Preliminary notes - guide

• Published date: 01 June 2020
• Date: 01 June 2020

Guidelines for contributors

The Stellenbosch Law Review is published tri-annually and contains contributions in

English or Afrikaans. Potential contributors must please adhere to the style guide, which

is available on the internet at http://blogs.sun.ac.za/law/les/2011/08/Stell-LR-Editorial-

Policy-and-Style-Guide-2011.pdf

The following contributions will be subject to peer review and are eligible for subsidy by

the Department of Higher Education and Training. An English summary not exceeding 300

words must accompany these contributions:

1 full length articles of typically 6 000 – 12 000 words including footnotes;

2 review articles of typically 6 000 – 12 000 words including footnotes (a review article is an

in-depth discussion of a subject or a series of subjects relating to a recent book or books);

3 notes of typically 4 000 – 6 000 words including footnotes (a note should be critical and

not merely be descriptive);

4 case comments of typically 4 000 – 6 000 words including footnotes (case comments

should critically draw out implications and likely repercussions of decisions and should

not merely be descriptive).

The following types of contributions will be considered for publication, but are not peer

reviewed and are not eligible for subsidy by the Department of Higher Education and Training:

5 correspondence to the editor of a maximum length of approximately 2 000 words

including footnotes;

6 book reviews of a maximum length of approximately 2 000 words including footnotes;

7 news articles and announcements of a maximum length of approximately 2 000 words

including footnotes;

8 public lectures of up to 12 000 words.

All contributions must be sent via email to the address stelllr@sun.ac.za in a le written in

a recent version of Microsoft Word. It may be required that a hard copy of a contribution is

sent to the following address: The Editor, Stellenbosch Law Review, Faculty of Law, Private

Bag X1, Matieland, 7602.

Contributions will only be considered for publication if they comply with the house style

guide. If an author is uncertain of the correct style for the citation of a reference, the relevant

reference should be highlighted in yellow. Authors must please make use of the following

checklist prior to submission:

•main heading contains title; author’s name; qualications; institutional qualications;

•headings are consecutively numbered without automatic numbering, no headings are

underlined, paragraphs are not separated by a full blank line, but only by an indent at the

beginning of the new paragraph;

•footnotes are consecutively numbered by way of automatic numbering; footnotes are not

separated by a full blank line; footnotes appear at the end of each page of the manuscript

and not at the end of the manuscript;

•quotations have been checked for accuracy and references comply with the style requirements.

Contributions are normally submitted to at least two referees. The identities of the

contributors and referees are kept condential.

Page charges may be levied. Contributors will be contacted individually in this regard.

The tariff is R65,00 per page with a minimum of R650,00 for full length and review articles

and R450,00 for notes and case comments. These amounts are subject to change.

Authors who provide their postal addresses to the Editor will receive offprints of their

articles as well as a copy or copies of the relevant journal.