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China Journal of Social Work welcomes submissions from all areas of social work theory and practice, social work education, social development, and social policy in the Chinese context. While the journal will primarily focus on the Chinese mainland, it welcomes contributions from other countries and regions, which have broad implications for social work internationally.

The Journal will strike a balance between qualitative and quantitative research. All articles are published in English, but quality academic papers written in Chinese are welcomed for peer review. If the paper is accepted by the editorial board, full English translation will be provided for publication. The abstracts of all papers are published in both English and Chinese.  

Articles

This section is devoted to cutting-edge empirical research on social work, social policy and social development, as well as theoretical reflection contributing to the building of an indigenous social work theory appropriated to Chinese context.

The journal welcomes original contributions from all parts of the world on the understanding that their contents have not previously been published nor submitted elsewhere for publication.

All submissions will be subject to anonymous peer review, normally by two referees, and the Editors' decision is final. Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission for any extensive quotations and images and for ensuring the accuracy and fairness of their contributions.

Articles should not exceed 8,000 words (English) / 10,000 (Chinese) in length and should be double spaced, with margins of at least 2.5 cm. The article should include the title, and contain an abstract of 100-150 words, together with up to ten key words. The third page should repeat the title as the heading to the start of the main text of the paper. All pages should be numbered. Proofs for checking will normally be sent to the first-named author to whom any correspondence and offprints will also be addressed. Contributors should include brief biographical details (not more than three lines) which may include their institutional affiliation, membership of an organization and aspects of their biography, including experiences of social difference that they think are important and relevant to their contribution to the journal.

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All submissions should be made online at the China Journal of Social Work ScholarOne Manuscripts site, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcsw. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website.

Authors should prepare and upload an anonymised version of their manuscript. The title page should be saved as a separate file, and defined as "Title page (file not for review)" when uploading files.  The title page should include the title of the paper, name(s) of author(s) and for each author academic and/or professional qualifications as commonly used by the author, main appointment and address. All document information identifying the author should be removed from the "Main document" file to allow the article to be sent anonynously to referees.

References should follow the Harvard system, i.e. they should be indicated in the typescript by giving the authors' names, with the year of publication in parentheses, e.g. Smith (1984); or if there are more than two authors, Smith et al. (1984). If several papers from the same author(s) and from the same year are cited, (a), (b), (c), etc. should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full alphabetically at the end of the paper on a separate sheet in the following standard form:

Ahmed, S., 1998. Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Orme, J., 2002. Social Work: Gender, Care and Justice. British Journal of Social Work, 32 (2), 799–814.

Herman, B., 2004. The Scope of Moral Requirement. In: C. Calhoun, ed. Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 91–112.

Titles of journals should not be abbreviated.

Illustrations should not be inserted in the text but each provided separately and numbered on the back with figure numbers, title of paper and name. In the case of hard copy submission, three copies of all figures must be submitted. All photographs, graphs and diagrams should be referred to as figures and should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals (e.g. Fig. 3). A list of captions for the figures should be submitted on a separate sheet and should make interpretation possible without reference to the text. Captions should include keys to symbols.

Tables should be typed on separate pages and should be given Arabic numbers (e.g. Table 3). Their approximate position in the text should be indicated. Units should appear in parentheses in the column heading but not in the body of the table. Words or numerals should be repeated on successive lines; 'ditto' or 'do' should not be used.

Book reviews . This section offers comments and critics of one or two newly published books concerning social work development in China, one chosen from books published in Chinese and another from books published in English.

Research Notes . This section provides new discoveries or emerging issues concerning front-line practitioners and scholars in the field.

Announcements , calls for papers and calls for application for research grants. This section will be devoted to the dissemination of information within the social work profession in China, including call for papers, job adverts, and information on conferences, workshops, and research grants.

Proofs are supplied for checking and making essential typographical corrections, not for general revision or alteration. Proofs must be returned within 72 hours of receipt.

Electronic Off prints . Corresponding authors will be granted access to the issue in which their article is published, and an email will be sent to you containing your login details. On Taylor & Francis Online, authors can access both HTML and PDF versions of their article. Authors may download a PDF version, which will contain a watermark noting it is an author copy. Authors are free to circulate this PDF to up to 50 colleagues by email, or make 50 printed copies and circulate by mail. RightsLink™, a division of the Copyright Clearance Center, offers a secure website where authors can purchase discounted reprints of their article or copies of the print issue their article appears in. Links to this service are made available to authors at the time they review proofs. A copy of the journal will also be sent by post to all corresponding authors after publication.

Copyright . It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from Taylor & Francis, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as original source of publication, and that Taylor & Francis is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised. Authors retain a number of other rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies documents. These policies are referred to at  http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/copyright.asp for full details. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

China Journal of Social Work is published three times a year (in April, July, and November).

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