Notes for Contributors
1. Aims & Scopes
Critical Social Policy is a highly ranked, peer reviewed journal that provides an international forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. It aims to develop an understanding of welfare from socialist, feminist, anti-racist and radical perspectives. Contributors should refer to the Aims and Scope on the inside front cover. This statement applies to submissions for both the Articles and Commentary & Issues sections of Critical Social Policy.
2. The journal aims to publish fully original contributions on social policy. We will not normally publish work that contains the same or substantially similar content to work by the same or another author, or is published or being considered for publication elsewhere. When submitting papers for consideration, please confirm that your contribution is not being published or considered for publication in any other context or format.
3. It is the responsibility of the author to anonymise fully the text submitted. This includes self citations.
Refereeing procedures: All submissions to CSP are refereed anonymously by three members of the editorial collective. One of these is appointed the convenor for each paper and will write to the contributor with our decision. Three decisions can be made: Acceptance (which may include minor editing); Rejection; or Resubmission. Please note that resubmitted papers are refereed again and that there is no guarantee that they will be accepted for publication.
4. Commentary & Issues is designed for shorter, topical pieces. Contributors should aim to comment on changes in social policy and its implementation. Detailed specialist knowledge on the part of readers should not be assumed. Contributions on policy changes in countries other than the UK are welcome.
5. Members of the CSP editorial collective are happy to discuss and offer advice on ideas for papers, particularly for inexperienced and non-academic contributors.
6. The maximum length for articles inclusive of bibliography, notes, tables etc. should be 8000 words, and for Commentary & Issues 4000 words, including notes and references. The typescript should be carefully checked for errors before it is submitted for publication. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of quotations, for supplying complete and correct references, and for obtaining permission where needed to cite another person's material. Papers that significantly exceed these limits may be returned to the contributor for editing before being considered.
7. Papers are expected to be accessible and jargon-free. Lengthy quotations of more than 40 words should be indented; shorter quotes should be retained within the body of the text. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Tables and Figures should be presented on separate sheets of paper at the end of the article. Their position within the text should be clearly indicated.
8. For citing and referencing use the Harvard-style system. References in the text should read as Hall (1995: 63-4), or Hall and Smith (1993, 1998). Use 'et al.' when citing a work by more than two authors, e.g. Hall et al. (1997). The letters a, b, c etc. should be used to distinguish citations of different works by the same author in the same year, e.g. Hall (1988a, b). Enclose within a single pair of parentheses a series of references, separated by semicolons, e.g. (Hall and Smith, 1993; Jones, 1985). Use also parentheses to insert any brief phrase associated with the reference, e.g. (but see Jones, 2000: 23-4). For an institutional authorship, supply the minimum citation from the beginning of the complete reference, e.g. (Department of Health, 1996: 36). The reference list should be alphabetically ordered.
9. Authors will be asked to provide an electronic copy of the final version of their paper following acceptance for publication. The author is responsible for ensuring that the final hard copy and electronic versions of the manuscript are identical.
10. Authors are sent proofs for checking and correction. Proofs should be corrected carefully; the responsibility for detecting errors lies with the author. On publication authors will receive a bound copy and access to the final pdf of their article.
11. It is a condition that copyright should be assigned to Critical Social Policy Limited, with certain rights retained by authors. Further details will be sent to authors before publication. No paper will be published until the appropriate forms are completed and returned.
Editorial Addresses
Please send fourhard copies of submissions for publication to the appropriate address below plus an electronic copy by email (two paper copies are acceptable in cases of hardship).
For Articles: Shona Hunter, Sociology and Social Policy Department, Social Sciences Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. s.d.j.hunter@leeds.ac.uk cc m.b.ross@leeds.ac.uk
All article submissions should include:
On a separate sheet: author's full name, affiliation, address, and email; short biographies (50-100 words) of each author including affiliation, recent publications and email. On the 1st page: full title of paper (please note that the author's name must not appear on this or any subsequent page); abstract (100-150 words) covering the key argument(s) and conclusion(s) of the paper; up to 5 key words, arranged alphabetically; do not repeat any of the words in the title;
All submissions must also include a signed covering letter confirming: word count; that the text has been fully anonymised; that the contribution is not being considered for publication in any other context or format.
Authors should note that the articles editor reserves the right to return submissions not conforming to this basic standard.
For Commentary & Issues: Charlotte Williams, School of Criminology, Education, Sociology and Social Work, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. c.f.williams@appsoc.keele.ac.uk
For Book Reviews: Paul Michael Garrett, Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. pm.garrett@nuigalway.ie
All other correspondence to:Norman Ginsburg, Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University, 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD, UK.
n.ginsburg@londonment.ac.uk
Authors will receive electronic offprints of their article and a complimentary journal copy. A maximum of 5 journal copies will be supplied for multi-authored articles. These will be supplied to the main author.
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