Section A. Articles

• Articles which appear on SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE are subject to the usual academic processes of anonymous peer reviewing. Articles written by members of the Editorial Board will be refereed by independent referees.

• Book reviews will be commissioned by the Editorial Board. Anyone wishing to be considered to review books or referee articles should submit details of themselves to the Editorial Assistant, expressing this wish.

  Submission

• Articles, which should not normally exceed 8,000 words, should be submitted electronically, either on disk or by e-mail, preferably as a Word document. Tables, figures, illustrations and references are excluded from the word count. Authors who are unable to submit electronically should contact the Editorial and IT Officer to negotiate alternative arrangements.

• Articles should have been corrected for errors and will be regarded as accurate, authors are responsible for factual content.

• Two additional documents should be included containing (1) the title, author's name and a biographical note and (2) an abstract not exceeding 300 words and up to ten keywords. Material contained in hyperlinks within an electronic document should also be supplied as separate documents.

• Intending authors should note that the policy of SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE is that there is an at least four issue gap in articles published by the same author or joint authors. Where the author of an article published in the journal submits an article jointly with someone who has not published in SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE in the previous four issues, there will be a gap of at least two issues; thereafter, the four issue rule comes into effect.

  Style

• Headings should be typed in sentence case and begin from the left margin. Paragraphs should not be indented and a clear line should separate two paragraphs.

• Dates thus: 1 January, 1996. Single quotation marks only (except for quotes within quotes). Bold, italic and underscore should be formatted as such in the word processed document. Hyperlinks to additional files should be clearly flagged in the text:
  **LINK "FILENAME": Hyperlink to another document

• Figures, maps, photographs, video, and sound recordings should be submitted on disk in any standard format. If this is not possible, authors should provide high quality originals in order to allow good electronic reproduction.

• Gender specific nouns and pronouns should not be used to refer to people of both sexes. The guidelines on sexist, racist and disablist language should be observed.

• The recommended style for the referencing is:

  ADLER, P. S. (1993) 'Time-and-Motion Regained', Harvard Business Review, January - February, pp. 97 - 107.
  CORTI, Louise (1993) 'Using Diaries in Social Research', Social Research Update, <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/SRU2.html>.
  FAHEY, Tony (1995) 'Privacy and the Family: Conceptual and Empirical Reflections', Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 687 - 702.
  GIDDENS, Anthony (1987) The Nation State and Violence. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  MAURICE, M., SILVESTRE, J.-J., and SELLIER, F. (1986) The Social Foundations of Industrial Power. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  NASH, Fred (1995) 'Political Science, History, and Contemporary History', Political Science Discourse, <http://www.soton.ac.uk/~psd/1995/polhist.html>.
  O'REILLY, J. (1992) 'Where do you draw the line? Functional Flexibility, Training and Skill in Britain and France', Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 369 - 396.
  POLLERT, A. (1991a) 'The Orthodoxy of Flexibility' in A. Pollert (editor) Farewell to Flexibility. Oxford: Blackwell.
  POLLERT, A. (editor) (1991b) Farewell to Flexibility. Oxford: Blackwell.
  WEBER, M. (1946) 'Politics as a Vocation', in H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (editors) Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press.
  ZALD, M. and McCARTHY, J. (editors) (1979) The Dynamics of Social Movements. Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop.

  When footnotes are necessary, they should appear at the end of the text and before the bibliography, these will be turned into hyperlinks. Only articles referenced in the text should be cited in the bibliography.

• Where there are two authors, both names should be referenced in the text, thus Zald & McCarthy (1979). Where there are three or more authors, only the name of the first should appear in the text followed by 'et al.', thus Maurice et al. (1986). The full list of authors should appear in the bibliography. WWW references should be enclosed in <triangular brackets>.

• Contributors should indicate sources of funding, where applicable, and any restrictions on publication placed on them by sponsors. It is the duty of the author(s) to clear copyright on empirical, visual and oral data.

• Simultaneous submissions to other print or electronic journals are not permitted.

Section B. Review Articles

• SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE will publish review articles of up to 5,000 words in length on suitable topics and areas of sociological work. Review articles are commissioned by the Editors in consultation with the Reviews Editors, and reviewers should seek to place their discussions in the broader context of current debates within the sub-discipline(s) represented by the reviewed publications. Review articles are subject to the same process of anonymised peer review as all other articles.

• Once commissioned, the style and layout of review articles should follow the guidelines for full articles, details of which are provided in Section A of these 'Notes for Contributors'. Review articles should also follow the journal's policy on language use. For further information, see the BSA Policy Guidelines.

• Unsolicited review articles will not be accepted, although suggestions for suitable topic areas for review articles are welcomed and should be sent to the Editorial Assistant.

Section C. Book and Software Reviews

• SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE publishes book and software reviews across the entire spectrum of sociological interests and concerns. The commissioning of book and software reviews is the responsibility of the two Reviews Editors. Publishers and distributors should send all books and software for review to Catherine Ternent, SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK.

• Unsolicited reviews will not be accepted. The Reviews Editors are however interested in hearing from sociologists who would like to become reviewers for the journal. People who wish to nominate themselves as book reviewers for SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE should submit their details through the Editorial Assistant, while readers interested in reviewing software should in addition provide a list of the software packages which they currently use; the platform which they currently use (eg Windows, DOS, Mac); and a brief description of the types of packages they would most be interested in reviewing (eg software for qualitative analysis, bibliographic databases, statistical packages).

• Commissioned book and software reviews are not subject to a full review process in the same way as review articles. It should be noted, however, that the Review Editors reserve the right to edit book and software reviews before final acceptance.

• Reviews of books and software should be between 500 and 700 words in length. The Review Editors may edit reviews which exceed this word limit.

• Book reviews should be written so as to provide readers with an overview of the scope of the contents as well as a critical evaluation of the same. The evaluative content of reviews should, however, be constructively expressed; overly or destructively critical reviews will not be accepted.

• Software reviews should provide readers with an overview of a package's major functions, its effectiveness in carrying out those functions and its ease of use in practice, including the ease or otherwise of data entry and extraction. In addition, they should comment on the helpfulness of any supporting documentation, the level of computer literacy required, and details of the types of sociological research likely to be facilitated by the package.

• Book reviews should be prefaced with bibliographic information in the following form:

  Title of Book
  Author/s or Editor/s Personal then Surname/s
  Place: Publisher
  Year
  ISBN
  Price, hb or sb
  pp.

  With an example being:

  Narrating Our Pasts
  Elizabeth Tonkin
  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  ISBN 0 521 40133 X
  1992
  Stlg. 29.95, hb
  pp. xiv + 171

• Software reviews should be prefaced with the following details:

  Title
  Version number
  Platform(s) supported
  Year
  Author/s (if appropriate)
  Publisher
  Supplier
  Price
  Hardware Requirements

  With an example being:

  QUALPRO
  Version 4.0
  Available for DOS

  Impulse Development Company
  3491-11 Thomasville Rd. Suite 202
  Tallahassee, FL 32308

  Phone: (904) 668-9865
  Fax: (904) 668-9866

  Price: Professional, $88; Student, $44

  Hardware Requirements:
  * IBM PC, XT, AT, 386,486 and compatables
  * DOS 2.0 or better
  * 128K of free RAM (actual use is 42K)
  * Hard disk preferred; two floppies OK

• Both book and software reviews should employ a single line space between the bibliographic information and the start of the review. Each paragraph within the review should be separated by a single line space. New paragraphs should start left-aligned. The review should conclude with the full name and institutional affiliation of the reviewer, each on a separate line.

• Completed reviews should be submitted to the Reviews Editor who commissioned the review, either by email or on a floppy disk. Copy submitted on disk should be sent in Word for Windows or WordPerfect format (these are the preferred formats: other major word-processing packages will also be accepted if clearly specified)