Submitting manuscriptsManuscripts should be drafted directly on EP templates and submitted by email to the Editor. If you are interested in writing a book review, please contact Associate Editor David P. Barash. For all submissions (other than book reviews), include an abstract with a maximum of 200 words that appears after the title page, but before the main text. Immediately following the abstract, please provide up to 5 key words. Although one of the virtues of an on-line journal is that we are not subject to the same page limitations as print journals, we must be sensitive to our readers’ time and patience. Hence, contributors are strongly urged to be concise, using no more words or pages than necessary. Always double space - whether text, displayed quotations, endnotes, footnotes, references, or bibliography. Manuscripts should be submitted using the Microsoft Word templates ( EP original article template, & EP original review article template). See News for Authors for additional information. If authors whose books are reviewed wish to respond, we invite them to contact the Editor with a link to their response. This link will be posted at the end of the review in question. Please note that in such cases, the author and not Evolutionary Psychology is responsible for the material. News for AuthorsEvolutionary Psychology is undergoing changes in the editorial processing of submitted manuscripts, to decrease the delay between submission and publication of accepted manuscripts. We are asking authors to use EP templates ( EP original article template, & EP original review article template) for creating their manuscripts for submission. The template files are downloadable .doc files that have fields for author modification. Use of these templates will make post-proof processing of manuscripts significantly faster, producing noticeable decreases in time between submission of final proof-edited manuscript and publication. For example, an author submitting an original article should download the EP original article template, insert into this file the manuscript text (see example), figures, tables, references, etc., and save the file with a unique identifying name (e.g., thomson_EP_final.doc). If you have questions about our templates or using the template files please contact the Associate Editor and Managing Editor.
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Specific pointsSpellings: where both -ise and -ize endings are possible, please use the latter, thus: realize, equalize.Italics: Use them sparingly for emphasis; consider rewriting the sentence, since italics may read as shrill. Do use italics for: book, film and play titles; works of art; long poems which are virtually books in themselves; names of periodicals. Use US, not UK or Australian spelling: favorite, not favourite; behavior, not behaviour. Do not use the ampersand (&) in the text or bibliography, even for joint authors; use the ampersand only in the case of a company name. Back to top FootnotesTry to avoid footnotes. Some people do not find this easy. Here are a few hints. Insert brief references in the text. Revise text to include 'asides'. Cut out parenthetical allusions altogether. Resort to endnotes (printed together at the back of the article as 'Notes') when necessary asides would interrupt the flow of the text; in this case, number by superscript.Back to top QuotationsUse single quotation marks for short quotations. Use double quotation marks for internal quotations. In the rare case of a quotation internal to that, revert to single quotes. For quotations longer than about 60 words (or five lines), indent without quotation marks.For material in quotation marks, the norm is that it is exempt from alterations of wording. However, for consistency, the MS will be copy-edited to the house style - so you may as well keep this in mind when preparing your MS. Ambiguities, such as archaic or misleading punctuation, should also be corrected by you as long as the original meaning is not distorted. Wherever you are making an authorial comment within a quotation, it should be in square brackets, [ ]. Following a displayed quotation, the next line of type should be full out. Back to top Textual referencesThe system we use is to enclose references within parentheses, thus: (Jones, 1976, p. 56). Don't use ibid. or op. cit. when the context makes it clear that you are still quoting the same work: just use (p. 56). Although you do not have to give a page number for every single remark, you should always cite a page number for displayed material - it stands out so much more clearly and is usually there for emphasis anyway. If two authors have the same surname, give initial of first name too: (Freud, A., p. 33).Back to top Examples of some common textual references(Darwin, 1859)(Darwin, 1859, pp. 17-18) (Darwin, 1859, 1927, 1928) (Darwin, 1859; Huxley, 1926) [Note referencs in alphabetical order, not date order.] (Gould, personal communication, 1977) (quoted in Hamilton, p. 55) Back to top Page numbersPlease list page numbers in full, as in: pp. 201-202.Back to top Preparation of bibliographyThe textual reference, by author's name, leads the reader to the right place in the author-date bibliography. When there are several works by the same author, they appear in date order. Works by sole author precede works by the same author but authored jointly with another or others, regardless of date order, thus:Laplanche, J. (1971) Laplanche, J. (1975) Laplanche, J. and Pontalis, J.B. (1973) You should always supply the publisher location and name for books. A personal communication should not appear in a bibliography, for it cannot be traced. It should just be named as such in the text, with a date. Inclusive pagination - again in the shortest intelligible form - is required for all references, whether to journal articles, chapters in books, or references to a work in a Collected Works. Issue numbers should not be included in the bibliography. Back to top Presentation of bibliography
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