Prospective authors should send their manuscript to the Managing Editor at rationality@cornell.edu. Manuscripts should be submitted in Word format. Manuscripts should include a short abstract of no more than 150 words, and up to 5 key words. The author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s) should appear in a separate file to facilitate anonymous review. Authors should supply their current address and telephone number and, if possible, fax and email addresses.
All materials, including end notes and references, should be double spaced. Figure and table captions should be included at the end of the text. Tables and figures should be submitted in a separate file from the text. Figures should be supplied in tiff or jpg format. Tables should be supplied in Word or Excel format. The social science substance of papers employing mathematics should be accessible to readers who will not follow the mathematical derivations.
Please follow the SAGE Harvard reference style.
References to journal articles should be in the following form:
Platt I (1973) Social Traps. American Psychologist 28: 641-51.
References to books should be in the following form:
Allison GT (1972) The Essence of Decision. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
Submission of a manuscript implies commitment to publish in the journal. Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal should not simultaneously submit them to another journal, nor should manuscripts have been published elsewhere in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content. Authors in doubt about what constitutes prior publication should consult the Editor.
Journal Contributor's Publishing Agreement.
Before publication SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor's Publishing Agreement. SAGE's Journal Contributor's Publishing Agreement is a exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit our Frequently Asked Questions on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway
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
