All manuscripts should be original work, word-processed in double spacing and submitted electronically, with all ‘track changes’ turned off; you may be asked to supply hard copy for the assessors. When manuscripts are accepted for publication, authors then should provide an electronic copy. Authors of reviews, etc., should submit electronically wherever possible.

All original manuscripts are read by at least two assessors, who will advise the Editors on suitability for publication and any changes thought to be necessary. Identity of authorship is not known to assessors. The Editors’ decision is final. The upper limit for articles is 5000 words (please use your computer's Word Count function).

Material for publication should comply with non-sectarian, non-racist and non-sexist conventions, except by way of fair illustration for comment. Provide up to 6 key words which pick out your paper’s main topics and highlight your original contribution.

Special care should be taken with case illustrations to protect confidentiality.

Published material will comply with spelling usage in The Macquarie Dictionary. Contributors may be helped in preparing manuscripts by referring to the Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers of Australian Government Publications, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service.

The ANZJFT does not provide author proofs. Authors have their final chance to make changes to their manuscript before it is sent to the production house.

An abstract of less than 150 words should preface the work and should summarise the content in such a way that a reader can readily perceive the article’s original contribution. Abstracts should not repeat the first paragraph verbatim.

Quotations (no more than 50 words each) should be indented when longer than two and a half lines of print. Other quotations should be identified by quotation marks. They should be used only when the authority from whom you wish to quote has expressed the idea more memorably and succinctly than you could.

All endnotes should be number referenced, gathered at the end of the article, and kept to a minimum. Tables also should come at the end, with a note in the text e.g. ‘Table 1 about here’.

References should be carefully checked, as the Editors cannot take responsibility for errors. Within the text, references should appear with the surname of the author, followed by the year of publication, e.g.

We observed an isomorphism (resonance or parallel process), with the cotherapy team inclined to argue after seeing fighting couples (Elkaim, 1990; Williams, 1995).

If an author is quoted verbatim, page reference should follow author and date within the parentheses. Where there is more than one reference by the same author and in the same year, use letters (a, b, etc.) to distinguish them.

The References list should be in alphabetical order and appear at the end of the paper, in accordance with the following format:

• Author’s name, then initials, followed by year of publication.
• Titles of books and journals will appear in italics, and titles of articles in normal type, without quotation marks.
• In the case of journals, please give the volume, issue and page numbers, in that order.

Examples:

References
Karpel, M. A. (Ed.), 1986. Family Resources: The Hidden Partner in Family Therapy, NY, Guilford.
James, K. & McIntyre, D., 1983. The Reproduction of Families: The Social Role of Family Therapy, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 9, 2: 119–29.

All photographs, if relevant, should be sent as a .tif or a .jpeg file of less than 1 MB.Hard copy photographs should se sent each in a separate envelope and clearly described on a separate sheet; they will be returned to authors.

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Also see The Forgotten Art of Referencing.