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Article types

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Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.

Keywords

  • Provide at least 15 keywords chosen by the author.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Papers should be a maximum of 8000 words, including footnotes and references.
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  • Papers must be typed in 1.5 or double spacing throughout (including notes and references), but without justification.
  • A series of references should be enclosed within a single pair of parentheses, separated by semicolons; the references should be in ascending chronological order, e.g. (Cohen and Wills, 1985; Payne and Jones, 1987; Cohen, 1988).
  • The reference should be formatted like so: Workers in the Global Economy.
  • End of text reference list: All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full at the end of the article using the following style: Article with single author – Alonzo, A.A. (1979) Everyday Illness Behavior: A Situational Approach to Health Status Deviations.
  • End of text reference list: All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full at the end of the article using the following style: Book with single author – Charmaz, K. (1991) Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time.
  • End of text reference list: All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full at the end of the article using the following style: Edited volume – Pollack, M. (ed.) (1992) AIDS: A Problem for Sociological Research.
  • End of text reference list: All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full at the end of the article using the following style: Article on a website – Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2006) Cash Transfers and their Role in Social Protection.
  • Review: Please cite all book details at the start of your review, including: title; author(s) or editors(s); city of publication; publisher; year of publication; number of pages; hardcover/softcover; ISBN; price.
  • Review: Please cite all book details at the start of your review, including: title, author(s)/editor(s), city of publication, publisher, year of publication, number of pages, hardcover/softcover, price/currency and ISBN.
  • End of text reference list: All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full at the end of the article using the following style: Chapter in edited volume – Kaufert, P.A. and S.M.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • Tables and figures should have short, descriptive titles.
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  • Titles should be placed above tables and below figures.
  • All notes and sources for tables and figures should appear immediately below the table or figure.

Blinded manuscript

  • Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.
  • Therefore, the body of your text and the filename should be suitably anonymous.
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  • Review: All Global Labour Journal articles are subject to a double-blind peer review; as such, the body of your text should be suitably anonymous.

Article structure and word limits

  • Book reviews should be approximately 1200–1400 words in length.
  • These should be approximately 500–1500 words long.
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  • Book reviews should be 1200-1400 words in length.
  • Authors should submit manuscripts via our website.
  • Papers should be as short as is consistent with clear presentation of subject matter.
  • We do not use the Oxford comma (that is, no comma before the last word or phrase in a series).
  • Should you have any questions about a submission to the Global Labour Journal, please contact the GJL Managing Editor.
  • Review: The review should provide critical commentary of the book, assessing its contribution to the field in a non-polemical manner.
  • Should you have any questions about a submission to the Global Labour Journal, please contact the GLJ Managing Editor.
  • The submissions should adhere to the fundamentals of Global Labour house style.
  • Responses should avoid personal attacks and be formulated in a collegial manner.
  • This should contain the following material: an outline explaining the relevance of the topic (500 words).
  • This should contain the following material: brief biographical statements of the prospective guest editors (100 words each).
  • If we feel that a Special Issue on the proposed topic should be published, we will suggest a publication date.
  • The Journal publishes a maximum of one Special Issue per year.
  • BOOK REVIEWS Book reviews should cover publications that are not older than two years and are relevant to labour studies.
  • When reviewing edited volumes, authors should provide a sense of the range of contributions in the collection.
  • All pages should be numbered.
  • Review: Your review should provide readers with an overview of the book, including its basic content and structural organisation, its recommended audience and scholarly aims, and how the author situates this work within the larger context of the area or field.
  • Reviews should provide readers with an overview of the book, including its basic content and structural organisation, the recommended audience,its scholarly aims, and how the author situates this work within the larger context of the area or field.
  • If you would like to propose a Special Issue, please note the following: A detailed proposal should be sent to the GLJ Managing Editor.
  • Submission Preparation Checklist As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • If you would like to propose a Special Issue, please note the following: The Special Issue should adhere to the general guidelines as stated in the Focus and Scope of the Journal.
  • If you would like to propose a Special Issue, please note the following: The proposal should include the theme of the Special Issue, an outline of its purpose, a motivation regarding its relevance, and details of proposed authors and article titles.
  • Under the terms of this licensing framework anyone is free to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work, under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
  • Under the terms of this licensing framework anyone is free to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work, under the following conditions: Noncommercial Use: You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
  • Articles that do not conform to the fundamentals of this style may be returned to the authors for revision.
  • Under the terms of this licensing framework anyone is free to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work, under the following conditions: No Derivative Works: You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

Preprints and prior publication

  • Papers should not have been previously published, nor be currently under consideration elsewhere.

Submission forms and permissions

  • Authors are required to accept the copyright terms of the Global Labour Journal.
  • For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.

Language and text style

  • QUOTATIONS: Quotations longer than 40 words should be displayed and indented without the use of quotation marks.
  • If you are not a first-language English speaker, consider having the article vetted by a professional English-language editor before you submit it to the Journal.
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  • Second-level headings should be in italic font and bold; only the first word should be capitalised (except for proper nouns).
  • Use double quotation marks, and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations.
  • The source should be given at the end of the quotation, with the author's name, year of publication and page number in parentheses.
  • Shorter quotes should be retained within the body of the text, within double quotation marks.
  • Single quotation marks should only be used for a quotation within a quotation.
  • Review: The review should be written in a language and style that is accessible to readers across various disciplines.
  • If you are not a first-language English speaker, consider having the article checked by a professional English-language editor before you submit it to the Journal.
  • Review: We welcome reviews of books in languages other than English (although the review should be written in English).
  • Papers should be written in English.

Title page and author information

  • Please include full contact details with your submission, including name, institutional affiliation, postal address and email address.
  • This should contain the following material: abstracts, article titles and affiliations of contributing authors of prospective articles (200 words each).
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  • Your submission must be accompanied by full contact details (for each author, if co-authored), including: name, affiliation, full mailing address, telephone, and email address.
  • Submissions must be accompanied by full contact details (for each author, if co-authored), including: name, affiliations, full mailing address, telephone, and email address.

Manuscript structure

  • First-level headings should be in normal font but bold; significant words should be capitalised.
  • Column headings should clearly define the data presented.
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  • NOTES: Authors should use footnotes rather than endnotes.
  • Footnotes should be kept to a minimum.

Article type and manuscript length

  • An abstract of 100-200 words should precede the main text, accompanied by up to 5 keywords and a biographical note of 50-150 words.
  • Please include a word count (including notes and references).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 8,000 words
Keywords: At least 15 keywords
Format: double spacing

Source transparency

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