The Journal of Industrial Relations welcomes a wide range of contributions which examine the way in which individuals, groups, organisations and institutions shape the employment relationship.
Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are peer reviewed anonymously by independent referees. The Editors and Editorial Board reserve the right to refuse any material for publication and advises that authors should retain copies of submitted manuscripts and correspondence as material cannot be returned.
All articles submitted to the Journal must comply with these instructions. Failure to do so may result in the return of the manuscript and possible delay in publication.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
The length of an article (including endnotes, references, tables and appendices, etc.) should not exclude 6000 words. Research Notes should not exceed 2000 words.
Please submit the original plus three copies of the manuscript, which should be sent to:
The Journal of Industrial Relations, School of Business,
Faculty of Economics and Business, H10, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Email: jir@econ.usyd.edu.au
Copyright
Papers accepted for publication become copyright of the Australian Industrial Relations Society and all authors will be asked to sign a Transfer of Copyright form.
Covering letter
The manuscript must be accompanied by a covering letter bearing the corresponding author’s signature and stating that none of the material in the manuscript has been published previously and none is under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The covering letter must contain an acknowledgement that all authors have contributed significantly, and that all authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript. The covering letter must also contain an acknowledgement that all authors agree to the conditions outlined in the Copyright Assignment Form.
STYLE
Articles should be written so as to be understood by the non-specialist reader and non-academics in industrial relations, as well as academics.
Authors are requested to refer to the Commonwealth of Australia’s (1996) Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers, 5th edn. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, especially the chapters on references (pp. 145–184).
The journal uses Australian spelling and authors should therefore follow the latest edition of the Macquarie Dictionary.
Standard abbreviations may be used (not in the abstract) and should be defined on first mention – use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses; thereafter use the abbreviation. In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
The entire manuscript, including references and endnotes, should be printed, double-spaced, on one side only of A4 paper with margins of at least 30 mm. Laser or near-letter quality print is essential. All pages should be numbered consecutively in the top right-hand corner, beginning with the title page.
The manuscript should be presented in the following order: (i) title page, (ii) abstract, (iii) text, (iv) acknowledgements, (v) references, (vi) endnotes, (vii) tables, (viii) figure legends, (ix) figures.
The following guidelines apply to all manuscripts submitted.
Title page
The title page should contain the full title of the article or note, the full name(s) of the author(s) and the addresses of the institutions at which the work was carried out. The present address of any author, if different from that where the work was carried out, should be supplied in a footnote. Also supply as a footnote the full name, position, postal address, email, facsimile and telephone numbers of the author to whom correspondence about the typescript, proofs and requests for offprints should be sent.
The title should be short, informative and contain the major key words. A short running title (no more than 40 characters, including spaces) should also be provided.
Abstract
For articles and research notes, please supply a brief abstract that states in 150–200 words the major points made and the principal conclusions reached. The abstract should not contain abbreviations or references.
Text
The text should be organised into an introductory section, conveying the background and purpose of the report, and then into sections identified with subheadings.
Acknowledgements
The source of financial grants and the contribution of colleagues or institutions should be acknowledged. Please do not acknowledge anonymous reviewers.
References
The Harvard (author, date) system of referencing must be used.
In the text give the author’s name followed by the year in parentheses: Domberger (1993). If there are two authors use ‘and’: Bray and Murray (2000); but if cited within parentheses use ‘&’: (Crozier & Friedberg 1997). When reference is made to a work by three or more authors, the first name followed by et al. should be used: Lévesque et al. (1998).
In the list references should be listed in alphabetical order. Cite the names of all authors when there are six or fewer, when more than seven cite the first three plus et al.
Personal communication, unpublished data and publications from informal meetings are not to be listed in the reference list but should be listed in full in the text (e.g. Smith A, 2000, unpublished data) and/or referred to in the endnotes.
References should be listed alphabetically. The format for different types of publications should be as follows:
Journals
Haworth N, Hughes S (2000) Internationalisation, industrial relations theory and international relations. Journal of Industrial Relations 42, 195–213.
Books
Bamber GJ, Lansbury RD, eds (1998) International and Comparative Industrial Relations. London: Sage.
Chapter in a book
Giles A (1996) Globalization and industrial relations. In: Giles A, Smith AE, Trudeau G, eds, The Globalization of the Economy and the Worker, pp. 3–21. Montreal: Canadian Industrial Relations Society.
Conference proceedings
Hanami T (2000) Global Integration and Challenges for Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in the Twenty-First Century. Proceedings of the 12th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Research Association May 29-June 2 2000, Tokyo, Japan Technical report
Davis EM, Lansbury RD (1989) Consultative Councils: the Cases of Telecom Australia and Qantas Airways Ltd Employee Participation Research Report No. 9. Canberra: Department of Industrial Relations.
Government publication
Australian Bureau of Statistics (1985) Projections of the Population of Australia, States and Territories, 1984–2021, Cat. no. 3222.0. Canberra: ABS.
Parliamentary publication
Department of Foreign Affairs (1975) Annual Report 1975. Canberra: AGPS.
Legal material
Preventive Health Amendments of 1993, Pub. L. No. 103-183, 107 Stat. 2226 (Dec. 14, 1993).
Endnotes
Endnotes (footnotes) should be placed as a list at the end of the paper only, not at the foot of each page. They should be numbered in the list and referred to in the text with consecutive, superscript Arabic numerals. Keep endnotes brief: they should contain only short comments tangential to the main argument of the paper and should not include references.
Appendices
These should be placed at the end of the paper, numbered in Roman numerals and referred to in the text. If written by a person other than the author of the main text, the writer’s name should be included below the title.
Tables
Tables should each be typed, double-spaced, on a separate page and numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, with a descriptive, self-explanatory title above the table. Each table must be referred to in the text in consecutive order. Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text.
All explanatory matter should be placed in footnotes below the tabular matter and not included in the title or headings. All abbreviations should be explained in the footnotes. Footnotes should be indicated by †, ‡, §, ¶ and P-values by *, **, ***, etc. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
If a table or an illustration has been reproduced from a published work, the source must be given in full, with permission having been granted by the author and by the publisher.
Figure legends
Legends should be self-explanatory and typed on a separate sheet. The legend should incorporate definitions of any symbols used and all abbreviations and units of measurement should be explained.
Figures
All illustrations (including photographs) are classified as figures and should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. Figures must be high-quality black and white glossy photographs (with lettering added), professionally prepared line drawings or laser-printed graphs. Each figure should be on a separate page and labelled with the figure number, orientation (noted with an arrow) and name of first author. Photographs should be labelled lightly on the back with a very soft marker or Chinagraph pencil. Adhesive labels should not be used; neither should paperclips.
Figures should be drawn or grouped to fit within the column width (115 mm) or two-thirds column width (70 mm) and should require no more than a 50% reduction in size.
Original figures not satisfactory for photographic reproduction may be redrawn or relettered by professional graphic artists at the discretion of the Editor or Publisher.
MANUSCRIPTS ON DISK
When papers have been accepted for publication, authors are required to provide their final manuscripts on disk.
Authors should use a new disk rather than a reformatted disk and the disk should contain the relevant file(s) only. Authors should supply their accepted paper as formatted text. It is essential that the hardware and the word processing package are specified on the disk (e.g IBM, Word 7), as well as the first author’s surname, the journal title and the manuscript number.
The entire article should be supplied as a single file; only electronic figures should be supplied as separate files.
The following instructions should be adhered to.
- It is essential that the final, revised version of the manuscript and the file saved on disk are identical (i.e. authors should supply a new disk if the article is revised)
- Do not use a carriage return (enter) at the end of lines within a paragraph
- Turn the hyphenation option off
- Do not use l (ell) for 1 (one) or O (upper case oh) for 0 (zero) or ß (German esszett) for b (beta)
- Include all figure legends and tables with their legends, if possible
- Use a tab, not spaces, to separate data points in tables
- If you use a table editor function, ensure that each data point is contained within a unique cell; do not use carriage returns within cells
- Specify any special characters used to represent non-keyboard characters.
- Figures must be supplied as EPS or TIFF files and should not be of a resolution lower than 300 d.p.i. (a high resolution hard-copy version of all figures must also be supplied).
- Do not present figures as an embedded graphic in the manuscript.
On-line guidelines
Authors are encouraged to visit the Blackwell website for authors, available at: www.blackwellscience.com/elecmed/authors.htm, which details further information on the preparation and submission of articles and figures and gives access to the Blackwell House Style guide.
PROOFS AND OFFPRINTS
Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author and should be returned to the Production Editor within 3 days of receipt. Alterations to text and illustrations are unacceptable at proof stage and authors will be charged for the cost of alterations, other than the correction of typesetting errors.
An offprint order form giving the cost of offprints will be sent to the corresponding author with the proofs. The order and payment should be returned with the corrected proofs. The publisher cannot accept responsibility for the non-receipt of returned offprint order forms. Offprints are sent out within 2 weeks of publication, by surface mail.
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