Peer Review Policy: International Journal of Comparative Sociology adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties.
Please send two copies of your manuscript to: Professor Jeffrey Kentor, Department of Sociology, University of Utah, 380 S. 1530 E., Room 301, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA (e-mail: IJCS@soc.utah.edu).
Authors are encouraged to submit papers in machinereadable form or via email to the journal editor. This should be as an unformatted text file on disk together with a printed version. Alternatively, papers may be submitted as typed manuscript, which should be doublespaced and on single sides. Left and right margins should be at least 40mm wide. Two copies of the typescript are required.
Covering letter
Please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal.
Format of mss
Manuscripts should be typed on one side of the paper, double-spaced, with ample margins and bear the title of the contribution and the name(s) of the author(s) on a separate sheet of paper. The full postal address/phone/fax/email details of each author plus short biographical notes should also be included. All pages should be numbered. Contributions should normally be between 4000 and 10,000 words in length. They should include an abstract of about 100 words and up to six key words. The abstract should cover the overall purpose or research problem, stated early in the abstract, the methodology used, including the research design, sample, and data collection methods, a concise discussion of a few significant research findings and an overview of the main conclusions of the paper. The journal uses notes where necessary. Historical, documentary or archival sources should be cited in endnotes. Discursive endnotes are also allowed. Endnotes are signalled in the text by superscript numbers. References in both the text and in any endnotes should follow Harvard style. References are cited in the text thus: author, date: page; an alphabetical References section should follow the text (and endnotes if any), using the Harvard system. Titles of journals should not be abbreviated. Sample end references:
Pigg, S.L. (1995) 'The Social Symbolism of Healing in Nepal', Ethnology 34(1):17-36.
Nisbett, R.E. (2003) The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why. New York: Free Press.
Colfer, C.J. and Gallagher, E.B. (1992) 'Home and Hospital Birthing in Oman: An Observational Study with Recommendations for Hospital Practice', in
P. Conrad and E.B. Gallagher (eds) Health and Health Care in Developing Countries, pp. 78-103. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Kakuchi, S. (2000) 'Reformer Shakes up Japan's Status Quo', Asia Times, 21 June, 39. [Accessed 17 January 2004 (http:/www.atimes.com/japanecon/BF21Dh01.html).]
Tables
Tables should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables.
llustrations
All line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively.
Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing), each on a separate A4 sheet.
They should be reproducible to a final printed text area of 115 mm x 185 mm. Photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. Slides are also acceptable. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet.
Style
Articles must be written in English. Use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, define them when first used. Use nonracist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than he/she.
Spellings
UK or US spellings may be used with '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize).
Punctuation
Use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Dates should be presented in the form 1 May 1998. Do not use points in abbreviations, contractions or acronyms (e.g. AD, USA, Dr, PhD).
Disks
On acceptance of your manuscript for publication, you will be asked to supply a diskette (preferably PCcompatible) or an attachment via email of the final version.
Proofs and offprints
Authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send corrections to the editor within 2 weeks. They will receive a complimentary copy of the journal and 25 offprints of their article.
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