Guidelines for Contributors

Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts to Labor Studies Journal

1. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lsj, where authors will be required to set up an online account in the SAGE Track system powered by ScholarOne.

2. Submissions should be double spaced and limited to 30 pages, including abstract, tables, and figures.

3. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition, author-date system).

Please note that Chicago’s author-date system uses in-text citation, instead of Notes, mostly in the form of author, year of publication and, where appropriate, page number.

At the end of the manuscript, there should be a list of references cited in the text, with the year of publication following the name of author, and the titles of works being in headline style.

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Manuscript Submission Guidelines: 

Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts to Labor Studies Journal

1. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lsj, where authors will be required to set up an online account in the SAGE Track system powered by ScholarOne.

2. Submissions should be double spaced and limited to 30 pages, including abstract, tables, and figures.

3. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition, author-date system).

Please note that Chicago’s author-date system uses in-text citation, instead of Notes, mostly in the form of author, year of publication and, where appropriate, page number.

At the end of the manuscript, there should be a list of references cited in the text, with the year of publication following the name of author, and the titles of works being in headline style.

For further details, please consult The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition), or click the following link for a quick guide: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

4. All authors should include the following:

a. A cover page with title, author(s), affiliation, contact information (address, phone, fax, and e-mail), short biographical paragraphs of each author, and any acknowledgments;

b. An abstract of no more than 100 words, followed by 4 to 5 keywords; and

c. The body of the manuscript, with the title listed at the top of the page.

5. Authors’ names or any other identifying marks should not appear anywhere other than on the cover page to maintain the double blind peer review process. Please review the Labor Studies Journal Review Policy here.

6. Figures and tables should be numbered separately and placed separately at the end of the manuscript. They should appear on separate sheets and be placed in the order they appear in text.

7. For more information about the types of articles published in Labor Studies Journal, click here.

8. Please direct any questions to the co-editors: Robert Bruno, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois (bbruno@illinois.edu) and Victor Devinatz, Department of Management & Quantitative Methods, Illinois State University (vgdevin@ilstu.edu).

Editorial and Publishing Policies

Conflict of interest

Any conflict if interest should be disclosed by a submitting or publishing author. For more information about SAGE’s conflict of interest policy, click here.

Funding Acknowledgements

All research articles should have a funding acknowledgement statement included in the manuscript in the form of a sentence under a separate heading entitled ‘Funding’ directly after your Acknowledgements and Declaration of Conflicting Interests, if applicable, and prior to any Notes and your References. For more information about SAGE’s funding acknowlegements policy, click here.

Book Reviews

Submit reviews to Ericka Wills (willsericka@gmail.com). A list of books available for review can be found at the UALE website at https://uale.org/books_to_review. – DANA WE WILL NEED TO CREATE A PAGE AND FORM FOR PEOPLE TO FILL OUT – WHAT SHOULD WE DO HERE?

Innovations Section

Submit manuscripts to Emily E. LB. Twarog, University of Illinois, School of Labor and Employment Relations (etwarog@illinois.edu).- DANA WE WILL NEED TO CREATE A PAGE AND FORM FOR PEOPLE TO FILL OUT – WHAT SHOULD WE DO HERE?

Supplemental Materials

This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information, please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.

SAGE Choice

If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to nonsubscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Choice, subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit SAGE Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at SAGE, including self-author archiving deposits (green open access) visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.

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