Emotion, Space and Society provides a forum for interdisciplinary debate on the emotional intersections between people and places. The editors invite articles which investigate the multiplicity of spaces and places that produce and are produced by emotional and affective life, representing an inclusive range of theoretical and methodological engagements with emotion as a social, cultural and spatial phenomenon.

Manuscript Categories

Emotion, Space and Society accepts manuscripts for the following categories:

•Research Articles: up to 9,000 words, including references, tables and footnotes
•Short Articles: up to 3,000 words
•Book Reviews: up to 800 words
•Book Review Essays: up to 2,000 words

Alternative article types will be considered. Authors are encouraged to contact the editors directly with proposals for other contributions or special themed issues. Those wishing to submit Book Reviews or Book Review Essays should consult this guide before submitting to the journal.

Contributions are received on the understanding that they comprise original, unpublished material and that they are not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Translated material, which has not been published in English, will also be considered.

Ethics in Publishing

For information on Ethics in Publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.

Conflict of interest

All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See also http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.

Style Guidelines

Authors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts are accurately typed before final submission. Manuscripts may be returned to the author if they do not follow the basic guidelines of house style. (See 'Preparing Your Manuscript: Step by Step', below.) House style for Emotion, Space and Society is based on the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). Both the notes-bibliography (humanities) format and the author-date format of CMS are acceptable. Basic information on CMS is available here http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org

Manuscripts should be formatted on an 8.5 x 11-inch (21.6 x 27.9-centimetre) page with one-inch (2.5-centimetre) margins on all sides. Font style is at the discretion of the author; however, we request a minimum 11 point font size. Text should be double-spaced and page numbers should be included in the bottom right corner of all pages.

Please note that at the present time we are able to accept manuscripts in English only.

Preparing Your Manuscript: Step by Step

Before beginning, please note that it is best to have your manuscript file open on your computer so that you can copy and paste key information (title, keywords, etc.) into the appropriate fields on the electronic submission site. Also note that the person who files the manuscript will automatically become the author to which correspondence is directed.

1. Title Page and Contact Information.
•On the title page, please provide the full names of authors, academic or other professional affiliations, and the complete mailing and e-mail addresses of all authors.
•To facilitate anonymous refereeing the author(s) name(s) should appear on this page only.
•Acknowledgments, if applicable, should be included at the bottom of the title page.

2. Abstract and Keywords.
•On the second page of your document, please provide an abstract of 150 to 200 words that outlines, in a single paragraph, the aims, scope and conclusion of the paper.
•Below the abstract, please include a set of no more than seven keywords suitable for detection in information-retrieval systems.

3. Main Body of Text.
•The title (full or abridged) should appear in the header section of all pages.
•Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to "the text". Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
•In-line headings may be used to improve flow in the main body of text, but should not be excessive. All headings should be flush-left with double line space above and below.
•Notes should be kept to a minimum. When used, they should be indicated in the text by superior Arabic numerals which run consecutively through the paper.
•In the text references should paper as follows:

Book or journal article, one author:
(Smith 1998, 639)

Book or journal article, two or three authors:
(Cowlishaw and Dunbar 2000, 105)

Book or journal article, four or more:
(Laumann et al. 1994, 262)

Edited Book:
(Bonnefoy 1995, 111)

4. Bibliography / References.


References should be listed alphabetically following the main body of text and should and follow CMS author-date system. For example:


Book, one author:
Doniger, Wendy. 1999. Splitting the difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Book, two or three authors:
Cowlishaw, Guy, and Robin Dunbar. 2000. Primate conservation biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Book, four or more authors:
Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. 1994. The social organization of sexuality: Sexual practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Edited Book:
Bonnefoy, Yves. 1995. New and selected poems. Ed. John Naughton and Anthony Rudolf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Journal article, one author:
Smith, John Maynard. 1998. The origin of altruism. Nature 393: 639-40.


Web references


As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.


• Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished results" or "Personal communication" Citation of a reference as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

5. Tables. (Optional)
•Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.

6. Illustrations and Captions. (Optional)
•All graphs, diagrams and other drawing should be referred to as Figures, which should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and submitted as separate files. Their position should be indicated in the text. All illustrations must have
•Illustrations should be provided in camera-ready form suitable for reproduction without retouching. Illustrations should permit reduction, with lines drawn proportionally thicker and symbols larger that required in the printed version.
• Please supply photograph images that are sharp and with good contrast. Remove non-essential areas of a photograph. Where necessary, insert a scale bar in the illustration (not below it), as opposed to giving a magnification factor in the legend.
•Colour illustrations should be submitted as high-quality images, close to the size expected in publication. Further information concerning colour illustrations and costs is available from Author Support (authorsupport@elsevier.com). If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable colour figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in colour on the web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article.
• PLEASE NOTE: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting colour figures to 'grey scale' (for the printed version should you not opt for colour in print) please submit in addition usable black and white images corresponding to all the colour illustrations.
•For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions

7. Acknowledgements (Optional)
•Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).


8. Supplementary material (Optional)


•Elsevier accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data are provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. Video files: please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or make a separate image. These will be used instead of standard icons and will personalize the link to your supplementary information. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.


Online Submission

Submission to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines to prepare your article. Via the homepage of this journal ( http://ees.elsevier.com/emospa ) you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the author's homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail.

Review Process

Submitted manuscripts will be evaluated by the editors. Those considered for potential publication will be forwarded to at least two external reviewers. Authors will be notified that their manuscript has been sent for review. The review process normally takes four to six months.

All articles are refereed to ensure both accuracy and relevance, and amendments to the script may be required. Emotion, Space and Society employs double-blind reviewing, where both the referees and author remain anonymous throughout the process. On acceptance, contributions are subject to editorial amendment to suit house style, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication.

Copyright

Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to sign a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'. (For more information on this and copyright see http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail (or letter) will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.

If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: contact Elsevier's Rights Department, Oxford, UK: phone (+44) 1865 843830, fax (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail permissions@elsevier.com. Requests may also be completed online via the Elsevier homepage, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions

Funding body agreements and policies

Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors who publish in Elsevier journals to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies

Page Proofs

One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper proofs will be sent by post). Elsevier now sends PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 (or higher) available free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs. The exact system requirements are given at the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemreqs.html#70win. If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail, or by post.

Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article if no response is received.

Electronic Offprints

The author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.

Use of the Digital Object Identifier


The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press' because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows (example taken from a document in the journal Emotion, Space and Society): doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2008.10.002 When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.


Author Enquiries

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You can track accepted articles at http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article's status has changed. Copyright information and frequently asked questions are also available at the above address.

Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided after registration of an article for publication.