Information for Contributors

General

We welcome contributions to our Journal, especially from GreenSpirit members. These may be articles, essays, comments, pictures, letters, book reviews, poems, reflections on past events – whatever has heart and meaning for you, as long as it is relevant to the aims and concerns of GreenSpirit and seems likely to be of interest to most members of the organization. We shall honour the content and spirit of any material submitted, and will try to do as little editing as possible, in order to preserve your own expression and 'voice.' Any editing we do will be done in consultation with you, however the Editor’s decision is final.

Since GreenSpirit is a charity, we cannot offer fees but we do provide contributors with a free copy of the Journal in which their work appears (or an extra copy in the case of members).

Submissions should not exceed 1800 words except by arrangement with an editor. Optimum length is 1500 as this fits nicely on a double page. If you wish to contribute, it is best to email or telephone the relevant editor first, with your idea (see schedule below). If you get the go-ahead, please send in your submission as soon as it is ready. Naturally we cannot guarantee inclusion, but we shall be in touch with you as soon as possible after we receive your material.

Timetable

The deadlines for the submission of contributions are:
1st January  for the Spring issue (send material to Victor)
1st May for the Summer issue (send material to Marian)
1st September for the Winter issue (send material to Don)

Editorial Team

General Editors
Victor Anderson. 12 Glynwood Court, Dartmouth Road, Forest Hill,  London. SE23 3HU  (send e-mail)
Marian McCain. Ball Cottage, East Ball Hill, Hartland, Devon EX39 6BU
Tel: 01237 441118.(send e-mail)
Don Hills. Angel Wings, King Street, Combe Martin, Devon EX34 0DB
Tel 01271 889028. (send e-mail)

Themes

Most issues of our Journal follow a theme. Themes are chosen by the editorial team some months in advance. Each issue contains a ‘call for papers’ for the next one, announcing the upcoming theme

Standards for the preparation of texts and illustrations

TEXTS

Soft Copies – the preferred format is .doc (Word) or .rtf (Recent Word users, please avoid .docx). Please do not send pdf files as these can cause formatting problems. Text formatting should be kept to an absolute minimum. (For example, please don’t use all caps for your headings/sub-headings.) Email submissions  are preferred.

Hard Copies – If you have no access to email, we will accept paper copies as long as they are typed (no hand-written submissions please). Typescripts will be copied by scanning so please send clear copies and avoid underlining and any marking of the texts. In order to be scanned successfully photocopies have to be of good quality and preferably on white paper. 

Conventions for the preparation of texts

‡ No tab or spaces at start of paragraphs

 

‡ Single spaces between sentences

 

‡But there a darker note emerged in his address.‡He hoped there was not malicious fairy had been forgotten and coming uninvited should curse the children, ‘You two brats will grow up politicians; your every thought and act shall have an ‡arrière-pensée; everything you shall determine shall not be for its own sake or on its own merits but because of something else.’
‘If this should happen, then the best that could befall – and that is how it may turn out ‡– would be for the children to fall into eternal slumber, never to be heard of again in the courts and markets of mankind.’‡
The World Bank should have been modelled on an institution like the Bank of England ‘where the separation of management and ownership permits a more socialised view of the enterprise’s goals.’6 ‡
Many millions of people now protesting all over the world would be glad if these institutions fell into ‘eternal slumber’. The World Bank is now not only a Bank but also a Development Agency, so inevitably politics and economics are here inextricably interlinked.

‡References
6. Charles Hession. John Maynard Keynes (Macmillan 1984), pp. 353-5. 

‡ Only foreign words, titles and your emphases in italics. Please check accents

 

‡ n – dash

‡ Single quotes are, in general, preferred – except for direct speech

‡ Full stop, end quote, superscript reference. In this order. Or end quote, full stop, superscript reference if appropriate

 

‡ Book References
Author, full stop, title in Italics (Publisher, date) comma, page ref. full stop
Articles
Author, full stop, title in upright (Journal name in Italics, Volume no. or date) comma, page ref, full stop

 

ILLUSTRATIONS

Soft Copies – Please send all illustrations as high quality jpgs. As a rough rule of thumb a jpg file of a 10x15cm photo should not be less than 200Kb. Scanned illustrations should be scanned at definitely not less than 200 pixels per inch. 300 dpi is even better. 

Hard Copies – All illustrations will be copied on an ordinary scanner, so preferably should not be larger than A4. Reasonable quality line drawings and other forms of art work are acceptable as are sharp photographs and good quality photocopies.

All Illustrations – Except for the outside and inside cover graphics, all the text illustrations are reproduced in black and white or shades of grey. If you submit colour illustrations they will be reduced to shades of grey and this should be considered in selecting suitable pictures; clarity and good contrast are the key factors. Contrast and sharpness can be enhanced in the editing process but there are limits to what can be achieved.

Hard copies will be returned if requested, but only after the journal has been printed (and only if you sent a correctly stamped, self-addressed envelope when you submitted them). However, we cannot accept responsibility for the loss of hard copies as this may be beyond our control (e.g. copies lost in the post).