Information for Authors
OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS
Articles and correspondence should be addressed to Kate Bradbury, FAO Professor Margaret Brazier (Editor) at School of Law, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. The editor is also happy to receive papers as email attachments, please send to Kathleen.bradbury@manchester.ac.uk. Books for review should be addressed to Dr Suzanne Ost at Law School, Bowland North, Lancaster University, LA1 4YN.
Manuscript and style. All articles and book reviews should be typed and double spaced on one side of A4 paper. One printed copy should be supplied together with a computer disc or CD ROM including the manuscript; or sent by email. All references should appear as footnotes not endnotes.
Headings should be as follows: 1. Centred. Type in capitals:
2. Centred. Type in capitals (precede by roman I, II, etc, if required):
3. Centred. Type with initial capitals for main words only and underline for italics (precede by A, B, etc, if required):
4. Flush left. Type with initial capitals for the first word and proper names only and underline for italics (precede by arabic numbering if required):
1. Subheading in Italics
Quotations of more than about 30 words (unless in footnotes) should be indented from the text without quotation marks. Single quotation marks should be used for quotations within quotations.
Punctuation such as full stops should be outside closing quotation marks. Full stops should also be outside closing parentheses unless the parenthesis is a complete sentence.
Abbreviations consisting of initials (such as BMA, D or H and CSM) should omit the full stops unless the reference is to a law report or journal or in a case citation (as in Med. L.R., L.Q.R. and H.A.). Otherwise abbreviations should retain the full stop (ed., L.J., J.).
Dates should be in the style 1 January 1993; 1993-94; 1990s.
Italics should be used (and indicated by underlining in the text) for case names, latin words except those in common legal usage, for example, prima facie; ultra vires or (obiter) dictum. Also the following abbreviations should be italicised: cf., e.g., ibid., i.e., loc.cit., op.cit., per, viz, supra, infra. Notice versus (v.) in case citations is in roman.
Proofs. Authors will receive a PDF proof of their article by email and it is essential that a current email address is supplied with the manuscript. Proofing instructions will accompany the PDF file but the proof should be checked immediately and returned to the editorial office.
Copyright. It is a condition of publication in the Review that authors assign copyright to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In assigning copyright, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the Review is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance.
Information about the New Creative Commons licence can be found here.
CITATIONS
Articles
Abbreviations (without underlining) should be used for familiar British legal journals. Otherwise (including all non-British journals) the title is full and underlined.
Books
Governmental Material
Law Report references to English cases should be to the Law Reports (i.e. A.C., Q.B., Ch., Fam.); failing this to the W.L.R. and if not, to the All E.R. Reference to specialist reports (e.g. Lloyd's Rep. Med. or B.M.L.R.) may be made thereafter.
Examples,
Neutral citation of judgments should follow the form set out in Practice Note [2001] I All E.R. 193 with the inclusion of full stops, for example, Greenfield v. Flather [2001] E.W.C.A. Civ. 113.
Citation of non-UK cases should be as follows:
Citation to particular passages in judgments or speeches should be made as follows:
- A. Grubb and D. Pearl, 'Sterilisation and Courts' [1987] C.L.J. 439.
- I.M. Kennedy, 'Further Thoughts on Liability for Non-Observance of the Provisions of the
- Human Tissue Act 1961' (1976) 16 Medicine, Science and the Law 49.
- J.A. Robertson, 'In the Beginning: The Legal Status of Early Embryos' (1990) 76 Virginia Law
- Review 437.
- A. Grubb (ed.), Challenges in Medical Care (John Wiley 1992). I. Kennedy and A. Grubb,
- 'HIV and AIDS: Discrimination and the Challenge for Human Rights' in A. Grubb (ed.),
- Challenges in Medical Care (John Wiley 1992) at 1-28.
- Human Tissue Act 1961, s.1(2) except in text when 'section' is used in full. Abortion Regulations
- 1991 (S.I. 1991 No. 499).
- Claims of Medical Negligence Against N.H.S. Hospital and Community Doctors and
- Dentists, H.C. (89) 34.
- Report of the Committee of Inquiry Into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Cmnd.
- 9314 1984).
- Re F (Mental Patient: Sterilisation) [1990] 2 A.C. 1.
- Naylor v. Preston A.H.A. [1987] 1 W.L.R. 958.
- Re X (1987) Times, 4 June.
- R. v. Secretary of State for Social Services ex parte Guirguis [1989] 1 Med. L.R. 17.
- Malette v. Shulman (1990) 67 D.L.R. (4th) 321 (Ont. C.A.).
- Strunk v. Strunk (1969) 445 S.W. 2d 145 (Ky. C.A.).
- Re F (Mental Patient: Sterilisation) [1990] 2 A.C. 1 at 71 per Lord Goff of Chieveley.
- Greenfield v. Flather [2001] E.W.C.A. Civ. 113 at [15] per Buxton L.J.
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LANGUAGE EDITING
Particularly if English is not your first language, before submitting your manuscript you may wish to have it edited for language. This is not a mandatory step, but may help to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. If you would like information about one such service please click here. There are other specialist language editing companies that offer similar services and you can also use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.
AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY FROM MAY 2005
For information about this journals policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.
