Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The primary intellectual framework for Behavior and Social Issues is the science of behavior analysis and its sub-discipline of cultural analysis, but contributions from contrasting viewpoints will occasionally be considered if of specific interest to behavior analysts. We recommend that potential authors examine recent issues to determine whether their work is appropriate to the journal. Appropriate contributions include theoretical and conceptual analyses, research articles and brief reports, dialogues, research reviews, and book reviews. Behavior and Social Issues is an appropriate forum for the work of senior scholars in the field, many of whom serve on the editorial board, as well as for the work of emerging scholars, including students, who have an interest in the contributions of a natural science of behavior to constructing cultures of social justice, human rights, and environmental sustainability.

 

Section Policies

Editorial

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Guest Editorial

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Guest Editorial

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Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist

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Introduction

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Lead Article

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Commentaries on Lead Article

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Lead Articles

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Commentaries on Lead Articles

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Articles

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Brief Report

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Notes from a Radical Behaviorist

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In Memoriam

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Special Section: Statistical Analyses for Small Samples

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Book Review

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Erratum; In Appreciation; Note to Readers

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Classic Article

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Special Contribution

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Special Section: Education

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Book Reviews

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Letter

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Foreword

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Review

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FORUM: Skinner and Chomsky Revisited

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SPECIAL SERIES: BEHAVIOR INFLUENCE IN CUBAN SOCIETY

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Of Interest

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Focus: Behavior and Perestroika

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Comment

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Comments

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Special Section: What Works in Education

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Article

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Response and Comment

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Case Report

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Special Section: Advancing Cultural Analytic Science

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Commentaries on Classic Article

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Responses to Commentaries

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Special Section: Behavior Analysis, Biological Determinism, and Biological Psychiatry

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Reply

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Editorial Note

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Brief Reports

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Editorial Notice

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Peer Review Process

The journal is particularly interested in publishing work related to issues with social justice and human rights implications, but all significant social issues are of interest. The journal serves as a nexus for the development of an intellectual community interested in these areas, which receive only modest attention in most behavioral outlets despite their potential importance for society. The primary intellectual framework for Behavior and Social Issues is the natural science of behavior. Most accepted contributions will therefore emphasize behavioral, behavior analytic, and cultural analytic approaches, but contributions from contrasting viewpoints are also valued. Appropriate contributions include theoretical and conceptual analyses, research articles and brief reports, dialogues, research reviews, and book reviews. Behavior and Social Issues is an appropriate forum for the work of senior scholars in the field, many of whom serve on the editorial board, as well as for the work of emerging scholars, including students, who have an interest in the contributions of a natural science of behavior to constructing cultures of social justice. The journal, published twice a year, is sponsored by Behaviorists for Social Responsibility.

Behavior and Social Issues is committed to a timely, respectful, blind, and constructive review process. Every effort is made to complete the review process in 60 days or less, and to hold publication delays for accepted manuscripts to under one year. Manuscripts should strictly follow formatting guidelines established by the American Psychological Association. Appropriate length should be determined by content; a guideline of 20-30 double-spaced pages is suggested.

 

Publication Frequency

Beginning with the 2009 Volume, articles accepted for publication in Behavior and Social Issues will be immediately published online. A printed volume for the year will be published at the end of the year.

 

Open Access Policy

Behavior and Social Issues is an open-access journal. All journal content for the last several years (with the exception of a small amount of reprinted material for which we do not own the copyright) is available online without cost at www.behaviorandsocialissues.org. We also publish the hard-copy version for archival purposes, at prices that are below our costs (a hoped-for modest increase in numbers of subscriptions would resolve this deficit, currently covered by contributions from members of the editorial board).

In addition, consistent with recommendations developed by Create Change, Behavior and Social Issues is no longer requiring transfer of copyright for articles published, but is rather using a non-exclusive license for publication. Our authors, who maintain copyright, can therefore also distribute their material in any other forms they may wish.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Subscription information

Online access to Behavior and Social Issues is free. Behavior and Social Issues is supported by subscriptions to the archival, hard copy edition. Please consider subscribing if you refer to the journal regularly.

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