期刊名称：POLITICAL STUDIES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Political Studies is a leading international journal, which is committed to publishing high-quality research in all areas of politics and international relations. The journal publishes rigorous and original work of significance to the discipline broadly defined. The journals editorial approach is not constrained by any particular methodological or theoretical framework and the editors wish to encourage a pluralistic approach to the discipline and debate among the different approaches. The editors particularly welcome submissions which aim to be innovative in their approach, which cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, which reconsider the relationship between the domestic and international politics, or which offer fresh comparative perspectives. The journal is committed to the very highest standards of peer reviewing, to developing the most promising new work available, and to facilitating professional communication in political science.
Political Studies' sister publication, Political Studies Review, provides unrivalled review coverage of new books and literature on political science and international relations. In addition, PSR is a forum for a range of approaches to reviews and debate in the discipline. PSR both commissions original review essays and strongly encourages submission of review articles, review symposia, longer reviews of books and debates relating to theories and methods in the study of politics.
For more information about Political Studies and Political Studies Review, visit www.politicalstudies.org.
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Indexed/Abstracted in |
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America: History and Life (1955-)
Bibliography of Asian Studies (Online Edition) (1971)
British Humanities Index (1986-)
CSA Political Science & Government (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Current Contents
Documentation in Public Administration
Family Index
Historical Abstracts (1955-)
IBR Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
IBZ Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
International Political Science Abstracts
PAIS International in Print (Annual) (Public Affairs Information Service)
Peace Research Abstracts Journal
Periodicals Contents Index
Personal Alert
Religion Index One: Periodicals
Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
Social Sciences Citation Index
Social Sciences Index (Feb.1982-)
Social Services Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts |
Instructions to Authors
All articles should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/post
Articles of more than 9000 words including all notes and references will not normally be accepted. Brief research notes with a minimum of referencing, and short notices and comments are welcome.
Brief comments on handling references are available below. A detailed style guide is available at http://www.politicalstudies.org/mainjournal/advice
We shall endeavour to get your paper professionally reviewed and a response back to you within three months. At the end of this period, feel free to e-mail us if you have not had a response and we will update you on progress so far. (The editors reserve the right to send back a paper submitted which an internal refereeing process shows is unsuitable for the journal. In this case we shall seek to contact you and return your papers with the minimum of delay.)
Handling references
Political Studies uses a Harvard system of referencing, without any accompanying notes wherever possible. The first component of the system is that the author's last name and date of publication are given at the reference point in the main text, enclosed in brackets:
(Rawls, 1971)
If an author has more than one cited publication for this year, add a, b, c etc to the date. Denote pages by p. and pp., and spell out the pagination for any chapter cited rather than using Ch. and so on:
(Rawls, 1992b, pp. 47-48).
Where two or three works are referenced at the same time they are enclosed within the same brackets and separated by a semi-colon:
(Rawls, 1971; Smith 1979, p. 24).
Where four or more works are referenced at the same point in the main text this could disrupt the flow of the argument and look off-putting. On such occasions only an end-note number may be inserted instead, leading to an end-note listing the works cited in the normal Harvard style, but without accompanying brackets since the end note is a discrete unit:
1. Rawls, 1971; Smith 1979, p. 29; Walzer, 1985; Jones and Johnson, 1999.
The second component of the Harvard system is a single complete list of references given at the end of the article, arranged in alphabetical order of the author's last name. The reference list must contain all literature cited in the main text and any occasional end notes: it may not contain any reference unless it has been specifically cited at some point. The format of each reference starts with the last name of the author, followed by her or his initials, a full stop and, then the date of publication in brackets. The entry then continues with different formats for books, chapters in edited books and journal articles as follows:
Books:
Inglehart, R. (1990) Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Societies. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Holliday, I., Gamble, G. and Parry, G. (eds) (1999) Fundamentals in British Politics. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Chapters in edited books:
Allen, D. (1988) 'British Foreign Policy and West European Co-operation' in P. Byrd (ed), British Foreign Policy Under Thatcher. Deddington: Philip Allen, pp. 210-18.
Articles:
Abrahams, P. (1998) 'Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State', Journal of Historical Sociology, 1 (1), pp. 15-21.
The use of ibid. , op. cit. , loc. cit. , should be avoided. A full list of authors should always be included in the first reference; thereafter the use of et al. is desirable. Page numbers defining the length of the article cited are preferable but not essential. All other pagination should be denoted by p. or pp. and chapters by ch., or chs. Single quotes should be used.
Exclusive Licence Form
Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. (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.
Editorial Board
Editors
Matthew Festenstein (Sheffield)
Martin Smith (Sheffield)
Associate editors
Katharine Adeney (Sheffield)
Sean Carey (Sheffield)
Andrew Geddes (Sheffield)
John Hobson (Sheffield)
Rhiannon Vickers (Sheffield)
Journal Manager (all submissions and correspondence)
Victoria Smith
Department of Politics
University of Sheffield
Elmfield
Northumberland Road
Sheffield S10 2TU
UK
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 1673
Email: politicalstudies@sheffield.ac.uk
International Advisory Board
Britain
David Beetham (Leeds)
Elizabeth Bomberg (Edinburgh)
Robin Brown (Leeds)
David Denver (Lancaster)
Andrew Gamble (Sheffield)
Andrew Hurrel (Nuffield, Oxford)
Richard Little (Bristol)
Andrew Massey (Portsmouth)
Elizabeth Meehan (Queens, Belfast)
Susan Mendus (York)
Gerry Stoker (Manchester)
Hugh Ward (Essex)
North America
Brian Barry (Columbia)
Suzanne Berger (MIT)
Robert H. Jackson (Boston)
Margaret Levi (Washington)
Carole Pateman (California)
Samuel Patterson (Ohio State)
Ken Shepsle (Harvard)
Europe
Attila Agh (Budapest)
Josep Colomer (Barcelona)
Jost Halmann (Dresden)
Michael Laver (Trinity College, Dublin)
Thomas Konig (Constanz)
Peter Mair (Leiden)
Mogens Pedersen (Odense)
Asia-Pacific
Robert Goodin (ANU, Canberra)
Ian Holliday (City, Hong Kong)
Gurpreet Mahajan (Jawaharlal Nehru)
Jon Quah (Singapore National)
Yong Phil Rhee (Seoul)
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