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A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy

ISSN
0269-1728 (Print), 1464-5297 (Online)

Subjects covered by this journal

Epistemology; Humanities; Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Social Science; Supplementary material

Aims & scope

Social Epistemology provides a forum for philosophical and social scientific enquiry that incorporates the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines who share a concern with the production, assessment and validation of knowledge. The journal covers both empirical research into the origination and transmission of knowledge and normative considerations which arise as such research is implemented, serving as a guide for directing contemporary knowledge enterprises.

Social Epistemology publishes ‘exchanges’ which are the collective product of several contributors and take the form of critical syntheses, open peer commentaries interviews, applications, provocations, reviews and responses.

Social Epistemology will be operating in collaboration with The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST).

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Peer Review Policy:
All research articles published in this journal have undergone peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two referees.

Disclaimer for scientific, technical and social science publications:
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Abstracting & indexing

Social Epistemology is abstracted/indexed in

C S A Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts); Current Abstracts; Lancaster Index to Defence & International Security Literature; OCLC; Philosopher's Index; International Philosophical Bibliography/Repertoire Bibliographique de la Philosophie; SCOPUS; Social Services Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts.

Instructions to Authors

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Social Epistemology considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that

the manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.
the manuscript has been submitted only to Social Epistemology; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.
the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.

Please note that Social Epistemology uses CrossCheck™ software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal material. By submitting your manuscript to Social Epistemology you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your manuscript may have to undergo during the peer-review and production processes.

Any author who fails to adhere to the above conditions will be charged with costs which Social Epistemology incurs for their manuscript at the discretion of Social Epistemology’s Editors and Taylor & Francis, and their manuscript will be rejected.

This journal is compliant with the Research Councils UK OA policy. Please see the licence options and embargo periods here .

Contents List

Manuscript preparation

Manuscript submission

Copyright and authors’ rights

Accepted Manuscripts Online (AMO)

Free article access

Reprints and journal copies

Open access

Manuscript preparation

1. General guidelines
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Manuscripts are accepted in English. Oxford English Dictionary spelling and punctuation are preferred. Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Long quotations of words or more should be indented xxIndentedQuoteMarks quotation marks. Please see comprehensive style guide here
Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page (including Acknowledgements as well as Funding and grant-awarding bodies); abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
Abstracts are required for all manuscripts submitted.
Each manuscript should have to 3 to 6 keywords .
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Section headings should be concise.
All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.
All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
Author's bionote should be brief (fifty words) and include the author's institutional position and affiliation and a full address for correspondence.
Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph, as follows:
- For single agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx]."
- For multiple agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency 1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency 2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency 3] under Grant [number xxxx]."
Authors must also incorporate a SI units . Units are not italicised.
When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
Authors must not embed equations or image files within their manuscript

· All authors are asked to take account of the diverse audience of Social Epistemology. Clearly explain or avoid the use of terms that might be meaningful only to a local or national audience. However, note also that Social Epistemology does not aspire to be international in the ways that McDonald's restaurants or Hilton Hotels are 'international'; we much prefer papers that, where appropriate, reflect the particularities of each higher education system.

· Some specific points of style for the text of articles, research reports, case studies, reports, essay reviews, and reviews follow:

· 1. Social Epistemology prefers US to 'American', USA to 'United States', and UK to 'United Kingdom'.

· 2 . Social Epistemology uses conservative British, not US, spelling, i.e. colour not color; behaviour (behavioural) not behavior; [school] programme not program; [he] practises not practices; centre not center; organization not organisation; analyse not analyze, etc.

· 3. Single 'quotes' are used for quotations rather than double "quotes", unless the 'quote is "within" another quote'.

· 4. Punctuation should follow the British style, e.g. 'quotes precede punctuation'.

· 5. Punctuation of common abbreviations should follow the following conventions: e.g. i.e. cf. Note that such abbreviations are not followed by a comma or a (double) point/period.

· 6. Dashes (M-dash) should be clearly indicated in manuscripts by way of either a clear dash (-) or a double hyphen (- -).

· 7. Social Epistemology is sparing in its use of the upper case in headings and references, e.g. only the first word in paper titles and all subheads is in upper case; titles of papers from journals in the references and other places are not in upper case.

· 8. Apostrophes should be used sparingly. Thus, decades should be referred to as follows: 'The 1980s [not the 1980& ’ s] saw ...'. Possessives associated with acronyms (e.g. APU), should be written as follows: 'The APU&'s findings that ...', but, NB, the plural is APUs.

· 9. All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. 'The work o f the Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) in the early 1980s ...'. Subsequently, 'The APU studies of achievement ...', in a reference ... (Department of Education and Science [DES] 1989a).

· 10. Brief biographical details of significant national figures should be outlined in the text unless it is quite clear that the person concerned would be known internationally. Some suggested editorial emendations to a typical text are indicated in the following with square brackets: 'From the time of H. E. Armstrong [in the 19th century] to the curriculum development work associated with the Nuffield Foundation [in the 1960s], there has been a shift from heurism to constructivism in the design of [British] science courses'.

· 11. The preferred local (national) usage for ethnic and other minorities should be used in all papers. For the USA, African-American, Hispanic, and Native American are used, e.g. 'The African American presidential candidate, Jesse Jackson...' For the UK, African-Caribbean (not 'West Indian'), etc.

· 12. Material to be emphasized (italicized in the printed version) should be underlined in the typescript rather than italicized. Please use such emphasis sparingly.

· 13. n (not N), % (not per cent) should be used in typescripts.

· 14. Numbers in text should take the following forms: 300, 3000, 30 000. Spell out numbers under 10 unless used with a unit of measure, e.g. nine pupils but 9 mm (do not introduce periods with measure). For decimals, use the form 0.05 (not .05).

· Mathematics

· Special care should be taken with mathematical scripts, especially subscripts and superscripts and differentiation between the letter "ell" and the figure one, and the letter "oh "and the figure zero. If your keyboard does not have the characters you need, it is preferable to use longhand, in which case it is important to differentiate between capital and small letters, K, k and x and other similar groups of letters. Special symbols should be highlighted in the text and explained in the margin. In some cases it is helpful to supply annotated lists of symbols for the guidance of the sub-editor and the typesetter, and/or a 'Nomenclature' section preceding the 'Introduction'.

· For simple fractions in the text, the solidus / should be used instead of a horizontal line, care being taken to insert parentheses where necessary to avoid ambiguity, for example, I / (n-1). Exceptions are the proper fractions available as single type on a keyboard.

· Full formulae or equations should be displayed, that is, written on a separate line. Horizontal lines are preferable to solidi, for example:

· 6 1+ 5 h + q

· 3 n + 3 yz ²

· But: a/b + c/d + a/d

· P = (a ² = b ²)(c ² + d ²)

· The solidus is not generally used for units: ms ^{- 1} not m/s, but note electrons/s, counts/channel, etc.

· Displayed equations referred to in the text should be numbered serially (1, 2, etc.) on the right hand side of the page. Short expressions not referred to by any number will usually be incorporated in the text.

· Symbols should not be underlined to indicate fonts except for tensors, vectors and matrices, which are indicated with a wavy line in the manuscript (not with a straight arrow or arrow above) and rendered in heavy type in print: upright sans serif r (tensor), sloping serif r (vector) upright serif r (matrix).

· Typographical requirements must be clearly indicated at their first occurrence, e.g. Greek, Roman, script, sans serif, bold, italic. Authors will be charged for corrections at proof stage resulting from a failure to do so.

· Braces, brackets and parentheses are used in the order {[( )]}, except where mathematical convention dictates otherwise (i.e. square brackets for commutators and anticommutators).

· Citations in text

· References should be cited using either the author/date system e.g., (Smith 1998). They should be listed separately at the end of the paper in the order in alphabetical order. 'Ibid.' (and the like) are not used when repeating citations.

2. Style guidelines
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3. Figures
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Please provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file.
Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly.
The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.

4. Publication charges
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Submission fee

There is no submission fee for Social Epistemology

Page charges

There is no submission fee for Social Epistemology

Colour charges

Authors should restrict their use of colour to situations where it is necessary on scientific, and not merely cosmetic, grounds. Colour figures will be reproduced in colour in the online edition of the journal free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in colour in the print version, a charge will apply. Charges for colour pages are £250 per figure ($395 US Dollars; $385 Australian Dollars; 315 Euros). If you wish to have more than 4 colour figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($80 US Dollars; $75 Australian Dollars; 63 Euros). Waivers may apply for some articles – please consult the Production Editor regarding waivers.

Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to Value Added Tax .

5. Reproduction of copyright material
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If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).

You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.

The reproduction of short extracts of text, excluding poetry and song lyrics, for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.

For further information and FAQs on the reproduction of copyright material, please consult our Guide .

6. Supplemental online material
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Authors are encouraged to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.

Information about supplemental online material

Manuscript submission
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All submissions should be made online at the Social Epistemology here for information regarding anonymous peer review.

Copyright and authors' rights
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To assure the integrity, dissemination, and protection against copyright infringement of published articles, you will be asked to assign us, via a Publishing Agreement, the copyright in your article. Your Article is defined as the final, definitive, and citable Version of Record, and includes: (a) the accepted manuscript in its final form, including the abstract, text, bibliography, and all accompanying tables, illustrations, data; and (b) any supplemental material hosted by Taylor & Francis. Our Publishing Agreement with you will constitute the entire agreement and the sole understanding between you and us; no amendment, addendum, or other communication will be taken into account when interpreting your and our rights and obligations under this Agreement.

Copyright policy is explained in detail here .

Free article access
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As an author, you will receive free access to your article on Taylor & Francis Online. You will be given access to the My authored works section of Taylor & Francis Online, which shows you all your published articles. You can easily view, read, and download your published articles from there. In addition, if someone has cited your article, you will be able to see this information. We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article and have provided guidance on how you can help . Also within My authored works, author eprints allow you as an author to quickly and easily give anyone free access to the electronic version of your article so that your friends and contacts can read and download your published article for free. This applies to all authors (not just the corresponding author).

Reprints and journal copies
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Corresponding authors can receive a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Article reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when you receive your proofs. If you have any queries about reprints, please contact the Taylor & Francis Author Services team at reprints@tandf.co.uk . To order a copy of the issue containing your article, please contact our Customer Services team at Adhoc@tandf.co.uk

Open Access
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Taylor & Francis Open Select provides authors or their research sponsors and funders with the option of paying a publishing fee and thereby making an article permanently available for free online access – open access – immediately on publication to anyone, anywhere, at any time. This option is made available once an article has been accepted in peer review.

Full details of our Open Access programme

Last updated 4/12/14

Visit our Author Services website for further resources and guides to the complete publication process and beyond.

Editorial Board
Executive Editor:
James H. Collier - Virginia Tech, USA

Former Executive Editor:

Joan Leach - University of Queensland, Australia

Founding Editor & Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology:
Steve Fuller - University of Warwick, UK

Digital Editor:

James H. Collier - Virginia Tech, USA

Editorial Board:

Brian Baigrie - University of Toronto, Canada
Gerard Delanty - University of Liverpool, UK
David Depew - University of Iowa, USA
Gary Downey - Virginia Tech, USA
Melinda Bonnie Fagan, Rice University, USA
Ulrike Felt - Institute for Philosophy of Science & Social Studies of Science, Austria
Menachem Fisch - Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Robert Frodeman - University of North Texas, USA
Ronald Giere - University of Minnesota, USA
Merle Jacob - Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Ilya Kasavin - Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
William Keith - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Marianne de Laet , Harvey Mudd College, USA
Joan Leach - University of Queensland, Australia
José López Cerezo - Oviedo University, Spain
James Maffie - Colorado State University, USA
Allan Megill - University of Virginia, USA
Everett Mendelsohn - Harvard University, USA
Ellen Messer-Davidow - University of Minnesota, USA
Philip Mirowski - University of Notre Dame, USA
Mammo Muchie - Middlesex University, UK
Hideto Nakajima - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
John Nelson - University of Iowa, USA
Thomas Nickles - University of Nevada at Reno, USA
Gloria Origgi - Institut Jean Nicod, France
Hans Radder - Universiteit de Boelelaan, The Netherlands
Sujatha Raman - University of Nottingham, UK
Francis Remedios - Independent Scholar, Canada
Ziauddin Sardar - Middlesex University, UK
Ulica Segerstrale - Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Betty Smocovitis - University of Florida, USA
Nico Stehr - Zeppelin University, Germany
Stephen Turner - University of South Florida, USA
Charles Willard - University of Louisville, USA