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The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships has a fully web-based system for the submission and review of manuscripts. All submissions should be made online at the JSPR SAGETRACK website
Note: Online submission and review of manuscripts is now mandatory for all types of papers.
New User Account
Please log onto the website. If you are a new user, you will first need to create an account. Follow the instructions and please ensure to enter a current and correct email address. Creating your account is a three-step process that takes a matter of minutes to set up. When you have finished, your User ID and password is sent via email immediately. Please edit your user ID and password to something more memorable by selecting 'edit account' at the top of the screen. If you have already created an account but have forgotten your details type your email address in the 'Password Help' to receive an emailed reminder. Full instructions for uploading the manuscript are provided on the website.
New Submission
Submissions should be made by logging in and selecting the Author Center and the 'Click here to Submit a New Manuscript' option. Follow the instructions on each page, clicking the 'Next' button on each screen to save your work and advance to the next screen. If at any stage you have any questions or require the user guide, please use the 'Get Help Now' button at the top right of every screen. Further help is available through ScholarOne's® Manuscript CentralTM customer support at +1 434 817 2040 x 167.
To upload your files, click on the 'Browse' button and locate the file on your computer. Select the designation of each file (i.e. main document, submission form, figure) in the drop down next to the browse button. When you have selected all files you wish to upload, click the 'Upload Files' button
Review your submission (in both PDF and HTML formats) and then click the Submit button.
You may suspend a submission at any point before clicking the Submit button and save it to submit later. After submission, you will receive a confirmation e-mail. You can also log back into your author centre at any time to check the status of your manuscript.
Please ensure that you submit editable/source files only (Microsoft Word or RTF) and that your document does not include page numbers; the JSPR SAGETRACK system will generate them for you, and then automatically convert your manuscript to PDF for peer review. Furthermore, it is imperative that authors remove from their submissions any information that will identify them or their affiliations to reviewers. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revisions, will be by email.
If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, or seek advice on the submission process please contact the Editor, Dr Paul A. Mongeau, at the following email address: JSPR2009@ASU.edu
Submitting a Revised Submission
Authors submitting revised manuscripts should follow the instructions above to submit through the SAGETRACK system. To create a revision, go to the 'Manuscripts with Decisions' option in your Author Dashboard and select 'create a revision in the 'Action' column. Authors of all revised submissions should, when prompted, provide information explaining the changes in your manuscript. As this will be provided to reviewers, it is important that authors do not identify themselves in these responses.
General guidelines
The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships welcomes submission of articles on all aspects of social and personal relationships from any academic discipline on the understanding that these are original articles not under consideration by other journals. Articles may deal with voluntary or non-voluntary relationship forms and may use qualitative or quantitative methods. Articles using qualitative methods are particularly encouraged. Empirical, review, and theoretical articles are invited. Manuscripts will be sent anonymously for review by independent referees and so all material identifying the author should be confined to the title page. Papers from graduate students or recent PhDs are especially welcomed and will, if the authors explicitly request it and submit one extra copy, receive extra attention (i.e. one additional reviewer).
Peer Review Policy
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships operates a strictly blinded peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two (and generally three) referees. Papers from graduate students or recent PhDs are especially welcomed and will, if the authors explicitly request it, receive extra attention (i.e. one additional reviewer). All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, and an editorial decision is generally reached within (eg) 3-4 months of submission.
Format
When submitting a paper please follow the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition).
Manuscripts: The title page of an article should contain only:
(1) the title of the article
(2) a short title not exceeding 40 letters and spaces, used for the running heads;
Abstracts: An abstract of no more than 120 words should follow the title page on a separate page.
Keywords: Up to 6 keywords should be included.
Footnotes: or endnotes, apart from the opening page Author Note and correspondence address, should not be used.
References: The Journal particularly cautions authors to the judicious, precise, and scholarly (as distinct from bibliographic) use of references. JSPR therefore encourages authors to balance conciseness in the use of references with the requirements of rigorous scholarship by using references to make points rather than to indicate familiarity. Citations that are the subject or direct object of verbs are preferred (e.g. 'Dindia (1994) argues that . . .'), as are those citations that are incorporated into the grammatical structure of sentences (e.g. 'this finding supports the arguments of Pettit and Mize (1993) who claimed that . . .'). ESPECIALLY AND VERY STRONGLY DISCOURAGED are long, undifferentiated lists of references tacked on to the end of sentences. If all these references make the same point, then one example will suffice and if they make different points then the differences need to be discussed. All references cited in the text should be collated into a single alphabetical list at the end of the article, using the style and format of the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Tables and figures: Should be numbered separately and have short descriptive titles. The position of the table or figure in the text should be indicated in the text e.g. 'Table 3 about here'. Tables and figures will only be presented if they are necessary for the presentation and clarity of results. Half-tone figures should be presented in camera-ready format to fit the page size of 110mm wide x 187mm deep, and if possible, as EPS files (all fonts embedded) or TIFF files, 800 dpi - b/w only.
Proofs and Electronic offprints
Authors will receive proofs of their articles for checking prior to publication. After publication, an e-mail detailing access to a restricted quantity pdf will be sent to the corresponding author of each article along with a copy of the printed journal for each author.
Contacting the Editor
If you do not have e-mail access, please send three copies of your manuscript (and an electronic version in Word format) to:
Dr. Paul A. Mongeau
Hugh Downs School of Human Communication,
P.O. Box 871205, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ 85287-1205, USA
Phone: (480) 965 3773
Book Reviews
Books and suggestions for reviews should be sent to:
Dr. Mary Lynn Miller Henningsen
Department of Communication
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
USA
E-mail: henningsen@niu.edu
English Language Editing Services: Please click here for information on professional English language editing services recommended by SAGE.
If you wish your article to be freely available online immediately upon publication (as some funding bodies now require), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Open subject to payment of a publication fee. Manuscript submission and refereeing procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Open. For further information, please
visit http://www.uk.sagepub.com/sageopen.sp
