Social Thought and Research: Submit An Article

Submit An Article

Multiple Submission Policy: No manuscript may be submitted for review to Social Thought and Research that is currently under review by another journal.

Editorial Policy: Social Thought and Research publishes work in all areas of social inquiry. We encourage theoretical, historical, and empirical contributions that attempt to bridge disciplinary boundaries and grasp social phenomena from a holistic perspective. Submissions may be any length so long as authors avoid overextending the substantive potential of their manuscript.

Please send additional questions to starjournal@ku.edu.

Submissions should include the following:

Cover letter and author contact information, including a current e-mail address.
A cover page, including the title of your submission and a 200 word abstract.
One (1) hard copy of your submission with your identifying information.
One (1) hard copy of your submission with no identifying information.
One (1) electronic version of your submission (preferably on a CD) . Must be Microsoft compatible.
A $10.00 submission fee (waived for papers authored solely by graduate students).

Please send all of these materials to:

Social Thought and Research
Department of Sociology
709 Fraser Hall
University of Kansas
1415 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-2172

Manuscript Preparation

All submissions and correspondence should be in English (British spellings are acceptable). Please follow the formatting guidlines of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for references and in-text citations. Please do not include any additional documents than listed above. Additional explanations and questions should be send separately unless they will be immediately vital to our assessment of the manuscript.

All copies must be typed (12 point font) and double spaced on 8½ by 11 inch white opaque paper. Margins should be at least 1 inch on all four sides. Footnotes and references do not require double spacing. Please do not include a header on each page.

Detailed Instructions for Text Preparation

1. The cover letter should include the title, author's name, institutional affiliation, address, telephone number, fax number (if applicable), and e-mail address for correspondence.

2. The title page should include the title, author's name, and a 200 word abstract. (NOTE: The additional hard copy with no identifying information should not include the author's name.)

3. The text of the manuscript should begin on a new page with the title at the top of the paper. The author's name should not appear on any page except for the title page. References will appear at the end of the manuscript under the heading "References." Footnotes (no endnotes please) will appear at the bottom of the pages (see point 6 below for further clarification). Tables and figures may appear at the end of the manuscript as an appendix or within the body of the text. If tables or figures are provided in an appendix, their applicability must be indicated at appropriate points in the text.

4. Please use headings and subheadings in the text to indicate the organization of your paper if applicable.

5. References in the text: cite the last name of the author, the year of publication, and where applicable, the page number(s). Please use ASA formatting.

6. Footnotes in the text should be numbered consecutively throughout the article with superscript Arabic numerals. Footnotes should be used sparingly and only to make substantive elaborations or clarifications that are directly relevant to your argument.

7. References follow the text in a section headed "References." All references used in the text must be listed in this section, and vice versa. Publication information for each must be complete and correct. Type references alphabetically by author(s); use first and last names for all authors. If there are two or more items by the same author(s), list them in the order of publication date. If two or more works are by the same author(s) within the same year, distinguish them (in the order published) by adding the letters a, b, etc. to the year (or to "Forthcoming" or "Unpublished"), and list them in a, b, etc. order. For multiple authorship, only the name of the first author is inverted. List all authors; the use of "et al" in the bibliography is not acceptable (within citations, however, "et al" is acceptable if the article being referred to is clear).

Examples:

Durkheim, Emile. [1912] 1995. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, translated by Karen E. Fields. New York: The Free Press.

Kalberg, Stephen. 1996. "On the Neglect of Weber's Protestant Ethic as a Theoretical Treatise: Demarcating the Parameters of Postwar American Sociological Theory." Sociological Theory. 14(1): 49-70.

Wood, Allen. 1993. "Hegel and Marxism." Pp. 414-44 in The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, edited by Frederick C. Beiser. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Statues amidst fall foilage We give our reviewers a deadline of one month to review the articles and return their comments. It is our goal to return comments to authors as quickly as possible. Factoring in the amount of time that it takes manuscripts to travel in the mail and to identify available reviewers means that it may take three to four months to return our decision and comments to authors. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.