Peer Review Process

International Review of Social Research is committed to double blind peer reviewed system. Both the author(s) and the referees’ identities are obscured during the evaluation procedure. After the initial editor screening, the manuscript is sent for evaluation to two to four referees. The editors are committed to an efficient system of evaluation. A decision on the acceptability of the manuscript will be communicated within two months of submission.

Author(s) may suggest the name, affiliation and e-mail of up to two scholars whose specialization allows them to evaluate the manuscript. These should exclude colleagues in one’s department and doctoral dissertation supervisors. Author(s) may also indicate the name of up to two scholars who should not act as referees for that manuscript.

The author(s) should remove any elements, especially self-citation, from the body of the manuscript, footnotes or references which might help the referee to identify the author.

Languages

International Review of Social Research publishes articles in English. In order to assure the quality of writing in their English-language submissions, authors for whom English is a second language are encouraged to have their manuscript professionally edited. (All services are paid for and arranged by the author. The usage of these services does not facilitate acceptance or preference for publication).

A list of editing services providers can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/english_language.asp.

Articles:

Article Length 
Articles should have 4,000 to 8,000 words, including references. Articles longer than that will be rejected.

Titles and subtitles
Both titles and subtitles should be short. Throughout the manuscript, subtitles are not to be numbered.

Abstracts
The research questions, key argument, methodology and main findings should be outlined in an abstract of 100-150 words. The abstract paragraph should be different than the opening paragraph of the article. You may find some useful advice on abstract construction here [http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/seo.asp].

Keywords
Four to six keywords should follow the abstract paragraph.

Title, authors, institutional affiliation and acknowledgements page
Each manuscript should have a separate page containing: (1) the title of the article, (2) author(s), (3) institutional affiliation of the authors, (4) e-mail address(es) and (4) acknowledgements (if relevant).
Important: When more than one author, please indicate in a footnote on the title page the corresponding author.

Style
Lengthy literature reviews should be avoided. Authors should engage only authors and references relevant for their topic. Please avoid excessive jargon and use readable style. If acronyms are used, they should be defined when they first appear in the text. Please use plurals instead of he/she. For emphasis, use italics, but please keep them at a minimum. Please do not use bold or underline. Use italics for title of books, newspapers, novels when they appear in the main text. Spell out numerals under 10. Use “per cent” in the text; “%” sign should be used in the tables.

Citation
References should follow this model: (Author(s), year: page number). Quotes longer than 40 words should be indented without the use of inverted commas. For quotations within the text please make sure to use single inverted commas on all occasions, except for a quotation within a quotation which should be placed within double inverted commas.

Endnotes
Should be kept at a minimum and should be placed before the references.

References
Only works cited in the text should be listed in the bibliography.

Book, single author
Crenson, M. A. (1983) Neighborhood Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Book, multiple authors
Lakoff, G. and M. Johnson (1980) Metaphors We Live By. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Edited Volume
McKinnon, S. and S. Silverman (2005) (eds.) Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Article in book
Caplan, J. (2001) ‘This or That Particular Person: Protocols of Identification in Nineteenth-Century Europe’ In Caplan, J. and J. Torpley (eds.) Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World, pp. 49-66. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Journal article, single author
Cameron Hay, M. (2010) ‘Suffering in a productive world: Chronic illness, visibility, and the space beyond agency’. American Ethnologist, 37(2):259-274.

Journal article, multiple authors
Lim, C. and R. Putnam (2010) ‘Religions, Social Networks and Life Satisfaction’. American Sociological Review, 75(6):914-933.ManuscriptJohnson, K. (2011) Multiplicity and Scale. MS.

Website
Johnson, K. (2011) ‘Title of Article’, URL. (consulted day, month, year).

Tables and charts
All tables should have titles placed above and the source(s) places beneath it. They should be numbered consecutively. Tables and charts should be placed at the end of the article, after the references section, with an indication in the text as to their placement.

Illustrations
Any diagram or photograph should be named “Figure” in the manuscript. Black and white photographs are accepted, as long as their resolution is high (more than 300 dpi). Images should be sent or uploaded separately from the main text, with an indication in the text as to their placement.

Proofs and offprints
Before publication, the corresponding author will receive proofs. They need to be returned to the editors within 15 days since received. After publication, the authors will receive a printed copy of the journal.