Manuscript Preparation

1. The Electronic Journal of Sociology is aimed at making sociological knowledge available to everyone. Therefore, submissions should be written in a manner that can be readily understood by the general public, or by individuals who do not have knowledge in the author's area of specialty. Wherever possible, overly technical terminology should be avoided or at least explained clearly. An article's content and argument should be clear to all interested readers.

2. The EJS does not provide copy editing for submitted manuscripts. Please ensure your paper has been reviewed by a competent editor.

3. Articles can be of any length.

4. Notes must appear at the end of the paper as endnotes. Use superscripts to identify the notes in the text and in the endnotes section. It is preferable to use the special facilities provided by your word processor to create endnotes.

5. References at the end of the document use the following format.

Chodorow, N. (1989) Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Smith, D.H. (1975) "Voluntary Action and Voluntary Groups." Annual Review of Sociology, 1: 247-70.

Reckman, B. (1979) "Carpentry: The Craft and Trade," in A. Zimbalist (Ed.) Case Studies on the Labor Process. New York: Monthly Review Press: 73-103.

6. Alternate forms of citation and reference are acceptable. Be consistent throughout the text. For example, these formats are acceptable: (Bourdieu, 1984; Shepard & Wicke, 1997) and Ruud (1997, 2000, 2002, 2005).

7. Graphics and tables are to be inserted inline in the document and not at the end.

8. Please include with your submission a short rationale for publication. A sentence or two on the contribution of the paper (original, revisionist, replicative) and why it deserves to be published will help us assess those papers which fall outside the parameters or routine scholarly publication.