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Author Guidelines

Manuscript Preparation

1. The Electronic Journal of Sociology is aimed at making sociological knowledge available to everyone. Therefore, submissions should be written in a manner that can be readily understood by the general public, or by individuals who do not have knowledge in the author's area of specialty. Wherever possible, overly technical terminology should be avoided or at least explained clearly. An article's content and argument should be clear to all interested readers.

2. The EJS does not provide copy editing for submitted manuscripts. Please ensure your accepted paper has been reviewed by a competent editor.

3. Articles can be of any length.

4. Notes must appear at the end of the paper as endnotes. Use superscripts to identify the notes in the text and in the endnotes section. It is preferable to use the special facilities provided by your word processor to create endnotes.

5. References at the end of the document may use the following format.

Chodorow, N. (1989) Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Smith, D.H. (1975) "Voluntary Action and Voluntary Groups." Annual Review of Sociology, 1: 247-70.

Reckman, B. (1979) "Carpentry: The Craft and Trade," in A. Zimbalist (Ed.) Case Studies on the Labor Process. New York: Monthly Review Press: 73-103.

6. Alternate forms of citation and reference are acceptable. Be consistent throughout the text. For example, these formats are acceptable: (Bourdieu, 1984; Shepard & Wicke, 1997) and Ruud (1997, 2000, 2002, 2005).

7. Graphics and tables are to be inserted inline in the document and not at the end.

8. Submissions must include an abstract.

9. Please mark titles, subsections, and headings in your document with an appropriate style. Consult previously
accepted articles for guidance on headline formatting. Do not number headings.

10. Please include with your submission a short rationale for publication. A sentence or two on the contribution of the paper (original, revisionist, replicative) and why it deserves to be published will help us assess those papers which fall outside the parameters of routine scholarly publication.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The article includes an abstract.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://www.sociology.org) are activated and ready to click.
The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
The text, if submitted to a peer-reviewed section (e.g., Tier One), has had the authors' names removed. If an author is cited, "Author" and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc. The author's name has also been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.

Please note, failure to remove author information from the article will result in the paper being reviewed as a Tier II or Tier III submission.

Copyright Notice

The Electronic Journal of Sociolgy is an academic publication. Its sole purpose is the dissemination of knowledge to as wide an audience as possible. Thus the EJS is free to individuals and institutions.

The EJS does not require exclusive copyright. Authors who submit articles assign to the EJS a limited license to reproduce articles in print and online versions.

Copies of this journal or articles in this journal may be distributed for research or educational purposes free of charge and without permission. However commercial use of the EJS or the articles contained herein is expressly prohibited without the written consent of the publisher.

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