About hrss
The hamburg review of social sciences (hrss) is an electronic journal that enhances the opportunity for young as well as established academics to publish their research results in social sciences with comparatively little delay. Submitted articles are reviewed by one established scholar and one young academic working in the respective field and, if accepted, published in the next available issue.
hrss is an interdisciplinary journal and open to a wide variety of topics mainly from sociology and political science. Other disciplines, however, are warmly welcome to join the interdisciplinary approach.
Submissions
hrss invites papers on topics within in the broad field of social sciences. Papers in either English or German conforming to general standards of academic writing are accepted and should be submitted via e-mail as MSWord-documents. Submitted papers will be reviewed by one of the editors as well as by an anonymous referee. Copyright for contributions remains with the authors, so that you are free to submit and publish them elsewhere.
E-Mail submissions are welcome. Please send your manuscript, preferably as word document, to editors@hamburg-review.com
Publication Schedule
hrss will be published three times a year: September, January and May. Manuscripts should be submitted no later than four months prior to the issue in which the authors would like to see their materials published. Four months prior to the release of an issue the editors decide which articles confirm the general academic standards and can be sent to the reviewers (in-house-review). The review process is double blind, with authors unaware of the identities of the reviewers and the vice versa. The time from submission to final acceptance of reviewed/revised papers is approximately 3-4 months; however no guarantee can be given that a manuscript will be published within the four months.
The schedule is only provided as a guide:
Issue | Submission deadline | In-house-review completed | Reviewed manuscripts to be returned to the authors | Final manuscripts to be returned to hrss | Publication date |
Vol 1, Issue 1 | 1. September | 15. September | 15. November | 15. December | 1. January |
Vol 1, Issue 2 | 1. January | 15. January | 15. March | 15. April | 1. May |
Vol 1, Issue 3 | 1. May | 15. May | 15. July | 15. August | 1. September |
Examples for citations
In text citations:
(Arrow 1963: 14), (Kahnemann/Tversky 2000), (Arrow 1963: 14; Kahnemann/Tversky 2000)
For more than two authors use "et al." (Aaken et al. 2004)
Manuscript style
Along with the paper, an abstract of no more than 150 words should be submitted. If the paper is in German, an abstract should be provided both in English and in German. Manuscripts should be no longer than 40.000 characters (approximately 7000 words) Footnotes rather than endnotes should be used and their number should be restricted. A list of references should be provided. Citations should be in-text rather than in footnotes or endnotes.
Reference lists:
- Arrow, Kenneth 1963: Social Choice and Individual Values, New York.
- Bohman, James / Rehg, William (eds) 1997: Deliberative Democracy, Cambridge / Massachusetts.
- Pettit, Philip 2003: Deliberative Democracy, the Discursive Dilemma, and Republican Theory, in: Fishkin, James / Laslett, Peter (eds.): Debating Deliberative Democracy, Malden / Massachusetts, 138-162.
- Sanders, Lynn M. 1997: Against Deliberation, Political Theory, Vol. 52, No. 3, 347-376.