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Author Guidelines

In order to ensure that manuscripts are reviewed as quickly as possible, authors are requested to observe the following requirements:

• Manuscripts should be no more than 6,000 words in length.
• Please email the paper submitted and all supplementary materials (abstracts, biographical material, contact details), in the format Microsoft Word.
• Send by email to submissions@gspjournal.com
• If email is not possible, send ONE hard copy of the paper and other materials, along with a disk. These will not be returned.
• The abstract should not exceed 250 words.
• The biographical material should not exceed 4-5 lines.
• Manuscripts are accepted for consideration on the understanding that they won't be submitted for any other publication while they are being offered to us.
• As this is an online journal publication only, all manuscripts will be converted to.pdf files, prior to being placed online.
  

Journal Style

Footnotes should be consecutively numbered and collected at the end. The easiest way to do this is to use the endnote function in Word. Do not include an alphabetical list of references. Referencing in footnotes should follow this style:

Books:

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. 1998. Code of Medical Ethics: Current Opinions with Annotations. Chicago, IL. American Medical Association: 3-7.

Articles in Books:

A. Asch. 1998. Can Aborting 'Imperfect' Children Be Immoral? In Ethical issues in modern medicine. J.D. Arras and B. Steinbock, eds. Mountain View, CA. Mayfield Publishing: 384-388.

Journals:

M.L. Lee et al. Legalizing Assisted Suicide - Views of Physicians in Oregon. NEJM 1996; 334: 310-315. Immediately repeating footnotes can use Ibid; for repeated footnotes not immediately following use: Author's surname, op. cit. note (give previous note number), pp. (give page numbers). Everything should be double-spaced - this includes quotations and footnotes. A word count should be included.

Editorial Correspondence

Letters to the editor and all editorial correspondence should be directed initially to:

Sue Burrows
Managing Editor - Genomics, Society and Policy
CESAGen
Institute for Advanced Studies
County South
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YD
UK

E-mail: info@gspjournal.com

Tel: +44 (0) 1524 510843
Fax: +44 (0) 1524 510856

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