GENERAL INFORMATION FOR IPDA CONTRIBUTORS
Review process
Manuscripts considered for publication will be sent out for peer review, which will focus on relevance to the field, appropriate use of method and data, innovative use of framework and experimental design, and addition to the general knowledge base of the field.
Manuscripts will be considered for publication with the understanding that they have been submitted only to Issues in Political Discourse Analysis and that all pertinent sources of funding and information have been credited appropriately. Issues in Political Discourse Analysis will not consider articles that are currently submitted for review or have been published elsewhere.
Manuscript format requirements
All manuscripts must be typewritten or word-processed, double-spaced throughout (including abstracts, references lists, endnotes, and material in tables). Submissions should be submitted electronically in .doc and .pdf formats. Issues in Political Discourse Analysis follows the style of the Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition) and manuscripts must conform to this style in order to be considered for inclusion. Manuscripts should be in a common 12 point font (e.g. Times or Time New Roman). Title pages should include for each author his or her preferred academic or professional affiliation. If the paper was presented at a meeting, the acknowledgment note should give the title of the meeting, the name of the sponsoring organization, the exact date(s) of the presentation, and the city in which the meeting was held. All manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of 100 to 120 words and 6-10 keywords.
Please emailthe submission in Microsoft Word (.doc) and .pdf formats to ipda@indiana.edu.
All figures are to be camera ready (i.e., laser-printed or professionally drawn). Tables and figures adapted or reprinted from other sources require permission from the publisher of the original source.
Form corrections
Articles must follow the American Psychological Association (APA) style manual (See below). Before submitting manuscripts to Nova Publishers, manuscripts are edited at our Bloomington office and authors will be asked to make form corrections.
Proofs
First proofs of an article or review article will be sent to the lead author (or a nominee), who will be expected to correct them and report any minor changes to the IPDAeditorial staff within 48 hours of receiving the proofs. No additions or major changes will be made after the final version of an article has been sent to press.
Copyright Assignment
When the article is sent to press, authors will assign the copyright of the article to Nova Publishers. There are two reasons for this:
(a) Ownership of copyright by one central organization tends to ensure maximum international protection against infringement.
(b) Ownership of copyright by Nova Science ensures that requests by third parties to reprint a contribution, or part of it, are handled efficiently and in accordance with a general policy that is sensitive both to any relevant changes in international copyright legislation and to the general desirability of encouraging the dissemination of knowledge.
Style Sheet
IPDA requires that all submissions conform to the requirements of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Fifth Edition, 2001), which can be obtained from the Order Department, American Psychological Association, P.O. Box 2710, Hyattsville MD 20784, USA. It is also available in many bookstores and libraries.
Notes on APA format: APA Manual (pp. 283-320)
Spacing: Double-space between all lines of the manuscript, including the text, title,
headings, endnotes, quotations, references, figure captions, and tables.
Margins: Leave margins of 1 in. (2.54 cm) at the top, bottom, right, and left of every page.
Pagination: Number all pages consecutively. Arrange the pages of the manuscript in the
following order:
· Title page (p. 1): title, author name(s), affiliation(s), running head
· Abstract (page 2)
· Text (start on page 3)
· References (following the text; start on a new page)
· Appendixes (start each on a separate page)
· Author note (optional)
· Endnotes (start on a new page)
· Tables (each on a separate page; continue consecutive page numbering)
· Figure captions (list together, starting on separate page)
· Figures (each on a separate page )
Headings: If you have used a numbered system of headings, please replace it with the
APA system (see section 3.30-3.32 of the APA Manual). Be sure that there are at least TWO headings in each level; a single heading will not be permitted.
Running head: In the header of each page, include a shortened form of the title in
the upper right-hand corner before the page number. The running head should consist
of no more than 50 characters (including letters and spaces).
Emphasis: Avoid the use of quotation marks and italics (underlining)
for emphasis. Reserve (italics) underlining primarily for language examples. Avoid the use
of bolding in the text.
Guidelines for references: APA Manual (pp. 215-281)
In-text citations: Sources cited or referred to in the text should indicate the author's surname, publication date, and page number(s) when pertinent: (van Dijk, 1997; Chilton & Schäffner, 2002, p. 111);
if more than one citation appears in parenthetical material, they should appear in alphabetical order. When the author's name is part of the text, follow this form: Schumann (1994) argued that...
Reference list: All in-text citations must be listed in full in the reference list at the end of the article. Begin the reference list on a separate page entitled "References" and double-space it throughout. Each entry must include the author’s name, co-authors (if any), publication date, and title of the work. For a journal article, also provide the name of the journal, volume number, and page numbers for the article. For an article in an edited volume, include the editor’s name, title of the volume, and page numbers of the article. For a book or monograph, include the edition, place of publication, and name of publisher. Punctuate and capitalize as in the following examples:
Halliday, F. (2001, October). Words and states: the politics of language in the Middle East. Paper presented to seminar series at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford.
Ellis, R. (1994). The study of second language acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lakshmanan, U. (1989). Accessibility to Universal Grammar in child second language acquisition. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Chilton, P. and Schäffner, C.(Eds.). (2002). Politics as text and talk. Analytic approaches to political discourse. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
van Dijk, T. (1994). Discourse analysis and social analysis. Discourse & Society, 5, 163-164.
Zuengler, J. (1993). Explaining NNS interactional behavior: The effect of conversational topic. In G. Kasper & S. Blum-Kulka (Eds.), Interlanguage pragmatics (pp. 184-195). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Guidelines for tables and figures: APA Manual (pp. 147-201)
For reasons of space, keep the number of tables and figures to a minimum. Copyright permission is required for tables, texts, and figures reproduced from another source.
Tables:
· Include a brief but explanatory heading
· Use horizontal lines but no vertical lines
· Provide a heading for each column
· Explain abbreviations in a note under each table
· Present comparable tables consistently
· Refer to each table in the text
· Use 12-point Times New Roman font
Figures:
· Dimensions should not exceed 4" wide by 4 1/2" long. (The copy editor can reduce larger figures, but lettering size may be a problem; for best results prepare figures to size.)
· Prepare each figure on a separate sheet, without caption, page number, or running head; figure captions are listed together on a preceding sheet.
· Identify each figure lightly in pencil on the back of the sheet.
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