Critical Planning: Style Guide for Submissions

Style Guide for Submissions

General Requirements

Submissions should be typed in Times New Roman in 12 pt. size font.
All submissions should be written according to the standards of the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition.
Please include a cover page (see below).
All text should be double-spaced with no more than one space between the period and the start of the next sentence.
Do not include the author's name or affiliation anywhere else in the paper.
Include a 100-word abstract at the beginning of the article.
Paragraphs should be indented, except when followed by a title or subtitle.
Leave one-inch margins on all sides.
Tables and images should be embedded in the article and original files should be submitted separately as soon as possible (see images section for specs).
If available, please send an image for the full-bleed page opposite your article (specs below).
Add a two-sentence biographical statement at the end of the article and before the references.

Cover Page

This page should be blank except for the article’s title and author’s name at the top.
Please do not include the author's name or affiliation anywhere else in the paper.

Text Citations

References should be cited in the text using the author’s last name, year of publication, and page number when appropriate:

Rising speculative land prices made even property taxes unaffordable, compelling the indigenous poor to sell their land to the middle-class and moved to far-flung areas least served with basic infrastructure (Peril 1991).

When a specific page, section, equation, or other division of the work is cited, it follows the date, preceded by a comma:

Some characterize Lagos as a “self-service city [where] little is expected from the municipal government” (Gandy 2004, 383).

Reference List

Please list all bibliographic sources for the article on a separate page entitled “References.”
Works should be listed alphabetically using the author-date system:

Gandy, Matthew. 2004. “Planning, anti-planning and the infrastructure crisis facing metropolitan Lagos.” Urban Studies 43 (2): 371-396.

Hamilton, William L. 2006. “A global look at urban planning.” The New York Times, January 12. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/garden/12venice.html?scp=3&sq=urban planning&st=cse.

Peril, Margaret. 1991. Lagos: The city is the people. London: Belhaven Press.

Endnotes

Endnotes may be used in moderation. Endnotes should be listed at the end of the article, before the bibliography and be titled “Notes.“

1. In 1950, Ralph Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work for the UN in brokering the 1949 Arab-Israeli truce.

Images

All images, including tables, maps, and graphs, should be provided in .tif format and must be a high resolution of at least 300 dpi at print size. Full bleed images should be 300 dpi at 7" x 8.5".
Images should be embedded at their appropriate location in the article at low resolution and original, high-resolution files should be submitted separately.
Images should include a caption and credit.
Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permission.