What We Ask of Authors

Articles should start with a clear and pointed argument, making provocative arguments or providing new, concrete information. For book reviews, we ask authors to go beyond summarizing the book to engage with the contents of the book in question. Contributors should avoid jargon, assumptions, technical language, “academese,” and rhetoric. Spell out full titles and put acronyms in parentheses upon their first use, including commonly used union acronyms. Where endnotes (please do not use footnotes) are necessary, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions must be double-spaced and in 12-point Times New Roman font. We prefer submissions in Microsoft Word format for IBM.

Editing Process

We use a multi-tiered editing process. Our editors and peer reviewers will read the articles, and comments are returned to the author. This process may call for a second or third round of revisions. After copyediting, the pages will be typeset and we will email authors the electronic proofs of their article for review. We will then incorporate final changes and perform a final proofread to ensure that the article is ready for publication.