D. Leslie (ed) Tourism and leisure perspectives on provision (Tourism and leisure: Towards the millennium Vol. 2) (LSA Publication No. 52). Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, pp. 175186.

d) Article in a journal ~ give page numbers

Ingham, R. (1987) 'Psychological contributions to the study of leisure', Leisure Studies Vol. 6, No. 1: pp. 114.

McFee, G. (1992) 'Triangulation in research: Two confusions', Educational Research Vol. 34: pp. 215219.

12. Footnotes

Footnotes should be numbered consecutively throughout the text and included at the end of the paper, before the references.

13. Tables, charts, figures, photographs

Ensure that tables, charts, etc. have titles and are referred to in the body of the text. A rough indication of where they should be placed in the text should also be given.
Include spreadsheet data so that your chart can be regenerated.
Originals or high quality copies of figures should be with your printout and disc copy.
Identify items which you require to be returned.
Photograph originals should be sent to LSA Publications for scanning (will be returned).

14. Dates

Please give dates in full rather than using any kind of abbreviation/ This will prevent unnecessary confusion for non-users of the British convention.

good	avoid
3 January, 1995 [or] January 3rd, 1995	3/1/95 [or] 1/3/95

15. Check your references for accuracy and completeness in both directions

include references in the bibliographical listing only if they have been cited in the text,
ensure all material cited/quoted in the text has been included in the references listed at the end of your paper.

Thanks for your help. Please feel free to contact Myrene McFee at any time for further information. mcfee@solutions-inc.co.uk

Prepared for LSA and LSA Publications by Myrene McFee, October 2002