Guidelines for Papers

Your papers should be prepared according to standard academic guidelines. That is:

• The paper should be typed, double-spaced, with margins of 1 inch on all sides. You may print on both sides of the page.
• Pages should be numbered.
• Use headings as appropriate to delineate sections of your paper (e.g., "Introduction," "Theories of Inequality," "Measurement of Variables," etc.--whatever the relevant sections are).
• References to books and articles should be included in parentheses in the body of your paper, rather than in footnotes. (See examples below.)
• Footnotes are used only for substantive remarks, not citations.
• References are given in alphabetical order as an appendix to the paper. (See examples below.)

All references that you make to the arguments, analyses, data and/or ideas of other authors must be properly acknowledged in your paper. This means that you must indicate the source of the argument or data when you refer to it in the body of your paper, and include complete information on the source in your bibliography.

Your paper should be prepared using the standard social science citation style. Citations should be included in the text rather than as footnotes. Citations are set off from the text by parentheses, and include the author or authors' last name(s) and year of publication--e.g., (Wilson 1995) or (Borschier and Chase-Dunn 1987). Include page numbers if you are referring to a specific quote or passage. If you refer specifically to the author in the text, you do not need to include the author's last name in the citation (see below). If an article or book has more than three authors, include the first author's name and "et al."--e.g., (Lazarsfeld et al. 1948). In this case, all authors should be listed in the references appendix. (See below.) If citing more than two works, separate them with semicolons.

"In times and places where the demand for female labor is high, women's increased labor force participation will influence a society's ideas about appropriate roles for women (Huber 1990)."

"Wallerstein (1974) argues that...."
"According to Escobar (1991, p. 658),..."
"Several authors discuss the concept of the predatory state (Boone 1990; Evans 1995)."

 

Include author's complete name(s), year of publication, title of the book or article, and name and place of publisher or complete journal reference. If citing journal articles or chapters in a book, include specific page numbers. When citing a single chapter from an edited volume, be sure to include the editor's name(s) and title of the book, in addition to the chapter author's name and title of the chapter. (See below).

Journal articles:

Escobar, Arturo.  1991.  "Anthropology and the development encounter: the making and 
    marketing of development anthropology."  American Ethnologist 18: 658-682.

Safa, Helen I. and Peggy Antrobus.  1992.  "Women and the economic crisis in the 
     Caribbean."  Pp. 49-82 in Unequal Burden:  Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and 
     Women's Work, edited by L. Beneria and S. Feldman.  Boulder, CO:  Westview Press. 

Books:

Scott, James C.  1985.  Weapons of the Weak:  Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance.  New 
     Haven: Yale University Press.