The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal – House Style

The following style Guide should cover most eventualities, but please contact David McArdle (d.a.mcardle@stir.ac.uk) if you have any queries.

Length

Articles for this publication should normally be 4-10,000 words in length. Authors may submit disk copies by post, but emailed copies are preferred.

Abstracts and Keywords

Please include an abstract of your article of roughly 250 words. All selected articles will appear with the abstract included.

A maximum of 6 keywords should also be included.

Links to External Sources

The journal team will provide hypertext mark-up for articles. However, contributors may, if they wish, insert their own hypertext links including cross references to other materials on the World Wide Web using their URL (Uniform Resource Locator) addresses. These links should not be placed in footnotes but within the body of the article in brackets after the words that are to be linked to them. All links should also appear in a Links section that should appear after the References section.

This Links section may be sub divided into Materials, Organisations and People.

Style

References

In order to keep footnotes to a minimum references to sources should appear in the body of the article, following social science conventions.

Where an article/author is quoted directly e.g. ‘Smith and Jones (1996) argue ...’, the year of publication alone should appear in parentheses.

If an article/author is referenced indirectly e.g. ‘many sources indicate this is not true (Carter, 1996, p. 5)’ the surname, then the year of publication and the page reference if it relates to a specific part of the text should all appear in parentheses.

If there is more than one reference to work by the same author in the same year, the references should be distinguished by adding the suffix 'a', 'b', 'c' etc. to the year of publication e.g. (Smith, 1995a, pp. 5-7).

A full citation of all references, listed alpabetically by (first) author’s surname, should appear in the bibliography according to the form below (please refrain from any use of underlining or italics).  Case names, Statutes, Directives, etc. need not appear in the bibliography.

1. Books

Smith D (1988) The Information Society (London: Polity Press).

Smith D (1987a) 'The Information Society and Public Policy' in Gregory F (ed) Information Technology: The Public Issues (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

Smith D (1987b) Law and Information (London: Polity Press).

2. Journal Articles

Sutton T (1999) 'The Nature of the Early Law of Deodand' 30 Cambrian Law Review 9.

For the benefit of readers in other jurisdictions, please provide the names of all journals in full when citing articles.

3. Conference Proceedings

Bruce T (1995) 'Legal Information, Open Models, and Current Practice', Montreal Conference on Crown Copyright in Cyberspace, May 1995 <http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/CRDP/Conferences/DAC/BRUCE/BRUCE.html>.

4. Multiple Authors

Smith D and Blanc R (1988) The Information Society (London: Polity Press).

Smith D, Blanc R and Floyd K (1995) The Information Society (London: Polity Press).

5. Cases and page numbers within cases

Where possible, please cite a law reports series that is widely available. Versions available in hard copy (All ER, WLR) are preferred over online versions.

On the first occasion cases are mentioned, cite thus:

‘Despite assertions to the contrary, the Court of Appeal judgment in Wooldridge v Sumner [1963] 2 QB 43 is not authority for the proposition that…’

On subsequent occasions only the first party’s name (or, in a criminal case, the defendant’s name) should be provided, without brackets, i.e.:

‘In Wooldridge the Court of Appeal was not positing reckless disregard as the standard of care in sports injury cases…’

If one is quoting directly from, or referring to a specific passage of, a judgment please use single quotation marks and provide the citation in full, i.e.:

‘The answer seems to be, persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions called into question’ (Donoghue v Stevenson (1932) AC 562, at p. 580 per Ld Atkin).

Lloyd's Bank plc v Rosset [1988] 3 WLR 1301 at 1303.

Cases only available electronically may be cited thus:

Pitcher v Huddersfield Town FC (2001) WL 753397.

Breeden v Lampard (1985) 21 March LEXIS , at p. 3 of transcript.

6. Statutes

Disability Discrimination Act 1995, s.10

Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Sch. 1

The Equal Treatment Directive 76/207

The Equal Treatment Directive 76/207, Art. 6

The abbreviations 's.', ‘Sch.’ Or ‘Art.’ should be used only following the title of an Act or Directive; otherwise they should be written in full, in which case the 's' in ‘section’ is lower case unless it begins a sentence.

7. Links to Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

When quoting a URL within an article it should appear between a less-than sign and a greater-than sign e.g. <http://www.warwick.ac.uk/>..

Format of Articles

All text in articles should be in Times New Roman Font, double spaced, 12pt.

Please note it is very important that the headings used conform to the specifications below: the computer software translates these into a particular format for online publication and a failure to use them correctly will lead to delays in publication and the journal incurring unnecessary expense.

Headings should appear as follows:

Title of Article (Times New Roman, 20pt bold)

Names of Author(s) (Times New Roman, 16pt bold) followed immediately by job title, departmental and institutional affiliation (Times New Roman, 12 pt).

Abstract (Times New Roman, 12 pt italics)

Keywords (Time New Roman, 12 pt)

Main Heading (Times New Roman, 12 pt bold)

Sub Heading (Times New Roman, 12pt italics)

Headings below the subheading level are discouraged. If absolutely necessary they should appear in italics without any numbering.

Miscellaneous

Please note that only a single space is necessary after full stops and other punctuation

Single rather than double quotation marks should be used.

Spelling should comply with British, not American forms, e.g. -ise, not ize, as in nationalise.

Numbers one to twelve and per cent to be spelt out. Years to be given in numerical form (‘the 1988 Olympic Games’, ‘the late 1930s’).

Submission of Articles

Digital copies may be in the form of attachments to emails, sent to Guy Osborn at g.osborn@wmin.ac.uk; David McArdle at d.a.mcardle@stirling.ac.uk; or Mark James at m.d.james@salford.ac.uk. Alternatively, articles can be submitted postally on disk to Steve Greenfield, School of Law, University of Westminster, 4-12 Little Tichfield Street, London W1W 7UW. If submitting articles by post, please include two paper copies of your article, with the author(s) name and adress(es) on a separate sheet rather than in the articles themselves. Submissions are accepted in one of the following standards - Microsoft Word (all versions but preferably Word XP), ASCII text, Rich Text Format and HTML (version 3.0 or higher).

The journal team will be pleased to assist contributors with special features such as graphics, graphic images, and diagrams. Authors' own prepared graphic images in standard formats are welcome. Please contact any of the editors for more information and assistance in the first instance.

Please also remember to download, print out, sign and return a copy of the Exclusivity of Publication agreement.