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The Journal of Prediction Markets |
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The Editors welcome submissions for the Journal. Authors should send their proposed articles as a word attachment by email to:
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The Editor The Journal of Prediction Markets The University of Buckingham Press Buckingham MK18 1EG United Kingdom Information of authors and contributors
Proposed contributions are invited and submission implies that the work is original, unpublished and on the understanding that are not under review and that they have not been accepted for publication elsewhere.
Articles should be submitted electronically as pdf and a word attachment to a covering email.
The editors welcome extended articles of 8-10,000 words but the journal will also publish shorter articles of 3-5000 words as well as book reviews . The editors retain the right to make alterations as to style, grammar, punctuation etc.; the accuracy of the contribution is the responsibility of the author.
All articles are refereed.
Copyright; authors of articles accepted for publication will be required to sign a Copyright Transfer Publication Agreement.
Presentation and styleTitle and abstract
Authors are asked to supply a proposed title for their title followed by an abstract of approximately 100-150 words Font
Title: 14 point Georgia
Text: 11 point Times New Roman
Section headings
Main Sections: 12 point Upper case, bold, Georgia as follows: INTRODUCTION(space) Text….. THE NATURE OF THE BREACH OF DUTY(space) Text……
Sub-paragraphs – level 1 – Italics, normal case – numbering - alphabetic lower case, not in italics– eg (a) Precedent Defined
Sub-paragraph – level 2 – Normal case – numbering – Times New Roman numerals – eg (1).
Mathematical Material
Mathematical formulae should be placed in line unless:
they are over half a line long and or involve matrices or expressions requiring additional vertical space when printing
(NB equations longer than 140mm will be displayed on two lines; the text width of the printed journal page is limited to 141mm) Latin terms and phrases
These should be placed in italics – e.g. it is not acceptable that the status quo remain.
Quotations
Quotations should be denoted by use of a colon, unless forming part of a sentence. E.g. “bluebell time in Kent” is a classic example of his writing style. As opposed to:
“It was bluebell time in Kent.”
Quotations of more than twenty words should be indented at each margin by 0.5cm.
“It happened on 19th April, 1964. It was bluebell time in Kent. Mr. and Mrs. Hinz had been married some ten years, and they had four children, all aged 9 and under. The youngest was one. Mrs Hinz was a remarkablewoman…”
Double quotation marks should be used. If less than twenty words, it remains within the text but is placed in double quotation marks. If there is a quotation within the quotation, the internal quotation is placed in single quotation marks.
Specific words may be emphasised by the use of single quotation marks. Punctuation
Full punctuation is used. Abbreviations do not take periods – eg Mr Brown Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be avoided unless generally accepted, but Ld. for example must not be used. European Union Materials
Council Directive 91/383/EEC of 25th June, 1991 Monographs
Books should be cited as follows:
Author (plain font) (comma) Title (italics) (round brackets) Place of publication (comma) Name of Publisher (comma) Year of publication (close round brackets) if citing page number/s – at p 509 or at pp 509-512.
Catherine Drinker-Bowen, The Lion and the Throne: the Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1957) at p 509.
Essays or chapters in an edited volume should be cited as follows: Author of essay or chapter (normal font)(comma) Title of essay or chapter (in double quotation marks, normal font) “in” Name of book (italics) (open round brackets, ed or eds Name of editor/s normal font) (close round brackets) (open round brackets – publication information as above) (close round brackets) page reference by “at p.”
John Bell, “The Effect of Changes in Circumstances” in Contract Law Today: Anglo-French Comparisons (eds. Donald Harris & Denis Tallon) (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989) at pp 204-205. Articles
Journal articles should be cited as follows:
Author (plain font) (comma) Title (in double quotation marks, plain font) Journal citation with journal title in italics, page number for the start of the article, any specific page references denoted by at p 30.
The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC, CMG, “Lord Denning and Judicial Activism” [1999] Denning LJ 127 at p145 Newspapers
The name of the publication should be in italics followed by a comma, followed by the date of publication.
The Times, 12th July, 2003. The Economist, 11th July, 2003 Hansard and Government Publications
Government publications – Name of document (italics), (comma) Command abbreviation, reference number
Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers’ Associations 1965-1968, Cmnd. 3628.
Hansard – House of Commons Official Reports, Parliamentary Debates, Hansard, 7th February, 1991, Vol 185, col 440. Websites
Legal databases – if the case is reported then reference must be made to the report. If unreported, then date and database should be given along with the case name – A v B Lexis transcript, 19th June, 2003
Websites should be treated with caution – general references to the site are better than long URLs, if at all possible. However, an URL must be given so that readers can verify and evaluate for themselves. Dates
Dates should be written as follows: 19th June, 1998. Endnotes
Numbering in text – endnote numbers (in superscript) should appear at the end of the sentence in which the reference is contained, rather than at the immediate point of reference, unless a sentence contains more than one footnote, or the sense of the reference would be lost or unclear. The number appears after all other punctuation.
E.g. Support for this view can be found in Brown’s article, where he concludes that “consideration is an unnecessary requirement for the formation of a valid contract.”1
Endnotes appear at the end of the article.
Endnotes text – Endnotes are written in 11pt Times New Roman. There is a space at the beginning of the text to create distance from the footnote number.
Internal referencing: when citing an authority more than once within the footnotes, it is not necessary to repeat the full citation. Reference can simply be made to the footnote number in which the reference first appears. If it is the footnote immediately above the term, ibid. is used (capital I if it starts the footnote) followed by the page reference if different from the one in the original footnote.2
If the reference is further back in the text, the term, supra n?, [substitute ? for the relevant footnote number] is used. Supra is in italics and takes a capital S if it begins the sentence. The abbreviation for number “n.” takes a period to denote the abbreviated form, and is not in italics.
If the main reference is further on in the text, and you do not wish to introduce the full reference or additional explanation at this point in the work, the term infra n? is used.3 This follows the same guidelines as supra above.4
Case citations, please note that the abbreviated forms should take punctuation to denote that status. [1975] All ER 112.
1 The Law Revision Committee, Cmd. 449 2 Ibid. at p.96. 3 See infra n.5. 4 Supra n.1 at p.1.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The material should be listed in alphabetical order of the surname of the author, or organization that published the report. Articles, books, chapters in books, official reports, Hansard material, government and European Union material should be listed in the bibliography.
A separate list of cases and a separate list of legislation should also appear before the beginning of the paper’s narrative. Full citation of cases is required in the form suggested above, you need only identify the legislation and not parts of the legislation used (i.e. you don’t have to quote each section referred to in your research). If material is used from more than one jurisdiction, then cases or legislation should be listed under the country or international organization (e.g. International Court of Justice) of origin. You should list each country alphabetically.
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