Cultural Sociology
Manuscript submission guidelines
Articles submitted for publication must be original contributions to scholarship. They should not have been previously published. They must not be currently under review with, nor already published in, any other journal.
Submissions should be made as attachments to email, and should be in Microsoft Word format.
Email address: culturalsociology@abdn.ac.uk
Postal address:
Cultural Sociology
Dept. of Sociology
School of Social Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3QY
United Kingdom
Articles must be between 5000 and 8000 words in length, including footnotes and references. Include a word count of the main article (the count including all notes and references), and put it in the same document as the abstract (see below). Articles of more than 8000 words will not be accepted into the reviewing process, and will be returned to the author.
Please also send, in two separate documents from the main article, both:
a) an abstract of up to 150 words, accompanied by up to five key words, and a word count of the main article (the count including all notes and references)
b) your full contact details (postal address, institutional affiliation, email address) and a brief (no more than 100 word) biography.
Style Guide
Text should be thoroughly proof-read before submission.
Text should be Times New Roman, 12 point, justified throughout, and double-spaced.
Long quotations (more than 40 words) should be displayed, indented, in the text. Indentations should be 0.4cm on each side.
Page numbers should be given for references to specific pages in works referred to.
British or American spellings can be used, as long as this is consistent throughout the text (i.e. all spellings must be British, or all must be US - not a mixture of the two).
Use endnotes, not footnotes. Endnotes should be indicated by superscript numbers in the text. They should be collected (in double spaced format) at the end of the text.
References cited in the text should be in this form:
Harris (2000) or (Harris, 2000)
Jones (1995, 1990)
Anderson (2001: 55-7)
(Smith, 1997, cited in Gibson, 2005: 41)
Use 'et al.' when citing in the text a work by more than two authors, e.g. Roberts et al. (1991).
Use the letters a, b, c and so on to distinguish citations of different works by the same author in the same year, e.g. Arluke (1991a, 1991b).
All references cited in the text are to be included in a reference list at the end of the paper, which should be situated after any endnotes. References are to be listed alphabetically. They should appear in this form:
Articles in journals:
Erlmann, V. (1996) 'The Aesthetics of the Global Imagination: Reflections On World Music In The 1990s', Public Culture 8(3): 55-75.
Please give page extents for journal articles.
Books:
Fowler, B. (1997) Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory. London: Sage.
Articles in books:
Maier, J. B. (1984) 'Contribution to a Critique of Critical Theory', in J. Marcus and Z. Tar (eds.) Foundations of the Frankfurt School of Social Research, pp. 44-59. New Brunswick: Transaction Books.
Tables, Illustrations, etc.
It is the sole responsibility of authors to obtain permission from copyright holders for reproducing illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. These must be supplied at the time of final submission.
On acceptance of a paper, authors must supply camera-ready copy of all such materials.
Images must be supplied separately from the main text, and should not appear in it. Images may be supplied in standard recognised formats - .jpeg, .bmp, etc.
Images must be supplied with a clearly indicated caption that will appear underneath the image e.g. 'Table 1 - US Employment Statistics, 2007-9'
To indicate the place where the image should be placed in the text, insert at relevant points in the text, in bold, instructions such as
Table 1 about here
Image 3 about here
Etc.
Translations
The journal only reviews and publishes articles in English. Authors writing in any other language are of course welcome to submit English translations of their work. But the journal cannot provide English translations for them.
Timetable
We will endeavour to return referee reports, plus an editorial decision, to authors within three months of submission.
The editors' decision on publication or non-publication of any piece is final.
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