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The editors of Botswana Notes and Records are pleased to receive manuscripts from both amateur and professional contributors. Articles must be written in an intelligible style appropriate for non-specialist readers. Scholarly submissions must meet normal academic standards of originality, and should make specific reference to previous research. (For such research, see especially the Summary of contents by annual volume of Botswana Notes and Records, and the Subject Index of all Botswana Society Publications) As part of the editing process, all manuscripts are reviewed by experts in their field (by two "blind referees" in the case of scholarly articles).
The editors reserve the right to make minor corrections or adjustments to articles, but substantive changes are made only in consultation with the authors.
Please follow the following guidelines:
1. Contributions should where possible be submitted either on a CD Rom to the Kgale View office of the Botswana Society or as an email attachment to Botswana Notes and Records Editor at botsoc@info.bw, with copy to makgalac@mopipi.ub.bw. Floppy diskettes are no longer acceptable . In either case, an identical hard copy printed on white paper should be submitted at the same time as the electronic copy.
2. Contributors without computers should consult the Society's office.
3. Articles should normally be at least 2500 and not exceeding 6000 words. Interesting shorter items may be published as Notes.
4. Illustrations must be suitable for printing in good contrast black and white. All maps, charts, diagrams, graphs, line drawings, etc. must be in black and white, without colours. Shaded backgrounds are best avoided in illustrations. Electronic versions should be submitted in black and white as jpg files (resolution 300).
5 . The author's address and any absolutely vital acknowledgements should be placed as an unnumbered footnote on the first page.
6. Citations of sources within the text and References at the end of the article should follow Harvard style (e.g. http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/lskills/open/sfl/content/harvard/).
(a) Citations
Brief citations placed in text, for example: (Rhodes, 1976, p.130); (Smith, G., 1995, pp.78-79); 'according to George Smith (1990, quoted in Gibbs 1998, p.78)'; 'according to R. J. Thompson ( personal communication , 22 March 2000)'; (CBI, 1989a); (CBI, 1989b). Archival references, if too long to be briefly cited in text, may be placed as numbered footnotes.
(b) References
Book
Hitchcock, Robert K. (1978) A History of Research among the Basarwa of Botswana. Gaborone: National Institute for Research in Development.
Chapter
Duggan, W.R. (1983) Botswana's rural economy. In Oomen, M.A., F.K. Inganji, F.K. & Ngcongco, L.D., ed. Botswana's Economy since Independence . New Delhi: Tata-McGraw-Hill, pp.124-133
Article
Hobbs, J.C.A. (1981) The environmental impact of veterinary cordon fences. African Wildlife , 35 (6) October, pp.16-21
Unpublished
Vierich, Helga I.D. (1979) The Kua of the southeastern Kalahari: a study in the socio-ecology of dependency. Ph.D thesis, University of Toronto
Web-site
Cotter, J. (1999) Asset revelations and debt contracting. Abacus [Internet], October, 35 (5) pp.268-285. On-line at <http://www.ingenta.com> [Accessed 19 November 2001]
Archive
Botswana National Archives (hereafter BNA)--S.303/8/1: G.E. Nettelton (Government Secretary Mafeking) to A.D. Forsyth Thompson (Resident Commissioner Mafeking), 3 November 1944
BNA--S.198/2: testimony of Pebane Makawe, in Preparatory Examination Hearing, Rex versus Tawi Twai (Molele) and seven others, Francistown, 27 June 1944
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