Paper & Abstract Online Submission

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Delegates presenting a paper at the conference are required to submit their abstract and/or paper using this online form by clicking the box directly below and completing all the fields. Information about the submission process and due dates for papers can be found below. To download a Microsoft Word version of the following guidelines, please click here.

Conference Theme
The conference theme is ‘Revisioning Institutions: change in the twenty-first century’, but we also encourage papers on other topics from all areas of sociology and related disciplines.

Papers and abstracts
All papers and abstracts must be submitted via the online paper submission form. Click on the purple 'Online Paper and Abstract Submission Form' button (above) to access this form. Papers and/or abstracts should be submitted in one of the following three categories:

Guidelines for submission of refereed papers
TASA 04 Refereed Conference Proceedings is a peer-reviewed publication. It will be published as a CDRom for conference delegates and will be available for sale at the conference and later through the TASA office (admin@tasa.org.au). This publication will attract a DEST point for each author.

In order to produce a high-quality CDRom within a short time-frame authors are asked to observe closely the guidelines listed below. The TASA 04 Conference Convenor (or the Section Convenor acting on her behalf) reserves the right to return papers to authors for revision or to decline to accept them. Papers will be returned if papers exceed the word limit or do not follow style guidelines. The guidelines are based on the most recent set of Sage guidelines for JOS.

Preparation of copy
Length: 3000 words including endnotes and references, excluding abstract. Abstract: 200 words.

Title page: Name/s, affiliation/s, mailing address/es, email address/es, contact phone number/s of ALL authors. Name of word processing program and version used.

Word processor: Microsoft Word is the required word processing program but note that versions 8 and earlier are not acceptable.

Title font: Times New Roman, bold, size 16, space 6 above and 6 below, centered.

Sub-Heading font: Times New Roman, bold, size 12, space 6 above and 6 below, left justified.

Main text font : Times New Roman, size 12. Do not use bold or underline in text, keep italics to a minimum.

Margins: top & bottom 2.54 cm; left & right 3.17cm.

Page numbering: position top right, Times New Roman, size 12, followed by a line space.

Numerical format: Numerals under 20 are written in English; for numerals over 20 use ordinary numerals. No Roman numerals anywhere in text.

Quotations: Indented 2cm, single spaced, justified, with no inverted commas at the beginning and end. Citation information is to follow directly on the end of the quotation.

Footnotes: should be kept to a minimum, numbered serially, typed double-spaced, and should be listed at the end of the paper under the heading Footnotes (no page break required).

Referencing: Double spaced. Italics for titles of books and journals, not bold or underlining. Should follow the Footnotes (no page break required). A maximum of 25 references is suggested. The second and later lines of each reference should be indented 1.27cm.

Tables: If authors include tables these should be formatted into the text as they should appear in the final version.

Figures: Avoid figures, graphics or photographic reproductions as the inclusion of these will create difficulties given the speed required to publish the refereed proceedings.

For general style conventions please consult the 1998 Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers , Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 5th Edition (revised).

References in the text
All references to books, articles and other sources are to be identified at an appropriate point in the text by name of author, year of publication, and pagination (within parentheses). Footnotes are to be limited to substantive observations only. There is no need for 'ibid', 'loc cit' or 'op cit'. For example:

• If the author's name is in the text, follow it by the year of publication and a page reference: As Brown (1999: 267) has shown in her case study....
• If the author's name is not in text, insert at an appropriate point surname, year of publication and page reference, for example: Australian research on changes to the middle class suggests …. (Solomon 1998: 135). Note that pagination, author and year are separated by a colon.
• Where two authors are involved cite both surnames. Where more than two authors are involved, cite the first surname followed by et al.
• For institutional authorship, supply only sufficient information for positive identification: The aim of this working paper is to explore the future of sociology in Australia (Department of Sociology, Flinders University 1997).
• Separate multiple citations by semicolons: The professions are the subject of considerable sociological attention (e.g., Chagnon 1994; Lorber 1992; Vassiliou 1999).
• Where there is more than one reference in an article to the same author and year, use letters (a, b, etc.) to distinguish them one from the other. For example: (Roberts 1999a; 1999b).

Format of reference section at the end of your paper

• List all items cited in the text alphabetically by author and for each author, by year of publication in an appendix titled References.
• List all authors by name - do not use et al. or ampersands (&)

For example:

Burke, M. (2002) 'Global Boom and Bust Following the World Trade Centre Collapse', Journal of Sociology 38: 135-51.

Shaw, M. J. (2000) Life as a Graduate Student in Australian Universities. London : Sage.

Thompson, M. and J. Smith (1999) 'Gender and Wealth: Beyond the Patterns and the Paradox', pp. 156-87 in J. Montague (ed.) Wealth in Australia: Sociological Concepts and Issues, 2nd edn. Sydney : Prentice Hall.