Submission Guidelines for Contributors
Submission of Manuscripts
Material to be considered for publication should be emailed to Nicola Thomson, Editorial Assistant, Contemporary Drug Problems (CDP@curtin.edu.au). Authors should include the names, institutional affiliations and email addresses of three potential reviewers for their paper. These reviewers should have no conflicts of interest with the authors of the submitted paper. The Editor reserves the right to decide whether to use the suggested reviewers. Articles accepted for publication will be copyrighted by Federal Legal Publications, Inc. Authors may publish their accepted articles elsewhere only upon receiving written permission to do so from Federal Legal Publications. No fee will be charged authors in such cases when including their articles in books or media authored by them.
Books for Review should be sent to: Suzanne Fraser, Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton Victoria 3800, Australia. Book review enquiries should be sent to: Suzanne.Fraser@monash.edu.
Style Guide
All textual material, including quotations, references and endnotes, should be double-spaced. Tables and figures – each on a separate page – should be prepared in black-and-white and submitted in camera-ready form. Manuscripts should include an informative abstract of approximately 150 words and up to six key words for indexing.
Papers should use US spelling and references should follow APA style as follows:
Journal article
Olsen, A. (2009). Consuming e: Ecstasy use and contemporary social life. Contemporary Drug Problems, 36(1), 175-191.
Book
Decorte, T. (2000). The taming of cocaine: Cocaine use in European and American cities. Brussels: VUB University Press.
Edited book
Bunton, R., Nettleton, S., & Burrows, R. (Eds.). (1995). The sociology of health promotion: Critical analyses of consumption, lifestyle and risk. London: Routledge.
Book chapter
Lovell, A.M. (2006). Addiction markets: The case of high-dose buprenorphine in France. In A. Kleinman, A. Lakoff & A. Petryna (Eds.), Global pharmaceuticals: Ethics, markets, practices (pp. 165-180). Durham: Duke University Press.
Website
The Royal Society of Medicine Press (2000). Guide to Mental Health in Primary Care. Retrieved September 26, 2003 from http://www.rsmpress.co.uk/atoz.pdf.
Please see recent issues of the journal for further examples of formatting requirements.
Author Copies
No financial compensation is paid for articles published. Contributors will receive a PDF version of their article and two copies of the issue in which it appears.
