Guidelines for authors
• Peer-reviewed articles should meet academic standards for publication. They should therefore clearly position the issue being discussed in terms of theory and prior learning in the field addressed. This is usually done in the form of a literature review. Peer-Reviewed papers for The Innovation Journal should be between 2500 and 6500 words long.
• Discussion Papers for should be between 2500 and 5000 words long. In contrast to peer-reviewed articles, discussion papers do not have to be full-fledged academic papers. Nevertheless, they should give clear references to all sources and give the reader indications of further reading in the same area where appropriate. Please check the guidelines for peer-reviewed articles for formatting guidance. Discussion papers will often cover new and topical areas which have not been deeply explored in the academic literature. They will challenge conventional wisdom in practice and they will raise questions to stimulate debate in The Innovation Journal .
• Case Studies should address one or more examples of public sector innovation. They cover the following issues:
• Origins and Rationale
• Description
• Risks, Problems, Barriers
• The Process
• Benefits
• Performance measurement and lessons learned
• The Future
• Contact
Case submissions may be of two forms:
• Decision-based Case: Presents data to which a theory is applied to analyze the issue requiring resolution and to synthesize what actions should be taken.
• Description-based Case: Describes organizational actions that evaluates using theory or models of best practice.
For more information, please look at the guidelines under the Case Studies section.
• Review Essays and Book Reviews. Generally speaking, we follow common reviewing practices: i.e., include a short description of the contents of the book and then use most of the review space to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the book. These two tasks can be folded into one (i.e., critique as you summarize), but make every effort to critique the book fully and not just summarize its contents.
Specific Guidelines:
• Length of review: between about 750 and about 1200 words unless you are preparing a review essay which should be between 1500 and 2000 words.
• Information on the book itself will function as the title of the review, should appear at the top, and should follow this format:
Author/Editor's name.
Title of Book (italicized), edition (if applicable).
Place of publication: Publisher, date of publication.
Your name will appear at the top of the review, under the book information.
• A brief biographical line, usually identifying your university/professional affiliation and an e-mail address (optional), will appear at the end.
• Method of submission: diskette or e-mail attachment (preferably Microsoft Word) to the Editor-in-Chief.
• Topics of Interest. Topics of interest to The Innovation Journal relate to public sector (including the non-profit sector) innovation, creativity, change management, case studies (examples), strategies, tactics, definitions, processes, approaches to innovation, innovation theory and innovation dissemination theory. These could be discussed, for example, in the context of partnerships, citizen-centred delivery, restructuring, empowerment and so on.
• About the Author(s). A section should be prepared and submitted separately entitled About the Author. This should be limited to one or two paragraphs. At the end of the publication process, this should be inserted after the text of the paper and before the References section.
• Format
• TIJ and La Revue de l'innovation use the Chicago Manual of Style as its general guidance, with the following changes/specifics.
• Papers should be typed in Times New Roman 12-point, in MSword, and should be submitted electronically to the Editor-in-Chief.
• A separate title page should be prepared, in Times New Roman, and submitted in a separate file. It should be typed in 20-pitch, the subtitle in 18-pitch, the author name in 16-pitch, and affiliations and contact information in 14-pitch.
• An abstract should be prepared, of less than 250 words. The word “abstract” should be typed in capitals and centred.
• Please identify approximately five commonly-used keywords under which your article should be indexed.
• Please limit footnotes. If you use them, put them at the end of each page.
• Reference to sources in the text should be placed in brackets and include last name of author, date of publication, and page number, namely: ( Pollan, 2006: 99–100 ). Full Sources should then all be listed at the end of the paper, alphabetically by first author's last name, as follows:
Book
One author
Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals . New York: Penguin.
Two or more authors
Ward, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns. 2007 . The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945 . New York: Knopf.
For four or more authors, list all of the authors in the reference list; in the text, list only the first author, followed by et al. (“and others” in Latin):
(Barnes et al., 2010)
Editor, translator, or compiler instead of author
Lattimore, Richmond, trans. 1951. The Iliad of Homer . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author
García Márquez, Gabriel. 1988. Love in the Time of Cholera . Translated by Edith Grossman. London: Cape.
Chapter or other part of a book
Kelly, John D. 2010. “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War.” Pp. 67–83 in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency , edited by John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell and Jeremy Walton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Chapter of an edited volume originally published elsewhere (as in primary sources)
Cicero, Quintus Tullius. 1986. “Handbook on Canvassing for the Consulship.” In Rome: Late Republic and Principate , edited by Walter Emil Kaegi Jr. and Peter White. Pp. 33–46 in Vol. 2 of University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization , edited by John Boyer and Julius Kirshner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Originally published in Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, trans., The Letters of Cicero , vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons, 1908.
Preface, foreword, introduction, or similar part of a book
Rieger, James. 1982. Introduction to Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , pp. xi–xxxvii. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Book published electronically
If a book is available in more than one format, cite the version you consulted. For books consulted online, list a URL; include an access date. If no fixed page numbers are available, you can include a section title or a chapter or other number.
Austen, Jane. 2007. Pride and Prejudice . New York: Penguin Classics. Kindle edition.
Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The Founders' Constitution . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
Journal article
Article in a print journal
In the text, list the specific page numbers consulted, if any. In the reference list entry, list the page range for the whole article.
Weinstein, Joshua I. 2009. “The Market in Plato's Republic.” Classical Philology , 104: 439–58.
Article in an online journal
Include a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) if the journal lists one. A DOI is a permanent ID that, when appended to http://dx.doi.org/ in the address bar of an Internet browser, will lead to the source. Even if a DOI is available, list the URL, if the reader can access it. Include an access date.
Kossinets, Gueorgi, and Duncan J. Watts. 2009. “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network.” American Journal of Sociology, 115: 405–50. Accessed February 28, 2010. doi:10.1086/599247.
Article in a newspaper or popular magazine
Newspaper and magazine articles may be cited in running text (“As Sheryl Stolberg and Robert Pear noted in a New York Times article on February 27, 2010 . . .”), and they are commonly omitted from a reference list. The following examples show the more formal versions of the citations. If you consulted the article online, include a URL; include an access date. If no author is identified, begin the citation with the article title.
Mendelsohn, Daniel. 2010. “But Enough about Me.” New Yorker , January 25.
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay, and Robert Pear. 2010. “Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote.” New York Times , February 27. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.
Book review
Kamp, David. 2006. “Deconstructing Dinner.” Review of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals , by Michael Pollan. New York Times , April 23, Sunday Book Review. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/books/review/23kamp.html.
Thesis or dissertation
Choi, Mihwa. 2008. “Contesting Imaginaires in Death Rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty.” PhD diss., University of Chicago.
Paper presented at a meeting or conference
Adelman, Rachel. 2009. “‘Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On': God's Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition.” Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21–24.
Website
A citation to website content can be mentioned in the text (“As of July 19, 2008, the McDonald's Corporation listed on its website . . .”), but a formal citation is also required. It may be styled as in the examples below. Because such content is subject to change, include an access date or, if available, a date that the site was last modified. In the absence of a date of publication, use the access date or last-modified date as the basis of the citation.
Google. 2009. “Google Privacy Policy.” Last modified March 11. http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html .
McDonald's Corporation. 2008. “McDonald's Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts.” Accessed July 19. http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html .
• Release of copyright to The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal is required of authors. Manuscripts will not be published unless a copyright transfer agreement has been signed by all the authors of a manuscript and has been received by T IJ. Copyright transfer forms are sent out by The Innovation Journal office. Authors my reproduce their articles for teaching purposes without written permission. Written permission is required to reproduce The Innovation Journal articles in all other instances.
• Papers should be typed in Times New Roman 12-point, in MS Word, and should be submitted electronically to the Editor-in-Chief.
The PDF version of editorial guidelines is available.
Created December 13 2011