期刊名称：SIGNS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Founded in 1975, Signs is recognized as the leading international journal in women's studies. Signs publishes articles from a wide range of disciplines in a variety of voices—articles engaging gender, race, culture, class, sexuality, and / or nation. The focus of essays ranges from cross-disciplinary theorizing and methodologies to specific disciplinary issues, framed to enter conversations of interest across disciplines.
Instructions to Authors
The editors invite submission of article-length manuscripts that might appropriately be published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. We publish articles from a wide range of disciplines in a variety of voices—articles engaging gender and its interaction with race, culture, class, nation, and/or sexuality. We are looking for lively, provocative essays that launch new inquiries or prompt intense debate; we publish essays not only in areas of scholarship familiar to Signs readers but in newly emergent fields relevant to women and gender as well. Essays may be cross-disciplinary in their theorizing, their methodology, or their sources.
Signs does not consider manuscripts that are under review elsewhere or that have been previously published. Signs does not accept unsolicited book reviews.
Each author (or set of coauthors) will receive 10 copies of the issue or a year's subscription (or renewal).
Editorial procedures
All articles published in Signs are peer reviewed.
Preparation of copy
- Articles should not exceed a maximum length of 10,000 words, including references and endnotes. Please indicate the word count on the title page.
- A separate title page should include the article title and the author's name, postal address, telephone number, e-mail address, and fax number, if available. To protect anonymity, the author's name should not appear in the manuscript, and all references in the body of the text and in endnotes that might identify the author to the reviewer should be removed and cited on a separate page. Articles that do not conform to these specifications will be returned to the authors.
- A high quality photocopy of each illustration should accompany the manuscript. Reproduction quality prints of illustrations will be required for manuscripts accepted for publication.
- All articles must include an abstract of no more than 500 words. Abstracts should be included within the body of the manuscript and must also be submitted within the appropriate field on the Web-based Peer Review (WPR) submission form.
- Authors are strongly encouraged to submit manuscripts online, via WPR. For instructions, please visit http://mss.uchicago.edu/Signs or see Submission Guidelines below.
Citations and references
Submissions should follow the author-date system of documentation, with limited endnotes, as outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.). (See Chapter 16, pages 616?4, outlining documentation for the social sciences.) The journal office may request full revision of manuscripts not meeting the CMS requirements for documentation.
References to works are given in the text in chronological order by enclosing the author's last name and the year of publication in parentheses (Miller 1978) and are keyed to an alphabetical list of references at the end of the article. Specific page or section references follow the date, preceded by a comma (Miller 1978, 234). Other examples are: (Miller and Jones 1978) for dual authorship; (Miller et al. 1978) for more than three authors; (Miller 1978a, 1978b) for two works by the same author in a single year; (Smith 1982; Chanock 1985; Robertson and Berger 1986) for two or more works by different authors.
Endnotes are used for material commenting on or adding to the text and should be used instead of parenthetical citations for references to more than three works, archival materials, unpublished interviews, and legal cases. Within endnotes, second and later references to a work should refer to the author's last name and date. Do not use op. cit. endnotes should be typed double-spaced at the end of the article, following the list of references.
Full documentation appears in the references. References must list all works cited in the text, including citations in endnotes. List works alphabetically by author and, under author, by year of publication. References not cited in the text will be removed from the reference list. For additional information, see the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.).
Examples of references
Anzaldúa, Gloria, ed. 1990. Making Face, Making Soul—Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute.
Beauvoir, Simone de. (1949) 1974. The Second Sex. Ed and trans. H. M. Parshley. New York: Vintage.
Carby, Hazel. 1990. “The Politics of Difference.?Ms., September-October, 84?5.
Chairmian, Ellen. 1969. “Studies in Murder.?Unpublished manuscript, University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research.
Christian, Barbara. 1985. “No More Buried Lives.?In her Black Feminist Criticism, 187-204. New York: Pergamon.
Donovan, Josephine. 1989. “Radical Feminist Criticism.?In Feminist Literary Criticism: Explorations in Theory, ed. Josephine Donovan, 77?18. 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Gilligan, Carol. 1982. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Gilligan, Carol, Nona Lyons, and Trudy Hammer, eds. 1990. Making Connections: The Relational Worlds of Adolescent Girls at Emma Willard School. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Haraway, Donna. 1986. “Primatology Is Politics by Other Means: Women’s Place Is in the Jungle.?In Feminist Approaches to Science, ed. Ruth Bleier, 77?18. New York: Pergamon.
-------. 1989. Primate Visions: Gender Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall.
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. 1992. “African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race.?Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 17(2):251?4.
Holland, Dorothy, and Margaret Eisenhart. 1990. Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Jeater, Diana. 1990. “Marriage, Perversion and Power: The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1890?930.?PhD dissertation, Oxford University.
Morrison, Toni. 1992a. Jazz. New York: Knopf.
——? 1992b. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Simons, Margaret A. 1986. “Beauvoir and Sartre: The Philosophical Relationship.?In “Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century,?ed. Hélène Vivienne Wenzel, special issue of Yale French Studies 72:165?9.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1984. Census of Population, 1980. Vol. 1, Characteristics of the Population. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. 1992. How Schools Shortchange Girls: A Study of Major Findings on Girls and Education. Washington, DC: American Association of University Women.
Williams, Juliet. 1992. “The Paradox of Identity Politics.?Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2?.
Submission Guidelines
The Signs Web-based Peer Review system (WPR) enables authors to submit articles via the Internet directly from their computers. To submit online, please follow the steps below.
Submission checklist: Please have the following items readily available before beginning the online submission process:
- Your manuscript
- Your cover letter as a separate file
- Information from the title page (to be typed into the peer review database): title, short title, list of authors and affiliations, word count, and contact information for the corresponding author who is making the online submission
- An abstract for your manuscript (to be copied and pasted into a field in WPR)
- Tables and figures as separate files, if applicable
Step one: Author information and abstract
Go to the Signs Peer Review Web site at http://mss.uchicago.edu/Signs. A username and password are required to enter the site. Authors who have published articles in Signs in the past five years or who have used the Web-based system previously may have accounts already active in the database. Please use the “Help feature?to check if your email address is recognized before creating a duplicate account. If you are new to the site, click on "Create account" to register. After completing your login, click the "Begin submission" button.
Please note that while you are entering information into the WPR system, you should never click on the "Back" or "Refresh" icons on your computer screen because they erase all the information you have provided and require you to begin the submission process again.
Once you have logged in, please fill in the fields requesting information about the author(s) and the title of the article. To move from one field to the next, press the tab key. Copy and paste the abstract into the field provided. When all the information is complete and correct, click "Ready to upload files" to proceed to step two.
Step two: Uploading your file(s)
Click the "Browse" button to locate the files you wish to upload on your computer or local system. Once you have selected the appropriate file, click "Upload this file" to send the file to WPR. The cover letter must be submitted as a separate file from the text of the manuscript. The name of the manuscript file must begin with "ms," using lowercase type. (For example, if your article is titled "Confounding Gender," please type: ms Confounding Gender). The WPR system will automatically add a manuscript identification number ID during the upload.
Check your results. Only files listed in the box labeled "Files uploaded so far" have been uploaded successfully. If you are submitting a manuscript without any tables, figures, or images, then you should see two files in this box, one for the cover letter and one for the manuscript. Any graphics should be included in a separate file. If you need to delete a file, click the file name in the box to select it, then click the "Delete selected file" button.
When you have uploaded all files for your submission, click "Process uploaded files" to proceed. The system will attempt to make a PDF version of your file. If successful, there will be a link to the PDF on the next Web page that appears.
If you wish to cancel your submission, selecting the "Cancel submission" button will delete all uploaded files from the system.
Step three: Submitting the manuscript
Once your file has been converted to a PDF, you may view this PDF by clicking on "ms.pdf" (a link that will appear on the next Web page). After viewing the PDF, indicate how you would like to proceed.
Selecting "Approve and submit now" indicates that you have viewed the PDF file via the link provided and you wish to submit this article exactly as it appears.
If you have second thoughts about the manuscript, you may select "Fix and resubmit later." This option saves the files you have already uploaded for 30 days so you can return and upload new or corrected files to create a new PDF. No file will be submitted to the journal until you return to the site, make final changes, and then select, "approve and submit now." If you do not return to the site within 30 days, the manuscript will automatically be deleted from the server without having been submitted to the journal.
Click "Finish" to complete the process. Click "Cancel" if you do not wish to proceed with the submission.
If your manuscript has been successfully submitted to the Web Peer Review system, a confirmation screen, which includes your assigned manuscript number, will appear. Please carefully note this number and use it in all future correspondence with the Signs editorial office. You will receive an e-mail message confirming your submission within three business days.
If you do not receive either a mansuscript number or confirmation e-mail, your manuscript was not successfully submitted to Signs. Please try again, contact edcc-help@mss.uchicago.edu, or call (732) 932-2841 for assistance.
Authors who do not have Internet access may continue to submit via post. Please send one hard copy and a diskette containing all relevant electronic files to Mary Hawkesworth, Editor, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Voorhees Chapel, Room 8, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
Editorial Board
Editor
Mary Hawkesworth
Senior Editor
Karen Alexander Managing Editor
Miranda Outman-Kramer
Editorial Assistant
Dawn Blissett Graduate Research Assistants
Jeanne Baptiste, Kelly Coogan
Sponsor
Rutgers University Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Founding Editor
Catharine R. Stimpson
Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
Jean F. O'Barr
Ruth-Ellen Boethcher Jones Editors Emeritae
Barbara Laslett
Carolyn Allen
Judith A. Howard
Sandra Harding
Kathryn Norberg
Laura Ahern
Eileen Appelbaum
Barbara Balliet
Vilna Bashi
Herman Bennett
Eleanor Brilliant
Ethel Brooks
Carolyn Brown
Winifred Brown Glaude
Charlotte Bunch
Abena Busia
Susan Carroll
Indrani Chatterjee
Cheryl Clarke
Sue Cobble
Ed Cohen
Barbara Cooper
Drucilla Cornell Associate Editors
Cynthia Daniels
Harriet Davidson
Belinda Davis
Marianne Dekoven
David Eng
Ann Fabian
Leela Fernandes
Kate Flint
Judith Gerson
Mary Gossy
Elizabeth Grosz
Mary Hartman
Angelique Haugerud
Nancy Hewitt
Dorothy Hodgson
Beth Hutchison
Jyl Josephson
Jane Junn
Temma Kaplan
Samira Kawash
Renee Larrier
Fran Mascia Lees
Leslie McCall
Jennifer Morgan
Jasbir Puar
Anna Yolanda Ramos
Joanna Regulska
Phillip Rothwell
Josie Saldana
Louisa Schein
Ben Sifuentes Jauregui
Bonnie Smith
Arlene Stein
Sarolta Takacs
Jacqueline Thaw
Meredith Turshen
Cheryl Wall
Edna Acosta-Bellén
State University of New York, Albany Advisory Board
Nancy Fraser
New School for Social Research
Nell Irvin Painter
Princeton University
M. Jacqui Alexander
Connecticut College Malgorzata Fuszara
University of Warsaw Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Hunter College, City University of New York
Catherine Belsey
University of Wales, Cardiff College Judith Kegan Gardiner
University of Illinois at Chicago Mary I. Poovey
New York University
Francine D. Blau
Cornell University Linda Gordon
University of Wisconsin—Madison Janice Radway
Duke University
Paola Bono
University of Rome Donna Haraway
University of California, Santa Cruz Hilary Rose
University of Bradford
Liana Borghi
University of Florence Heidi Hartmann
Institute for Women's Policy Research Luana Ross
University of Washington
Judith Butler
University of California, Berkeley Jane Jenson
University of Montreal Gayle Rubin
Rutgers University
Hazel Carby
Yale University Linda K. Kerber
University of Iowa Londa L. Schiebinger
Pennsylvania State University
Sue-Ellen Case
University of California, Los Angeles Annette Kuhn
University of Bonn Joan W. Scott
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
Rey Chow
Brown University Lisa Lowe
University of California, San Diego Carol C. Smart
Leeds University
Teresa de Lauretis
University of California, Santa Cruz Jane Mansbridge
Harvard University Dorothy E. Smith
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Irene Dölling
University of Potsdam Biddy Martin
Cornell University Claudia Tate
Princeton University
Cynthia H. Enloe
Clark University Emily Martin
New York University Barrie Thorne
University of California, Berkeley
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Brown University Jill Julius Matthews
Australian National University Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Princeton University Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Hamilton College Sylvia J. Yanagisako
Stanford University
Jane Flax
Howard University Henrietta L. Moore
London School of Economics
and Political Science Iris Marion Young
University of Chicago
Julia O'Connell Davidson
Leicester University
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