Tips and information for authors

Welcome to the Marketing and Promotion section of the Sage Author Hub. Whether you're a first-time author or a seasoned academic, this is your go-to resource for understanding how Sage supports your book’s visibility—and how you can amplify its reach.

Explore our guides, toolkits, and expert tips to:

• Introduction
• Working with Sage
• Legislative and regulatory compliance

Introduction

Publish your Article Open Access in a Sage Subscription Journal with Sage Choice

Frequently asked questions

The Sage Choice program offers authors the option to publish their article open access in hybrid Sage subscription journals. It also enables authors to comply with funding body requirements, where publishing research papers open access is a stipulation of funding, while still publishing their article in the hybrid journal of their choice.

1. Pre-submission: helping readers find your article
2. Submitting your article
3. Editorial policies
   3.1 Peer review policy
   3.2 Authorship
   3.3 Research ethics and patient consent
   

Once you have signed a contract with us, the writing begins! These guidelines tell you how to adhere to Sage house style, write with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind, manage third-party permissions, format and deliver your manuscript, and understand the stages of the production process. Submitting your manuscript in accordance with these guidelines means we will be able to accept your manuscript and hand it over to our Production team as smoothly as possible and without avoidable delay.

Infographics guidelines | Video abstracts guidelines | Plain language summaries guidelines

London – SAGE one of the world’s leading independent academic and professional publishers today reported more than 11 journals ranked in the two top tiers, 4* and 4, in The Association of Business Schools’ (ABS) Academic Journal Guide 2015.

Welcome to Sage's Journal Editor Gateway! 

At Sage we work closely with our editors and publishing partners to ensure the strategic editorial development of the journals we publish. As a Sage journal editor, here you will find useful resources to help you attract and publish the best papers. 

If you are interested in launching a new journal with Sage read our guidelines on new journal proposals.

This month SAGE Publishing took to the stage as part of the ESRC’S Festival of Social Science, looking at the impact of big data on social research. You can watch a full video of the panel debate in our latest Big Data and Social Research newsletter below.

Already planning your activities for 2017? Well look now further- we have also done a quick roundup of some of next year’s computational social science summer schools and workshops, find out more in the latest edition.