Information for Contributors
Social Studies of Science operates a double-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. All manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those papers that meet the editorial standards of the journal, and are appropriate within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for outside review.
Social Studies of Science encourages submissions of original research on science, technology, and medicine. It is multi-disciplinary, encouraging empirical and/or theoretical contributions from sociologists, historians, social and cultural anthropologists, other social scientists, philosophers, and researchers in legal and educational disciplines. It welcomes social, cultural, social-historical, and philosophical investigations of scientific research and technological development, and the dynamics of knowledge in a full variety of organizational and ecological settings.
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Submissions should be made via the Author Center and the 'Click here to Submit a New Manuscript' option. For questions and a 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. If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, please contact the Editor, at the following email address: socstudsci@cornell.edu
Please ensure that your Microsoft Word or RTF document does NOT include a title page, an abstract, or page numbers; the SSS SAGETRACK system will generate them for you, and then 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.
Articles should be between 7000 and 12,000 words long (notes and references, and all other text included). In the exceptional case, longer articles may be considered for publication. Shorter contributions may be considered for the 'Research Notes' section.
Social Studies of Science publishes a limited number of book reviews and review essays. Suggestions of books to review, and review copies of candidate books, should be send to the Reviews Editor:
Aryn Martin
Sociology and S&TS
York University
2150 Vari Hall, 4700 Keele St.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3
aryn@yorku.ca
Contributors are asked to pay close attention to the following important points of detail:
US and UK spelling may be used, as long as it is consistent through the paper. The Oxford English Dictionary spelling is used for words ending in 'z', for example 'organize'. Single quotation marks should be used throughout, with double quotation marks reserved for embedded quotes.
Italic type will be used for the titles of books and journals referred to in the text and reference list, and for the least familiar foreign words. Headings should be bold and flush with the left margin, subheadings should be in italic, also flush with the left margin. The endnotes should be double-spaced and numbered consecutively. They should be referred to in the text by numerical superscripts.
All papers must include a References section, in which cited sources are listed in alphabetical order. The following sample references illustrate the journal's style:
Browne, Janet (1998) 'I Could Have Retched All Night: Charles Darwin and his Body', in C. Lawrence & S. Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press): 240-87.
Collins, H.M. (1999) 'Tantalus and the Aliens: Publications, Audiences, and the Search for Gravitational Waves', Social Studies of Science 29(2): 163-97.
Lawrence, Christopher & Steven Shapin (eds) (1998) Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press).
Mullis, Kary (1998) Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (New York: Pantheon Books).
Prigogine, Ilya & Isabelle Stengers (1984) Order out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (New York: Bantam Books).
Note: References to weekly academic journals should give both volume number and the full date, thus: Science 298 (4 October 2002): 1052-57.
The corresponding author will receive page proofs for checking. He or she will be given controlled access to a PDF of the article and a complimentary copy (per author) of the whole issue after publication.
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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
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