Information for the Authors

All sociologists for whom qualitative research methodology and interpretative paradigm are basic perspectives of investigation of a social world, are welcomed to submit their articles and support our initiative of an open-access journal. There will be published empirical, theoretical and methodological articles applicable to all fields and specializations within sociology.

 Procedure of publishing

Articles submitted to Qualitative Sociology Review must be original works of their authors, not published previously and must not have been submitted for a review to another journal. Every paper will be blind reviewed and quality-controlled by two reviewers. We want to maintain the high scientific quality level of our journal, however we think that the best way to reach this is a collective work, commitment and joint responsibility for a content of the next volumes. Therefore, we ask for submitting carefully prepared articles, which have been revisioned and adjusted to required text format. It will allow us to reduce our interference in original contents of papers and to shorten the time needed for publishing.

Please, acquaint yourself with our General Guidelines for Review (PDF)

Articles, together with author's personal data and email address should be send to the Editor's Office via email: submit@qualitativesociologyreview.org
After receiving submmited paper, the office will send to the author a message with confirmation. Any other agreements and consultations will proceed via email.

 Language of publications

At the moment, articles should be written in English only.

 General construction of the article

• an abstract at the beginning of the work,
• keywords (5-10),
• theoretical introduction,
• methodological paragraph,
• the research or the main theoretical work,
• conclusions.

Submmited articles should be prepared in Word or WordPerfect format (as .doc or .rtf files); illustrations, graphics, pictures or other figures should be placed in text (acceptable formats include .jpeg, .gif, .bmp, .png or .tiff).

 Style Guide

The following is taken from American Sociological Association Style Guide (2nd ed.), 1997. Prepare your paper carefully and do not forget to check your spelling, which correctness is necessary for acceptation of the article.

 Footnotes & Endnotes

Footnotes are used to explain or amplify text, cite materials of limited availability, or append information presented in a table or figure. Please, do not use endnotes and replace them by footnotes.

 References in the main text

If the author's name is mentioned in the text, then it should be followed by the year of publication in parentheses, e.g. "...Znaniecki (1934)".

If the author's name is not mentioned in the text, then the last name and the year of publication should be enclosed in parentheses, e.g. "...(Blumer 1969)".

Pagination should follow the year after a colon, e.g. "...(Goffman 1959: 44) ". Series of references should be separated with semicolons, e.g. (Becker 1967; Geer 1970; Turner 1981). Use page numbers only when you quote an author's words.

For joint authors, use both last names, e.g. "...(Glaser and Strauss 1967)".

For works with three authors, list all last names in the first citation in the text; thereafter use "et al." For more than three authors, use "et al." throughout, e.g. "...(Anderson, Hughes, and Sharrock 1986), then (Anderson et al. 1986)".

If the author's name is repeated, enclose both the last name and year in parentheses in the first citation, thereafter use "ibidem", e.g. "...(Garfinkel 1967), then (Garfinkel ibidem)".

If there is no date for a publication use n.d. in place of the year.

For unpublished materials, use "forthcoming" to indicate material scheduled for publication. For dissertations and unpublished papers, cite the date, e.g. "...(Smith forthcoming)".

Block quotations are presented in smaller type and are set off in a separate, indented paragraph. They are not enclosed in quotation marks, e.g.
    As stated by Park and Burgess (1921):

 Miscellaneous Style & Grammar Matters

Foreign words in your text should be italicized or underlined. Commonly used foreign words or terms, however, should appear in regular type. Examples are per se, ad hoc, et al.

When using an acronym, spell out the complete term the first time you use it and present the acronym in parentheses:
    First use: "The Qualitative Sociology Review (QSR) includes..."
    Later: "QSR also includes..."

Do not use abbreviations such as etc., e.g., or i.e. in your text. You may use these abbreviations in parenthetical information, however:

 Cited References

List references in alphabetical order by authors' last names. References without an author name appear at the beginning of the list. For two or more references by the same author, list them in order of the year of publication. Use six hyphens and a period (------.) in place of the name when the authorship is the same as in the preceding citation. To list two or more works by the same author from the same year, distinguish them by adding letters (a, b, c, etc.) to the year and list in alphabetical order by the title.

Books

Last, First Name (Date) Title of the book. City: Publisher.

Last, First Name (Date) Title of the book. Translated by F. Last Name. City:Publisher.

Last, First and First Last Name (Date) Title of the book. Edition. City: Publisher.

Examples:

Mead, George H. (1934) Mind, Self and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mannheim, Karl (1936) Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of
     Knowledge. Translated by L. Wirth and E. Shils. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.

Berger, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann (1966) The social construction of reality.
    Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Collected Works/Chapters in Books

Last, First Name, editor (Date) Title of the Anthology or Edited Book. City: Publisher.

Last, First Name (Date) "Article or chapter title." Pp. xx-xx in Title of the Anthology or
    Edited Book, edited by F. Last and F. Last Name. City: Publisher.

Last, First Name (Date) "Article or chapter title." Pp. xx-xx in Title of the Anthology or
    Edited Book, vol. ..., edited by F. Last Name. City: Publisher.

Examples:

Rose, Arnold, editor (1962) Human Behaviour and Social Processes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Sacks, Harvey (1972) "On the analyzability of stories by children." Pp. 325-345 in
    Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication, edited by
    J. Gumperz and D. Hymes. Oxford: Blackwell.

Natanson, Maurice (1962) "Introduction." Pp. XXV - XLVII in Alfred Schutz:
    Collected Papers, vol. 1, edited by M. Natanson. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

Journal/Newspaper Articles/Online Articles

Last, First Name (Date) "Title of the Article or Paper." Journal Name volume: xx - xx.

Last, First Name (Date) "Title of the Article or Paper." Journal Name volume(issue):
    xx - xx.

Last, First Name (Date) "Title of the News Article." Newspaper Name Month day, pp.
    xx - xx.

Last, First and First Last Name(Date) "Title of the Article or Paper." Journal Name volume
    (issue). Retrieved Month, Year (http://xxx...).

Examples:

Blumer, Herbert (1967) "Reply to Woelfel, Stone and Farberman." American Journal of
    Sociology 72: 411-412.

Strauss, Anselm (1982) "Interorganizational Negotiation." Urban Life 11(3): 350 - 367.

Greenberg, Daniel S. (1991) "'Soft' Sciences Grow Up." The Washington Post
    November 13, p. A19.

Chenail, Ronald J. and Paul Maione (1997) "Sensemaking in Clinical Qualitative
     Research." The Qualitative Report 3(1). Retrieved January 1, 2006
    (http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR3-1/sense.html).

Unpublished Manuscripts

Last, First Name (Date) "Title of the Dissertation." Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation,
    Department, University, City.

Last, First and First Last Name (Date) "Title of the Report." Report No. , Department/Center,     University/Institution, City.

Last, First Name (Date) "Title of the Paper." Paper presented at Place, date, City,
    Country.

Examples:

Garfinkel, Harold (1952) "The perception of the other: A study in social order."
     Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Boston.

Stepick, Alex and Carolyn D. Stepick (1990) "What's In It For Me? What's In It For You?
    Ethnographic Research On The Possible Undercount of Haitians in Miami." Research
    Report No. EX90/11, Center for Labor Research, Florida International University,
    Miami.

Glaser, Barney (2005) "The World-Wide Adoption of Grounded Theory." Paper presented     at the 37th World Congress of the IIS, July 6, Stockholm, Sweden.

 Copyrights

The whole journal and all published articles are contribution to the contemporary social sciences' development and are also a sign of scientific activity of the mankind. Therefore, they are available without special permission to everyone who wishes to use them for noncommercial, scientific, educational or other cognitive purposes. Consequently, submitting an article means that the author allows his work to be accessible in our journal. Possible commercial use of any published article will be consulted with the author beforehand. More...

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