The World Association Global Diaspora Studies

Manuscripts submitted to the WADIS will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Authors can submit Manuscripts all through the years.

The length of the text normally should not exceed 7,500 words. Wide margins should be left all around the text on each page, including at least 4 cm on the left-hand margin. All pages, including Notes, References and tables, should be numbered.
A standard typeface (Times New Roman) is preferred. Articles should be written in English. UK or US spellings maybe used with ‘-ize’ spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary. Use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. Abbreviations and technical terms must normally be explained in the text.
Manuscripts are divided into sections, which must be arranged in the following order: Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References, Tables, and Figures.
Each manuscript should contain;

- Title page with full title and subtitle (if any). Full name of each author with current affiliation. Full contact details and short biographical note should be supplied on last page.
- Abstract of 100-200 words and around 5 key words.
- Main text should be clearly organized, with a clear hierarchy of headings and subheadings. A hierarchy of headings and subheadings should not normally exceed three levels. Section headings should be emboldened, indented, and run in with the text.
- End notes is necessary which should be signaled in the text by superscript numbers and provided as a list at the end of the manuscripts.
- Acknowledgements should avoid identifying any of the authors prior to peer review.
- References should be cited in the text by author and date (name, date). The corresponding list of References should be typed or printed separately double-spaced at the end of the article beginning on a new page and titled merely ‘References’; this title should be left-justified. The list should be alphabetical by surname of author or first co-author and should be in the style of the following examples.

Author Last, First. Year of Pub. Title. Location of Publisher: Publisher
GLAZER, N. 1997. We are all multiculturalists now. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Author Last, First, and Author First Last. Year of Pub. Title. Location of Publisher: Publisher.
Castles, S, and M. J. Miller. 2009. The Age of Migration. New York: The Guilford Press.

Author Last, First. Year of Pub. “Title of Chapter/Article.” In Title, edited by First Last, inclusive page numbers. Location of Publisher: Publisher.
Wells, Ida B. 1995. “Lynch Law in All its Phases.” In With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women, edited by Shirley Wilson Logan, 80-99. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Author Last, First. Year of Publication. Title. Location of Publisher: Publisher. URL.
Welch, Kathleen E. 1999. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. Cambridge: MIT Press. http://www.netlibrary.com.

Author Last, First. Year of Pub. “Title.” Journal Name volume # (issue #): inclusive page numbers.
Sheffer, G. 2006. “Homeland and Diaspora: An Analytical Perspective on Israeli-Jewish Diaspora Relations.” Ethnopolitics 9 (3): 379-399.

Author Last, First. Year of Publication. “Title.” Journal Name volume # (issue #): inclusive page numbers. Accessed date. URL.
Jobe, Karen D. 2000. “Women and the Language of Hackerdom: The Gendered Nature of Hacker Jargon.” Kairos 5 (2): 301-333. Accesses January 15, 2014. http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/5.2/binder.html?coverbweb/jobe/ women&hackerdom.htm.

Author Last, First. Year of Pub. “Title.” Type of Thesis, Awarding Institution.
Marchi, L. 2011. “Creolizing Diaspora: Home and Identity, Language and Hospitality in Arab Diasporic Literature.” Ph.D diss., University of Trento.

Organization name. Year. “title.” URL
McDonald’s Corporation. 2008. “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts.” http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.