EURAS Journal of Social Sciences (EJOSS) is a new open access double blind peer reviewed academic journal published by EURAS (Eurasian Universities Union).
The numbers will include:
– Editorial;
– Articles;
– Reviews of books;
– News about EURAS
EJOSS will be published twice a year, both on paper and electronically, and will preferably publish works concerning the following fields:
Sociology, Social Anthropology, Economics (Political Economy and Public Economics), Political Science, International Relations, Contemporary History.
More in detail, we refer to the following fields of the ERC peer review evaluation panels (ERC Panels):
SH1_2 Development, economic growth
SH1_11 Labour economics, income distribution and poverty
SH1_12 Public economics
SH1_13 International trade
SH2_1 Social structure, inequalities, social mobility, interethnic relations
SH2_2 Social policies, work and welfare
SH2_3 Kinship, cultural dimensions of classification and cognition, identity, gender
SH2_5 Democratization, social movements
SH2_6 Violence, conflict and conflict resolution
SH2_7 Political systems and institutions, governance
SH2_8 Legal studies, constitutions, comparative law, human rights
SH2_9 Global and transnational governance, international studies
SH3_5 Population dynamics, aging, health and society
SH3_6 Households, family and fertility
SH3_7 Migration
SH5_10 Cultural studies, cultural diversity
SH5_11 Cultural heritage, cultural memory
SH6_6 Modern and contemporary history
SH6_7 Colonial and post-colonial history, global and transnational history, entangled histories
SH6_8 Social and economic history
SH6_11 Cultural history, history of collective identities and memories
Interdisciplinarity and focus on scarcely studied yet important questions will be viewed as a very positive asset.
The evaluation of the papers will subject to the following rules and norms:
Authors are invited to submit their papers to [email protected]. The proposed works must be original and must not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication elsewhere while being evaluated for this journal. A more detailed Ethical Code is published in the EJOSS webpage.
Steps and timing for the 1st and 2 nd number are as follows:
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The requested features of the papers are as follows:
The papers must be submitted in word format. Their size must not be under 40,000 characters (spaces included) and not exceed 60,000 characters (spaces included). We plan to publish minimum 5 maximum 7 articles per number.
The font must be TimesNewRoman. The normal text must be 12 sized, the long quotations 11, the footnotes 10. The space between the lines must be 1.5. The first line of the paragraphs must start at 0.3.
The papers must include:
– the name of the author, her/his mail address, her/his professional affiliation, her/his ORCID ID number, her/his telephone number, a 7-8 lines summary and 3-4 keywords. Naturally, the papers will be forwarded to the referees without the personal data.
The papers must not include a separate final bibliography. A short survey of the literature concerning the topic can be included in the main text and/or in the first footnote and/or along the following footnotes.
The authors should be consistent in their use of capitalization and use it for the main elements of the name of an institution: Ottoman Empire, Ministry of the Foreign Affairs, United Nations… but minister of the Foreign Affairs, the situation of the empire etc.
The titles of quoted works must be in italics, the title of periodicals must be in “high brackets”. Words and phrases still regarded as foreign words in English, as well as titles in other languages should be in italics and followed with translation in square parentheses. Transliterations from other alphabets should be provided according to the rules of internationally acknowledged scientific transliteration. Illustrations, tables, maps and figures should be numbered consecutively in the text; captions identifying the source of any image or data should be used. The title of the figures should be below the picture; the title of the tables should be above the table.
Examples:
Fabio L. Grassi, L’Italia e la Questione Turca 1919-1923. Opinione pubblica e politica estera, [Italy and the Turkish Question 1919-1923. Public opinion and foreign policy], Torino Zamorani, 1996, pp. 50-52.
Giuseppe Motta, Giustizia, Affari Interni e Immigrazione in Bulgaria nel Processo di Integrazione, [Justice, internal affairs and immigration in Bulgaria during the integration process], in Fabio L. Grassi / Roberto Sciarrone (eds.), I Bulgari e la Bulgaria in Europa [The Bulgars and Bulgary in Europe], Roma, Aracne, 2014, p. 140.
Fabio L. Grassi, La Turchia nella Politica Francese e Italiana tra le due Guerre [Turkey in the French and Italian policy between the two World Wars], in “Transylvanian Review”, vol. XV, N. 1, Spring 2006, p. 134.
After the first mention, a work must be mentioned as follows:
Motta, Giustizia…, p. 142.
It is advisable to concentrate as far as possible the remarks on a topic in a single footnote at the end of a paragraph.
For any additional details, please contact the editor-in-chief and/or the co-editors at [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].
Regards,
the Editor-in-Chief
Fabio L. Grassi
the co-Editors
Muzaffer Baca (for media and communication),
Hasan Saygın (for technical side and accreditation process)