University of Stavanger
Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Comparative Social Work.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-07-24
Article types
Review
Readiness requirements
Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.
Abstract length
- Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 300 words.
- An abstract of not more than 300 words is required for all submitted manuscripts.
Keywords
- Each manuscript should also have at least three to six keywords.
Reference style
- Articlo formats your supplied references in APA style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
- Notes and references should be written according to the APA 7 th edition style, and notes must be included in the text.
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- Where available, DOIs or URLs for the references must be provided.
Figure and table rules
- Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
- Group figures at the end of the manuscript.
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- Group tables at the end of the manuscript.
- The text should be single-spaced and use a 12-point font, employing italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); all illustrations, figures and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
Blinded manuscript
- Review: Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.
- Review: Articles should meet the standards of original scholarly research, and will be anonymized and reviewed through a double-blind peer review process.
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- Review: To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this press, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other.
Title page and author information
- Authors must be authenticated by the persistent digital identifier - ORCID.
- Authors should as a minimum include their full names, affiliations, e-mail addresses and ORCID.
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- One author should be identified as the corresponding author, and all persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed upon by all authors.
Article structure and word limits
- All contributions must be digitally submitted to the journal using its submission function.
- Review: In order to complete the review process, papers should be submitted at least three months before publication of the next issue, see focus and scope.
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- Authors should upload an anonymized version of their manuscript, and enter all metadata directly into the journal’s digital editorial workflow.
- The submitted manuscripts should be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
- Submission Preparation Checklist All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- When resubmitting a revised article after the peer reviews, the author shall mark the revisions that have been done by colouring the revised texts.
- The author shall also account for these revisions in relation to the reviews.
- Automated tools cannot be credited as authors.
Preprints and prior publication
- Include or confirm the preprints and prior publication required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Artificial intelligence disclosure
- Use of Artificial Intelligence and automated tools.
- Generative AI cannot be cited as a source.
Article type and manuscript length
- Articles can have a maximum length of 8,000 words, and authors must submit an abstract with a maximum length of 300 words.
- Manuscripts that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length, and authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
Language and text style
- Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented without quotation marks.
- Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.
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- Authors should disclose the use of generatve AI in preparing the article, beyond straightforward language correction, editing and formatting.
Manuscript structure
- Section headings should be concise.
What your package checks
Abstract: 300 words
Paper: 8,000 words
References: APA
Source transparency
This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.
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