Anthropology: Style Guide excerpt from the JRAI
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Manuscripts should be double-spaced (including notes and indented material) in A4
format with a 5 cm margin at the left-hand side. Notes and references should also be
double-spaced, on separate pages at the end of the article. Acknowledgements, credits,
and grant numbers should form an unnumbered note at the end of the text. Editorial
Manager facilitates submissions in rtf, doc, and wpd formats; submissions should not
be made as pdfs.
Bibliographical references should be cited in the text by the author's last name, date of
publication, and page, e.g. (Firth 1954: 285) or, if the author's name is mentioned in
the text, by the date and page reference only, e.g. (1954: 285). Every quotation must
be page referenced as must be references to sections of texts in which specific
concepts, debates, or ethnographic examples are discussed. Entries in the references
should be in alphabetical order of authors and should include the following: name and
initials (not full given names) of author(s), date, title, and (for books) place of
publication as well as, if published in 1901 or after, name of publisher. For articles the
name of journal should be provided in full with the volume number (arabic numbers
to be used throughout) and pagination. Include both volume and issue number only
where a journal is paginated by issue rather than in one sequence across the volume.
Always include pagination for chapters within books. Translators should be credited
for translated works. Where the original date of publication differs significantly from
the date of the edition being cited, the date of original publication should also be
included in square brackets.
Examples are:
Levin, M. (ed.) 1993. Ethnicity and aboriginality: case studies in ethnonationalism. Toronto:
University Press.
Mauss, M. 1979 [1935]. Body Techniques. In Sociology and psychology: essays by Marcel
Mauss (trans. B. Brewster), 95-123. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Mills, M.A. 1997. Religious authority and pastoral care in Tibetan Buddhism: the ritual
hierarchies of Lingshed monastery, Ladakh. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh.
Sanz, C., D. Morgan & S. Gulick 2004. New insights into chimpanzees, tools and termites
from the Congo Basin. American Naturalist 164, 567-81.
Strathern, M. 1990. Negative strategies in Melanesia. In Localizing strategies: regional
traditions in ethnographic writing (ed.) R. Fardon, 204-16. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic
Press.
——— 1996. Cutting the network. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 2,
517-35.
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Sutton, G.M. 1932. The exploration of Southampton Island, Hudson Bay. (Memoirs of the
Carnegie Museum 12: 1). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum.
Tsur, R. 2001. Onomatopoeia: cuckoo-language and tick-tocking: the constraints of semiotic
systems (available on-line: http://www.trismegistos.com/IconicityInLanguage/
Articles/Tsur/default.html).
Papers with improperly prepared notes and bibliographies will be returned to authors for
correction.
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Paragraphs must be separated by a double hard return. Single quotation marks should
be used for quotations in the text, double marks for quotations within quotations. The
journal follows UK punctuation conventions. Note also that the journal uses serial
commas (i.e. red, white, and blue, rather than red, white and blue - references and
quotations are excepted here).
The journal follows UK spelling (except for quotations from US sources), but the -ize
variant, i.e. organize not organise, etc.
Quotations of more than fifty words should be set off with a double hard return and
indented. Foreign words (except proper names) should be italicized
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