Annals in Social Responsibility

This journal only publishes commissioned content, please do not submit speculative manuscripts.

Submit to the journal 

Submissions to Annals in Social Responsibility are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ann_sr. For information and guidance on using ScholarOne Manuscripts, go to the ScholarOne help pages: http://mchelp.manuscriptcentral.com/gethelpnow/.

Registering on ScholarOne Manuscripts 

If you have not yet registered on ScholarOne Manuscripts, please follow the instructions below:

• Please log on to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ann_sr
• Click on Create Account
• Follow the on-screen instructions, filling in the requested details before proceeding
• Your username will be your email address and you have to input a password of at least 8 characters in length and containing two or more numbers
• Click Finish and your account has been created.

Submitting an article to Annals in Social Responsibility on ScholarOne Manuscripts

• Please log on to Annals in Social Responsibility at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ann_sr with your username and password. This will take you through to the Welcome page (To consult the Author Guidelines for this journal, click on the Home Page link in the Resources column)
• Click on the Author Centre button
• Click on the submit a manuscript link which will take you through to the Manuscript Submission page
• Complete all fields and browse to upload your article
• When all required sections are completed, preview your .pdf proof
• Submit your manuscript

Proposal Submission

Annals in Social Responsibility does not accept article submissions without the initial submission of a proposal.

The objective of the proposal process is to be efficient in the processing of articles. We want to know "what" you are going to say, "to whom" you are going to say it, "why" what you are saying is important, and "how" you are going to convince your audience of the veracity of your argument. This allows the editorial team to provide author(s) with information that facilitates the review process, while allowing us to be proactive in working with authors. Proposals should be no longer than 5 pages single‐spaced with standard 1‐inch margins and in a 12‐point font.

The proposal must include the following information with the following headings:

The idea: The specific important and innovative idea that is going to be the focus of the article.  This should not be long‐winded literal description but be a clear and concise statement of the big/new idea that is at the core of what you are doing.

To whom is the article speaking: While ASR is clearly speaking to other scholars interested in issues of social responsibility, it is important to frame your paper in a specific topical and disciplinary area in the first instance.  Hence, you need to outline who might be the primary audience for your article.  For instance, is it the legal community, anthropologists, or marketing scholars (i.e., to what extent is it disciplinary?)?  Is it those interested in human rights, CSR performance, or social innovation (i.e., to what extent is it phenomenon or topic based?)?

The importance of the idea: Why is your paper important? This needs to be understood as you address how you are going to take your specific knowledge and frame it in a way that resonates with your audience.  In other words, why is it important to your readership and not just to you?

How are you going to justify, defend and communicate your idea: What is the theoretical and/or empirical evidence the article will be presenting in order to convince your audience of the veracity and importance of your idea? If you have specific data sources, outline what these are.  If you are building a theoretical argument, then outline how you are going to logically justify and defend that argument.  If your paper is empirical, provide a brief New Journal Call for Manuscript Proposals Annals in Social Responsibility overview of your methods (e.g., experimental design, econometric model, statistical testing, etc.).

Review process

Each paper is reviewed by the editor and, if it is judged suitable for this publication, it is then sent to two independent referees for double-anonymous peer review.