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Author Guidelines
Author Guidelines
Prospective authors should be aware that articles should be preceded by a note stating to which section of the Journal is being submitted (research articles, statistical fallacies, book review, etc.) and in which way the article submitted relates to the objectives of the Journal.
There is no maximum length for papers, though authors should be advised that unnecessary lengthy articles tend to review poorly. All manuscripts should be specifically styled for the internet. Manuscripts should have the appropriate links to other website documents or to a specific point within the same document (bookmarks.)
An article can link portions of it text to other documents provided by the author which are not available at the internet. Examples of these documents include datasets, transcribed interviews, official statistical forms (birth certificates, study questionnaires, etc.), and other texts.
Authors can include a glossary at the end of the manuscript, before the reference list. The terms to appear in the glossary should be adequately hyperlinked to the corresponding terms throughout the text.
Guidelines for References
DataCritica requires references to be styled according to the Manual of Style of the American Psychological Association (APA Style). Accordingly, the journal requres in text citation as its citation format, which consists of the author’s name and year of publication in parentheses followed by the reference list at the end of the article. The author is responsible for the accuracy of the references.
All in text citations should be hyperlinked to the corresponding reference in the reference list. All the information should be double-checked before the manuscript is submitted.
In Text Citation
1. In text citation consists of the author’s name and year of publication in parentheses An example of in text citation is: “a critical theory of justice (Harvey, 1996) requires …” If the author’s name is used in the sentence, the parenthesis should include the year only: “as Harvey (1996) asserts…”
2. Two authors: If there is a work of two authors, both names are included: “arguments about critical scholarship (Merrifield and Swyngedouw, 1997)”
3. Multiple authors: If there is a work of more than two authors, all names should be included in the parenthesis in the first citation “paying attention to feminist perspectives (Johnston, Gregory, Pratt and Watts, 2000)…” In following citations, (Johnston et al, 2000) should be used. In the reference list, the full list of authors should appear.
4. Multiple citations: If several works are cited together, they should be separated by semicolon and ordered according to the reference list: “key writings in the field (Harvey, 1993; Johnston et al, 2000; Merrifield and Swyngedouw, 1997) challenged…”
Reference List
1. Single author book:
Poovey, M. (1998). A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2. Chapter in an edited book:
Harvey, D. (1997). The environment of justice. In Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw (Editors) The Urbanization of Injustice (pp. 65-99) New York: New York University Press.
3. Journal Article
Grey, S. (1999). The statistical war on equality: Visions of American virtuosity in The Bell Curve. The Quarterly Journal of Speech 85(3):303-329.
4. Internet reference
Thomas, R. (2006). Spin in official statistics. Spinwatch. http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/216/8/ accessed: March 10, 2007.
5. Newspaper article
Paulos, J.A. (2003, January 19). Do the math: Rooting out terrorists is a tricky business. The Los Angeles Times, B7.Reference List Order
1. The reference list should be arranged in alphabetical order according to the lastname of the author.
2. For referencing multiple works of same author use the following rules:
a. References with a single author are cited first, in chronological order.
b. References with two authors are listed next, arranged alphabetically according to the second author’s lastname.
c. References by the same pair of authors are arranged chronologically.
d. References with three or more authors are arranged chronologically after the single authors and two authors’ references.
e. If more than one work of the same author was published in the same year, these references should be accompanied by a letter (a, b, c, …) after the year, in the in text citation and in the reference list.
3. Newspaper articles: If there is no author, the references should be ordered alphabetically by the first significant word in the title. The in text citation can use a short title: (Census undercount, 2002). If the article is published in non consecutive pages, include all pages separated by comas: “Census undercount to be challenged in the courts. (2002, February 17). The San Juan Star, p A6, A9.
4. Magazine articles follow the same rules of newspapers.
5. Websites referencing:
The reference starts with the individual author, organization or registered name, the year follows, with the URL adress (usually an htpp://…), and the revision date.
Technical Note on Hyperlinking:
Most wordprocessors include options for hyperlinking. In the case of Microsoft Word, after blocking the text to be hyperlinked, click on the insert command from the toolbar, choose hyperlink, and then write down the url (http//…) in the address box. When hyperlinking to a portion of the text in the same document, it is necessarily to first create a bookmark and then do the hyperlinking. Bookmarks are created by selecting bookmark from the insert command. Bookmarks should be given a name (no spaces allowed, but underscores “_” can be used.) Once the bookmark is created, it is possible to do the hyperlinking. Be aware that the hyperlink box offers the options of linking to existing documents in the internet or to other places in the same document (bookmarks.)
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.