Migration Letters - Submission Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers

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MIGRATION LETTERS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

C ALL FOR PAPERS

Letters should be original unpublished accounts about 3,000 words or 10-12 printed journal
pages in length, excluding the footnotes and references.

Submissions must be sent by e-mail to the Editor at editor@migrationletters.com.
Manuscripts must be submitted as word documents (.txt, .doc, .rtf extensions are accepted).

Opinions expressed in letters are only those of authors and not necessarily those of editors
or publisher.

Authors are personally responsible to obtain permission for reprint of previously published
material in other sources.

All manuscripts must be submitted in English. To disseminate your research more effectively,
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Footnotes in the text should be numbered seriatim and include information which is not
appropriate in the main text. Tables and figures should be integrated in the text and the
copy editors may change the place of them whenever necessary. The title page must
include an abstract of about 100 words and 5 key words. Full contact information with
institutional affiliations must also be provided. Introduction, literature review and data
should be kept to a minimum unless it is essential to the paper.

Manuscripts submitted to Migration Letters will not be returned.

Manuscripts accepted for publication or published by Migration Letters cannot be
distributed, reproduced or reprinted without prior permission of Migration Letters.

Please submit the following separately:

A cover letter (email will also do) with your contact details, affiliation as well as
including the names and contact details of three potential reviewers
Manuscript including the abstract (100 words) and up to 5 keywords. (Please do not
include any personal or affiliation information in the manuscript).

Format of the text should be as follows:
Any mainstream system of referencing (e.g. Harvard or Chicago) is acceptable. References
should follow coherent rules and be consistent. All references to books, articles and other
sources should be inserted in the text; reference should contain the last name of the
author, year of publication and pagination where appropriate, e.g. (Green 2003: 187); for
co-authored sources, provide names for two authors if dual authorship, for more than two
authors use et al. after the first author’s name. For institutions, use abbreviations in the
text.

Acknowledgements should be given either in a footnote on the first page or at the end of
the manuscript.

The reference list should be placed at the end of the text and must include only the sources
referred in the text. All items should be listed alphabetically by author and by year of
publication. Italics must be used for titles of books and journals.

The list of references should appear at the end of the text. It should be double spaced and
listed in alphabetical order by author's name.
Examples for references are below:

For books, reports, thesis, etc.
Rossi, P. (1955). Why Families Move: A Study in the Social Psychology of Urban Mobility. New
York: Macmillan.

Burgess, E. W. and Bogue, D. J. (eds) (1967). Urban sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.

Rouse R. (1989). Mexican Migration to the United States: Family Relations
in the Development of a Transnational Migration Circuit. Unpublished PhD thesis, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA.

For articles in edited works
Wolf, D.L. (2002). "There’s no place like “home”: emotional transnationalism and the
struggles of second-generation Filipinos", in P. Levitt and M.C. Waters (eds) The Changing
Face of Home: The transnational lives of the second generation, New York: Russell Sage
Foundation.

For articles in periodicals
Illés, S. (2005). "Elderly immigration to Hungary", Migration Letters, 2 (2): 164-169.

Levitt, P., DeWind, J. and Vertovec, S. (2003). "International perspectives on transnational
migration: An introduction", International Migration Review, 37 (3): 565-575.

Borjas, G. J. and Bratsberg, B. (1996). "Who Leaves? The Outmigration
of the Foreign-born", Review of Economics and Statistics, 78:
165-176.

The illustrations should be inserted in the text. All graphs and diagrams should be referred
to as figures, and should be numbered. Illustrations should not be in colour as the journal
will be printed in one colour.

Tables should also be numbered consecutively in the text and must be inserted in the text.
There should not be redundant tables in the manuscript.

Any submission which does not conform to the above instructions may be returned for the
necessary revision before consideration for publication.

Editorial Policy
All submitted papers are refereed by the associate editors and/or external reviewers. The
referees are expected to provide supportive comments regarding their decisions. Following
the receipt of the document in appropriate format, it is expected to reach a decision within
three months.

Migration Letters, Editor

Email: editor@migrationletters.com
Web: http://www.migrationletters.com

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