Submission guidelines

Our online format provides flexibility in article length; anything ranging from 3000-word ‘opinion’ pieces and 10,000-word+ empirically-based articles will be considered. 8000 words is generally recommended as a limit.

Articles must include a short abstract.

Articles must be double-spaced throughout.

Articles must use the font ‘Arial’ or equivalent, size 12, justified text.

Section headings should be lower-case and emboldened. Sub-section headings should be lower-case and italicised.

Any acknowledgements should appear at the end of the article, in a separate section, before the bibliography.

Short quotes should be incorporated into the text using single quotation marks (i.e. ‘quote’). Long quotes must be separate from the text, with left and right margins increased, and the font size reduced to 10. Double quotation marks should be used for quotes within quotes.

Authors should submit a short biographical note with their submission, separate from the article.
Referencing: KPQ uses the Harvard style of referencing. References should appear in the text, usually at the end of the relevant sentence. For example: There is a digital divide in sub-Saharan Africa (Castells, 1998: 349).

All references should be entered into the bibliography, which should be placed at the end of the article in the following format:
BOOK: Atkinson, C. (2007) Accounting for Failure (London: Capital Press).
ARTICLE: Atkinson, C. (2005) ‘Measuring success: a feminist-dialogical approach’, in Journal of Accountancy 50(3), pp.100-150.
CHAPTER: Atkinson, C. (2001) ‘Where did it all go wrong?’ in J. Duong (ed.) Moving Up, Moving Out (London: Capital Press), pp.12-35.
WEB ARTICLE 1: Atkinson, C. (2002) ‘How to Cook’, AFCR Research Collaboration, accessed at www.afcr.org.uk/rc on 1 Jan 2004.
WEB ARTICLE 2: Atkinson, C. (2000) Keeping Up with Mr. Jones, accessed at www.cpatkinson.co.uk/jones45 on 1 Jan 2004.

If in any doubt about text and referencing format, and presentation style, please see previous issues of KPQ, or contact the editor. Failing this, maintain a consistent style, and bring the issue to the attention to the editor at the time of submission.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Authors are required to alter their articles on the basis of feedback received from the editor and reviewers, or justify to the editor why the proposed change has been rejected.

All articles should be submitted to c.berry [at] sheffield.ac.uk or
craig.berry [at] knowledgepolitics.org.uk

The editors is responsible for the selection and acceptance of articles, but responsibility for errors of fact and opinions expressed in them rests with the authors. The content of articles should not infringe any existing copyright. If any table or figure, or more than a few lines of the text from previously published work or unpublished theses are included in the manuscript the author must obtain written permission for republication from the copyright holder; the original source should be clearly referenced and acknowledged in the manuscript.

Authors retain all copyrights at all times, and as such are free to publish their articles in other fora. KPQ also accommodates the use of ‘Creative Commons’ licenses.



Editorial team

Editor: Craig Berry
Assistant Editor: Kirsten Henly
Editorial Board: Clive Gabay (Open University), Richard Hayton (University of Sheffield), Helen Hawthorne (City College London), Andrew Mumford (University of Warwick), Laura Kyrk-Smith (LSE), Claudia Magallenes-Blanco (Universidad Veracruzana-Xalapa), Leandro Rodriguez Medina (University of Cambridge), Louisa Shilton (University of Sheffield), Adam White (University of Sheffield), and Richard Berry (Knowledge Politics).



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