Australian Journal of Social Issues

 

Author Guidelines

1. Submission
2. Aims and Scope
3. Manuscript categories and requirements
4. Preparing your manuscript
5. Editorial policies and ethical considerations
6. Copyright, licencing and Open Access
7. Publication process after acceptance
8. Post publication
9. Editorial Office contact details

1. SUBMISSION

Thank you for your interest in Australian Journal of Social Issues. Please read the complete Author Guidelines carefully prior to submission. Note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.

The Australian Journal of Social Issues now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process allowing researchers to submit their manuscript in their preferred formatting style at original submission. See details in Section 4. PREPARING YOUR MANUSCRIPT FOR SUBMISSION. 

New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal: https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/AJS4. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].

For additional help with submissions, please contact: [email protected].

ORCID

As part of our commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, the journal requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This takes around 2 minutes to complete. Click here for more information.

We look forward to your submission.

 

2. AIMS AND SCOPE

AJSI is a quarterly publication that welcomes submissions examining issues of social justice and social policy that are of relevance to Australia.

Click here for the journal’s full aims and scope.

 

3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS

AJSI accepts research article submissions up to 8,000 words, including abstract, tables, notes and references. The journal also invites shorter submissions up to 5,000 words that review and analyse current policy debates, theory and practice. These will appear in a Forum section. The editors will consider proposals for thematic issues on significant current issues and debates. All submissions are peer-reviewed.

 

4. PREPARING YOUR MANUSCRIPT

Free Format submission

Australian Journal of Social Issues now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process.

Before you submit, you will need the following:

• Your manuscript: this can be a single file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files – whichever you prefer.
  • All required sections relevant to the chosen manuscript type should be contained in your manuscript (eg: abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions etc).
  • Figures and tables should have legends.
  • References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript, but it is recommended that the journal’s style is followed.
• The title page of the manuscript, should include:

1. A short informative title that contains the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
2. A short running title of less than 40 characters;
3. Full names of the authors;
4. The author's institutional affiliations at which the work was carried out;
5. Acknowledgements; and
6. Conflict of interest statement.

Important: the journal operates a double-blind peer review policy. Please anonymise your manuscript and prepare a separate title page containing author details.

If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers. If your manuscript is difficult to read, the editorial office may send it back to you for revision.

If you are invited to revise your manuscript after peer review, the journal will also request the revised manuscript to be formatted according to journal requirements as described below. All revised manuscripts require two versions to be uploaded for review – one with changes tracked, and a second clean copy.

Author Contributions

For all articles, the journal mandates the CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy), for more information please see Author Services.

Wiley Author Resources

Wiley have a range of resources for authors preparing manuscripts for submission available here. In particular, authors may benefit from referring to:

• Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.

Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.  

• Writing for Search Engine Optimisation

Optimise the search engine results for your paper, so people can find, read and ultimately cite your work. Simply read Wiley’s best practice SEO tips – including information on making your title and abstract SEO-friendly, and choosing appropriate keywords.

Presenting Research Methodologies and Ethics

Australian Journal of Social Issues has a broad readership. To ensure the readability of the journal to its diverse and multi-disciplinary audience, authors should include, where relevant, the following items in their manuscript:

• A dedicated discussion of the methodology, outlining the approach taken, its relevance to the research issues at hand and any innovations involved;

• Details of any formal ethical approval, recruitment strategy, the process used for obtaining informed consent and any ethical concerns that arose during the research;

• An explanation of the research setting and include the sample size and/or key characteristics of participants where relevant;

• A description of the process of analysis for desktop reviews, e.g. coding strategies, including computer coding, and when part of a research team, the role of each person in the analysis, consideration of any bias and strategies for ensuring consistency between researchers;

• An outline of any limitations of the research including that relating to the data and methodology;

Authors should limit the use of jargon but where used place it in single quotation marks and explain its meaning in the text.

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander guide to terminology

Care must be taken to ensure appropriate terminology when referring to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. Our policy is to follow the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander guide to terminology endorsed by the Public Health Association of Australia.

Parts of the Manuscript

The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: title page; main text file; figures.

Title page

The title page should be a separate document, containing:

(i) a short informative title that contains the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley’s best practice SEO tips);

(ii) the names and institutional affiliations of all authors;

(iii) a biographical note about each author of up to 80 words in length;

(vi) acknowledgements.

The present address of any author, if different from that where the work was carried out, should be supplied in a footnote.

Acknowledgements

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. See section on Authorship for more detail. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.

Main text file

As papers are double-blind peer reviewed the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors.

The main text file should be presented in the following order: (i) title, abstract and keywords, (ii) main text, (iii) references, (iv) endnotes, (v) tables (each table complete with title and footnotes) (vi) figure legends, (vii) appendices (if relevant).

Manuscripts can be uploaded either as a single document (containing the main text, tables and figures), or with figures and tables provided as separate files. Should your manuscript reach revision stage, figures and tables must be provided as separate files. The main manuscript file can be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format.

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of no more than 200 words containing the major keywords.

Keywords

Please provide five keywords.

Main Text

Quotations

Indent quotations of more than 40 words. For shorter quotations, include them in the paragraph and use single quotation marks.

Interview quotations

Should be indented, even where shorter than 40 words, and followed by italicized identifying information in brackets, for example: (Suzanne, daughter, regional area).

References

References follow the Harvard style, i.e. the author, date system.

• All citations mentioned in the text, tables or figures must be listed in the reference list.

• In the text give the author’s name followed by the year in parentheses: Smith (2000).

• If several papers by the same authors and from the same year are cited, a,b,c etc. should be inserted after the year of publication. Examples:

• The major improvement was in the quality of the poisons used (Banks & Braes 1997a:122).
• Later studies (for example, Heathwood et al. 1995; Banks & Braes 1997b, 2010; Enquist 2010; Viorella 2010) reinforced the case for insurance law reform. Roy (1997a: 408) argues that …

• Reference to unpublished data and personal communications should not appear in the list but should be cited in the text only (e.g. Smith A, 2000, unpublished data).

• At the end of the manuscript, include a list of all references cited in the text, arranged alphabetically by author, chronological year of publication and presented under the heading ‘References’.

• Do not use ‘et al.’ or ampersands (‘&’) in the reference list.

• Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references.

Submissions are not required to reflect the precise reference formatting of the journal (use of italics, bold etc.), however it is important that all key elements of each reference are included. Please see below for examples of reference content requirements.

Journal Article

Walters, W. (1997) ‘The active society: new designs for social policy’, Policy and Politics, 25 (3), 221-34.

Online Article Not Yet Published in an Issue

An online article that has not yet been published in an issue (therefore has no volume, issue or page numbers) can be cited by its Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The DOI will remain valid and allow an article to be tracked even after its allocation to an issue.

Murphy K, Tyler TR, Curtis A (2009) Nurturing regulatory compliance: Is procedural justice effective when people question the legitimacy of the law? Regulation & Governance doi: 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2009.01043.x

Book

Sherr, L.A. & Teeter, D.J. (eds) (1991) Total Quality Management in Higher Education, New Directions for Institutional Research no. 71, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Inc.

Chapter in a Book

Carroll, J. (1982) ‘Paranoid and remissive: the treason of the upper middle class’. In R. Manne (ed.) The New Conservatism in Australia, Melbourne, Oxford University Press.

Electronic material

Cancer-Pain.org [homepage on the internet]. New York: Association of Cancer Online Resources, Inc.; c2000–01 [Cited 2015 May 11]. Available from: http://www.cancer-pain.org/.

Official publications

ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (2009) Household Income and Income Distribution, Australia, 2007-08, Cat. No. 6523.0.

Treasury (2011) Budget 2011-12, Canberra, Commonwealth of Australia

Newspaper articles

Williams, G. (2014) ‘How would a referendum change Australia’s racist laws?’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 September , www.smh.com.au (accessed 22 October 2014).

Media releases

Abbott, T. (2014) ‘Forrest Review of Indigenous Training and Employment’, Media release, 01 August, Prime Minister of Australia, Canberra, www.pm.gov.au (accessed 22 October 2014).

Reports

Burkett, I. (2010) Financing social enterprise: understanding needs and realities, Brisbane, Foresters Community Finance.

Working/discussion papers

Elliehausen, G. (2009) An analysis of consumers’ use of payday loans, Financial Services Research Program Monograph No. 41, Washington, The George Washington University School of Business.

Theses

Tucker, D. (1992) Reconstructing the fifties: an analysis of home ownership in Tasmania. Ph.D thesis, Norfolk University (unpublished).

Conference papers

Williams, R.M. & Taki, A.M. (2000) ‘Factors affecting postcolonial discourse’, paper presented to the International Congress on Political Economy, Strasbourg, 28-30 June.

In-Text Hyperlinks

Hyperlinks are an increasingly important component of documenting the sources used and enhancing the readers’ experience of journal articles; however, writing out the full details of the link can reduce the readability of the publication. When inserting hyperlinks in the references follow the above examples.

For in-text hyperlinks provide short description rather than the full link to ensure that any unnecessarily long links are hidden and the text reads well. Never use a URL as a hyperlink within a sentence: Instead of ‘full details are available at: ‘http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2013A00020‘ use ‘full details are available in the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013′. We recommend that authors cut and paste their hyperlinks into the ‘Edit Hyperlink’ dialog box in Word and then give it a shortened name. This way the electronic version of the journal can display an active link to the source document without excessively compromising the readability of the text.

Endnotes

Endnotes should be placed as a list at the end of the paper only, not at the foot of each page. They should be numbered in the list and referred to in the text with consecutive, superscript Arabic numerals. Keep endnotes brief and use sparingly; they should contain only short comments tangential to the main argument of the paper.

Tables

Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied as editable files, not pasted as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.

Figure Legends

Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.

Preparing Figures

Although we encourage authors to send us the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes we are happy to accept a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions.

Click here for the basic figure requirements for figures submitted with manuscripts for initial peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements.

Appendices

Appendices will be published after the references. For submission they should be supplied as separate files but referred to in the text.

Supporting Information

Supporting information is information that is not essential to the article but that provides greater depth and background. It is hosted online, and appears without editing or typesetting. It may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc. Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.

Please note that the provision of supporting information is not encouraged as a general rule. It will be assessed critically by reviewers and editors and will only be accepted if it is essential.

 

5. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Editorial Review and Acceptance

The AJSI employs a double-blind peer review process. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.

The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Final acceptance or rejection rests with the Editorial Board, who reserve the right to refuse any material for publication.

Wiley's policy on confidentiality of the review process is available here.

Data storage and documentation

The journal encourages data sharing wherever possible, unless this is prevented by ethical, privacy or confidentiality matters. Authors publishing in the journal are therefore encouraged to make their data, scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper available via a publicly available data repository, however this is not mandatory. If the study includes original data, at least one author must confirm that he or she had full access to all the data in the study, and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

Conflict of Interest

The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to, patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

Funding

Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues is expected to comply with the ethical principles described in the following documents: Ethical conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Communities: Guidelines for Researchers and Stakeholders 2018 and the AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research 2020. Guidance on putting these principles into practice are available in Keeping Research on Track II and the Guide to Applying the AIATSIS Code of Ethics respectively.

Authorship

The author submitting a manuscript must ensure that all authors listed are eligible for authorship. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) specifies that all authors must:

• 1. Have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;

• 2. Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;

• 3. Given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and

• 4. Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section (for example, to recognize contributions from people who provided technical help, collation of data, writing assistance, acquisition of funding, or a department chairperson who provided general support).

Joint first or senior authorship: In the case of joint first authorship a footnote should be added to the author listing, e.g. ‘X and Y should be considered joint first author’ or ‘X and Y should be considered joint senior author’

Group collaborations: If your research was conducted by a very large collaborative group please list all names and these will be published in an appendix to the article.

Publication Ethics: This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found at http://exchanges.wiley.com/ethicsguidelines. Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.

 

6. COPYRIGHT, LICENCING AND OPEN ACCESS

Accepted papers will be passed to Wiley’s production team for publication. The author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Wiley’s Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be asked to complete an electronic license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.

WALS + standard CTA or Open Access

You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.

Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.

Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.

Standard Copyright Transfer Agreement: FAQs about the terms and conditions of the standard CTA in place for the journal, including standard terms regarding archiving of the accepted version of the paper, are available at: Copyright Terms and Conditions FAQs.

Note that in signing the journal’s licence agreement authors agree that consent to reproduce figures from another source has been obtained.

Open Access: This journal is a subscription Journal that offers an open access option. You'll have the option to choose to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be  subject to an APC. You can read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for  waivers or discounts, through your institution, funder or a country waiver.

Open Access licenses. Authors choosing Open Access retain copyright in their article and have a choice of publishing under the following Creative Commons License terms: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY); Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY NC); Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives License (CC BY NC ND). To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright Terms and Conditions FAQs.

 

7. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Accepted article received in production

When your accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, you (corresponding authors) will receive an email asking you to login or register with Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication licence at this point.

Proofs

Once your paper is typeset you will receive email notification of the URL from where to download a PDF typeset page proof, associated forms and full instructions on how to correct and return the file.

Please note that you are responsible for all statements made in your work, including changes made during the editorial process and thus you must check your proofs carefully.

Early View

The journal offers rapid speed to publication via Wiley’s Early View service. Early View (Online Version of Record) articles are published on Wiley Online Library before inclusion in an issue. Note there may be a delay after corrections are received before your article appears online, as Editors also need to review proofs. Once your article is published on Early View no further changes to your article are possible. Your Early View article is fully citable and carries an online publication date and DOI for citations.

 

8. POST PUBLICATION

Access and sharing

When your article is published online:

• You receive an email alert (if requested).

• You can share a link to your published article through social media.

• As the author, you will have free access to your paper (after accepting the Terms & Conditions of use, you can view your article).

• The corresponding author and co-authors can nominate up to ten colleagues to receive a publication alert and free online access to your article.

Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

Measuring the Impact of your Work

Wiley also helps you measure the impact of your research through our specialist partnerships with Kudos and Altmetric.

Authorship Changes

In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, this journal will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. [Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found below, as well as in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”]

Author Name Change Policy

In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

9. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS

Christian Eva - [email protected]

 

Author Guidelines updated 18 October 2021