This style guide for Fast Capitalism was adapted from the guidelines of the American Sociological Review. As we strive to bridge the social sciences and the humanities, we recognize and that this format will be unfamiliar to many of our contributors and apologize for the inconvenience; however, we trust you will find these standards reasonable, economical, and largely intuitive.

In an electronic environment, where scrolling dominates and page numbers are not used, headings and subheadings become even more important organizational markers.

Three levels of subheading—title, heading, and subheading—should be adequate for a full-length article. The headings and subheadings will be stylized as shown here, with a graphical element for the heading and a small increase in size for the subheading. For more examples of this and other elements, you may look through the existing journal.

Fast Capitalism will underline the titles of books, journals and films. We will use bold to indicate emphasis and to designate special and foreign-language terms. We will use red to indicate Web links.

Citations in the text give the last name of the author(s) and year of publication. Include page numbers whenever you quote directly from a work, paraphrase, or refer to specific passages. Cite only those works needed to provide evidence for your assertions and to guide readers to important sources on your topic. In the following examples of text citations, ellipses indicate manuscript text.

Number notes in the text consecutively throughout your article using superscript Arabic numerals. If you refer to a note again later in the text, use a parenthetical note--…(see note 3).

Footnotes or endnotes should be typed either as footnotes at the bottom of the text pages or in a separate "Endnotes" section. Begin each note with the superscript numeral to which it is keyed in the text (e.g., "1 After 1981, there were…"). Notes can (a) explain or amplify text, (b) cite materials of limited availability, or (c) append information presented in a table or figure.

References are presented in a separate section headed "References." All references cited in the text must be listed in the reference section, and vice versa. Publication information for each must be complete and correct. List the references in alphabetical order by authors' last names; include first names and middle initials for all authors when available. List two or more entries by the same author(s) in order of the year of publication. If the cited material is not yet published but has been accepted for publication, use "Forthcoming" in place of the date and give the journal name or publishing house. For dissertations and unpublished papers, cite the date and place the paper was presented and/or where it is available. If not date is available, sue "N.d." in place of the date. If two or more cited works are by the same author(s) within the same year, list them in alphabetical order by title and distinguish them by adding the letters a, b, c, etc., to the year (or to "Forthcoming"). For works with more than one author, only the name of the first author is inverted (e.g., "Jones, Arthur B., Colin D. Smith, and James Petersen"). List all authors; using "et al." in the reference list is not a good idea.

A few examples follow. Refer to the ASA Style Guide or existing articles in Fast Capitalism for more examples.