Author Guidelines

Notice to Contributors

Submissions to the English Edition of the Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review must be written in English. Submissions to the Czech edition must be written in Czech. Submissions in other languages are subject to prior approval by the editors.

Submit your manuscript to sreview@soc.cas.cz

Please adhere to the following directions when preparing your manuscript for submission:

1. Include a cover letter with your manuscript containing your full name, all academic titles, address and postal code, telephone number, e-mail address, the title of your manuscript and an indication of its length (the number of characters counted with spaces, including references, footnotes, abstract, and eventually also appendices).

2. Submit your manuscript along with its anonymous version or any other materials by email to sreview@soc.cas.cz. The SC/CSR sends the anonymous copies for review, so please omit all references to your identity as the author in the text of the anonymous copies. Manuscripts should be double-spaced, 60 characters to a line, 30 lines to a page. Attach graphs, tables, a short C.V. (including institutional affiliations and recent publications – 4–5 lines) and other appendices separately at the end of the text.

3. The manuscript should include a title, abstract (15–20 lines), footnotes in the text, and references at the end of the text.

4. Articles or research reports should be a maximum of 65 000 characters; book reviews a maximum of 15 000 characters, and information or news a maximum of 8000 characters.

5. Citations in the text give the last name of the author(s) and the year of publication in square brackets. Also include page numbers after a colon whenever citing directly from a work or referring to a specific passage. Only cite those works that are necessary to provide evidence for your statements. Examples:
- If the name of the author is mentioned in the text, only put the year of publication in square brackets immediately following the name: Bauman [1968]; if the name of the author is not mentioned in the text, indicate the name of the author(s) and the year in square brackets [Bauman 1968], and where necessary indicate cited pages following a colon [Bauman 1968: 128–150].
- In the case of two or three joint authors, list all surnames [Svalfors and Taylor-Gooby]; in the case of four or more authors, indicate the first surname followed by “et al.”. List a series of citations in alphabetical order or date order separated by semi-colons [Hanousek and Munich 2000; Turnovec 1997, 1998, 1999].
- For institutional or similar authorship, consistently indicate minimal identification from the citation [OECD 2000].
- For sources scheduled for publication use “in press” or “forthcoming” [Bauman]; for dissertations and unpublished sources cite the date. If there is no date, use “n.d”: Smith [forthcoming] and Weber [n.d.].
- For machine-readable data files, cite authorship and date: [Institute of Sociology 2001].

- For electronic sources cite only those which are permanently archived (internet sources, web journals, library and university websites etc.). Cite them as you would other publications: instead of the publisher and place of publication give the URL.

6. Number footnotes throughout the text using superscript Arabic numerals.

7. References at the end of the manuscript must contain all references cited in the text, but only those cited in the text. All reference information must be provided in full and correctly. Please observe the following guidelines:
- Present references in alphabetical order according to author’s surname. Give first and last names, and middle initials where applicable, for all joint authors – do not use “et al.”. Only invert the name of the first author. [Jones, Arthur B., Colin D. Smith, and James Peterson].
- When two or more works by the same author are cited, present them by year. If two or more works by the same author are from the same year, distinguish them by adding the letters a, b, c etc. to the year.
Below, several examples are presented on how to cite various sources. The SC/CSR uses the citation guidelines as set out in the ASA Style Guide (2nd ed., 1997) and used by the American Sociological Review, indexed, like the SC/CSR, at the Institute of Information.
Books:
Budil, Ivo T. 1999. Mýtus, jazyk a kulturní antropologie (Myth, language and cultural anthropology). Prague: Triton.
Hutchby, I., R. Wooffitt. 1998. Conversation Analysis Principles. Practices and Application. Oxford: Polity Press.
Journals:
Leeuwen-Turnovcová, Jiřina van. 2002. “The Disglossal Situation from the Perspective of Gender.” Sociologický časopis 38: 457–482.
Collections:
LaCapra, Dominick. 1992. “Foucault, History and Madness”. Pp. 78–85 in Rewriting the History of Madness, edited by Arthur Still and Irving Velody. London and New York: Routledge.
Machonin, Pavel. 2002. “Proměny sociálních nerovností v postsocialistické transformaci středoevropského typu a jejich možné teoretické implikace” (The transformation of social inequalities in the Central-European type of post-socialist transformation and their possible theoretical implications). Pp. 11–30 in Současná česká společnost. Sociologické studie, edited by Z. Mansfeldová and M. Tuček. Prague: Sociologický ústav AV ČR.

8. Tables should be numbered consecutively and each submitted on a separate piece of paper. Insert a note in the text for each table indicating where it should be placed (Table 1 about here). Each table must have a descriptive title and headings for all columns and rows. Notes on the tables (e.g. source information) are presented immediately below the table as a table footnote(s).

9. Figures and illustrations are numbered consecutively and submitted each on a separate piece of paper. Insert a note in the text for each indicating where it should be placed. All graphs and illustrations must be computer-generated – graphs in Excel, illustrations in TIF or EPS format – and submitted via e-mail.