期刊名称：SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Social Psychology Quarterly publishes theoretical and empirical papers on the link between individual and society. This includes the study of the relations of individuals to one another, to groups, collectivities and institutions. It also includes the study of intra-individual processes insofar as they substantially influence, or are influenced by, social structure and process. This journal is genuinely interdisciplinary and publishes works by both sociologists and psychologists. SPQ is published in March, June, September, and December by the American Sociological Association. 1307 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20005-4701.
Instructions to Authors
1. Ethics: Submission of a manuscript to another professional journal while it is under review by SPQ is regarded by the ASA as unethical. Significant findings or contributions that have already appeared (or will appear) elsewhere must be clearly identified. All persons who publish in ASA journals are required to abide by ASA guidelines and ethics codes regarding plagiarism and other ethical issues.
2. What to include:
- A cover letter giving the address, telephone number, and email address of the corresponding author, the manuscript title, and other important information. Please include the word count of your manuscript (including footnotes and references), and please indicate whether the manuscript is submitted as an article or a note.
- Five (5) copies of your manuscript. All copies must be typed, printed, or photocopied; carbon copies are not acceptable. Manuscripts must be double-spaced with ample margins (see below). Be sure to retain a copy for your files.
- A $15.00 manuscript processing fee payable to the American Sociological Association. First submissions of all papers must be accompanied by this fee. No processing fee is required for revised and resubmitted manuscripts, or for manuscripts submitted by student members of ASA.
3. Where to send your submission:
Social Psychology Quarterly, Department of Sociology, CPR 107, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620. Telephone: (650) 725-6793, fax: (650) 725-6471
e-mail: spq@cas.usf.edu.
SPQ will acknowledge the receipt of your manuscript.
Preparation of Manuscripts
Manuscript pages should be easy for reviewers and editors to read and allow space for marginal notes. All pages must be typed or printed (12-point type is preferred), double-spaced (including notes and references) on 8-1/2 by 11 inch white paper. Margins must be at least 1-1/4 inches on all four sides (i.e., line length must not exceed 6 inches). If you cannot print italic or bold type, indicate italic characters by underlining them.
SPQ publishes both article-length and note-length pieces. Manuscripts for articles are generally 25 to 45 pages long (including all parts); those for notes should not exceed 25 pages. Your manuscript may have up to eight separate sections, including: (1) title page, (2) abstract, (3) text, (4) notes, (5) references, (6) tables, (7) figures, illustrations, or photographs, and (8) appendices. Organizing the parts in that order is recommended.
1. The title page should include the full title of the article, the author(s)'s name(s) (listed vertically if more than one), and institutional affiliation(s), a running head, and the approximate word count for the manuscript (including notes and references). Use an asterisk (*) to add a title footnote that gives the address of the author to whom communications about the article can be sent. In the same footnote, list acknowledgments, credits, and/or grant numbers.
2. Print the abstract (no more than 150 words) on a separate page headed by the title. Omit author(s)'s names on this page.
3. Begin the text of your manuscript on a new page headed by the title. SPQ uses anonymous peer reviewers to evaluate manuscripts, so please make an effort to keep the text of your manuscript anonymous. For example, if you cite your own work, write "Smith (1992) concluded..," not "I concluded (Smith 1992)..."
a. Headings and subheadings in the text indicate the organization of the content. Generally, three heading levels are sufficient for a full-length article. See recent SPQ issues for examples of heading formats.
b. Citations in the text give the last name of the author(s) and year of publication. Include page numbers whenever you quote directly from a work or refer to specific passages. Cite only those works needed to provide evidence for your assertions and to guide readers to important sources on your topic. In the following examples of text citations, ellipses (...) indicate manuscript text:
- If an author's name is in the text, follow it with the year in parentheses: ...Duncan (1959). If an author's name is not in the text, enclose the last name and year in parentheses: ...(Gouldner 1963).
- Pages cited follow the year of publication after a colon: ...(Ramirez and Weiss 1979:239 40).
- Give both last names for joint authors: ...(Martin and Bailey 1988).
- For works with three authors, list all three last names in the first citation in the text: ...Carr, Smith, and Jones 1962). For all subsequent citations use "et al.": ...(Carr et al. 1962). For works with four or more authors, use "et al." throughout.
- For institutional authorship, supply minimal identification from the complete citation: ...(U.S. Bureau of the Census 1963:117).
- List a series of citations in alphabetical order or date order separated by semicolons: ...(Burgess 1968; Marwell et al. 1971).
- Use "forthcoming" to cite sources scheduled for publication. For dissertations and unpublished papers, cite the date. If no date, use "n.d." in place of the date: ...Smith (forthcoming) and Oropesa (n.d.).
- For machine-readable data files, cite authorship and date: ...(Institute for Survey Research 1976).
c. Number notes in the text consecutively throughout your article using superscript Arabic numerals. If you refer to a note again later in the text, use a parenthetical note: ...(see note 3).
d. Equations in the text should be typed or printed. Use consecutive Arabic numerals in parentheses at the right margin to identify important equations. Align all expressions and clearly mark compound subscripts and superscripts. Clarify all unusual characters or symbols with notes circled in the margin.
4. Notes (footnotes or endnotes) should be typed or printed, double-spaced, either as footnotes at the bottom of the text pages or in a separate "ENDNOTES" section. Begin each note with the superscript numeral to which it is keyed in the text (e.g., " 1 After 1981, there were ..."). Notes can (a) explain or amplify text, (b) cite materials of limited availability, or (c) append information presented in a table or figure.
Long notes can distract the reader. As alternatives, consider (a) stating in the text that information is available from the author, (b) depositing the information in a national retrieval center and inserting a short footnote or a citation in the text, or (c) adding an appendix.
5. References are presented in a separate section headed "REFERENCES." All references cited in the text must be listed in the reference section, and vice versa. Publication information for each must be complete and correct.
List the references in alphabetical order by authors' last names; include first names and middle initials for all authors when available. List two or more entries by the same author(s) in order of the year of publication. If the cited material is not yet published but has been accepted for publication, use "Forthcoming" in place of the date and give the journal name or publishing house. For dissertations and unpublished papers, cite the date and place the paper was presented and/or where it is available. If no date is available, use "N.d." in place of the date.
If two or more cited works are by the same author(s) within the same year, list them in alphabetical order by title and distinguish them by adding the letters a, b, c, etc., to the year (or to "Forthcoming"). For works with more than one author, only the name of the first author is inverted (e.g., "Jones, Arthur B., Colin D. Smith, and James Petersen"). List all authors; using "et al." in the reference list is not acceptable.
The first letter of each word in the title of an article should be capitalized and the title enclosed in quotations. Titles of books and journals should be italicized or underlined. Publisher's names should be stated in as brief a form as is fully intelligible. For example, John A. Wiley and Sons should be "Wiley."
A few examples follow. Refer to the ASA Style Guide (2nd ed., 1997) for additional examples:
- Books:
Bernard, Claude. [1865] 1957. An Introduction to the Study of
Experimental Medicine. Translated by H. D. Greene. New York: Dover.
Mason, Karen O. 1974. Women's Labor Force Participation and
Fertility. Research Triangle Park, NC: National Institutes of Health.
U. S. Bureau of the Census. 1960. Characteristics of Population.
Vol. 1. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Periodicals:
Goodman, Leo A. 1947a. "The Analysis of Systems of Qualitative Variables
When Some of the Variables Are Observable. Part I A Modified Latent Structure Approach." American Journal of Sociology 79:1179-1259.
______. 1947b. "Exploratory Latent Structure Analysis Using Both
Identifiable and Unidentifiable Models." Biometrika 61:215-31.
Szelenyi, Szonja and Jacqueline Olvera. Forthcoming. "The Declining
Significance of Class: Does Gender Complicate the Story?" Theory and Society.
- Collections:
Clausen, John A. 1972. "The Life Course of Individuals." Pp. 457-514 in
Aging and Society, vol. 3, A Sociology of Age Stratification, edited by M. W. Riley, M. Johnson, and A. Foner. New York: Russell Sage.
Sampson, Robert J. 1992. "Family Management and Child Development:
Insights from Social Disorganization Theory." Pp. 63-93 in Advances in Criminology Theory, vol. 3, Facts, Frameworks, and Forecasts, edited by J. McCord. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
- Dissertations:
Charles, Maria. 1990. "Occupational Sex Segregation: A Log-Linear
Analysis of Patterns in 25 Industrial Countries." Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
- Machine-readable data files:
American Institute of Public Opinion. 1976. Gallup Public
Opinion Poll #965 [MRDF]. Princeton, NJ: American Institute of Public Opinion [producer]. New Haven, CT: Roper Public Opinion Research Center, Yale University [distributor].
6. Number tables consecutively. Type or print each table on a separate page. Insert a note in the text to indicate table placement (e.g., "Table 2 About Here").
- Each table must include a descriptive title and headings for all columns and rows. See tables in recent issues of SPQ for examples of table layout.
- Table footnotes are appended only to a specific table. General notes to a table should be listed directly under the table as "Note: ..." or "Notes:...." Specific notes should be lettered consecutively within each table with superscript lowercase letters. Use asterisks *, **, and/or *** to indicate significance at the p<.05, p<.01, and p<.001 levels, respectively, and always specify one-tailed or two-tailed tests.
- Round off numbers to two decimal places when possible, and keep rounding consistent within tables.
7. Number figures, illustrations, or photographs consecutively. Include a title or caption. Insert a note in the text to indicate placement (e.g., "Figure 1 About Here").
- If your manuscript is accepted for publication all artwork must be submitted in camera-ready form: Figures and illustrations must be executed by computer or by a graphic artist in black ink on white paper with clear lines; lettering on figures and illustrations must be typeset or done in pen and ink; photographs must be black-and-white on glossy paper.
- IMPORTANT: All figures, illustrations, and photographs (including all type) must be legible when reduced or enlarged to fit one or two column widths, 2-9/16 and 5-5/16 inches wide, respectively. Authors are responsible for securing permission to reproduce all copyrighted figures, illustrations, and photographs before they are published by SPQ.
8. Appendices should be lettered, rather than numbered, to distinguish them from numbered tables and figures in the text. Each appendix should include a descriptive title (e.g., "Appendix A. Variables Names and Definitions").
NOTE: Additional details on preparing and submitting manuscripts to SPQ are published in the ASA Style Guide (2nd ed., 1997) available from the American Sociological Association.
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