Submission Guidelines

All keyword proposals and submissions may be sent to hlmclaug@ucsc.edu.

General Formatting

  • Title of keyword in caps lock, followed by your name and affiliation (include a hyperlink to your professional profile).
  • Use single-spaced, Helvetica 12pt font throughout (10 pt for the affiliation and bibliography).
  • Paragraphs should include a space between them and the alignment throughout should be set to ‘Justify.’

Citations

  • Use in-text citations that include author surname, year, page number (if included). A comma should always precede the page number. 
    • EX: (Smith 1976, 74) 
  • Endnotes are permitted but not for citations. Do not use footnotes. Citations should be included within the main text in parentheses.
  • When you quote a passage that is over four lines of text, use Georgia 12pt font and indent it. Quotation marks should be omitted and punctuation should precede the in-text citation. 
    • EX: According to Hardt and Negri (2001), the idea behind the establishment of the United Nations, was a vision of an “international juridical system [to] be conceived as the supreme source of every national juridical formation and constitution” (5). They go on to state:

      The limits of the nation-state, he claimed, posed an insurmountable obstacle to the realization of the idea of right. For Kelsen, the partial ordering of the domestic law of nation-states led back necessarily to the universality and objectivity of the international ordering. The latter is not only logical but also ethical, for it would put an end to conflicts between states of unequal power and affirm instead an equality that is the principle of real international community. (Hardt and Negri 2001, 5)

      To Hardt and Negri, Kelsen’s dream of a “supreme ethical idea” where states would be “entities of equal rank”, is “a fantastic utopia”.

  • When you mention the name of a book, put it in italics.
      • EX: In Empire (2000), Hardt and Negri discuss the tendencies of imperialism and the empire through a different lens, however they go as far as to completely distinguish their theory of modern power from the conceptions of the past, making the assertion very early on that “Imperialism is over”. 
  • If you mention an author in text, and then quote from them, cite their name and year, then the page number at the conclusion of the sentence. 
      • EX: Foucault (1976) says “my ideas have admittedly changed a lot and tracking my thoughts over time are certainly a task” (34). 
  • Include a Chicago style bibliography in alphabetical order at the end of your entry. Write “Bibliography” in bold and then a list beneath
    • EX:

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Bibliography

Caldeira, Teresa. “Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation.” Chapter. In Cities and Citizenship, edited by James Holston, 114–38. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 

Marcuse, Peter. “The Ghetto of Exclusion and the Fortified Enclave: New Patterns in the United States.” American Behavioral Scientist 41, no. 3 (1997): 311–26.

Park, Lisa Sun-Hee, and David N. Pellow. The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2013.

Sidaway, James D. “Enclave Space: a New Metageography of Development?” Area 39, no. 3 (2007): 331–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00757.x.
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Substance Guidelines

  • Keywords should be between 800 and 2,000 words.
  • Within the first few sentences of your entry, include a prevailing definition to situate your keyword discussion.
    • EX: The major financial institutions that guide international monetary and economic policy today were established following the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (more commonly known as the Bretton Woods Conference) in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
  • Replace “I/me” signposting with your authorial voice. 
    • Ex: In this entry, I will demonstrate how these authors discuss the term enclosure. → The term enclosure has different meanings to Author 1 and Author 2, which are important to explore in depth.
  • Avoid writing in a passive voice:
    • Ex: The main cause can be understood to be the restructuring of the economic order to favor capitalism. → The restructuring of the economic order to favor capitalism is one of the main causes.
  • After the bibliography list three to five “tags” that can be used to categorize your entry among others on the site.

Want to write a keyword entry? Here are some ideas:

Anarchism, Appropriation, Authoritarianism, Autarky, Balance of Trade, Bank, Barter, Bourgeoisie, Bureaucracy, Budget, Business Cycle, Capitalism, Capital Flight, Cartel, Central Bank, Competition, Communism, Commons, Corruption, Cost, Crony Capitalism, Custom, Embargo, Debt, Deflation, Demand, Dependency Theory, Depression, Development, Distribution, Deregulation, Efficiency, Exchange, Factory, Federal Reserve, Feudalism, Finance, Fiscal Policy, Globalization, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Hegemony, Human Nature, Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI), Inequality, Industrial Revolution, Informal Economy, Interest, International Political Economy (IPE), Investment, Islamic Economics, Job, Jurisdiction, Joint Venture, Keynesianism, Kleptocracy, Knowledge Economy, Knowledge Worker, Kuznets Curve, Kondratiev Waves, Macroeconomics, Market, Marxism, Means of Production, Mercantilism, Microeconomics, Military Industrial Complex, Mixed Economy, Modernization Theory, Monopoly, National Income, Nationalization, Pax Americana, Physiocrats, Political Ecology, Proletariat, Protectionism, Public Goods, Quantitative Easing, Regulation, Rent, Recession, Revolution, Rust Belt, Sanctions, Scarcity, Social Democracy, Socialism, Sovereign Debt, Speculation, Stock, Subsidies, Sustainability, Supply, Tax, Tariff, Transportation, Unemployment, Universal Basic Income (UBI), Utilitarianism, Utility, Wall Street, Wealth, Welfare State, Xenophobia, Youth Unemployment, Zero Hours Contracts, Zero-Sum Game