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Human Rights Defender Style Guide

The Human Rights Defender presents articles in a clear, accurate and accessible style for a broad spectrum of readers. Though less formal in style than an academic journal, Human Rights Defender articles must nonetheless be well written and thoroughly researched.

• Articles are between 1500 words (excluding footnotes) and 1800 words (including footnotes).

• Please keep footnotes and references to a minimum as articles are directed to a non-academic audience.

• The Footnote/Bibliography or ‘Oxford’ Referencing System is to be used.

• A footnote identifier should appear in the text with the full reference located at the end of the text.

• Identifiers should be placed at the end of a sentence, and follow any punctuation marks. For example:

• Lake points out that a division began in the latter half of the nineteenth century with the doctrine of ‘separate spheres’.¹

• At the end of the article, all necessary information to enable the reader to locate the source should be provided. For example:

• ¹ M Lake, ‘Intimate strangers’ in V Burgman and J Lee (eds), Making a Life: a People’s History of Australia Since 1788, V. Burgman and J. Lee (eds), Penguin, Victoria, 1988, p. 155.

• Titles of publications should be italicized.

• Use minimum capitalization for publication titles

• Use minimal capitalization for journal or book article titles

• Article titles should be enclosed between single quotation marks

• Use commas to separate each item of the citation and end with a full stop.

• Quotations are placed in single inverted commas. For example, ‘a terrorist attack in Australia could occur’. Quotations longer than two sentences are indented.All headings are bold and lower case.

• Please provide a short accompanying autobiographical note with specific reference to your connection with the Australian Human Rights Centre, the Human Rights Defender and/or the subject matter of your article. For example, ‘Jane Bell is a doctoral candidate in law at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford’. If you do not provide one, please amend and approve the autobiographical note drafted for you by the Human Rights Defender.

• Please submit full mailing details with your article, so that complimentary copies of the magazine may be posted to you after publication.

• Articles may be emailed to ahrc@unsw.edu.au, or posted to:

Human Rights Defender

Australian Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law

University of New South Wales

Sydney NSW 2052

• Previous issues may be viewed at:

http://www.ahrcentre.org/content/research_hrd_pastissues.htm

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