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Unsolicited Contributions

To be considered for publication, Unsolicited Contributions (Articles and Discussion Notes) must meet the following minimum standard. At the time of writing (October 29th, 2008), the Journal is in the later stages of shifting to an online submission process and is closed to new submissions until that process is complete.

Minimum Standard

There must be in a separate file a covering note which must include the title of the paper and all useful contact information — email address, fax and phone numbers, postal address, etc. Submissions must be in English, formatted to be double-spaced with margins of not less than 25mm, an A4 page size, and automatic page numbering. A short abstract at the beginning of the paper is required. Authors should take special note of the Journal's policy on word limits: see Editorial Policy.

Typescripts must be carefully proof-read prior to submission so that referees do not have their time wasted in identifying and listing errors.

In order to facilitate dispassionate refereeing, neither the name(s) of the author(s) nor any institutional affiliation may be shown in the paper itself, and all references to an author's own work(s) must be disguised (e.g. by being made in an impersonal and neutral form) or omitted. Extravagant acknowledgements of gratitude must likewise be omitted. Authors who write in Word must use the Save As facility and choose the Option 'Remove personal information from this file on save'. Self-identifying references may be restored after the evaluation process is complete.

The Editor requires that all the above conditions are met as a minimum standard before the paper is considered.

Although submissions meeting only the above minimum standard will be considered for publication, it is Editorial Policy that any submission which is accepted for publication must immediately be brought into conformity with the more exacting standards of Journal Style. That is, when a paper has been accepted, the author(s) will be required to supply a final electronic version which so conforms. Publication will not otherwise be proceeded with.

Solicited Contributions

Solicited Contributions (Reviews etc.) and correspondence concerning them should be sent to the Book Review Editor. Apart from the anonymity conditions, these too must meet, initially, the Journal's minimum standard (above), and eventually, Journal Style (below).

Journal Style

Layout Style

Authors should not attempt to reproduce the appearance of the printed version of the Journal. But the following general pattern should be followed in production of a final version for the Editor:

TITLE
Author's Name
Abstract
Main Text*
Institutional Affiliation
REFERENCES
Endnotes (will be converted to footnotes by publisher)

[*The Main Text should be divided into convenient sections with arabic numerals for each section and decimalization for sub-sections. For example:
1. Introduction
Some text.
2. What Does a Logical Constant Mean?
2.1 The Core Tenets of Inferential Role Semantics
Some more text.
2.2 Proof-Conditional Semantics and the Sequent Calculus
Yet more text.]

Text Style

Acronyms are deprecated. Unmemorable acronyms are prohibited.

The Oxford English Dictionary's version of UK usage is the Journal's normal standard for spelling; any spellchecker should be set to UK English, but the Journal follows the OED's preference for '...ize' over '...ise'. Quotations should follow the spelling of the quoted source.

Substantial quotations (40 words or more) should be indented without quotation marks. Other quotations should be enclosed by single quotation marks. Double quotation marks should be used only in the following ways: as inner quotation marks within single quotation marks, for example, for quotations within quotations; and to enable the exact reproduction of quoted material (i.e. where a quoted author has himself used them). Closing punctuation belonging to quoted text should be shown inside the quotation marks. Be aware of the difference between an apostrophe (’) and a prime (′).

Format for left justification only and disable any hyphenization programme.

The AJP uses an author-date system of citations. The date used in the main text and footnotes should be that of the edition used. Anachronism and absurdity (such as 'Kant 1979') should be minimized, where possible, by indicating in the Bibliography the date of original publication (as, e.g., in the 'Edited Text' example shown below). References should be given in square brackets in the text whenever possible. Footnotes should be substantive; those merely giving citations should be avoided.

Citations should appear in the text in the following form: [author's surname(s) year: page number(s) if any], as [Lycan 2001: 25–9]; [Black 2002: 159, 161–3; Goldman 1994: 107; Velleman 1995]. Note that there is no comma between author and date, and page numbers (if any) are set off from the date by a colon. Several works by an author in the same year should be distinguished by adding a lower case letter to the date, as [Jones 1999a: 23], [Jones 1999b]. Where the author's name is mentioned in the text or in a note, followed closely by a citation, the author's name may be omitted from the citation, e.g., 'Bloggs denies that colours are primary qualities [1997: 234–7].' 'Ibid.' and 'loc. cit.' (in romans) may be used; 'op. cit.' should not.

Bibliography: a final alphabetical list, titled 'REFERENCES', must be included, and items must be formatted according to the following examples:

ARTICLE:

Black, Tim 2002. A Moorean Response to Brain-in-a-Vat Scepticism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80/2: 148–63.

BOOK:

Hylton, Peter 2007. Quine, London and New York: Routledge.

Devitt, Michael and Kim Sterelny 1987. Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Blackwell.

CHAPTER IN A BOOK:

Beall, J. C. 2007. Truth and Paradox: A Philosophical Sketch, in Philosophy of Logic, ed. Dale Jacquette, Amsterdam: North-Holland: 325–410.

Jones, Karen 2005. Moral Epistemology, in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, ed. Frank Jackson and Michael Smith, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 63–85.

EDITED BOOK:

Horton, Keith and Haig Patapan, eds, 2004. Globalisation and Equality, London and New York: Routledge.

EDITED TEXT:

Hume, D. 1974 (1747). A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. P. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

ONLINE PUBLICATION:

Candlish, Stewart 2007. The Identity Theory of Truth, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2007 Edition), ed. Edward N. Zalta, URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2007/entries/truth-identity/>

Note that titles of journal articles and chapters in books are not in quotes. Titles of books and journals are given in italics. Volume numbers of journals are given in Arabic numerals. Both the city of publication and the publisher are given for books. Where more than one work by the same person is listed, the author's name should be repeated in the list (rather than replaced by dashes).

Endnote Style