East European Politics and Societies

East European Politics and Societies (EEPS) is an international, interdisciplinary journal for the examination of critical issues related to Eastern Europe. It serves as a forum for current work in East Europe studies, including comparative analyses and theoretical issues with implications for other world areas. Its geographical scope is the area that lies between Germany to the west and Russia to the east, and includes the Baltic region and the Balkans. The editorial board is composed of distinguished historians, cultural historians, literary scholars, political scientists, anthropologists, and social scientists.

EEPS continues to publish special issues or cluster of papers dedicated to specific themes. However, due to page budget pressures, and our commitment to publishing the best individual research on the region, we will consider proposals for special issues or clusters only in exceptional circumstances. They should be discussed with the editors before submission.

The journal does not normally publish book reviews, but may consider proposals for review essays, particularly relating to important work published in the region. EEPS sponsors the annual Michael Henry Heim Translation Prize for the best collegial translation of a scholarly article from an East European language into English; the winning article is published in the journal.

Editorial correspondence should be addressed to Marta Kotwas, EEPS Managing Editor, email: eeps@acls.org. The EEPS website is at http://eep.sagepub.com/

Those submitting work for the first time to EEPS may wish to read these notes on preparing to submit and on the editorial process.

Manuscript Submission Guidelines:

Author’s Guide
 

Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eeps, where authors will be required to set up an online account on the Sage Track system powered by ScholarOne. The standard manuscript length is normally 7-9,000 words including endnotes; authors should inquire first if a potential submission exceeds 10,000 words. Text and references are to be double-spaced with tables and figures appearing on separate pages. There is, of course, no set number nor a set length for endnotes to be utilized in a manuscript. Please consult the Chicago Manual of Style for the use of endnotes.

Please keep in mind that posting working versions or conference versions of your article publically online could potentially compromise the anonymization of reviews. If your article has previously been published on a conference website, social media website, university repository, or has otherwise been available online prior to submission to EEPS, please note this in your cover letter and in the Sage Track questions about prior publication. Making an article available online prior to review does not necessarily disqualify the article from submission, but failure to note this may do so if such use is uncovered later in the review process. We also discourage more than a minimal amount of 'text recycling', the reproduction of an author's own text from a previous publication. Sometimes this is unavoidable, but authors should be transparent and provide citations to previously published material where this is the case.

Authors should present figures and tables in electronic, final format, bearing in mind that the print version will appear in greyscale, requiring good contrast for readability. All manuscripts must include a 200 to 250-word abstract and a biographical statement for each author of up to 50 words. Manuscripts should adhere to the format of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. Authors who do not follow these instructions may have their manuscripts returned for revision before the formal review process.

Manuscripts are normally sent to two reviewers for evaluation and comments. We allow two months for review, but the evaluation process may vary depending on reviewers' availability and responses. Normally, the Editors' decision is communicated to authors within four months from submission. Authors asked to revise their manuscripts have one to two months to submit a revised version. Revised manuscripts are sent back to the initial reviewers.

Submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter containing contact information: the mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address for each author. One of the authors should be designated as the “corresponding author” whose mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address must appear on a separate title page.

Submission to East European Politics and Societies implies that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content, nor is it under consideration by another journal. Authors in doubt about what constitutes prior publication should consult the editors. Submission of a manuscript implies commitment to publish in the journal.

Manuscripts must include all necessary diacritical marks in both the text and the footnotes. Acronyms may be used in endnotes and text. Their first mention must be in spelled-out form: Popular Movement for the Revolution (MPR).

Date form in endnotes and text is 17 October 1947.

Endnotes should be double spaced at the end of the manuscript and numbered consecutively throughout the text. Endnotes will appear in the journal on the last page of the article. The first time any reference is mentioned, give full bibliographic information. References should be in the "notes" style of the Chicago Manual of Style.

Journal article:

J. I. Weinstein, "The Market in Plato's Republic," Classical Philology 104(2009): 440.

Book:

T. Ryback, Rock around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990).

Chapter in a book:

A. Carr and D. J. Schrruman, "Religion and Feminism: A Reformist Christian Analysis," in Religion, Feminism, and the Family, ed. A. Carr and M. S. Van Leeuwen, 11-32 (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996).

Paper at conference:

R. Adelman, "'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On': God's Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition" (paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21–24, 2009).

Website:

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Resources Page, n.d., http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/;aplrd/sodium.txt (accessed 18 July, 2002).

Newspaper article:

D. Mendelsohn, "But Enough about Me," New Yorker, January 25, 2010, 68.

Unpublished doctoral dissertation:

M. Choi, "Contesting Imaginaires in Death Rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty" (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008).

Article retrieved from database (include access date):

R. Friedman, "Resilient Children," Abstract in PsycCRITIQUES, 50 (2005), http://psycinfo.apa.org/psycinfo/ (accessed 22 July, 2005).

Internet version of journal:

G. Kossinets and D. J. Watts, "Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network," American Journal of Sociology 115(2009): 411, accessed 28 February, 2010, doi:10.1086/599247.

If the book, chapter, or article has more than one author, give the full names of all the authors. Use the original language of the reference. Titles in languages that do not use a Latin alphabet must be transliterated using the Library of Congress system.

If you are using primary archival sources, give the source according to the relevant cataloguing system, and the location of the archive. Newspapers, government documents, and unpublished sources must be identified as completely and precisely as possible.

In subsequent citations, only first author followed by “et al.” should be used [e.g., (Sechzer et al. 1996, 243).

Please make sure that the names in the footnotes have all the proper diacritical marks.

In the text foreign words and names should be spelled either in the original language or transliterated using the Library of Congress system. In general, it is easier to give common place names in their standard English form than in more complicated transliterations, but the original language may also be used. Include all necessary diacritical marks in your text. Words and names must be transliterated if they are not written in the Latin alphabet.
 

Authors should also read the Style Guide for East European Politics and Societies, which provides an overview of the editing and copyediting process along with specific stylistic conventions adopted by the journal (See Style Guide).

ORCID

As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.

The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.

If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.

Copyright and Permissions Guidelines:

• You may do whatever you wish with the version of the article you initially submitted to the journal (version 1)
• As soon as the article has been accepted for publication, you may post the submitted manuscript version (version 2) of the article on your own personal website, your department’s website or the repository of your institution without any restrictions.
• You may not post the accepted version (version 2) of the article in any repository other than those listed above (i.e. you may not deposit in the repository of another institution or a subject repository such as academia.edu) until 12 months after publication of the article in the journal.
• You may use the published article (version 3) for your own teaching needs or to supply on an individual basis to research colleagues, provided that such supply is not for commercial purposes.
• You may use the article (version 3) in a book you write or edit any time after publication in the journal.
• You may not post the published article (version 3) on a website or in a repository without permission from Sage.

When posting or re-using the article please provide a link to the appropriate DOI for the published version of the article on Sage Journals (http://online.sagepub.com). For the convenience of readers who may wish to use the published version, you should also give the full formal citation to the published article (e.g. following the title or abstract).

For any further queries please contact Marta Kotwas (eeps@acls.org).

If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to nonsubscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in Sage Choice, subject to the payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let Sage know directly if you are choosing Sage Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit Sage Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at Sage, including self/author archiving deposits (green open access) visit Sage Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.