• I GENERAL AUTHORS’ GUIDELINES
• II AUTHORS’ STYLE GUIDELINES
• III COPY-EDITOR GUIDELINES FOR ITJ WEBSITE PREPARATION

I GENERAL AUTHORS’ GUIDELINES

The International Journal of Transgenderism welcomes the submission of original scholarly articles on any aspect of transgenderism from within any discipline. Articles submitted are subject to the usual academic processes of anonymous peer review.

The journal also occasionally re-publishes previously published articles and books, which are of significant interest, and which may not be readily available; suggestions, which the editors may consider for future issues, are welcome.

SUBMISSION

• Contributions should not already have been published nor should they be currently under consideration elsewhere.
• Articles should be submitted to either of the associate editors electronically, either on disk or by e-mail, preferably in Microsoft Word format. Authors who are unable to submit electronically should contact the associate editors to make alternative arrangements.
• Figures, tables, photographs etc. should also be submitted on disk or by email in any standard format. If this is not possible, authors should provide high quality originals in order to allow good electronic reproduction.

PREPARATION OF ARTICLES

Articles submitted should conform to the following guidelines.

• The IJT is intended for an international audience and contributors should write clearly and bear in mind that that English may not be the first language of many readers.
• Articles should not normally exceed 8,000 words. Tables, figures, illustrations, and references are excluded from the word count.
• The article should begin with a title page containing the title, the author’s name, and affiliation followed by an abstract not exceeding 120 words and up to five keywords.
  The remainder of the article should not contain anything, which might identify the author(s).
• Contributors should indicate sources of funding, where applicable, and any restrictions on publication placed on them by sponsors. 
• Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not own copyright.

II AUTHORS’ STYLE GUIDELINES

1. CORRESPONDENCE

Articles should contain a statement at the very end of the text:
“Correspondence and requests for materials to XXXX” with an e-mail address.
See http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtvo06no01_01.htm#References for reference.

2. SPELLING

British and American spelling accepted. Consistency within paper is required.

3. STYLE

• Gender specific nouns and pronouns should not be used to refer to people of both sexes. Sexist, racist or other offensive forms of language should not be used.
• Bold, italics and underscore should be formatted as such in the word-processed document. Please use sparingly.

4. CONTENTS

Please order your text as follows:

• Title page (title, author’s name/ authors’ names, and affiliation(s))
• Abstract (up to 120 words)
• Keywords (up to five keywords)
• Body text of article (e.g.: introduction, main heading, sub-heading, discussion, conclusion, up to 8000 words)
• Appendix
• Acknowledgments (These must be brief.)
• Endnotes (Please use the endnotes function in your word processing program, and not the footnote function. These should be kept to a minimum, and reserved for discursive points.)
• References (Use Harvard author-date system. See 16 below for more details.)
• Correspondence (see 1 above)

5. SPACING/ PARAGRAPHS

Articles should be double-spaced. Paragraphs should not be indented.

6. HEADINGS

Brief, informative headings and sub-headings that indicate the logical flow of the paper should structure the text. Headings facilitate the presentation of documents on screen. Headings should be typed in sentence case and begin from the left margin.
It is helpful if headings and sub-headings are identified as such by prefixes: (Heading), (Sub-heading) (Sub-sub-heading) etc. See http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtvo05no03_01.htm for reference:

7. ABBREVATIONS / CONTRACTIONS

• Avoid abbreviations and contractions as far as possible.
• Explain any abbreviations that are used in article if they are not commonly used.
• Always write names of journals in full.

Examples of acceptable abbreviations are given below. Please note punctuation:
(Ed.) (Eds.)
e.g., i.e.,
et al.
FtM and MtF (for female-to-male transsexuals and male-to-female transsexuals, respectively)
USA, UK, MA (no full stops for well-known abbreviations of countries or US states)
Ph.D., M.D., Mr., Ms., vs. (full stops with any other well-known abbreviations)

8. NUMBERS

Write out in words below ten; use numerals for 11 and over. Thousands – write as 2,000.
Where numbers in the same paragraph fall below and above 11, use figures for both: between 9 and 15.
Write out in words at beginning of sentences
Use words for fractions: one third, two-quarters

9. DECIMAL POINT

Low (on the line), e.g., 4.5.

10. PERCENTAGES

Write in figures: 75%, unless at beginning of sentence.

11. ELISION OF NUMBERS

No elision (i.e., 375–376 not 375–6).

12. YEARS/ DATES

Example: 1990s
Example: 1 January, 1996

13. FIGURES

• Figures should be numbered and given a title. These should appear, in bold, beneath the figure.
• Figures should not be larger than 15cm by 21cm, unless unavoidable.
• Always give reference point in article (see Figure 1) and instructions as to where figure should be situated in final article.
• If they are not original, they should be referenced in the same way as quotations, with the author and date given beneath the figure title, and full details in the list of references.
• Original figures should be marked with the corresponding author’s name. Figures should be submitted on a separate sheet of paper.

14. TABLES

• Please use the Table function in your word processing program, and not tabs or space bar. 
  For example with Word 2000: Table > Insert > Table > Insert Table (in order to choose number of columns and rows)

• Tables should be numbered and given a title. These should appear, in bold, above the table.
• Definitions of symbols and abbreviations should appear immediately below the table. 
• Always give reference point in article (see Table 1) and instructions as to where table should be situated in final article.
• Tables should be submitted on a separate sheet of paper.
  

15. QUOTATIONS

Run on in text (double quotation marks) for short quotes of 40-50 words. Longer quotes should be indented.

16. QUOTATION MARKS

Use ‘single’ quotation marks for terms and “double” quotation marks for quotes.

17. FOREIGN TERMS

Italicise terms that have not been absorbed into the English language.

18. HYPERLINKS

• Hyperlinks to cited works which are available online should be clearly indicated in the text. 
• Only works cited in the text should be listed in the list of references.

19. REFERENCES

• Referencing should follow the Harvard (author-date) system in which cited works are indicated in the text with the author’s name, date of publication and page number(s) if necessary. All cited works are then listed in the references (bibliography) alphabetically by first author’s surname.
• Please do not use op. cit. or ibid.
• Only works cited in the text should be listed in the list of references.

For further information follow this link: http://www.lmu.ac.uk/lss/ls/docs/Harvard/Harvard.htm

I CITATIONS IN ARTICLE:

1. In normal sentence:
   Smith (1997) argued that …
   A more recent study (Smith, 1997) shows that …
2. Give page references, by following the date with a colon, where a particular point in a document is referred to, and when quoting:
   Armstrong (2001:22) not only argues that …
3. Where there are two authors the surnames of both should be given. Please do NOT use ampersand (&):
   Nicholls and Maybin (1999) suggest that …
4. Where there are three or more authors, give the surname of the first only followed by et al.:
   Dunlop et al. (2000) conclude that …
   However, in the references following the article, please list all authors.
5. Cite authors chronologically where a number of works are referred to:
   A number of studies (Belmont, 1977; Acheson, 1984; Hall and McKeon, 1994) indicate that …
6. Where an author has published more than one piece of work within one year, a, b, c, etc should follow the date in the body text of article:
   Leslie (1999a) suggested that …
   A study by Leslie (1999b) has developed the view that …
7. If you refer to a source quoted in another work, cite as follows:
   A study by Smith (1960 cited Jones, 1998:72) showed that …
8. Personal communications are cited in the body text of the article and included in the references:
   Mayes (personal communication, 1999) has expressed the view that …
9. When quoting names books or journals in the article itself, use italics: The International Journal of Transgenderism.

II References (bibliography)

1. Authors should be listed alphabetically:
   Butterley, L. (1987) …
   Curtis, M. (1986) …
2. However, the works of an author should be listed chronologically where an author has more than one reference:
   Curtis, M. (1986) …
   Curtis, M. (1988) …
3. References to works by one author for the same year should be listed a,b,c, etc alphabetically by title of work cited:
   Curtis, M. (1994a) Anthropology and Medicine, …
   Curtis, M. (1994b) Art, Anthropology, and the Human Body, …
4. Works by more than one author should be listed alphabetically and then chronologically:
   Curtis, M. and Jools, C. (1994) …
   Curtis, M. and Lewis, S. (1991) …
   Curtis, M, and Lewis, S. (1994)
5. List names of all authors in references. Do not use et al. Use “list” comma before and:
   Gonzalez-Ortiz, M., Martinez-Abundis, E., and Lifshiz, A. (1998) …
   Meyer, W., III (Chairperson), Bockting, W., Cohen-Kettenis, P., Coleman, E., Di Ceglie, D., Devor, H., Gooren, L., Hage, J., Kirk, S., Kuiper, B., Laub, D., Lawrence, A., Menard, Y., Patton, J., Schaefer, L., Webb, A., and Wheeler, C. (2001) The Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders – Sixth Version. International Journal of Transgenderism, 5(1): http://www.symposion.com/ijt/soc_2001/index.htm.
6. For references to different types of work, please follow the styles set out below.

Reference to a book:
Ekins, R. (1997) Male Femaling: A Grounded Theory Approach to Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing, London: Routledge.

Reference to a contribution in a book:
King, D. (1981) Gender confusions: psychological and psychiatric conceptions of transvestism and transsexuality. In K. Plummer (Ed.), The Making of the Modern Homosexual, London: Hutchinson.
Rekers, G.A. and Kilgus, M.D. (1995) Differential diagnosis and rationale for treatment of identity disorders and transvestism. In G.A. Rekers (Ed.), 225–271. Handbook of Child and Adolescent Sexual Problems. New York: Lexington Books.

Reference to an article in a journal:
Please give full name of journal:
Baltzer, J. and Zander, J. (1989) Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the neovagina. Gynecologic Oncology, 35(1): 99–103. 
(If no issue number, then: 35, 99–103.)
Bockting, W.O. and Cesaretti, Rev. C. (in press) Spirituality, transgender identity, and coming out. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy.

Reference to a published conference paper:
Silver, K. (1991) Electronic mail: the new way to communicate. In D.I. Raitt (ed.) 9^th International Online Information Meeting, London 3–5 December 1990, Oxford: Learned Information, 323–326.

Reference to an unpublished conference paper:
McDonald, G. (1978) Paradigms of social/economic organisation of hunting societies as provided by their art. Unpublished paper presented at the 1^st International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, Paris, 27-30 June 1978.

Reference to a publication from a corporate body (government department or other organisation): 
These can be difficult as there is little consistency in styles used. If there is no author, use organization name in place of author’s name.
Two examples:
Northern Ireland Skills Task Force (2001) The Northern Ireland Skills Monitoring Survey 2000, Belfast, DHFETE.
American Psychiatric Association (1994) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4^th ed., Washington D.C., American Psychiatric Association.

Reference to a thesis:
Agutter, A.J. (1995) The linguistic significance of current British slang. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. University of Edinburgh.

Reference to online publication:
Please make sure you add the date the article or text was created, published or posted, as well as the date you accessed the article or text.
Kuiper, A.J., and Cohen-Kettenis, P.T. (1998) Gender role reversal among postoperative transsexuals. International Journal of Transgenderism, 2(3): <http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtc0502.htm> [accessed on 2 March 2003].

III COPY-EDITOR GUIDELINES FOR ITJ WEBSITE PREPARATION

1. KEYWORDS

Use full stop after list of keywords, e.g.:
Keywords: transgender, Thailand, self-concept, personality traits, gender-trait stereotypes.

2. AUTHORS’ NAMES

List authors’ names in order given in article.

3. SPACING

Single line spacing. 
One line between paragraphs. 
Two blank lines between main sections and one after (Type I). 
One blank line before and one after sub-sections (Type II).

4. HEADINGS

Use bold serif font: Changing Trends in the Transsexual Community (Heading 1)
Use bold sans serif font: A continuum of transpositive models (Heading 2).
Use roman serif: Example (Heading 3)
Table heading (above, in table): 
Table 1: List of ACL trait-items, arranged according to MtFs’ gender-trait stereotypes
Figure heading (below figure):
Figure 1: Initial excisional biopsy of the neocervix

5. HYPHENS

• Use hyphens for compounds (names and words, e.g.: post-traumatic, short-term and long-term).
• Do not use hyphen with cross- (cross dressing, crossgender).

6. EN DASH

Use en dash for continuing or inclusive numbers (1986–1987).

7. EM DASH

Em dash (—) gives emphasis or explanation by expanding a phrase, or for strong interruption. Can be replaced by commas, brackets or introduced by a colon at end of sentence.

8. COMMAS

• Use comma before last item in list.
• Use American system for commas in author references ( Brown and Roberts / Brown, Roberts, and Porter).

9. OTHER PUNCTUATION.

Use “and” not “&”.
([ ])

10. FORMATTING

Check use of bold, italics and underscore.