JEMIE Style Guide

Summary

  • Articles – 8,000 to 10,000 words, including references
  • Commentaries – 3,000 to 5,000 words, including references
  • Book reviews – up to 1,000 words, including references
  • Please use British English (Oxford English Dictionary)
  • APA 7 referencing
  • Please use footnotes rather than endnotes

Formatting

  • A4, 2.54cm page margins
  • Text: Times New Roman, 12 point, justified
  • Footnotes: Times New Roman, 10 point, justified
  • Line spacing: 1.5
  • Language: English (United Kingdom)

Structure for articles and commentaries

Manuscripts should follow this structure:

  1. Title of the article or commentary (Times New Roman, 12, bold)
  2. Author name
  3. Affiliation (in italics, including city and country)
  4. Email address
  5. ORCID (optional, see https://orcid.org/)
  6. Abstract: 100–150 words
  7. 4–6 keywords, each separated by a semi-colon (no initial capital)
  8. Introduction (bold)
  9. Sections and subsections are not numbered (subdivisions of subsections are discouraged):
    • Section heading (Bold initial cap only)
    • Subsection heading (Bold italic initial cap only)
  10. Conclusion (no number)
  11. Acknowledgements/Notes (if relevant)
  12. References

Structure for book reviews

Book review manuscripts should follow this structure:

  1. Book Review: Name of Book (Times New Roman, 12, bold)
  2. Author name
  3. Affiliation (in italics, including city and country)
  4. Email address
  5. ORCID (optional, see https://orcid.org/)
  6. Name of book (Times New Roman, 12, italics)
  7. Author/Editor
  8. Publisher, Year
  9. ISBN (Print)
  10. ISBN (eBook)
  11. Text of book review (if other publications are mentioned, please use in-text citations and a list of references)

Paragraphs

The first paragraph of each section should not be indented, but all following ones should be. No extra line space before or after each paragraph.

Footnotes

Numbered footnotes (1, 2, 3 etc.) can be used to provide additional information (Times New Roman, 10). These are not for bibliographical references.

Tables and figures

Tables and figures should be introduced by name (e.g., "Table 1" or "Figure 1") in the main text. Each table or figure should have a title or description, presented directly above it.

Quotations

In the text, use double quotation marks "…" for quotations up to a maximum of 40 words. For quotations longer than 40 words, please separate them from the main text.

Lists

Use 1), 2), 3) etc. for lists. Please avoid bullet points where possible.

In-text references

Please use APA 7 — e.g., "xxx (Smith, 2012, p. 1)"; or "as Smith (2012, p. 1) …"

Dashes

Use spaced en rules for parenthetical dashes. Use an en rule between spans of numbers (e.g. 20–40), including page numbers in references.

Numbers and dates

Spell out one to nine, then use numerals: 10, 1000, 10,000, 10%, etc. (except at the start of sentences). Dates should use the following formats: 4 October 2005; in the 1970s; in the twenty-first century.

List of references (bibliography)

Please use American Psychological Association (APA) 7 style: https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-guide.pdf

Examples (book and journal titles should be italicised):

  • Bober, S. (Ed.) (2024). Post-World War One plebiscites and their legacies: Exploring the right of self-determination. Central European University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633866115
  • Wolff, S. (2023). The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: A changemaker on the ground. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 22(2), 86–119. https://doi.org/10.53779/SDG1667
  • Schweikard, D. P., & Willis, C. (2024). Universal Basic Income as a tool against minority marginalization. In H. Weiss (Ed.), Minorities in global history: Cultures of integration and patterns of exclusion (pp. 187–204). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350398917.ch-012

References taken from webpages and websites:

  • Author (year). Name of webpage. Website. URL
  • Name of website (year). Name of webpage. URL

Please add full DOIs for each reference: https://doi.crossref.org/simpleTextQuery

Please do not translate the titles of references originally written in languages other than English.

For references using non-Latin alphabets (Cyrillic, Greek, etc.), titles should be transliterated — the title in the original alphabet may appear in brackets afterwards. See: https://www.translitteration.com/transliteration/en/

If you have any queries, please contact us at jemie@ecmi.de.