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Publication Guidelines
Before sending in your contribution, please ensure that FQS guidelines for submissions are followed. This is absolutely necessary as it minimizes the workload and increases the turnaround period. Texts that do not adhere to the guidelines will be sent back for revisions.The guidelines follow to a great extent the conventions of the American Psychological Association (see http://www.apastyle.org/; for an online summary see http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html). Please also take a look at contributions published so far.
To ensure a successful review process, please make sure the contribution has the following components:
The main text
The main text should be sent in as a non-formatted Word file (single spaced, flush left). You may send an additional Word or Adobe file or a printed copy of the text in which one can see the layout as you would like to have it (structure, tables, and so on).
The main text should be structured as follows:
Title of the contribution
Name of the author(s)
Abstract: 100 to 200 words, if possible in English, German and Spanish
Key words: 5-10
Text: see the notes below for text layout
Acknowledgments (optional)
References: see the notes below for text layout
Appendix: (optional)
Author information: brief biographical information. We recommend that authors give at least some information about the research/work interest and the discipline of study. At the very least, the complete postal address should be included, and if existent: the URL for the Web site and the e-mail address.
Please use one of the following templates while writing your text:
2. Illustrations, tables and graphics
Illustrations, tables and graphics should be numbered consecutively in the text as Table 1, Table 2 etc. or rather Illustration 1, Illustration 2 etc. and additionally be given a title. The tables, illustrations and graphics are to be sent as extra documents (if applicable as GIF or JPEG files) to the Editorial Staff. It is important that space markers for overviews, tables and graphical material in the text are numbered accordingly and that the numbers and titles are identical in the non textual files.
3. Formatting your contribution
The following passages provide information for the layout of the main text.
Headings
The headings in the text are to be numbered consecutively, main headings with 1., 2., 3. and so on; sub-headings with 1.1, 1.2, and so on; further sub-headings with respectively 1.1.1, 1.1.2 etc.
The headings are separated from the text with one line before and after the heading (irrespective of the degree of specification).
Emphasis
An emphasis within the text is to be marked in italics.
Appendix
Additional/supplementary pieces of text that give further information regarding the main text may be organized as annexes and placed at the end of the text. It is important that every annex is given a title. With more than one annex, the annexes are to be numbered consecutively. Markers/references to these annexes can be given in the main text; without a reference it is not possible to create a link between the main text and sub-texts.
References and Citations
References to author(s) should be made by providing the author's name(s) and the year of publication, in citations, additionally the page number(s) in print or rather (if available) the paragraph number in online publications. Citations should be marked with double quotation marks and with information regarding the source, and it should look like this:
(NAME, year, p.page number)
Citations for quotations are enclosed by simple quotation marks.
Authors can be mentioned in the text by (a) naming them in parentheses or (b) mentioning them in the running text; in this case, optionally, the first name of the author can also be given in the first case.
Example for (a):
... (GLASER & STRAUSS, 1967, p.45) ...
Example for (b):
Barney GLASER and Anselm STRAUSS (1967, p.45) suggested ...
Citations with more than 40 words should have quotation marks and be set apart from the text in a new line.
Always write the last names of all authors mentioned in the text in capital letters, when mentioned in the running text or in parentheses. (Do not capitalize authors last names in the list of references!). Do not use small capitals, since they change into lowercase letters when transported in HTML.
Citations that have two authors, both authors should be mentioned in the text, in the cases where the citations have 3-5 authors, all authors should be mentioned in the first citation, thereafter only give the first author, supplemented with "et al." With more than five authors, the initial citation should only mention the first author, supplemented by "et al." In the bibliography, a complete naming of all of the authors should be included.
List of References
The bibliography is to be produced recursively, i.e. all of the literature citations which are given in the text should be included in the bibliography and the bibliography should only have the literature which is mentioned in the text.
If possible, please always include the full first names of the authors in the bibliography (not just the initial). The literature is to be organized alphabetically by the names of the first authors. In case of reference to more than one publication by the same author, the order is ascending in correspondence to the publication year. When citing several publications of one author from the same year, then these are to be marked (at the end of the citation) with a, b, c etc. in accordance to their appearance in the text.
In the bibliography, monographs must include the title of the book, for contributions within an edited book, the title of the edited book, for contributions from journals, the title of the journal—all titles should be in cursive style. Additionally, if possible, in those cases translations are cited, the original title should be added to the end of the citation with the complete bibliographic information.
Examples:
– Book
Spradley, James (1980). Participant observation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
– Editor as author
Morse, Janice (Ed.) (1992). Qualitative health research. Newbury Park, California: Sage.
– Article in an edited book
Fielding, Nigel G. (1993). Ethnography. In Nigel Gilbert (Ed.), Researching social life (pp.154-171). London: Sage.
– Journal article
Lazarsfeld, Paul F. (1937). Some remarks on the typological procedures in social research. Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, 6(2), 119-139.
Last update: 03/02/2007
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