Length of the paper
Papers must be submitted in English and should not exceed 3,500 words including an abstract, acknowledgements and references (shorter submission are encouraged).
Title page, corresponding author
The first title page must include the title of the paper, which should be short but informative, the full postal, email, and telephone contact information and the affiliation(s) of all the authors. The corresponding author must be clearly identified at the time of submission.
Manuscript requirements
Papers must be submitted in MS Word format (*.doc or *.docx). British spelling should be used; authors are responsible for the consistency of spelling and nomenclature.
Abstract
The submission must include an abstract of no more than 150 words, indicating the paper's argument, approach and findings, along with 3–5 keywords. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. The abstract should be single-spaced, use 10-point Times New Roman font in italics, and the text should be justified on both sides with 1.5 cm margins.
Keywords
The keywords should be placed below the abstract, separated by one empty line, and should be aligned with the abstract. The keywords should be single-spaced in 10-point Times New Roman (normal) font, each keyword separated by a semicolon, and left-aligned.
Title
The title of the paper should be single-spaced in 16-point Arial font, in bold and left-aligned; capitalise only the first word and proper nouns.
Headings
No more than three levels of (sub)heading should be used. First-level headings should be single-spaced in 14-point Arial font, in bold, and left-aligned; capitalise only the first word and proper nouns. Second-level headings should be single-spaced, in 12-point Arial font, in bold, and left-aligned; capitalise only the first word and proper nouns. Third-level headings should be single-spaced in 11-point Arial font, in bold and italics, and left-aligned; capitalise only the first word and proper nouns.
Main text
The main text should be single-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font. Paragraphs should not be indented or spaced but separated by one empty line. The text should be justified on both sides. Abbreviations should on their first occurrence be written out in full with the abbreviation in brackets, e.g. Critical Housing Analysis (CHA).
The pages should be numbered consecutively.
Tables, figures, diagrams etc.
Tables, figures and line diagrams should be incorporated into the typescript and properly (consecutively) numbered (use Arabic numerals for all page numbers, tables, diagrams, etc.). Tables, figures and diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing by the Publisher). Figure and diagram captions should be numbered in the order they are referred to in the text and typed out in full. Tables should include a short, descriptive title. The captions and titles of tables should be single-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font, in bold, and left-aligned, and separated by one empty line. Any relevant notes related to tables, figures or diagrams should be placed below the table/figure/diagram and identified using *, daggers, etc. A source should be given below each table, figure and diagram. The source should be single-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font, in italics, and left-aligned.
Figures, diagrams, pictures, etc., should be each treated as the equivalent of 225 words.
Other requirements:
Any acknowledgements should appear at the end of the text before the references.
Endnotes should not be used. If necessary, use footnotes rather than endnotes. Notes should be indicated with consecutive superscript numbers in the text and listed at the bottom of the page(s).
Critical Housing Analysis is committed to non-sexist language usage. Avoid, for example, the use of masculine pronouns (he, him, his), unless specifically referring to a male.
