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Guidance for contributors

1. Papers must advance knowledge, and make a strong theoretical and empirical contribution to the literature on work relationships and organisational work processes.
2. Authors should use clear English comprehensible to readers outside of their area of specialism.
3. Authors should ensure that their methodology is not too long, avoiding overly long explanations of why particular norms and standards have been chosen.
4. Papers must be original research and must not have already been published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All quotations from published work, including any author's own previous work, must be acknowledged as such and fully cited. (Authors may only repeat the method from their own previous published works without citation.)
5. Papers that merely offer scores along, or describe relationships between, chosen empirical measures, with commentary on the efficaciousness of techniques adopted in measurement, are not suitable for Human Relations. An exception might be made if you present a technical or methodological critique of a particular tool of analysis, thus carrying forward an important debate which engages more than one area of scientific interest.
6. We do not publish studies based on laboratory experiments unless there is confirmatory field data. Studies referring to simulation exercises involving students or others without experiential knowledge of the simulated context are discouraged.
7. Field-study results are more likely to be accepted if they use more than a single technique of data collection and analysis. You should strengthen the validity of, for example, questionnaire scales or constructs by considering multiple influences in the context of the field study.
8. We encourage papers with strong research methodologies, and particularly those that use longitudinal design.

Preparation and submission guidelines

Please do read the guidance on how to prepare and submit a paper and do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office if you have any queries or problems with the submission process. We are keen to hear from you and want to help!