Author Guidelines

There are no page charges and no monetary payments for contributions to this journal. Upon publication, the Publisher provides Authors with an electronic copy of the published article in PDF format, and discounts for requested print copies. The notes below are intended as a brief guide for contributors. Please note that these guidelines were updated in January 2008.

Article submission

Articles should be within the aims and scope of the journal and approximately 6000 words. Longer articles may be negotiated with the Editor-in-Chief. Materials should be prepared and submitted electronically to HSReditorial@e-contentmanagement.com according to the guidelines below. Authors are also advised to consult http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/ for sample articles, summaries, key words, reference lists, tables and figures.

The publisher, eContent Management Pty Ltd, uses a semi-automated manuscript tracking system to receive research articles. Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to a peer review process managed by the editors under the direction of the Editor-in-Chief. To ensure prompt assessment of your manuscript, and to preserve anonymity in the review process, please observe the following steps:

Save your manuscript as a Microsoft Word file. This document file should contain: title of the manuscript, 100-150 word abstract, 6 key words, article text, references, figures, and tables (in that order), as one document. It is recommended that one of the key words be ‘sociology' to ensure the article is accurately identified in international citation indexes.
Please do not include any author information in this manuscript attachment. It will be forwarded directly to reviewers and should not contain any identifying information.
Include all other information in the body text of an email letter addressed to Dr Fran Collyer, Editor-in-Chief. This email letter should contain: the manuscript title, author(s) names, institutional affilation and address of each author, email contact details of each author, and acknowledgements. Please use an asterisk to identify the author to whom all correspondence should be sent. In addition, a statement should be included to warrant the material has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Check the body text of your email to ensure you have listed all authors in the order they should appear in the published version of the paper. Also ensure any acknowledgements are included in the email and not in the manuscript attachment.
Email this cover letter with your Word file manuscript attachment to HSReditorial@e-contentmanagement.com. Do not attach any other documents to your email.

Please refer to the 'Style Guide' below for references, citation and spelling conventions and to 'Tables and Figures' for acceptable file and photo types for print publishing.

Article revisions

The above requirements also apply to authors submitting revised manuscripts. It is important for revising authors to provide a brief summary indicating how they have addressed the referees' and editor's comments. This information should be contained in an email letter with the revised electronic manuscript as an attachment.

Style guide

The Health Sociology Review uses Australian spelling conventions. These are based on the English, not American language. Authors who are not fluent in the English language are encouraged to use the services of a professional translator prior to submission. Subheadings should be kept concise, provided in lower case (except for the first letter of the first word and proper nouns), and the various levels clearly differentiated without the use of numerals. Footnotes should be termed 'Endnotes', used sparingly, and not be used for citing references. The accuracy and format of reference citations are the authors' responsibility (see also 'Copyright' below).

Citations within text

The Harvard system is used for referencing. 'Ibid', 'loc cit' or 'op cit' must not be used. Author surname(s), date(s) and page number(s) are given in brackets in the text, for example: (Parbury and Ruffin 1997: 62).

If author names appear as part of the flow of the text, the year appears in parentheses after the name, with a specific page reference appearing after a colon, for example: Smith (1999: 145).

Where there are three or more authors, the first name is followed by et al (in italics) and the date, for example: (Clark et al 1997; Smith 1992).

Multiple and separate citations need to be indicated through semicolons, for example: (Clarke et al 1997; Smith 1992; Parbury and Ruffin 1997), with multiple publications by the same author separated with a comma (eg Parbury 1997, 1995). The symbol ‘&' is not to be used in the text.

Please note the full stop should be placed after a reference, not before it. For example:

‘Generally speaking, theoretical issues are not discussed in this work' (Bracks et al 1977).

Reference list

All works cited in the text must be provided in the list of 'References'. This list must be in alphabetical order, according to the surname (family name) of the author. In general, the citation should be organised according to surname, initials, date of publication, title of paper or book, publisher and place of publication. If several works by the same authors are cited, they should be listed in order of publication, the earliest last, with publications from the same year differentiated with the designation '1999a', '1999b', and so on. Submitting authors should take note of the examples below, where sentence case is used (lower case letters are predominant), and spaces and extraneous punctuation have been eliminated:

Hunt L (1996) Social movements and the construction of health knowledge: A case study of the women's health movement. Annual Review of Health Social Sciences 6: 157-172.

Nicholson LJ (1999) The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern, Open University Press: Buckingham, UK.

Saggers S and Gray D (2001) Theorising indigenous health: A political economy of health and substance misuse. Health Sociology Review 10(2): 21-32.

Broom D (1998) Gender and health, in Germov J (ed) Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology, Oxford University Press: Melbourne, pp.39-56.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2002) Australia's Health 2002, AIHW: Canberra.

Commonwealth Department of Community Services and Health (1989) The National Women's Health Policy: Advancing Women's Health in Australia, Australian General Printing Service: Canberra.

Doyal L (1998) A draft framework for designing national health policies with an integrated gender perspective, in Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into the Health Sector: Expert Group Meeting on Women and Health Discussion Papers United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, accessed at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/papers1.htm.

Foucault M (1980) The politics of health in the eighteenth century, in Gordon C (ed) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, Michel Foucault, Pantheon Books: New York, pp.166-182.

DiPrete Brown L, Askov K, Miller Franco L, Nicholas D, Lopez Acuña D, Montenegro H and Infante A (2003) Maximizing Quality of Care Through Health Sector Reform: The Role of Quality Assurance Strategies. Working Draft. Published for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) by the Quality Assurance Project. Accessed at www.qaproject.org/pubs/PDFs/PAHO.pdf on 10 April 2006.

Little P, Everitt H, Williamson I, Warner G, Moore M, Gould C, Ferrier K and Payne S (2001) Observational study of effect of patient centredness and positive approach on outcomes of general practice consultations, British Medical Journal 323: 908-911.

Artwork Presentation

Tables and figures

Each table or figure should have a sentence in your text that introduces it. Useful tables and figures do not duplicate the text or each other. Carefully consider what each table or figure adds to your work. Look at tables and figures in published, hard-copy issues of Health Sociology Review to get an idea for preferred formats.

Tables, figures and appendixes should be supplied at the end of the main text, with their desired locations cross-referenced within the text, as follows:
[Insert Table 1 here].

Tables and figures should be centered and numbered consecutively (one sequence for Tables, one for Figures) with Arabic numerals (eg 1, 2, 3), and have self-explanatory captions, in bold, title-style, left-aligned, above the figure or table, eg
Figure 2: Distribution of the Online Learning Literature.

Important: Artwork labels (such as axes, labels or legends etc) are to use capitalisation, and appear using only bold, roman or italic Helvetica, Arial or Times New Roman fonts, otherwise distortion occurs. The maximum final size of published figures and tables will be 200mm x 145mm, landscape or portrait.

All line diagrams and photographs are 'Figures'. Line diagrams should be suitable for immediate black and white reproduction (ie not require redrawing). Photographs should be clear black and whites with good contrast.

Figure labels should be in bold, italic and roman Helvetica or Arial fonts, with minimum capitalisation. If line diagrams are presented only as hard copy, colours and greys are not to be used; however, if figures are also supplied electronically, greys can be included. Electronic TIFFs or EPS files are preferred using high resolution (300dpi and above). GIFFs and JPEG files at lower resolution (below 150dpi) are NOT suitable for print publishing.

Submitting authors should note that tables should be constructed so that they will not lose their formatting when sent electronically across potentially different platforms. Authors wishing to publish complex numerical tables may be asked to fax or post a hard copy of these tables to the Editor-in-Chief to ensure accurate reproduction is achieved.

Photographs

If photographs are to be supplied, they should be clear, with good contrast, and be cropped to approximately 40mm x 50mm in dimension.

Electronic black and white (greyscale) TIFFs of high resolution (300 dpi minimum) are preferred, around 300KB in size.

Low resolution (ie under 150 dpi) JPEGs or GIFFs are NOT suitable for printing. Do not repeat-save JPEGs, as the JPEG automatically compresses with each save, thereby losing detail each time.

JPEGs are 'lossy' files; that is, each and every time a JPEG is saved, it is compressed, which means it loses information or detail each time. As well, JPEGs prepared for the web are usually reduced to 72 dpi for fast downloads. The resolution needed for print production is 300 dpi minimum.

In contrast, TIFFs don't compress with each save, which is a strong reason to receive TIFFs in the first instance. GIFFs are the same as JPEGs and are also usually low-resolution for web publishing. High resolution GIFFs will reproduce.

Author warranties

By submission of material to Health Sociology Review, all authors warrant that the material is their own, original material or that copyright clearance has been acquired to reproduce other material from employers, third parties or attributed to third parties. It is the responsibility of the authors to secure the release of any copyright material and to provide written evidence to this effect to eContent Management Pty Ltd. It is also the authors' responsibility to obtain clearance for reproduction from any organisation which commissioned the work (if applicable).

Submission of material to Health Sociology Review implies all authors' consent to assignment of the material's copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication (see Copyright below).

By submitting material to Health Sociology Review, all authors of the material agree to indemnify eContent Management Pty Ltd, and its heirs and assigns in business, against any litigation or claims that may arise from the content of or opinions in the material provided.

On acceptance for publication, an agreement specifying these terms will be sent to the corresponding author for signature by all authors of that manuscript.

Copyright

Copyright of published articles is held by eContent Management Pty Ltd. No limitation will be placed on the personal freedom of authors to copy or to use in subsequent work, material contained in their papers. Please contact the Publisher for clarification if you are unsure of the use of copyright material. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of research and private study, or criticism and or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 of Australia, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the Publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of the licences issued by the Copyright Agency Limited:

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