期刊名称：SOCIOLOGY COMPASS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Overview
Unique in its range, Sociology Compass is an online-only journal publishing original, peer-reviewed surveys of current research from across the entire discipline. Sociology Compass publishes state-of-the-art reviews, supported by a comprehensive bibliography and accessible to an international readership. Sociology Compass is aimed at senior undergraduates, postgraduates and academics, and will provide a unique reference tool for researching essays, preparing lectures, writing a research proposal, or just keeping up with new developments in a specific area of interest.
Fields covered by Sociology Compass include: Communication & Media | Culture | Crime & Deviance | Gender & Sexuality | Organisations & Work | Political Sociology | Race & Ethnicity | Science, Technology & Health | Social Movements | Social Psychology & Family | Social Stratification
Aims and Scope
Sociology Compass is an online-only journal publishing original, peer-reviewed survey articles of the most important research from across the entire discipline. Sociology Compass fills a gap left by existing guides within the subject by focusing on what is happening right now in sociology. Providing an ideal starting point for non-specialists, Sociology Compass publishes well written pieces explaining important debates within all areas of the field. In an age of hyper-specialization, Sociology Compass provides pointers for researchers, teachers and students alike, which will help them to look for the best research, and to interpret what they find.
Sociology Compass...
...supports your research with over 100 new articles per year, sourced form an international scholarly community. Gain an introduction to new fields, an overview of unfamiliar topics, and familiarity with the latest scholarship and debate.
...informs your teaching with lively original articles that are quickly and continuously replenished, and supplemented with teaching guides. Sociology Compass will provide you with up-to-date bibliographies and expert analysis on key themes to inspire and engage your students.
Explore Sociology Compass for:
- A new kind of core content: state-of-the-art surveys of current research discuss the major topics, issues, viewpoints, and controversies within each area of the discipline.
- Coverage of the entire field highlights connections across sub-disciplines within sociological research.
- Reference-linked bibliographies for each article, providing the ideal entry point into specialist literature.
- Teaching Guides from article authors to inspire and engage your students
- Fast continuous publication: articles typically available 6-8 weeks after acceptance.
Keywords
sociology
Abstracting and Indexing Information
- Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
- SCOPUS (Elsevier)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
- Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
Instructions to Authors
1. SUBMISSION
Authors should kindly note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.
Please note that submissions are only accepted on an on-commission basis. Should you feel you have a manuscript suitable for publication in SOCO then please refer to the editorial board and contact the appropriate section editor to discuss publication.
The submission system will prompt authors to use an ORCID iD (a unique author identifier) to help distinguish their work from that of other researchers. Click here to find out more.
Click here for more details on how to use ScholarOne.
For help with submissions, please contact: SOCOedoffice@wiley.com
2. AIMS AND SCOPE
What is Sociology Compass?
Sociology Compass offers the quality of a scholarly journal combined with the speed and functionality of the Web.
Sociology Compass publishes peer-reviewed state-of-the-field articles on a continuous basis, with new articles appearing in each monthly issue. The ideal Sociology Compass article is an intervention in the field or sub-field, showing its present state and direction in the future. While our authors are leading researchers, we do not publish detailed primary research but rather an author’s position on the field or sub-field. As a Sociology Compass article must be accessible to international and interdisciplinary scholars, teachers, and interested readers; we call it research with a public face.
Sociology Compass adheres to the same quality control procedures as for any Wiley journal, both in terms of editorial and production standards.
Sociology Compass articles allow established as well as junior scholars and advanced students to:
- keep up with the newest developments and trends in research
- teach in a new or unfamiliar area outside of their research specialty
- find high-quality, peer-reviewed online content quickly and accessibly
Author Benefits
Benefits for authors include:
- Article published within 12-16 weeks after acceptance
- A citable, peer-reviewed article, with a permanent DOI
- International exposure / broad readership
- PDF offprint
The Sociology Compass Audience
The Sociology Compass audience consists of research and teaching faculty, graduate students and advanced undergraduates – from potentially any area of the discipline. This is a distinguishing feature of the journal, and a benefit to authors in terms of enhanced exposure. You are writing for your peers, but also for researchers and students from unrelated areas. It is therefore crucial that Sociology Compass articles always remain accessible to non-specialists. The writing should be authoritative and lively.
Sociology Compass readers will be able to cite your article in their publications, email details of the article to their colleagues, or use it in their class reading lists.
Article Length and Scope
SOCO will be used by a diverse audience and many of the readers of the articles will be non-specialists. Articles should be accessible to them but still have fresh material that would be of interest to people in the field. Authors might address one or more of the issues below:
- Recent research and debates in your field. What debates are driving your field? What new research has been published? What does it add to these debates or the field more generally? Can you put that new research in context? Does a new school of thought or paradigm seem to be developing? Has a new controversy erupted?
- Comparative look across sections or boundaries. Are there related things happening in different fields? Can you suggest comparisons that have not been fully explored? Can one area provide an insight into another when used in teaching or research?
- State of the field. Can you offer a fresh perspective on developments in your field? Perhaps there are arguments or fads drawing attention away from what you think are the critical points? Perhaps the field is stagnating? Are students and teachers flocking to or fleeing from your field? Is your area well and fairly covered in the media? Are there resources or archives that are new or underused and are worthy of attention? Has the field been affected by or is it impacting on current affairs?
NEW! Authors typically address one or more of these issues in a traditional manuscript style. Authors may, however, on occasion and with approval of the Section Editor, address these issues as a dialogue amongst different authors across multiple papers published in the same volume or as a multi-authored dialogue within a single manuscript. In these instances, authors would engage with one another’s arguments and stances within or across the manuscript(s) with each providing a unique perspective on at least one of the three issues above.
In general, articles should run between 4000-6000 words (excluding references). Longer articles can be considered at the Section Editor’s discretion. The Section Editor will agree the topic of your article with you before you begin to write your piece.
Articles submitted to Sociology Compass should not have been previously published or accepted to be published elsewhere. Papers presented at a conference or symposium may be accepted for publication by agreement with the relevant editor.
If you have not already done so, please feel free to visit the journal homepage, where you can see the most recent articles that have been published.
3. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION
Parts of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: title page; main text file; figures.
Title Page
The title page should contain:
i. A short informative containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
ii. A short running title of less than 40 characters;
iii. The full names of the authors;
iv. The author's institutional affiliations, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
v. Acknowledgments.
Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility.
Acknowledgments
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Main Text File
As papers are double-blind peer reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors.
The main text file should be presented in the following order:
- Title, abstract, and key words;
- Main text;
- References;
- Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
- Figure legends;
- Appendices (if relevant).
Figures and supporting information should be supplied as separate files.
Abstract
Many students and researchers looking for information online will use search engines such as Google, Yahoo! or similar. By optimizing your title and abstract, you will increase the chance of someone finding it. This in turn will make it more likely to be viewed and/or cited in another work. In order to optimise your abstract, we recommend you:
- Ensure the key phrases for your article’s topic appear in the title and abstract e.g. ‘Generative Metrics’
- Use the same key phrases, if possible, in the title and abstract. Note of caution: unnecessary repetition will result in the page being rejected by search engines, so don't overdo it.
Example of Well-Optimised Title / Abstract
Genocide and Holocaust Consciousness in Australia
Ever since the British colonists in Australia became aware of the disappearance of the indigenous peoples in the 1830s, they have contrived to excuse themselves by pointing to the effects of disease and displacement. Yet although ‘genocide’ was not a term used in the nineteenth century, ‘extermination’ was, and many colonists called for the extermination of Aborigines when they impeded settlement by offering resistance. Consciousness of genocide was suppressed during the twentieth century – until the later 1960s, when a critical school of historians began serious investigations of frontier violence. Their efforts received official endorsement in the 1990s, but profound cultural barriers prevent the development of a general ‘genocide consciousness’. One of these is ‘Holocaust consciousness’, which is used by conservative and right-wing figures to play down the gravity of what transpired in Australia. These two aspects of Australian public memory are central to the political humanisation of the country.
This article appears on the first page of results on Google for ‘holocaust consciousness Australia.’
Poorly Optimized Title / Abstract
Australia's Forgotten Victims
Ever since the British colonists in Australia became aware of the disappearance of the indigenous peoples in the 1830s, they have contrived to excuse themselves by pointing to the effects of disease and displacement. Many colonists called for the extermination of Aborigines when they impeded settlement by offering resistance, yet there was no widespread public acknowledgement of this as a policy until the later 1960s, when a critical school of historians began serious investigations of frontier violence. Their efforts received official endorsement in the 1990s, but profound cultural barriers prevent the development of a general awareness of this. Conservative and right-wing figures continue to play down the gravity of what transpired. These two aspects of Australian public memory are central to the political humanisation of the country.
Remember:
- People tend to search for specifics, not just one word - e.g. “women's fiction” not 'fiction'. So use key phrases rather than individual words in your article title and abstract.
- Key phrases need to make sense within the title and abstract and flow well.
- It is best to focus on a maximum of three or four different keyword phrases in an abstract rather than try to get across too many points.
- Finally, always check that the abstract reads well - remember the primary audience is still the researcher, not a search engine, so write for readers, not robots.
Keywords
Please provide seven keywords.
Main Text
- As papers are double-blind peer reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors.
- The journal uses British/US spelling; however, authors may submit using either option, as spelling of accepted papers is converted during the production process.
References
References should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). This means in text citations should follow the author-date method whereby the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998). The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by name at the end of the paper.
A sample of the most common entries in reference lists appears below. Please note that a DOI should be provided for all references where available. For more information about APA referencing style, please refer to the APA FAQ. Please note that for journal articles, issue numbers are not included unless each issue in the volume begins with page one.
Journal article
Beers, S. R. , & De Bellis, M. D. (2002). Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 483–486. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.159.3.483
Book
Bradley-Johnson, S. (1994). Psychoeducational assessment of students who are visually impaired or blind: Infancy through high school (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-ed.
Internet Document
Norton, R. (2006, November 4). How to train a cat to operate a light switch [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vja83KLQXZs
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied as editable files, not pasted as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
Figure Legends
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Figures
Although authors are encouraged to send the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes, a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions are accepted. Click here for the basic figure requirements for figures submitted with manuscripts for initial peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements.
Figures submitted in colour may be reproduced in colour online free of charge. Please note, however, that it is preferable that line figures (e.g. graphs and charts) are supplied in black and white so that they are legible if printed by a reader in black and white. If an author would prefer to have figures printed in colour in hard copies of the journal, a fee will be charged by the Publisher.
Additional Files
Appendices
Appendices will be published after the references. For submission they should be supplied as separate files but referred to in the text.
Supporting Information
Supporting information is information that is not essential to the article, but provides greater depth and background. It is hosted online and appears without editing or typesetting. It may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc. Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.
Note: if data, scripts, or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper.
General Style Points
The following points provide general advice on formatting and style.
- Abbreviations: In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader. Initially, use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation only.
- Units of measurement: Measurements should be given in SI or SI-derived units. Visit the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) website at www.bipm.fr for more information about SI units.
- Numbers: numbers under 10 are spelt out, except for: measurements with a unit (8mmol/l); age (6 weeks old), or lists with other numbers (11 dogs, 9 cats, 4 gerbils).
Wiley Author Resources
Manuscript Preparation Tips: Wiley has a range of resources for authors preparing manuscripts for submission available here. In particular, authors may benefit from referring to Wiley’s best practice tips on Writing for Search Engine Optimization.
Editing, Translation, and Formatting Support: Wiley Editing Services can greatly improve the chances of a manuscript being accepted. Offering expert help in English language editing, translation, manuscript formatting, and figure preparation, Wiley Editing Services ensures that the manuscript is ready for submission.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Rebecca Kissane
Julie Kmec
Communication & Media Section Editor
Julian Matthews
Crime & Deviance Section Editors
Vera Lopez
Jeffery Lin
Culture Section Editors
Michael Borer
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
Gender & Sexuality Section Editor
Betsy Lucal
Organisations & Work Section Editors
Eric Dahlin
Erin Hatton
Political Sociology Section Editors
Joshua Dubrow
Catherine Bolzendahl
Race & Ethnicity Section Editor
Matthew Hughey
Science, Technology & Health Section Editor
Enrico Maria Piras
Social Movements Section Editor
Paul-Brian McInerney
Leslie Bunnage
Social Psychology & Family Section Editor
Shane Sharp
Social Stratification Section Editor
Mikaela Dufur
Editorial Board
Communication & Media
Chris Atton
Nancy Baym
Cynthia Carter
Eoin Devereux
Janice Peck
Andy Ruddock
Amir Saeed
Hilde Van den Bulck
Dwayne Winseck
Sally Young
Crime & Deviance
Marilyn Brown
Jennifer Cobbina
John Eason
Jennifer Fleetwood
Kathryn Fox
Ross Haenfler
Katherine Irwin
Vera Lopez
David Mayeda
Victor Rios
María Velez
Culture
Michael Borer
Daniel Cook
Timothy J. Dowd
Joshua Gamson
Amin Ghaziani
Laura Grindstaff
Nancy Hanrahan
Paul Hodkinson
Jennifer Lena
Arlene Stein
Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Gender & Sexuality
Rose Brewer
Tristan Bridges
Lisa D. Brush
Manisha Desai
Alice Fothergill
Jeff Hearn
Shirley Hill
Ping-Chun Hsiung
Liisa Husu
Aditi Mitra
Mignon Moore
Mimi Schippers
Marcia Texler Segal
Jean-Anne Sutherland
Nikki Wedgwood
Organisations & Work
Denise L. Anthony
Kevin Delaney
Susan Halford
Steve G. Hoffman
David Shulman
Tim Strangleman
Antonio Strati
Nancy Plankey-Videla
Andrew Vinchur
James Witte
Political Sociology
Donatella Della Porta
Anika Gauja
Deanna Rohlinger
Edwin F. Ackerman
Amy Alexander
Eric Bonds
Race & Ethnicity
Marysol Ascencio
Colin Clark
Ashley "Woody" Doane
Robert Duran
Daniel Goh
Tanya Golash-Boza
Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino
Devon Goss
Saida Grundy
Emma Lesser
Meaghan Morris
Gilda L. Ochoa
Rashawn Ray
Michael Rosino
Barbara Scott
Keri lyall Smith
Katharine Tyler
Melissa Weiner
Johnny Williams
Earl Wright II
Science, Technology & Health
Jonathan Gabe
John Hannigan
Daniel Kleinman
Henriette Langstrup
Martyn Pickersgill
Aaro Tupasela
David Wainwright
Iain Wilkinson
Social Movements
Catherine Corrigall-Brown
Laurence Cox
Kimberly Dugan
Pierre Hamel
Kevin MacDonald
David Meyer
David Pettinicchio
Sarah Sobieraj
Suzanne Staggenborg
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg
Judith Taylor
Social Psychology & Family
Deborah Carr
Rebecca Erickson
Debra Gimlin
James Holstein
Amy Kroska
Darin Weinberg
Carrie Yodanis
Social Stratification
Aneesh Aneesh
Brent Berry
Mary Fischer
Reuben Miller
Sigrun Olafsdottir
Patrick Sharkey
Kevin Stainback
Jessica Welburn
Sandy Welsh
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