IJFAB Style and Reference Guidelines
Submissions should not exceed 8,000 words (roughly 32 manuscript pages). Shorter submissions are welcome. In addition to research papers, we invite submissions for our Conversations and Commentaries sections (details below). We also invite proposals for Special Issues. Submissions should be saved as a Microsoft Word document (.doc) or in Rich Text Format (.rtf) and sent via email attachment to: IJFAB@sunysb.edu.
Conversations provides a forum for public dialogue on particular issues in bioethics. Scholars engaged in fruitful exchanges are encouraged to share those discussions here. Submissions for this section should be limited to 3,000 words. The Commentaries section is devoted to brief analyses of specific policy issues, legislation, court decisions, or other contemporary developments within bioethics. Submissions for this section should be limited to 2,000 words
Book reviews are typically solicited; however, authors are strongly encouraged to submit their books to the Book Review Editor for consideration. We also invite proposals for review essays that survey several texts in a particular field. Books and inquiries should be directed to Lisa Eckenwiler, Department of Philosophy, Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason University, Robinson B 465, 4400 University Drive, MS 3F1, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA; phone: 703.993.1290
Manuscripts submitted to IJFAB should not be under simultaneous consideration by any other journal, nor should they have been published elsewhere. The review process takes an average of four to six months. We support and review scholarship in any area of feminist bioethics.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION:
- 1. Manuscripts should be double-spaced (including quotations and excerpts, notes, and references), and the right margin should not be justified.
- 2. To facilitate our anonymous review process, the author should not be identified in the text of the submission or the title page.
- 3. Papers should include an abstract of approximately 100 words.
- 4. Endnotes should be brief and placed separately at the end of the paper. Any acknowledgments should appear first, unnumbered.
5. We use the author/date system of citing references, as described in The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., University of Chicago Press, 2003). In the text or notes, works should be cited as (author year, page number); for example (Card 2003, 65). The page number alone can be used if understood from the context; for example (36). Works cited should be included after the notes in a list of References. Titles of articles and books in the references follow sentence capitalization: only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized. For example:
Walker, Margaret Urban. 1989. Moral understandings: Alternative "epistemology" for a feminist ethics. Hypatia 4 (2): 15-28.
------. 2006. Moral repair: Reconstructing moral relations after wrongdoing. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Rodney, Walter. 1982. How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press.
O’Grady, Helen. 2004. An ethics of the self. In Feminism and the final Foucault, ed. Dianna Taylor and Karen Vintges. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. 1958. Philosophical investigations. Trans. G. E. M. Anscombe. New York: Macmillan.
United States Department of Health and Human Services and Ad Council. 2005. National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign-Babies were born to be breastfed. http://www.4women.gov/Breastfeeding/bf.cfm?page=Campaign. Accessed 3 November 2005.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act. 1975. U.S. Public Law 94-142, U.S. Code. Vol. 20, sec. 1400 et seq.
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International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
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