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ajps*
*The
American Journal of Political Science
is the official journal of the Midwest Political Science
Association. AJPS is committed to significant advances in
knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and
politics, and to the public value of political science research
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Guidelines for Articles
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If The American Journal of
Political Science accepts a manuscript for publication, then
it achieves the status of an article. In preparing an accepted
manuscript to become a published article, the author must
carefully follow these guidelines.
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The manuscript
should include:
A short title
for the running head;
Keywords or
phrases for the electronic version of The Journal;
Identifying
information that includes an email address and a postal address
for each author. Note that accurate email and postal addresses
are required to receive proofs and complimentary copies of an
article.
An article
title (that should be concise and descriptive);
An abstract not
to exceed 150 words;
An
acknowledgement section, as appropriate;
All text,
figures, tables, and appendices as appropriate.
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The manuscript should follow the style guidelines of the American Political
Science Association’s Style Manual for Political Science
(rev. August, 2006) which is based on The Chicago Manual of
Style (15th edition). The guidelines include,
but are not limited to, matters of text style (but, The AJPS
prefers use of the third person, rather than “I” or “we” unless
such use leads to very awkward writing), citations, appendices,
notes, references, and tables and figures.
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If it also
uses mathematical programs, such as LaTeX, then the contact
author should send a LaTeX file of those as well as the .pdf version of the file that enables the
viewer to copy text. The file must be distilled, that is,
created in Acrobat with the “security” setting to allow
selection of text and graphics.
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Citations and
references must be formatted properly. That is, citations
should be listed in alphabetical order, with dates, in
parentheses. References in the bibliography must be checked
against citations in the text, as well as for accuracy of the
spellings of author(s)’s names(s), journal, publisher, and
title, and of page numbers.
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The prepared
manuscript is sent by email to Dr. Susan M. Meyer, Assistant
Editor, at meyer.26@osu.edu. If a hard copy is required, then she will
notify the contact author later. She copyedits the manuscript.
If her copyediting reveals inaccurate, incomplete, or improperly
formatted citations and/or bibliography, grammatical or style
errors, or other problems, then she contacts the author with
instructions on how to correct them. Failure to do so promptly,
and according to Dr. Meyer’s instructions and schedule, will
delay publication of an article. She then emails a copy of the
copyedited manuscript to the contact author who has an
opportunity to make revisions as well as to approve changes made
to the text. Please note that this is not an opportunity for
major revisions of the manuscript. The manuscript then is sent
to a compositor who readies the text for publication.
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Once
copyediting is complete, the contact author must sign a return a
Copyright Release Form, and all other authors must complete and
return an Author Address Form. These forms are available at
www.ajps.org
and are mailed to:
Martha Lovvoll,
Production Editor,
Blackwell
Publishing, Inc.,
350 Main
Street,
Malden, MA
02148
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The contact
author receives a .pdf proof of the article from Blackwell
Publishing. S/he has 48 hours to review it and to return any
corrections that must be made to the proofreader. Again, this
is not an opportunity for major revisions of the proof. The
proofreader then uses a set of proof to check that all changes
from the first-proof stage were made by the compositor. The
contact author does not see the second set of proofs.
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All authors receive
2 printed copies of the issue in which the article appears and 1
.pdf copy of the article when The Journal goes to press.
If an author wants more than 2 copies, then s/he can order more
using an order form included with the page proofs or by
requesting them (by e-mail) from Martha Lovvoll at
mlovvoll@bos.blackwellpublishing.com.
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