- GUIDANCE FOR CONTRIBUTORS
- HOW TO PREPARE AND SUBMIT YOUR PAPER
- REVIEW, PRODUCTION AND PUBLICATION
Submission checklist
| 1. | Read our GUIDANCE FOR CONTRIBUTORS and the details below about how to prepare your manuscript and submit it online. |
| 2. | Prepare an electronic version of your cover letter: - Note in the cover letter if the manuscript has been presented at a conference or published in conference proceedings or as a working paper. - Verify that your manuscript has not been published by, nor is in press or under review at, another journal or as a book or book chapter. - If your paper uses the same dataset as another paper, describe the similarities and key differences between the submitted manuscript and the other paper in your covering letter (and submit the other paper as a Supplemental file, with the HTML/PDF Proof checkbox empty). |
| 3. | Prepare an electronic version of your manuscript in Microsoft Word: Please note: Manuscripts should not exceed 35 pages in total (including abstract, text, endnotes, tables, figures, appendices, references and all other inclusions). |
| 4. | Prepare any tables: - Each table should be presented on a separate page at the end of the manuscript, or may be uploaded as separate file. Column headings should clearly define the data presented. - Ensure that each table and figure is cited in the text. - Each table or figure should have a short, descriptive title. - All notes and sources to tables and figures should be placed underneath. |
| 5. | Prepare any figures: - See instructions for preparing artwork, figures and other graphics below. - Please ensure that you submit editable source file versions of the figures. - High quality print-ready figures are required. Included text should be large enough to be readable after reduction for publication. |
| 6. | Obtain any permissions: Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing within their manuscript any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway. |
| 7. | Check the references: Please ensure that references are complete, match the text, and follow Human Relations formatting requirements. |
| 8. | Check that none of the electronic documents contain viruses. |
| 9. | Submit your manuscript online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hr. |
Manuscript preparation
| 1. | MANUSCRIPTS SHOULD BE ANONYMOUS. The journal uses a double blind review process whereby the reviewer is not aware of the identity of the author(s) and vice versa. To avoid revealing the identity of the author(s) to the reviewers, please follow the instructions below very carefully: - Do not put the author name(s) anywhere on the manuscript. - Do not include acknowledgements, which might indicate your identity (acknowledgements can be added to papers after acceptance). - Make sure that your manuscript does not contain any direct reference to you or your co-authors that could identify you as authors of the current submission. For example, if citing previous work, say 'in their previous study (Authors, 2007)' rather than 'in our previous study (Authors, 2007)'; if it is not possible to change the wording to avoid possible identification of an author, please conceal the details of the reference (e.g. in the text use 'Citation concealed for review purposes' and do not include it in the references list). |
| 2. | File type
Only electronic files conforming to the Journal's guidelines will be accepted. Preferred formats for the text and tables of your manuscript are Word DOC, RTF, XLS. LaTeX files are also accepted. Please also refer to additional guidelines on submitting artwork below. |
| 3. | Page formatting
Use Times New Roman 12 point font with 2.54 cm (one inch) margins all round. Please ensure that the abstract, text, endnotes, references, etc., are all double spaced. |
| 4. | Length
Manuscripts should not exceed 35 pages in total, including abstract, text, tables, figures, endnotes, references, appendices, and all other inclusions. Human Relations reserves the right to ask authors to shorten excessively long papers before they are considered for possible review. Longer papers intended to make very extensive contributions will, at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief, be considered. Authors should, however, keep in mind that manuscripts are evaluated on a page-to-contribution ratio. |
5. | Title, abstract and keywords
Articles should contain an abstract of between 100-150 words, summarising the aims and main empirical contribution of the paper. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article online through online search engines such as Google. Please refer to the information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords by visiting SAGE's Journal Author Gateway Guidelines on How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online. |
6. | Spelling and terminology
British or US spelling is acceptable, but please be consistent throughout your manuscript. |
| 7. | Headings
Human Relations uses three levels of heading: |
| 8. | Numbers and dates - In the text numbers below 10 should be written out unless used in conjunction with units (e.g. three people, 4 kg). - Full points (not commas) should be used for decimals. - For numbers less than one, a nought should be inserted before the decimal point. - Use spaces (not commas) within numbers (e.g. 10 000, 0.125 275). - When referring to pagination and dates use the smallest number of numerals possible (e.g. 10-19, 42-5, 1961-75). - Dates should be in the form 22 November 1990. |
| 9. | Avoid italics and quote marks where possible. |
| 10. | Quotations
Quotations should be kept to a minimum. Where possible, keep quotations to 100 words or fewer. Indicate short quotations by single quotation marks (with double quotations marks to indicate quotes within quotes); longer quotations should be indented from the left-hand margin.Where quotations exceed 400 words, the permission of the publisher (or copyright holder) must be obtained and acknowledged. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders prior to submission. |
| 11. | ARTWORK, FIGURES AND OTHER GRAPHICS
Diagrams and tables reproduced from already published work require permission from the original publisher (or copyright holder). Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders prior to submission. It should be stated in the relevant legend that permission for reproduction has been granted, giving the reference and name of the copyright holder who has given the permission. - Illustrations, pictures and graphs, should be supplied with the highest quality and in an electronic format that helps us to process your article in the best way possible. - Resolution: Images should be supplied with a resolution of at least 300 dpi, line art with 600 dpi. - Accepted Formats: TIFF, EPS or PDF. MS Office files (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) are also accepted provided they meet certain conditions. For more information, please see checklist below. - Fonts: The lettering used in the artwork should not vary too much in size and type (usually sans serif font as a default). The first word only in sentences and labels should have an initial capital. - Dimension: Check that the artwork supplied matches or exceeds the dimensions of the journal. Images can not be scaled up after origination. - Colour mode: Please note that usable coloured images will be published in colour online and black and white in print (unless otherwise arranged). Therefore, it is important that you supply images that are comprehensible in black and white as well (i.e., by using colour with a distinctive pattern or dotted lines). The captions should reflect this by not using words indicating colour. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article. - Editability: Figures and tables should not be embedded into the document as the journal needs to be able to access all elements for editing before publication. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) figures:
Checklist for preparation of Microsoft Office figures: |
| 12. | Indicating the position of tables and figures
Please include tables and figures after the references (or upload as separate files) and indicate the position of figures and tables in the text as follows: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -INSERT TABLE 1 ABOUT HERE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
| 13. | Use endnotes rather than footnotes
Essential notes should be indicated by superscript numbers in the text and collated at the end of the text, before the references. |
| 14. | TEXT CITATIONS General: 1. Initials should be used without spaces or full points. 2. Do not use ibid., op. cit., infra., supra. Instead, show the subsequent citation of the same source in the same way as the first. Note the following for the style of text citations: 1. If the author's name is in the text, follow with the year in parentheses: ...Author Last Name (year) has argued... 2. If author's name is not in the text, insert last name, comma and year: ...one study (Author Last Name, year) has described... 3. Where appropriate (for quotations, etc.), the page number follows the year, separated by a colon: ...it has been noted (Author Last Name, year: page numbers) that... 4. Where there are two authors, give both names, joined by 'and'; if three or more authors, use the first author's last name and 'et al.': ...it has been stated (Author Last Name and Author Last Name, year) ... ...some investigators (Author Last Name et al., year)... 5. If there is more than one reference to the same author and year, insert a, b, etc. in both the text and the reference list: ...it was described (Author Last Name, year a: page numbers–page numbers)... 6. Enclose within a single pair of parentheses a series of references, separated by semicolons: ...and it has been noted (Author Last Name and Author Last Name, year; Author Last Name and Author Last Name, year; Author Last Name, year)... Please order alphabetically by author names. 7. If two or more references by the same author are cited together, separate the dates with a comma: ...the author has stated this in several studies (Author Last Name, year, year, year, year)... Please start with the oldest publication. 8. Enclose within the parentheses any brief phrase associated with the reference: ...several investigators have claimed this (but see Author Last Name, year: page numbers–page numbers) 9. For an institutional authorship, supply the minimum citation from the beginning of the complete reference: ...a recent statement (Name of Institution, year: page numbers)... ...occupational data (Name of Bureau or Institution, year: page numbers) reveal... 10. For authorless articles or studies, use the name of the magazine, journal, newspaper or sponsoring organization, and not the title of the article: ...it was stated (Name of Journal, year) that... 11. Citations from personal communications are not included in the reference list: ...has been hypothesized (Name of Person Cited, year, personal communication). |
| 15. | REFERENCE LIST
All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and in full, after the text and any notes, using SAGE Harvard style: General: 1. Check that the list is in alphabetical order (treat Mc as Mac). 2. Names should be in upper and lower case. 3. Where several references have the same author(s), do not use ditto marks or em dashes; the name must be repeated each time. 4. Last Names containing de, van, von, De, Van, Von, de la, etc. should be listed under D and V respectively. List them as: De Roux, D.P. and not Roux, D.P., de. When cited in the main text without the first name, use capitals for De, Van, Von, De la, etc. (Van Dijk, year). 5. Names containing Jr or II should be listed as follows: - Author Last Name, Author First Name, Jr (year) - Author Last Name, Author First Name, II (year) 6. References where the first-named author is the same should be listed as follows: - Single-author references in date order; - Two-author references in alphabetical order according to the second author's name; - In the event of more than one entry having the same date, they should be placed in alphabetical order of second (or third) author, and a, b, etc. must be inserted. Brown J (2003) Brown TR and Yates P (2003) Brown W (2002) Brown W (2003a) Brown W (2003b) Brown W and Jones M (2003) Brown W and Peters P (2003) Brown W, Hughes J and Kent T (2003a) Brown W, Kent T and Lewis S (2003b) 7. Check that all periodical data are included - volume, issue and page numbers, publisher, place of publication, etc. Note the following for the style of reference list citations: Books: Author A and Author B (year) Book Title. Place: Publisher name. For example: Abbott A (1988) The System of Professions. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Chapter in a book: Author A (year) Chapter title. In: Author A (ed.) Book Title. Place: Publisher, 00–00. Author A (year) Chapter title. In: Author A and Author B (eds) Book Title. Place: Publisher, 00–00. For example: Burris BH (1996) Technology, patriarchy and management. In Collinson DL and Hearn J (eds) Men as Managers, Managers as Men. London: SAGE, 67–77. - Note that page numbers for the chapter are included. Editor(s) of a book: Author A (ed.) (year) Book Title. Place: Publisher. Author A and Author B (eds) (year) Book Title. Place: Publisher. For example: Cummings LL and Frost PJ (eds) (1995) Publishing in the Organizational Sciences. Homewood, IL: Irwin. Journal articles: Author A and Author B (year) Article title. Journal vol(iss): 0000. Author A, Author B and Author C (year) Article title. Journal vol(iss): 00–00. Author A, Author B, Author C and Author D (year) Article title. Journal vol(iss): 00–00. For example: Romero E and Pescosolido A (2008) Humor and group effectiveness. Human Relations 61(3): 395–418. or Townley B, Beech N and McKinlay A (2009) Managing in the creative industries: Managing the motley crew. Human Relations 62(7): 939–62. - Note that the journal title is given in full and is italicized and both the volume number and the issue number are included. Journal articles published ahead of print: Author A and Author B (year) Article title. Journal 00: 1–00 (accessed 00 month year). Author A, Author B and Author C (year) Article title. Journal 00: 1–00 (accessed 00 month year). Author A, Author B, Author C, Author D, and Author E. Article title. Journal 00: 1–00 (accessed 00 month year). For example: Appelbaum E and Schmitt J (2009) Review article: Low-wage work in high-income countries: Labor-market institutions and business strategy in the US and Europe Human Relations 00: 1–28 (accessed 29 October 2009). - Note: volume is given as '00'. Newspaper article Author A (year) Article title. Newspaper, date, p. 00 For example: Clark JM, (2006) Referencing style for journals. The Independent, 21 May, p.10. Paper presented at a symposium or annual meeting: Author A and Author B (year) Article title. Paper presented at meeting name, location. For example: Comet C and Lazega E, Selz M (2008). R&D partnerships as social exchange. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Network on Social Network Analysis, Tampa, FL. Unpublished thesis: Author A (year) Article title. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Affiliation, Place. For example: Gibbs JL (2002) Loose coupling in global teams: Tracing the contours of cultural complexity. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Website: Author A (year) Article Title. Available at: URL. For example: National Center for Professional Certification. (2002) Factors Affecting Organizational Climate and Retention. Available at: www.cwla.org./programmes/triechmann/2002fbwfiles. or Boje DM (2002) Leadership in a Postmodern Age. (Notes). Available at: http://cbae.nmsu .edu/~dboje /teaching/338 /leadership_in_a _postmodern_age.htm. |
If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, or seek advice on the submission process please contact the Managing Editor, Claire Castle.
How to submit your paper
| 1. | When authors submit their manuscripts to Human Relations for publication consideration, they agree to abide by the Human Relations publication requirements. Specifically, authors must: - Confirm that the submitted manuscript represents an original piece of research; it has not been published elsewhere; and it is not under consideration elsewhere at present. - Confirm that if the dataset or theoretical analysis presented in the paper has been used previously in published or submitted pieces, the author has also submitted these pieces as Supplemental Files (not to be sent out for review). Please describe the similarities and key differences between the submitted manuscript and the previously published or submitted pieces in your covering letter. - Confirm that all quotations from published work, including the author's own, have been acknowledged as such and fully cited. (Authors may only repeat the method from their own previous published works, without citation.) |
| 2. | Go to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hr Full instructions for uploading the manuscript are provided on the website, but please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office if you have any queries or problems with the submission process. If this is the first time you have used the online system, you will need to create an account. Please click "Create Account" and follow the instructions, ensuring to enter your name and email address details correctly. When you have finished, you will be sent an email containing your User ID and password. You can change your password to something more memorable by selecting "Edit Account" at the top right hand side of the screen. If you have previously created an account but have forgotten your log in details, type your email address in the "Password Help" field to receive an email reminder. |
| 3. | Log-in and select "Author Centre". |
| 4. | Click on the "Click here to submit a new manuscript" link. Follow the instructions on each page. Click on the "Next" button on each screen to save your work and advance to the next screen. |
| 5. | To upload your files, click on the "Browse" button and locate the file on your computer. Select the designation of each file (i.e. main document, figures, supplemental files, tables) in the drop down list next to the browse button. When you have selected all the files you wish to upload, click on the "Upload Files" button. |
| 6. | Review your submission in both PDF and HTML formats. |
| 7. | Click on the appropriate response for the statements about the originality of the submitted work, prior use of the dataset, and citations. |
| 8. | Complete funding details To comply with the guidance for Research Funders, Authors and Publishers issued by the Research Information Network (RIN), Human Relations additionally requires all Authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion. Please select 'yes' or 'no' to the question: Is this article based on research that was funded entirely or partially by an outside source? For all research articles, enter a funding acknowledgement in the form of a sentence as follows, with the funding agency written out in full, followed by the grant number in square brackets: 'This work was supported by the Medical Research Council [grant number xxx].' Multiple grant numbers should be separated by comma and space. Where the research was supported by more than one agency, the different agencies should be separated by semi-colon, with "and" before the final funder. Thus: 'This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Natural Environment Research Council [grant number zzzz]; and the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number aaaa].' In some cases, research is not funded by a specific project grant, but rather from the block grant and other resources available to a university, college or other research institution. Where no specific funding has been provided for the research we ask that corresponding authors use the following sentence: 'This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.' For more information on the guidance for Research Funders, Authors and Publishers, please visit: http://www.rin.ac.uk/funders-acknowledgement |
| 9. | Click on the "Submit" button. |
You may suspend a submission at any point before clicking on the "Submit" button and save it to submit later. After submission, you will receive a confirmation e-mail. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION EMAIL, THEN PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.
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Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office if you have any queries or problems with the submission process - we'd be only too pleased to help!
Remember:
Do NOT put your name on your manuscript!
