The Journal of Gambling Business and

Economics

Submission

The editors welcome the submission of manuscripts which should in the first instance be sent to Editorial

 

Information for authors and contributors

 

Proposed contributions are invited on the understanding that they have not been accepted for publication elsewhere.

 

The editors welcome extended articles of 8-10,000 words but the journal will also publish shorter articles of 3-5000 words as well as book reviews.

 

The editors retain the right to make alterations as to style, grammar, punctuation etc; the accuracy of the contribution is the responsibility of the author.

 

All articles are refereed.

 

Copyright; authors of articles accepted for publication will be required to sign a Copyright Transfer Publication Agreement.

 

Presentation and style

Title and abstract

 

Authors are asked to supply a proposed title for their article followed by an abstract of approximately 100-150 words

 

Font

 

Title: 14 point Georgia

 

Text: 11 point Times New Roman

Footnotes: 10 point Times New Roman

 

Section headings

 

Main Sections: 12 point Upper case, bold, Georgia  as follows:

INTRODUCTION

(space)

Text…..

THE NATURE OF THE BREACH OF DUTY

(space)

Text……

 

Sub-paragraphs – level 1 – Italics, normal case – numbering - alphabetic lower case, not in italics– eg (a) Precedent Defined

 

Sub-paragraph – level 2 – Normal case – numbering – Times New Roman numerals – eg (1).

Mathematical Material

 

Mathematical formulae should be placed in line unless:

 

they are over half a line long and or involve matrices or expressions requiring additional vertical space when printing

 

(NB equations longer than 140mm will be displayed on two lines; the text width of the printed journal page is limited to 141mm)

Italics

 

All words to appear in italics should be underlined or italicised in the typescript. Please use only for emphasis, case names, book titles and foreign expressions not in everyday use. Do not use italics for the following expressions: a fortiori, ad hoc, ante, bona fide, certiorari, cf, de facto, de jure, eg, etc, et seq, ibid, ie, inter alia, intra vires, ipso facto, obiter, per, per se, prima facie, pro rata, ultra vires, vice versa, viz.

Quotes and Quote marks

 

Quote marks should be double, with single for quotes within quotes.

Extracts and quoted material

 

To be distinguished by indentation, when of three or more lines' length. Indented quotes to be preceded by a colon.

 

Interpolations should be indicated by the use of square brackets. To indicate omitted words, three full points . . . separated equally from one another and from any preceding or succeeding words or quotations marks are sufficient.

 

Quotes should be indented and justified on both sides.

Cross-references

Cross-references should be to footnote number and associated text, to avoid having to insert page numbers on proof (in case a contribution is withdrawn, for instance).

Footnotes

 

Every footnote text is ended by full stop

Bibliographical references

 

Bibliographical references should be in the following form:

 

A Bloggs Name of Book (London, Butterworths, 1995) pp 3-5.

B Cloggs Name of Book (London, Butterworths, 2nd edn, 1996) ch 3.

Y Zoggs 'Chapter title' in X Yoggs (ed) Name of Book (London, Butterworths, 3rd edn, 1998) p 88.

 

Subsequent references in all cases should be to Bloggs, above n 2, p 6 (or Ibid, p 6 - only if referring to note immediately above).

Journal references

 

Journal references should be in the following form:

 

A Bloggs 'Name of article' (1993) 14 LS 281.

B Cloggs, D Doggs and E Floggs 'Name of article' (1993) 14 LS 281.

Journal titles quoted in full should italicised.

Footnotes and quotes

 

Footnote numbers should be placed after punctuation. If the footnote is referencing a quote, the footnote should come after the quotation marks.

Dates

 

Dates should be November 7^th 2006.

 

Miscellaneous  

 

When referring to pages in Journal, do not use 'p'; use p exclusively for monographs, books etc. So Ibid at 3, if referring to the 3rd page of an article cited in full in the previous footnote.  Also: 'at' only for Journal pages, for books etc, simply p.

 

Use above and below for cross-referencing (not supra and infra).

 

Full stops should not be used after initials, or in ie, eg, etc, etc.

 

Text should be justified on both sides.