Normas de estilo de publicación en Sociology of Health & Illness

Normas de Estilo de la Publicación

Author Guidelines

Editorial Policy
Sociology of Health and Illness is an international journal which publishes sociological articles on all aspects of health, illness and medicine. The journal invites original contributions which address any of these aspects. Submissions without clear empirical or theoretical relevance to the field of sociology cannot be considered.
Papers should be a maximum length of 8,000 words in length (including notes and bibliography). A strong justification for papers longer than this will be needed if they are to be considered. Longer papers are more likely to experience delays between acceptance and publication, dependent on the availability of sufficient space in an issue.
Articles which appear in the journal are subject to the usual academic process of anonymous peer review. This refereeing procedure normally takes 3-4 months, and no decision can be made on the publication of a paper until this process has been completed.
Sociology of Health & Illness will not consider papers that have been made available in full or abstracted form on personal or institutional websites prior to submission. This restriction does not apply to papers or abstracts made available through conference websites. Papers that have been accepted by the editors may be made available in full or abstracted form on personal or institutional websites prior to publication, in accordance with the guidelines set out in the Exclusive Licence Form.
Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material (government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various medium/circumstances (please see the form for further details). To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here.
All submissions to the Journal must be made via the online electronic editorial office. Full instructions and a help facility are available at the Sociology of Health and Illness Manuscript Central� site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/shi. A guide for authors on how to optimize articles for search engines is also available here.
Further details and a full guide to online submission to Sociology of Health and Illness is available at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/SHI_author.pdf.
Sociology of Health & Illness is covered by Blackwell Publishing�s Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors� final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.
Requirements for submission of manuscripts

Articles submitted to the journal should comprise original, unpublished material and should not currently be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

The main text should be identified only by the title of the article. In order to preserve the principle of anonymous refereeing, any references to previously published work which would identify the author(s) should be removed from the anonymised version, and the author's name or initials should not be used in the text. Electronic submission will require that you upload an anonymised version of your article (to be viewed by referees). All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed. In practice, this means that each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. The acknowledgements section must specify the source(s) of funding for the work reported. Other potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed to the Editors but need not necessarily be published.

An abstract of 100-200 words which summarises the article must be supplied. It should be possible to read this summary independently of the article. Please provide a word count for the abstract.

Below the abstract authors should provide a word count of the main body of the paper (including tables, figures, notes and bibliography). Tables and figures should be calculated at a rate of 250 words per half page table or figure. Note that papers should be a maximum of 8,000 words.

For papers reporting empirical research, the study aims and objectives should be clearly stated, and the research questions or hypotheses clearly specified. The criteria for selecting the sample should be clearly described and justified, and the characteristics of the sample described. Any statistical methods used for analysis should be clearly described. Any limitations of the study design should be addressed.

Any ethical issues related to the study should be explored and satisfactorily dealt with.

The manuscript should demonstrate systematic analysis and clear reporting of findings. Interpretations should be clearly presented, and adequately supported by the available evidence. We recommend that authors consult the guidelines for referees below before making their submissions.

Referencing should follow the Harvard system, both in the text and in the bibliography here.
All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. In the text refer to the author's name (without initials) and year of publication e.g. �As Jameson (2005) argues...� or �Formal knowledge is specialised and elitist (Light 1998)'. For more than two authors use �et al.� as in �James et al.� or �James and Prout et al.� The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by authors' names. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of authors' names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list. References should be given in the following form:
Department of Health. (2001) Building the Information Core: Implementing the NHS Plan. London: Department of Health.
Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. (2003) E-scaped medicine? Information, reflexivity and health, Critical Social Policy, 23, 2, 165-185
Tannen, D. and Wallat, C. (1983) Doctor/mother/child communication: linguistic analysis of a pediatric interaction. In Fisher, S. and Dundas, A. (eds) The Social Organization of Doctor/Patient Communication. Washington DC: Center for Applied Linguistics. pp. 203-219
Peterson, G., Aslani, P. and Williams, K.A. (2003) How do consumers search for and appraise information on medicines on the internet? A qualitative study using focus groups, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19;5(4):e33 http://www.jmir.org/2003/4/e33/

Footnotes and bibliography should normally be presented separately. Footnotes should be as few and as brief as possible, and should be at the end of the text before the bibliography. They should be indicated by numerals placed in the text.

Dates should be given in the form 5 January 2003. The least number of figures should be used in page numbers, dates, etc. (e.g. 22-4; 105-6 and 1948-9).

Sentences should never begin with a numeral. British, not American spelling is used (-ise not -ize). Demotics (e.g. won't, can't) should not be used, except in verbatim transcripts.

Male pronouns and nouns should not be used to refer to people for both sexes. The guidelines on avoiding sexism and racism in sociology are available from the British Sociological Association (http://www.britsoc.co.uk/index.php?link_id=15&area=item1, http://www.britsoc.co.uk/index.php?link_id=16&area=item1 )and should be observed.

Please format the document in double line spacing.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not own the copyright. This permission should cover both print and electronic media, and a copy should be supplied to the editors. The appropriate acknowledgements should be included with the manuscript. Further details on this issue are available on the journals website (www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/journals/SHIL/permiss.htm).

Legal liability of authors - the journal will not indemnify authors who are the subject of legal actions as a consequence of the publication of their work.

Normal practice is that resubmissions received more than one year after decision will be treated as new submissions.

Page proofs of accepted contributions will be sent to the author by the publisher, as a PDF file, and should be returned within one week of receipt. Corrections of printers' errors only may be made to the final proofs, as alterations to the text are charged for by the printers.
Open Access
OnlineOpen is a pay-to-publish service from Blackwell that offers authors whose papers are accepted for publication the opportunity to pay up-front for their manuscript to become open access (i.e. free for all to view and download) via the Blackwell Synergy website. Each OnlineOpen article will be subject to a one-off fee of $2,000/£1,000 to be met by or on behalf of the Author in advance of publication. Upon online publication, the article (both full-text and PDF versions) will be available to all for viewing and download free of charge. The print version of the article will also be branded as OnlineOpen and will draw attention to the fact that the paper can be downloaded for free via the Wiley Online Library service.
Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the combined payment and copyright licence form available from our website here
(Please note this form is for use with OnlineOpen material ONLY.)
Once complete this form should be sent to the Editorial Office along with the rest of the manuscript materials at the time of acceptance or as soon as possible after that (preferably within 24 hours to avoid any delays in processing). Do not inform the Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen before acceptance.