Author Guidelines
WGSP invites authors to submit manuscripts for chapter books or journals that fall within the “Global Black Studies“
Manuscripts for journals should be at least 7,000 words and not much more than 8,000 words in length. Book Reviews should be 1000 to 1200 words in length. Other Books of any length.
Scholarly articles, book reviews, and interviews should conform to our House Style, the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. Additional instructions on the MLA style can be found in the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, in its most current edition (currently, 8th edition).
This journal uses the list of works cited and parenthetical references (see examples given below).
We do not use footnotes. However, if you need to provide lengthier, additional points of information that the text cannot harmoniously accommodate, relegate these points to an Endnote. N.B
“In your notes, avoid lengthy discussions that divert the reader’s attention from the primary text. In general, comments that you cannot fit into the text should be omitted unless they provide essential justification or clarification of what you have written” (MLA Style Manual 7.5).
Additional Style Requirements for The Global Journal of Black Studies
1. Use only one space after periods, question marks, colons, etc. 2. Place endnote numbers at the end of the sentence, immediately after the period, with no space between the period and the number. 3. Set punctuation marks (. , ?) at the end of a quoted passage within the quotation marks: “They wrote.” Coordinating punctuation (; 🙂 does not fall within “the quotation marks”: “Get writing”; they asked. 4. Use double quotation marks whenever placing text in “quotation marks,” with single quotation marks used only when needed inside of double ones: “They asked if I could, ‘Get writing.'” 5. Place the citation for indented quotations (roughly any quote five or more lines long) after the final punctuation, like this, with no quotation marks around the indented quote. (29) 6. For quotations that are not indented, place the citation within the final punctuation, “like this, with quotation marks around the quote” (29). 7. Use the subtitle Works Cited for the list of works that are cited. 8. Do not insert the ABSTRACT of your article at the beginning of your essay, nor your name/affiliation. The ABSTRACT needs to be submitted in the metadata, as instructed.
Examples of Parenthetical Citation and Works Cited
According to Rogers Brubaker, “Identity or racial self-identification is a construct that is contingent and fluctuating” (164). Manning defines coming out as “ an individual realising and accepting non-heterosexual identity” (122). Fanon held that “what is often called the black soul is a white man’s artifact” (Black Skin 14).
Works Cited
Brubaker, Rogers. Ethnicity without groups, Archives européennes de sociologie. European journal of sociology, vol. 43, no.2, 2002, pp. 163-189.
Manning, Jimmie. Coming Out Conversations and Gay/Bisexual Men’s Sexual Health: A Constitutive Model Study, Unpublished, 2014.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann, Grove, 1967.
Malamba, Manuel. “The Controversy Of Homosexuality: A critical look at the issues that make legalizing homosexuality in Malawi difficult.” 2012.
Submission Preparation Checklist
The submission has not been previously published; it is not in the public domain; nor is it before another journal or publisher for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). Moreover, the submission should not be sent to any other publication for consideration while it is in our review process. 1. The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format. 2. All URL addresses in the text are activated and ready to click. 3. The text is single-spaced; it uses a 12-point font; it employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. 4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which are found in About the Journal. 5. The text, if submitted to a peer-reviewed section (for example, Articles), has had the authors’ names removed. If an author is cited, “Author” and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of the author’s name, paper title, etc. The author’s name has also been removed from the document’s Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.
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