We invite contributions especially under the following heads

• Articles on historical and contemporary issues in ‘south' countries. These should be between 3000 to 4500 words. A brief abstract of 100 words, aimed at non-specialists in other south countries, should preface the article.
• Across the South includes conference reports as well as reportage on phenomena that are acquiring in one or more regions of the south that might have a wider resonance or be of wider interest. These would also include features on local bookshops and publishers as well as surveys of local academic journals featuring their histories, character and direction. Information about how it may be accessed and images of (at least one) front cover and (preferably latest) content page must be included. Contributions to this section should be about 1000 words each.
• Symposia South is intended to take up contentious and relevant issues and to enable an exchange of voices from various parts of the south. Contributions should be about 600 words long.
• Encounters contain Interviews of scholars, well-known in regional academic circles. These should be within 2000-2500 words. The focus should be on major intellectual influences and significant contributions. Photographs of interviewer and interviewee, of the interview and images of books/journals/visual material published/created by the interviewee would be most welcome. We would recommend a consultation by e-mail with the editorial team prior to the actual interview.
• Archives and Field Notes would include discussion of historical sources– written, oral or visual. We also invite contributions in this section of experiences of researchers travelling from one south country to another. Contributors may focus on a single source or a body of sources. Contributions should be of not more than 1000 words.
• Reviews of books, films and exhibitions. Entries should take into account readership from a wide range of ‘south' countries and be within 700 words
• Calls for papers, announcements of workshops, fellowships, vacancies, any others are welcome. These would be put up directly on the e-magazine’s website in the Announcements section.

The magazine follows the English convention of spelling. Non-English words should be in italics and explained or translated in parenthesis.

We seek clarity, brevity and simplicity. Short sentences and paragraphs with a generous use of subtitles would be appreciated.

Long quotations should be avoided. Quotations of more than forty words should be indented. When footnotes are used, they should be numbered consecutively and no separate bibliography will be required. First references must be in full and subsequently abbreviated, ibid. should be used to refer to an immediately preceding reference but op. cit. and loc. cit. may not be used. Archival citations should be as brief as possible but the identity and location of the archive must be fully spelled out in the first citation.

Thus, references of various types of sources should be as follows:
Book: D. N. Ghosh, Governance Accountability Essays on the Indian Financial & Corporate Sectors, Oxford University Press, New York, 2007, p. 212.
Article in a Book: Pradip Kr. Bose, “Mobility and Conflict: Social Roots of Caste Violence in Bihar”, in Dipankar Gupta (ed.), Social Stratification, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1991, pp. 360-392.
Article in a Journal: Priti Garg, “Globalization: Its impact on labour”, The Indian Journal of Political Science, LXVI, 4, October-December 2005, pp. 813-830.
Unublished Thesis: Walter Leonard Weisberg, Coalition Politics in the Indian States: The Case of the Fourth General Elections (1967) in Bihar, Tamilnadu and West Bengal, unpublished Ph. D. Thesis, University of Michigan, 1986.
Newspaper Articles and Interviews: Times of India, 18 August 2009.
Papers Presented at a Conference: E. Obbo, “Gender Equality, Human Rights and Development”, in Re-thinking African Development: Beyond Impasse, Towards Alternatives, CODESRIA, Maputo, 20-22 July 2005.
Internet Resources: http://www.guiadelmundo.org.uy/cd/, retrieved on 01.03.2007.
Archival Citations: Wollongong University Archives: Francis McCaffrey; D 92, Francis McCaffrey Collection, 1865-1932, D 92/95, Notebooks.

Figures should be used for units of measurement and numbers with decimal points. Numbers below ten and multiples of ten up to one hundred should be spelled out and figures used for other numbers ('twenty' but '25'). Percentages should be in words such as '25 per cent' or 'twenty per cent'. Dates should be written as '3 December 2003'.

Contributors should include 30-50 words introducing themselves. We would like to attach photographs of the contributors, but this is optional. We recommend the inclusion of illustrations, maps, photographs, images of sources and documents wherever relevant and preferably in digital format. Maps, photographs and illustrations should carry full captions and attributions.

We urge contributors to follow copyright rules and provide generous acknowledgements and attributions. We are all aware of the difficulties of copyright protection with regard to material on the web, but hope the contributors will be conscientious in this regard.

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