STYLE SHEET FOR PAPERS BEING SUBMITTED TO THE

SOUTHERN LAW JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOUTHERN ACADEMYLEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS

 (Revised December 2006)

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Please note: The Southern Law Journal is published electronically and in Bound Copy once a year. The electronic copy is available on the SALSB website at http://www.salsb.org. The SLJ is deposited in hard volumes in over 100 public and university libraries through out the region. The hard volumes are available to libraries and published authors free of charge. Members or other interested parties may order the hard volumes for a nominal fee.  To order a hard volume, please contact the Editor in Chief of the Journal or any member of the executive committee. 

 

 

Rules for Eligibility: For a paper to be considered for publication in this journal, the  author(s) must:

 

1.         Present the paper at the annual SALSB Conference.

2.         If submitted by mail: submit one original hard copy (with authors) and a diskette or CD ROM that contains a copy of the original paper and blind copy of the paper. Mail to the Editor in Chief.  

3.         If submitted by email: One original of the paper and one blind copy emailed  to the Editor in Chief.

4.         Submit the articles in Microsoft Word format.

4.         The Editor in Chief must receive submissions on or before 30 days after the date of the Annual Conference. For the 2007 Journal, submissions must be received on or before April 3rd , 2007. If a paper is submitted by e-mail it is the authors’ responsibility to verify receipt by the editor in chief.

5.         The format of the paper presented must conform to all the rules contained in the style sheet.  

 

Please mail your original paper, blind copies and diskette or CD Rom to:

 

            Hon. William Mawer

            Associate Professor of Legal Studies

            John Massey School of Business

            Southeastern Oklahoma State University

            Russell Bldg. Rm. 103

            1405 N. 4th Ave. PMB 4185
            Durant, OK 74701-0609
            Office:(580)-745-2622 
            Fax: (580)-745-7479

 

            or E-mail them to wmawer@sosu.edu

 

Rules for Publication:  Each author submitting a paper for consideration to the Southern Law Journal agrees to the following terms and conditions. The following enumerated rules are for uniformity and economy:

 

            1.         Papers published or to be published in the Journal, may not be published elsewhere (not applicable to papers published in the Proceedings).  Manuscripts may be submitted simultaneously to other journals provided that the SLJ is so advised, and that the author(s) inform the editor in chief immediately if the work is published elsewhere.   

            2.         For the original and two blind copies, any graphs, charts, tables, and other illustrations must be in the original format as presented at the conference.  In other words if you had the graph, etc., in the body of the paper, leave it there for purposes of submission. If the paper is accepted for journal publication you will receive special instructions on how to submit the graphs, etc. for final publication.  Suggestion: 1)Do not use figures that will become illegible when reduced to journal page size.  If the graph, etc., appears in an appendix you must properly footnote the location as well as the graphic author (if applicable). 

            3.         Authors should be as meticulous as possible in preparing the paper so that editing and minor corrections of typographical errors will not be necessary.  Retyping by the editor is not possible.  Papers must conform to the latest edition of the Harvard Uniform System of Citation, also known as the “Blue Book (currently in the 18th edition). 

            4.         Topics should be related to business law or the legal environment of business, including pedagogical articles related thereto.  

            5.         If you mail your submission or final edited version please write on the mailing envelope: "DO NOT SCAN.  COMPUTER DISK ENCLOSED". 

            6.         Papers, in their entirety, are limited to 30 pages or less inclusive of footnotes. 

 

Formatting and Style Rules

The following rules will be enforced in all respects.  Papers that Do Not Conform to these rules WILL NOT be considered for peer review or publication.

 

Margins:

·        Top and bottom margins ‑ one inch (except for title page)

·        Right and left margins are 1 ¼  inches.

·        Title page ‑ Show 1 3/4 inches from top of page to title of paper.

·        Title ‑ Show title in all CAPITAL letters using 12 point Times Roman font.

 

Name(s) of Author(s):

·        Following the title of the paper, press the Return/Enter key twice. 

·        Using the proper centering key, type the author(s) names using UPPER AND LOWER CASE CAPS letters in 12 point Times Roman font.

·        After properly centering the author(s) names, press the Return/Enter key three times.  NOTE:  DO NOT USE THE PHRASE "BY".

·        Place authors last degree, academic rank, and institution name in non-numbered footnotes, denoted by the symbol * (character code: 002A – Unicode (hex)). Use the corresponding number of symbols for the corresponding number of authors.

 

 

Text:

·        Three hard returns after the last author, begin typing the body of the paper using 12 point Times Roman font. 

·        At the beginning of each paragraph, indent five spaces.  Do not double space between paragraphs.

·        If you wish to emphasize something in the text, do NOT underline, use italics. 

·        Do not number the pages. Numbers will be inserted when the manuscript is prepared for publication.

 

Headings:

·        First Level Headings (I.): should be preceded by three hard returns.  First level headings should be centered, using UPPER/LOWER CASE CAPS, bold and in 12 point Times Roman font.

·        Second Level Headings (A.): should be preceded by three hard returns and followed by two hard returns.  Also, second level heading should be centered, using UPPER/LOWER CASE CAPS and in 12 point Times Roman font.

·        Third Level Headings (1.): should be centered, using UPPER/LOWER CASE CAPS in 12 point Times Roman font.

·        Fourth Level Headings (a.): should be centered italics and in 12 point Times Roman font.

·        Subsequent Level Heading should appear in lower case numbers or letters. Lower case numbers should appear in roman numeral format (i=1, ii-2, iv= 4,  etc. Letters should appear as doubles format (aa, bb, cc, etc.). Alternate numbers or letters as is appropriate.

 

Footnotes:

·        All footnotes must conform to the Harvard Blue Book Uniform System of Citation (18th Edition).

·        Footnotes must use auto numbering format of the word processing system.  (Do not manually number footnotes as this makes editing extremely difficult!)

·        Footnotes are to be placed at the bottom of each page in10 point Times Roman font.

·        Do not skip lines between footnotes. 

·        Footnote numbers in text and within the footnote should be superscript.

·        Footnotes must be entirely contained on the page where cited.

·        Explanatory words: Words such a "supra" and "id" should be italicized.

 

 

A DOZEN QUICK RULES for a successful publication:

 

1.  Use Microsoft WORD only. (“Word” 2000 version or higher.)

2.   Italicize all cases that appear in the text. Do NOT underline.  Do NOT include citations in the text.

3.   If you wish to emphasize something in the text use italics. Do NOT underline.

4.   Statutes:  22 U.S.C. § 2541 (1972).

5.   Constitutions:  N.M. Const. art. IV, § 7.

6.   Books:  Name of author, followed by the title in UPPER/LOWER CASE CAPS followed by the date in parenthesis.  UPPER/LOWER CAPS can be accomplished by left click on format, click on font, and click on the box “small caps” or “all caps”.

7.   Journals:  Full name of author, followed by title (in italics), followed by citation to journal in UPPER/LOWER CASE CAPS. Example: Patricia J. Williams, Alchemical Notes: Reconstructed Ideals from Deconstructed Rights, 22 Harv. C.R.‑C.L.L. Rev.401, 407 (1987).

8.   Internet Citations: Full name of author or if no author is given the full name of the sponsor of the web cite. The name of the article or title of the page (in italics). The date of the article in Parenthesis. Name of traditional source if provided. The  URL followed by parenthesis which contain the last date accessed). It is permissible to state that the author(s) have copies of the cited material.

           Example: Jon Q. Public, Ethical Consideration for Business Law Classes,                

           (August 1, 2004), 212 Texas Law Review 139 (2005), at http://www.texasbar

           association.org/public/v6il.html (last visited 1 April 2005). Author retains    

           copies.

      It is permissible to delete any citation information that is not available.

9.   Include full name of author for student written work. Dawn R. Johnson, Note, The Creation of Fetal Rights: Conflicts with Women's Constitutional Rights of Liberty, Privacy, and Equal Protection, 95 Yale L.J. 599, 619 n. 81 (1986).

10. Special Citation forms: A few frequently cited works require special citation forms: 

      A.        BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY 712 (6th ed. 1990).

      B.         88 C.J.S. Trial 192 (1955).

      C.        17 Am. Jur. 2d Contracts § 74 (1964).

      D.        Annotation, Use of Plea Bargaining, 36 A.L.R. 4th 762 (1989).

11. When in doubt of the proper form of a citation look at the rules in the BLUEBOOK. The covers of the Bluebook contain a QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE. Citations are designed to identify the source of the materials as well the fastest way to find the source. The more information provided in the citation, the better the citation. Provide parallel citations when available.

12. If totally stumped by a citation, e-mail the editor in chief for clarification or instructions. Please do not abuse this privilege. The editorial staff is available to assist you, but should not be expected to footnote the entire paper for the author.