21st Century Society welcomes submissions via ScholarOneTM Manuscripts site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rsoc. Please read further details below.

Further information about the journal including links to the online sample copy and contents pages can be found on the journal homepage.

The Editors of this new and innovative journal invite contributions from social scientists wishing to address challenging and important issues of relevance to an international audience. These may be empirical, theoretical or methodological. Where possible, papers should exhibit an interdisciplinary approach and papers are encouraged that link to disciplines outside the social sciences that have policy and practitioner relevance. 

1. Submission. The contents of papers shall be the sole responsibility of the authors and publication shall not imply the concurrence of editors or publishers. All submissions should be made online on the 21st Century Society Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Authors should prepare their manuscript with all document information identifying the author removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees.

   • Submissions to 21st Century Society will incur no charge
   • Submissions should be in English
   • All manuscripts shall be subject to an editorial pre-screening process to assess suitability for the journal
   • Subject to the pre-screening, manuscripts shall be processed in a double anonymous peer review system, using independent expert referees
   • Final responsibility for the selection and acceptance of articles rests with the Editors
   • Removal of references to author(s) from the text to enable double anonymous peer review is entirely the responsibility of the author and any mention of an author in the manuscript shall be taken to imply that authors waive the rights to double anonymous peer review and such manuscripts will proceed under single anonymous conditions
   • Submission of an article to the journal indicates formal acceptance by the author(s) of these peer review conditions and procedures

    

2. The Manuscript. Articles should normally be between 6000-8000 words inclusive of all notes and references. Articles must be typed with double spacing throughout, with a 4cm left-hand margin. All pages should be numbered. The text and references should be checked thoroughly for errors before submission. It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that the typescript is correct in style, syntax and spelling (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary).

3. Title Page. The first page of the typescript must contain: the full title; a running title of not more than 75 letters and spaces; an abstract of 300 words or less. The abstract should be accompanied by not at least three key words which define the subject matter.

4. Abbreviations. Any word or words to be abbreviated should be written in full when first mentioned followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis.

5. Illustrations. All illustrations of any kind should be submitted as sequentially numbered figures. Illustrations should not be inserted in the manuscript but be uploaded as a separate file, following the online submission guidelines. Illustrations should be of a quality suitable for printing and will not normally be redrawn by the publisher.

6. Tables and Supplementary Material. Data must be kept to a minimum. Tables should be numbered and headed with short titles. As with illustrations, they should not be inserted in the manuscript but be uploaded as separate files. Supplementary material or data not for publication but in support of the submission can be sent as a separate file.

7. Colour illustrations. Colour illustrations will normally only be considered when the article authors are willing to pay the additional page print costs. Contact the editors for more details.

8. Acknowledgements. Acknowledgements should appear at the end of the text.

9. References. The Harvard system is used. When quoted in the text the style is: …Smith (1972)… . or (Brown and Jones, 1972) or …Smith et al. (1972a). References are listed alphabetically after the text. Journal and book titles should be written out in full. References should be prepared, double spaced, on separate sheets at the end of the paper. Examples are: Brigham, E. F. (1965) The determinants of residential land values, Land Economics, 41, 325-34. Phelps-Brown, H. (1981) Labour market policy, in Changing Perceptions of Economic Policy (Ed.) F. Cairncross, Methuen, London, pp. 68-113. If no person is named as the author the body should be used - for example: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (1980) Report on Urban Planning Methods, London.

10. Endnotes. These should be numbered consecutively in the text and gathered together at the end of the manuscript. The use of notes in general should be kept to a minimum.

11. Proofs: Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author for correction if there is sufficient time to do so. They should be corrected and returned within three days. Major alterations or revisions cannot be accepted.

12. Free article access: Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

13. Copyright. Submission of a paper to 21st Century Society will be taken to imply that it presents original unpublished work, not under consideration elsewhere. A copyright assignment form will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. This publishing agreement should be completed and returned to the editorial office. The copyright covers the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, photographic reproductions, microfilm or any other reproductions of similar nature, and translations.  It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

14. Permission to publish all material from other sources which may infringe copyright laws must have copyright clearance from that source before being included in papers for 21st Century Society and any acknowledgements should be included in the captions.

15. The ideas and opinions expressed in the journal are those of the authors concerned and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Academy.