Submissions

Author Guidelines

Please register on our website and submit your article electronically. If you have problems in the submission process, please email Borislav Gerasimov (atr@gaatw.org) or call +66 2 8641427.

Style Guide

Authors should follow the below guidance on style and referencing in their submissions to the Anti-Trafficking Review.

Presentation of the paper

Submissions should be in UK English, typed in single-line spacing. Please do not use indentations, tabs, headers/footers, page numbers, boxes or hard lines, i.e. keep formatting simple.

The submission should be in a single Word document, which contains: title of the article, author's name, abstract (of approx. 200 words), article text, author bio (of 75 - 100 words) and author email. Do not remove identifying information - this will be done by the editors at a later stage. The entire submission (including footnotes, abstract and author bio) should be around 5,000 - 7,000 words for full-length articles, 1,200 - 1,500 words for debates and short articles, and 2,000 words for book reviews. 

Notes on publication

All articles go through a rigorous double-blind peer review process. The editorial team cannot guarantee publication of any submissions, even when authors have been encouraged in correspondence to submit an article.

Submission of a paper to the Anti-Trafficking Review will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Authors should include any conflicts of interest in a statement in the published paper.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to include any copyrighted material including images or tables in their work.

Footnotes

Separate bibliographies and endnotes are not published. Use footnotes, and try to keep these to a minimum. The content and form of the references listed in the footnotes should conform to the below examples. When a footnote number falls where there is punctuation, e.g. quotation marks, full stop, etc., place it after such punctuation, as in the following example:

He was doubtful of success because there were ‘big interests to fight’.³⁹

or

Many of the UKBA’s decisions proved to be ‘simply unsustainable’,⁵ and…

Use number formatting for footnotes (¹). Please note that page numbers are required for articles. Both place of publication and name of publisher should be given for books and, where relevant, translator and date of first publication should be noted. Use ‘et al.’ for more than three authors.

Avoid over-numbering references, i.e. if one source is being cited for several references within a paragraph, number this only once at the end of the paragraph. Authors' names should be abbreviated to initials and surname in the footnotes.

The following are sample footnote references for different types of work. If you use software for inserting references, you can download the journal's referencing style (still work in progress). In Zotero, you can search for Anti-Trafficking Review in the reference styles. 

Repeat Citations

• Use the author’s surname and page number/s if the page number is different from earlier footnote: Chacon, p. 1615.
• Use partial title if several works by author are cited: Chacon, ‘Tensions and Trade-offs’, p. 1615.
• If the next reference is to a different page in the same source, use ibid.: Ibid., p. 45.

Notes on style

Spelling

Use UK English, such as ‘organisation’ and 'labour' rather than ‘organization’ and 'labor'.

Contractions (e.g. can't, you're)

Avoid using contractions except in direct quotes.

Acronyms

Write acronyms in capitals, without full stops, for example, LGBT. On first use, spell out the full name followed by the acronym in parentheses. If you only mention the name once, use the full name only.

Book and report titles

Capitalise the first letter of each major word and italicise, e.g. When Rights Are Left. If the title has a colon dividing it, e.g. Human Traffic, Human Rights: Redefining victim protection, capitalise only the first letter of the first word after the colon. Note that because titles are italicised, there is no need to use quotation marks on either side of the title.

Brackets/Parentheses

Use round brackets (parentheses), except when adding words for clarity within a quotation. To demonstrate that words were not in the original quotation, use square brackets. 

Dashes

Do not leave spaces between the dash and the words before and after it.

Em dashes (—)

Use em dashes to introduce independent clauses: we follow with an analysis of how the UPR process highlights the ongoing importance of the global human rights community for bringing a diversity of marginalised voices—including those of sex workers—to the attention of US policy makers. 

En dashes ( – )

Use en dashes to indicate range: 

• ice should be 15–40 cm thick
• March-December are the busiest months
• Appendixes A–L

Non-English words

Use the original spelling for non-English words and italicise them. Follow with brackets and a translation into English on first reference: she stated that ‘the majority of the compañeras [comrades]' that engage in sex work are single mothers who must support their children.

Exceptions are made for non-English words or phrases which have entered into common English usage, such as coup and chargé d’affaires.

Less developed countries

Avoid use of ‘Third World’ or ‘least developed countries’ unless referring to a specific list of ‘least developed countries’. The UN favours ‘more developed’ and ‘less developed’, while you can use ‘industrialised countries’ to refer to some ‘more developed’ countries. While 'North' and 'South' are useful political terms, they are not widely understood and are best avoided when writing for a wider audience.

Trafficking

When writing about human trafficking, use ‘human trafficking’ or ‘trafficking in persons’ rather than ‘people trafficking’. Avoid using the term ‘sex trafficking’ except when referring to specific definitions, for example, in US legislation; instead, use ‘trafficking for sexual exploitation’ or ‘trafficking into the sex industry’.

Quotations

Use single quotations for quoted material within the text; double quotation marks should only be used for quotes within quotes. Do not use leader dots at the beginning or end of a quotation unless the sense absolutely demands it.

For ellipses within a quotation, use three leader dots for a mid-sentence break, four if the break is followed by a new sentence. Do not change the spelling or punctuation in a quotation unless there is an obvious error, e.g. quotations from US books should retain US spelling.

Punctuation

Use single (not double) spacing after a full stop, and after commas, colon, semicolons, etc. Do not put a space in front of a question mark, or in front of any other closing quotation mark.

Comma

Use trailing/Oxford comma after the penultimate item in a list of three or more items, before 'and': the pandemic curtailed in-person gatherings at school, workplaces, and conference venues.

Capitalisation

Keep capitalisation to a minimum. When possible, use lower case for government, church, state, party. North, south, etc. are only capitalised if used as part of a recognised place name e.g. Western Australia, South Africa; use lower case for general terms e.g. eastern France, south-west of Berlin.

Full stops/periods

Use full stops after abbreviations (p.m., e.g., i.e., etc.) and contractions where the end of the word is cut (p., ed., ch.). Omit full stops in acronyms (HMSO, USA, BBC, NATO, plc), after contractions which end in the last letter of the word (Dr, Mr, St, edn, Ltd) and after units of measurement (cm, in, km, kg).

Numerals

In general, spell out numbers under 100, but use numerals for measurements (e.g. 12 km) and ages (e.g. 10 years old). Insert a comma for both thousands and tens of thousands (e.g. 1,000 and 20,000). 

The symbol % for percentages should be used for statistical or technical text, in tables, and in footnotes. It should appear without a space between the number and the symbol (51.2%). Spell out the numeral and ‘per cent’ when beginning a sentence with a percentage. For example, Forty per cent of women with disabilities have been assaulted, raped or abused.

Currencies

When referring to money, always make the currency clear by indicating the currency abbreviation i.e. USD, INR, ZAR, EUR, etc., before the amount. Convert any amount into US dollars and place in parentheses after the original amount. If necessary, specify in a footnote the date of the exchange rate to USD used.

Dates

Set out as follows: 8 July 1990 (no comma), on 8 July, or on the 8th; 1990s (not spelt out, no apostrophe); nineteenth century (not 19th century); and nineteenth-century art (insert hyphen when used adjectivally).

Recommendations

Where possible, use bullet point lists for recommendations if included in an article.

Illustrations, tables, figures and photographs

Disclaimer

Images are provided by the author/s for informational purposes and do not constitute endorsement or approval by the publisher. The author/s of each article appearing in this Journal is/are solely responsible for obtaining permission from the rightful owners of the image/s used in the article. The publishing of any image/s shall not constitute or be deemed to constitute any representation by the Editors.

How to Submit Images

We can accept images either as black and white or in full colour.

Do not submit images embedded in Word or PDF files. Please submit your images individually, labelled as: Author Last Name figure number. file extension. For example: SmithFig1.jpg

Format

JPEG format is preferred for photographs. The resolution should be at least 300 dpi at a size of no less than 4 x 6 inches. For black-and-white line art (charts, diagrams, drawings at a size of at least 4 x 6 inches), the resolution must be at least 1200 dpi.

Captions

Please submit captions clearly noted by figure number.

Labels

The placement of images should be noted in the text, such as: [Insert figure 1 here].

Permissions

Authors are responsible for obtaining proper permission for their illustrations and should submit the permissions along with their article.

Authors must contact the owners of the images they would like to use and obtain both print and electronic rights for the use of the images. Please use the template that follows.

Please use this template when corresponding with image copyright owners:

I am writing to request permission to reproduce the following material:

This material is to appear in a peer-reviewed article entitled “XXXX” in the < date > issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review, to be published by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW).

GAATW requests nonexclusive rights to the material as part of the article only in all languages, for print and electronic editions of the issue; and the nonexclusive right to grant permission to reprint the material as part of the article only in all languages and print or electronic editions.

May I have your permission to republish the above material in my article in the Anti-Trafficking Review? If you are not the copyright holder, or if additional permission is needed for rights from another source, please so indicate.

Thank you for your consideration of this request.

Sincerely yours,

Permission granted:________________________________________(name)

________________________________________________(signature)

Date: ___________________ Title:___________________________________________

Caption acknowledgment should read:_________________________________________