期刊名称：SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Social Policy & Administration is an international journal of policy analysis and social research. Its coverage ranges from the politics of policy-making to the sociology of a wide range of social issues including poverty/income protection, health, crime, education, housing, social control and social care. Based in the UK, it is nevertheless truly global in its reach, with contributors from Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Australasia and Africa.
Social Policy & Administration is the longest established journal in its field. Whilst remaining faithful to its tradition in academic excellence, the journal also seeks to engender debate about topical and controversial issues. Two of the seven issues published each year focus on matters relating to a specific region or country, and one issue per year is themed around a topic of current interest.
Coverage includes:
- Editorial comment
- Scholarly articles
- Multi-disciplinary and international research reports by academics, policy makers, public administrators, and social workers
- Review articles by well-known scholars and writers
Indexed/Abstracted in |
| Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts; Asian Pacific Database; Caredata Abstracts; Criminology, Penology and Police Science Abstracts; Current Contents. Social & Behavioral Sciences; Geo Abstracts; International Bibliography of Sociology / Prepared by the International Committee for Social Sciences Documentation in Co-operation with the International Sociological Association; Journal of Planning Literature; Middle East Abstracts and Index; PAIS International in Print; Research Alert. (Full Cov.); Social Services Abstracts; Social Sciences Citation Index. (Full Cov.); Sociological Abstracts; South East Asia Abstracts; Studies on Women Abstracts; Tropical Diseases Bulletin | |
Instructions to Authors
1. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts for publication on subjects within the field of Social Policy and Administration. Papers should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spa. Papers should be submitted as a PC compatible word file in double-spaced typescript A4 size and be between 6,000 to 8,000 words long (including bibliography). Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words, and up to 6 keywords. Figures or other artwork must be of a size and quality suitable for direct photographic reproduction and should be supplied in electronic format to the following specifications: halftones 300dpi .tif; line art .eps or 600dpi .tif (.eps files preferred).
2. Authors will be required to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the CTA is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received (US Federal Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various media/circumstances (please see the form for further details). To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here. Please return the completed forms as soon as possible, but before publication, to the following address:
Wendy Wong
Production Editor
Journal Content Management
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley Services Singapore Pte Ltd
600 North Bridge Road
#05-01 Parkview Square
Singapore 188778
Fax: (65) 6295 6202
Email : wwong@wiley.com 3. A Stylesheet has been prepared for this journal:
SOCIAL POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION: Style Guide for Contributors
Please type the whole paper (including Notes and References) in double spacing and leave generous margins. Paginate the manuscript. Acknowledgements and Notes should appear before the References. Any Appendices should appear immediately after the main text, before the Acknowledgements and Notes.
Please include an Abstract and Keywords (in that order) before the text of the paper.
Subheadings
Please use no more than 3 levels of subheadings within the paper (fewer if you can manage), and differentiate between them typographically:
A-headings - bold
B-headings - italic
C-headings - upright type
Leave a line space above and below headings. If you think there might be any ambiguity about the level of subheading, it would be helpful to mark them A, B or C in brackets beside the heading.
Spelling and Punctuation
Use -ize rather than -ise for verbs.
Use : e.g., i.e., etc., ed. (points)
Mr, Ltd, eds, edn (no points)
et al., ibid. (italic)
BBC, NHS, etc. (no points between letters)
focused, biased [only one 's']
judgement, acknowledgement [with an 'e']
Please use italics rather than underlining.
Numbers and Dates
Write out numbers one to nine, except before units (five men, 5 kg). Use figures for numbers 10 upwards.
Use a comma to mark off thousands (4,500, 45,000) except in dates and page numbers.
Write 'a million' or 'one million', but 2.2 million (not 2,200,000).
Write 10 per cent (in the text, 10% in tables).
Elide numbers as far as possible (except for the teens):
4-6, 14-16, 24-6, 1904-6, 1914-16.
Write dates as : 1 January, 31 December 1960, the 1960s, twentieth century (noun), twentieth-century (adj.), twenty-first century.
Use 1996/7 for an academic, financial etc. year.
Tables and figures
Please supply all tables and figures on separate pages at the end of the paper, after the References. This is helpful to the typesetter, who cannot always fit them into a page exactly where they might have been placed in the typescript. There should always be a text indicator, in the form : see table 1, as shown in figure 2, etc. (note lower case letters for 'table' and 'figure'.)
Use three horizontal rules in a table: below the title, below the column headings, and at the foot of the table. Do not use any vertical rules.
Please align all the numbers in a column on the decimal point.
The title, the column headings and the side headings (and the title and labels of a figure) should all be in upright, not italic or bold, type.
Quotations
Shorter quotes should be run on in the text (use single quotes). Longer ones (more than about 60 words) should normally be set out as extracts. Leave a space above and below the extract, indent it, and type in double spacing.
The source, if any, should be in brackets: inside the final full stop for run-on quotes, outside for displayed extracts.
To distinguish transcribed interview material from extracts from printed works, please use double quotes for these, even when they are displayed, and type in italics or underlined.
Ellipses (3 full stops spaced from the text on either side) should be used only within a quote, not at the start or close of it.
Notes
These should be presented not as footnotes but as a separate section (headed Notes) between the text and the References. Short acknowledgements can be located here, as an unnumbered note before the substantive notes.
(Multiple or long acknowledgements may be placed in a separate section [headed Acknowledgements] placed between the text and the Notes.)
Note numbers should be placed at the margin (not superscript), followed by a point and a space. The whole of the note should then be indented.
References
SP&A uses the Harvard (author-date) system of referencing.
- Text indicators should take the form:
(see Jones 1995: 123-4)
(no initials, no comma after author's name, page reference following a colon)
- Book titles should follow the model :
Author, A. B. (1966), Book Title Italic or Underlined, Oxford: Blackwell.
(note punctuation and capitalization. Place first, followed by colon and publisher's name. Turnover lines indented. Info. like '2nd edn', 'vol. 2', to go after the book title. )
- For journal articles, use the form :
Author, A. B. (1997), Article title not italicized: caps first word only, Journal Title in Italics or Underlined, 23, 4: 123-45.
(note punctuation, no quotes round article title, volume separated from issue by a comma; page ref. separated from issue by a colon)
- For a chapter in an edited volume :
Writer, A. B. (1999), Chapter title. In J. Bloggs and J. Public (eds), Book Title, London: Publisher, pp. 123-45.
(Where there are more than two authors, please give all the names in the References, but use the form: Smith et al. in the text indicator. Page references at the end of the entry)
- For a dissertation or thesis:
Writer, A. B. (2002), Thesis title upright: caps first word only. PhD thesis, Oxford University.
(No parentheses round title, full stop at end of title)
Author, A. (2003), Title of paper, caps first word only. Paper given at XXX Conference, London, 12-14 June.
For material accessed on a website:
Author (person or organization) (2002), Title of document. Name of website. (Accessed 4 June 2002.)
(Rough guide only - the type of information may vary. The main thing is to make sure you give enough info. to enable your reader to find the information too.)
There are several software packages available to help authors manage and format the references and footnotes in their journal article. We recommend the use of a software tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.
EndNote reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp
Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp
4. The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a web site. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Hard copy proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available. Excessive changes made by the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be charged separately.
After publication all authors will receive a PDF offprint of their article.
Pre-submission English-language editing
Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.
Early View
Social Policy & Administration is covered by Wiley-Blackwell's Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.
Editorial Board
Editor - Regular Issues
Professor Martin Powell
Health Services Management Centre
University of Birmingham
40 Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham
B15 2RT
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4462
email: socpolandadmin@Contacts.Bham.ac.uk
Editor - Special & Regional Issues
Bent Greve
Professor of Social Sciences
Department of Society and Globalisation
Roskilde University
4000 Roskilde
Denmark
Tel: +45 46742585
email: bgr@ruc.dk
Reviews Editor
Michael Cahill
School of Applied Social Science
University of Brighton
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9PH
Tel: +44 (0)1273 643467
email: M.Cahill@bton.ac.uk
Editorial Board
Ruth Lister (Chair), University of Loughborough, UK
John Baldock, University of Kent, UK
Jochen Clasen, University of Edinburgh, UK
Bleddyn Davies, PSSRU, LSE, Universities of Kent and Manchester, UK
David Denney, University of London, UK
Jane Falkingham, Southampton University, UK
Catherine Jones Finer, Oxford, UK
Trudie Knijn, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Ellen Kuhlmann, University of Bath, UK
Claude Martin, CNRS and EHESP, France
Tim Newburn, LSE, UK
Janet Newman, Open University, UK
Kirstein Rummery, Stirling University, UK
Bill Silburn, University of Nottingham, UK
International Advisory Board
Keith Banting, Queen's University, Canada
Nelson Chow, The University of Hong Kong, China
Zsuzsa Ferge, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Stephan Leibfried, Universität Bremen, Germany
Theodore R. Marmor, Yale University School of Management, USA
Peter Saunders, University of New South Wales, Australia
Chiara Saraceno, University of Turin, Italy
Marta Szebehely, Stockholm University, Sweden
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