- GUIDANCE FOR CONTRIBUTORS
- HOW TO PREPARE AND SUBMIT YOUR PAPER
- REVIEW, PRODUCTION AND PUBLICATION
Review, production and publication
After submitting your manuscript, you will receive a confirmation e-mail acknowledging receipt. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please email us, so that the Editorial Office can check that the submission process has been successful.
Upon submission, the editors make an initial judgment about the suitability of the manuscript for external review, based on its scholarly quality, fit with the journal's aim and scope, and length of the article. Manuscripts that are not deemed to fit with the aim and scope of Human Relations or to be very weak (e.g., containing serious methodological flaws or limited incremental theoretical or empirical contribution) may be rejected at this point. If a paper is overly long, the editors reserve the right to request a reduction in length before further consideration of the manuscript.
Suitable manuscripts are then sent to three reviewers for expert advice about the scientific content and presentation of submitted articles. Human Relations uses a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are concealed from both parties. After the reviewers submit their expert opinions on a manuscript, the handling editor makes an editorial decision. The decision and the reviewers' comments to author will be forwarded to the corresponding author by email.
If authors are invited to revise and resubmit their paper for further consideration, they will be given four months in which to submit a major revision and three months for minor or further revision.
If your paper is accepted for publication, you will retain copyright of your article and be required to complete an online contributor agreement form, granting The Tavistock Institute licence to publish your article. Papers will not be published without completion of a publishing agreement form. One set of proofs is emailed to the corresponding author. Corrections should be restricted to typographical errors. The publisher reserves the right to disallow any other changes, as these may involve expensive resetting and delays.
Each author of papers published in Human Relations will receive one free printed copy of the issue concerned. 25 PDF E-prints of the paper will be supplied to the first-named author of the article (to be shared between the authors). We encourage you to send as many of these PDF e-prints as possible to leading active academics in the field, to help you to gain maximum readership and exposure for your paper. The journal makes no page charges to authors.
OTHER INFORMATION
Requests for permission to reprint articles published in Human Relations should be addressed in the first instance to the Managing Editor, Claire Castle.
