Refereed Paper Specifications and Instructions
TASA Conference 2012
The Local Organising Committee invites you to submit refereed papers. Contributed refereed
papers will be strictly limited to a presentation of a maximum fifteen minutes followed by five
minutes for discussion. The best refereed papers will be selected for presentation in one of the
concurrent paper sessions.
For more details, please refer to the manuscript submission guidelines available at the Journal of
Sociology website: http://jos.sagepub.com/
Prepare copy as follows:
1. Manuscripts should be double spaced
2. Manuscripts should be submitted with the name, affiliation and contact details of the author(s)
on a separate page to preserve anonymity. Please provide the word count on the manuscript.
3. All manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of 200 words plus 5 or 6 key words.
4. Manuscripts should be no more than 3000 words in length.
5. Presentation of Copy – Please use the following style guidelines when preparing your paper
Title Front – Times New Roman, size 16, centered, lower and upper case
Sub heading front – Times New Roman, bold, size 12, left justified, lower and upper case
Main text front – Times New Roman, size 12.
Do not use bold of underline in text, keep italics to a minimum.
6. Page numbering – position top right, Times New Roman, size 12, followed by a line space
7. Footnotes should be numbered serially, typed double – spaced, and should be listed at the end
of the paper, and should be kept to a minimum
8. Each table should be typed on a separate page. Insert a guideline, e.g. [Table 1 about here] at
the appropriate place in the manuscript. Complex tables can present problems in the
conversion from one program to another. Please key tables into the text using one tab only
between columns. Do not use spaces between columns. Do not worry about the alignment of
columns, but indicate on the printout how the table should appear. Key in a return at the end
of the line. Do not tab to wrap text
9. For general style conventions please consult the Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers,
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 5th Edition (revised) 1998.
Reference in the text
All references to books, articles, and other sources are to be identified at an appropriate point in
the text be name of author, year of publication, and pagination (within parentheses). Footnotes
are to be limited to substantive observations only. There is no need for ‘ibid’, ‘loc cit’ or ‘op cit’.
For example:
1. If the author’s name is in the text, follow it be the year of publication and a page reference: As
Brown (1999:267) has shown in her case study…If the author’s name is not in text, insert at
an appropriate point surname, year of publication and page reference, for example: Australian
research on changes to the middle class suggests… (Soloman 1998:135). Note that pagination,
author and year are separated by a colon.
2. Where two authors are involved, cite both surnames. Where more than two authors are
involved, cite the first surname followed by et al. For institutional authorship, supply only
sufficient information for positive identification: The aim of this working paper is to explore the
future of sociology in Australia (Department of Sociology, finders University, 1997).
3. Separate multiple citations be semicolons: The professions are the subject of considerable
sociological attention (e.g., Chagnon 1994; Lorber 1992; Vassiliou 1999).
4. Where there is more than one reference in an article to the same author and year, use letters
(a, b, etc.) to distinguish them one from the other. For example: (Roberts 1999a; 1999b).
Format of references
List all items cited in the text alphabetically by author and for each author, by year of publication
in an appendix titled References. List all authors by name – do not use et al. or ampersands (7).
For example: Burke, M. (2002) ‘Global Boom and Bust Following the World Trade Centre
Collapse’, Journal of Sociology 38: 135 – 51.
Shaw, M.J. (2000) Life as a Graduate Student in Australian Universities. London: Sage.
Thompson, M. and J. Smith (1999) ‘Gender and Wealth: Beyond the Patterns and the Paradox’,
pp. 156 – 87 in J.Montague (ed.) Wealth in Australia: Sociological Concepts and Issues, 2nd edn.
Sydney: Prentice Hall.
How do I submit my refereed paper online?
Step 1
Complete contact details of principal presenter then follow prompts through by pressing continue.
NB: Full contact details will be published, and cannot be removed once submitted, so please think
carefully before including personal contact details.
Step 2
Add the paper information as requested, then press save and continue.
Step 3
Check that all information is correct and edit information if required, then press continue.
Step 4
Record your personal access key and press continue. This access key will allow you to submit
additional abstracts or papers, and register for the conference.
Step 5
Acknowledgement page, please press continue.
Step 6
This is where you must ‘upload’ your paper submission to our system. Please browse your
system to find your file and then select it. You are then ready to upload the file for submission.
Step 7
Confirmation of the upload will appear if it has been successful. The process is now complete; by
pressing continue you will return to the TASA conference website.
Click here to submit your Refereed Paper Abstract online.
If you are unable to use the online submission facility, please contact Conference Solutions at
tasa@con-sol.com to obtain a hard copy of the application process.
What happens after my paper has been submitted?
All papers will be submitted for a review process with notification of results sent via email from
[insert date].
Note to authors
Authors of accepted papers submitted in response to the Call for Papers are expected to register
and attend the conference. All expenses associated with this are to be covered by the presenter.
A publication of conference proceedings will be provided to all delegates.