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IIAS Newsletter guideline for contributors 2009

Readership

IIAS Newsletter has a circulation of 26,000. Faculty and students in the humanities and social sciences make up 80% of our readership; the broadsheet is also sent to libraries, civil society groups and the interested public. 50% of our readership is in Europe, 20% in the Americas, 20% in Asia, and 10% in Australia and the Pacific.

Please keep our broad readership in mind. We favour essays that place research in context, contain clear argument and appeal to the intelligent layman. Please contact the editors with any questions or to receive previous issues: iiasnews@let.leidenuniv.nl

Style

  1. Our style guide follows The Economist: http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/
  2. Keep formatting simple: Times New Roman, 12 point, left-alignment, double-spacing, italics for published titles and non-English words

Illustrations

  1. Digital photographs, maps, sketches, cartoons and artwork are welcome
  2. Illustrations must be free of copyright, or have permission from the owner. We have a modest budget for this
  3. caption and source for each illustration
  4. JPG or TIF files
  5. minimally 1,000 x 600 pixels
  6. sharp contrast

Referencing

  1. Keep notes and references to a necessary minimum - for quotations and others' ideas; uncontroversial facts need not be referenced
  2. Monographs: Dower, John. 1986. War Without Mercy. 3rd ed. New York: Pantheon
  3. Articles in edited volumes: Cutler, Robert M. 2003. ‘Conflict prevention'. Amineh, Mehdi and Henk Houweling, eds. Central Eurasia in Global Politics. Leiden: Brill
  4. Journal articles: Huntington, Samuel. 1996. ‘Taiwan's new nationalism'. Foreign Affairs 75-4

Upcoming deadlines

#53 - 1st of November 2009

#54 - 1st of Februari 2010

#55 - 1st of May 2010

#56 - 1st of Augustus 2010

 


- research essays -

Please include

  1. 1,400-1,800 words plus illustrations (see below). Only text: 2,000 words maximum
  2. title
  3. lead, less than 100 words, to be published above the essay's body
  4. two or three section headings
  5. author: name, affiliation, email (optional)

 

- book, journal and film reviews -

 

Please include

  1. Monographs: up to 1,200 words
  2. Journals, edited volumes or multiple book reviews: up to 1,800 words
  3. Full citation: Farquhar, Judith, ed. 2004. Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 341 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2921-2 (paperback)
  4. Title and two or three section headings
  5. author: name, affiliation, email (optional)


Please note that IIAS Newsletter never guarantees publication.


IIAS Newsletter
Anna Yeadell, editor
International Institute for Asian Studies
P.O. Box 9515 / 2300 RA Leiden / the Netherlands
T +31-71 527 2227; F +31-71 527 4162
iiasnews@let.leidenuniv.nl


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