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¨	Papers of 3,000 words or more
¨	Translations of work new to English speaking audiences
¨	Review Essays: extended critiques of significant books and conferences
¨	Review Notes of books, events or significant articles
¨	Dissertation Abstracts reporting significant research
¨	Concise Opinion Pieces and responses to articles published in Philosophy of Management and elsewhere
¨	Symposia
¨	Interviews with leading philosophers, theorists and practitioners
¨	Crossover Studies: explications of the relevance of the work of philosophers to management
¨	Literature reviews and annotated bibliographies
¨	Noticeboard announcements of relevant activities, events, research projects and networks

We are happy to discuss proposed contributions at an early stage and to advise on presentation for the Journal’s interdisciplinary readership.

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Submissions

¨	Please send manuscripts as an email attachment (Word or RTF format) or on paper (three copies)
¨	Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced on one side of A4 or equivalent paper with wide margins. Reviewing will be blind and each copy should therefore include a detachable title page identifying the author(s)
¨	Please number all pages and provide a word count
¨	If you send paper copies please enclose a floppy disk copy (Word or RTF format). Please label the disk with the name and version of the word processing package used. Disk and manuscript texts must be identical. Changes marked on the hard copy but not on the disk version will be ignored
¨	The length of articles should not normally exceed 10,000 words; longer items will usually be considered for publication in parts
¨	To avoid potentially needless work for our referees please do not send us material already being considered for publication elsewhere

Title page

Please include:

¨	The proposed title
¨	Author names, qualifications and affiliations
¨	The full postal and email addresses, telephone and fax numbers of the author to whom correspondence should be addressed

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 100-150 words

Text

Please begin this on a separate page and sub-head text where appropriate. Please avoid abbreviations and footnotes where possible. Spelling should conform with British English

Author details

Please supply on a separate sheet a brief cv for the author(s) including qualifications, major academic and other appointments, and publications

Footnotes

Footnotes should be printed as footnotes on the appropriate page and should be indicated in the text by consecutive numbering with superscripts thus1

References

References should be footnoted with book and journal titles in full as in these examples. Please note the minimal punctuation.

Books

Robert Solomon The Joy of Philosophy New York, Oxford University Press 1999

Chapters within books

Alan Ryan ‘Political Philosophy’ in: A C Grayling (ed) Philosophy 2: Further Through the Subject

pp 351-419 Oxford, Oxford University Press 1998

Articles

Alasdair MacIntyre ‘Social Structures and their Threats to Moral Agency’ Philosophy 74 no 289 (July 1999) pp 311-329

Layout

Please follow the layout of the Journal as specified below. For a sample which you can use as a Word template send a blank email to

template@managementphilosophers.com

Page size: A4

Margins (mirror margins)

Left 40 millimetre

Right 20 millimetre

Top 10 millimetre

Bottom 20 millimetre

Text

Abstract: AGaramond 11 point italic (line spacing exactly 12 point)

Body text: AGaramond 11 point (line spacing exactly 12 point)

Stand-alone quotations: AGaramond 10 point (line spacing exactly 11 point) indent 15 millimetres

Footnotes: AGaramond 10 point (line spacing exactly 11 point)

All text is justified.

Headings

Title: Arial 20 point Bold (line spacing exactly 21 point)

Author name(s): Arial 10 point (line spacing exactly 11 point)

Level one: AGaramond 13 point bold (line spacing exactly 14 point)

Level two: AGaramond 12 point bold italic (line spacing exactly 13 point)

Level three: AGaramond 12 point italic (line spacing exactly 13 point)

Artwork

Any artwork should be of camera-ready quality. Figures and diagrams in the text should be created using Word or Excel or supplied in their 'native' format which must be one of the following: EMF, JPG, PNG, BMP, WMF

Table and diagram text should be Arial 10 point (line spacing exactly 11 point)

Proofs

Final texts will be sent electronically and should be corrected and returned to the Editor within three days. Only essential corrections may be made

Copyright

Material accepted becomes the copyright of the Journal

Submission of any material will be held to imply that it contains original, unpublished work and that the lead author has obtained any copyright clearances require

Free Copies

The author will receive two free copies of the issue in which his or her contribution appears. In cases of two or more authors, five free copies of the issue will be sent

Free copies of the relevant issue are sent by surface post on publication

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Winning an Audience

We are sometimes asked for guidance on overall presentation. You may find it helpful to bear the following in mind.

¨	State your theme and purpose at the start. Your opening should win your reader's rapt attention. Stating the philosophical question or issue you hope to resolve and relating it to the reader's context is usually effective.
¨	Write for a multi-disciplinary audience: avoid jargon when you can and offer explanations when you first use it if you must.
¨	Stay simple: keep your language as simple as possible, subject to Einstein's dictum that things should be made as simple as possible, and no simpler. Readable prose typically uses: short sentences, short words, more concrete than abstract words, more active than passive verbs, headings to signpost the reader, linking passages and summaries to help the reader stay on track. It reads well aloud.
¨	Illustrate your material with examples.
¨	If English is not your first language please have your paper read by a native English speaker to check for idiom.
¨	Some classic and recent sources of guidance we find useful:
	o	Tony Buzan Use Your Head (good for sorting material before writing)
	o	Robert Gunning The Technique of Clear Writing
	o	Bryan Magee 'Sense and Nonsense' (A plea for clear writing by professionals in Prospect Magazine February 2000) www.prospect-magazine.co.uk
	o	George Orwell Politics and the English Language

Consult Peter Smith

If you have not already consulted it you might visit Peter Smith's website. Peter edited the philosophical journal Analysis for 12 years in which time he received about 5,000 submissions. He offers sound advice about style:

http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/Smith/writing.html

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