Instructions to Authors

Please note this journal has enabled the Authorship Change Detection Tool, provided by ScholarOne. This functionality will alert the Editorial Office of any changes made to the authorship list during revisions, resubmissions or transfers. If detected, all Co-Authors will be asked either to accept or reject the change.

Once you have prepared your manuscript according to the instructions below, please visit the online submission website.

Submissions

Manuscripts should be submitted using the online submission system. Authors have the opportunity to append supplementary material not essential for inclusion in the text of a manuscript as online-only content linked to the online manuscript.

Authors of submissions should note especially the following points:

1. Submissions are welcomed in the English-language. Please use US English spelling throughout.
2. Manuscript files should be submitted in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect.
3. All articles should use author-date in-text citations, including all authors' full first and last names.
4. All material, including extracts, notes, references, appendixes, and captions for illustrations, must be double-spaced.
5. Article submissions should be between 8,000 and 10,000 words in length.
6. Author's complete mailing address and phone/fax/e-mail information must appear on the title page of the manuscript.
7. All manuscripts must be accompanied by a 100-150 word abstract (page 1).
8. Embedded footnotes or endnotes should be avoided; rather, notes should be created as regular text and placed before the references.
9. All tables must be in word processing files rather than spreadsheet or database files.
10. The author's name and address should appear only on the title page of the manuscript. The author's name or any other information which could identify the author should not appear in the abstract or manuscript.
11. Manuscripts should include up to six keywords listed in alphabetical order under the abstract. 

Social Politics follows the style instructions of the Chicago Manual of Style , 17th ed (2017). For guidance on notes, references, tables, graphs, diagrams, maps, and photographs, please consult this manual. Requirements for figure file types should be discussed with the managing editor, Penny Brown ([email protected]).

Figure accessibility and alt text

Incorporating alt text (alternative text) when submitting your paper helps to foster inclusivity and accessibility. Good alt text ensures that individuals with visual impairments or those using screen readers can comprehend the content and context of your figures. The aim of alt text is to provide concise and informative descriptions of your figure so that all readers have access to the same level of information and understanding, and that all can engage with and benefit from the visual elements integral to scholarly content. Including alt text demonstrates a commitment to accessibility and enhances the overall impact and reach of your work.  

Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs. 

Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article. 

Detailed guidance on how to draft and submit alt text. 

Licence and open access

Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.

Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.

Social Politics offers the option of publishing under either a standard licence or an open access licence. Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution.

Should you wish to publish your article open access, you should select your choice of open access licence in our online system after your article has been accepted for publication. You will need

Details of the open access licences and open access charges.

OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means Corresponding authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.

Author Toll Free Link and Discounts

All corresponding authors will be provided with a free access link to their article upon publication.  The link will be sent via email to the article’s corresponding author who is free to share the link with any co-authors.  Please see OUP’s Author Self-Archiving policy for more information regarding how this link may be publicly shared depending on the type of license under which the article has published.  

All authors have the option to purchase up to 10 print copies of the issue in which they publish at a 50% discount. Orders should be placed through this order form. Orders must be made within 12 months of the online publication date

Funding

In order to meet your funding requirements authors are required to name their funding sources, or state if there are none, during the submission process. Further information on this process and the CHORUS initiative.

Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.

The following rules should be followed:

• The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
• The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
• Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
• Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
• Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].

Permissions for illustrations and figures

Permission to reproduce copyright material, for print and online publication in perpetuity, must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author; this includes applications and payments to DACS, ARS, and similar licensing agencies where appropriate. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors. It is also the author's responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions: please see the Guidelines for Authors section. Information on permissions contacts for a number of main galleries and museums can also be provided. Should you require copies of this, please contact the editorial office of the journal in question or the Oxford Journals Rights ([email protected]) department.

Availability of Data and Materials

Where ethically feasible, Social Politics strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. Authors are required to include a Data Availability Statement in their article.
 
We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files or deposited in a public repository whenever possible. For information on general repositories for all data types, and a list of recommended repositories by subject area, please see Choosing where to archive your data.