All new manuscripts must be submitted through the Social Networks online submission and peer review
website (http://ees.elsevier.com/son/). Authors should upload the source files of their articles in the preferred format
of Microsoft (MS) Word, RTF, WordPerfect, or LaTeX for text and TIFF or EPS for figures. The system automatically converts source files
to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Files should be labelled with appropriate
and descriptive file names (e.g., SmithText.doc, Fig1.eps, Table3.doc). Upload text, tables and graphics as separate files. Complete
instructions for electronic artwork submission are available on our author homepage, accessible through the journal homepage.
Source
files should be uploaded in the following order: Cover letter; Suggested Reviewers (if any); Title Page (including author identifiers);
Response to Reviews (revised manuscripts only); Blinded Manuscript (excluding author identifiers); Tables; Figures. Should you upload
these items in a different order, you can re-order the items by using the numbered boxes on the left hand side of the page.
Please
note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed
for further processing after acceptance. Authors, reviewers, and editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail.
The journal uses a double-blind review process, so you will be asked to provide a title page with complete author details listed,
along with a blinded version of your manuscript (without any author details). These files will need to be uploaded separately. The title
page should include any names, affiliations, sources of finances, acknowledgements, and contact details. The blinded manuscript should
not contain any author details. Further to this, any response to reviewers made when submitting a revised manuscript should not disclose
the author s identity.
Authors can, if they wish, include a list of three or more potential reviewers for their manuscript, with
contact information. As reviewing is double-blind, this cannot be more than a suggestion and the authors will not be informed about what
is done with it.
Submission of a paper implies that it has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for
publication elsewhere, and that if accepted it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language,
without the written consent of the publisher.
Authors who are unable to provide an electronic version or have other circumstances
that prevent online submission must contact the Editorial Office prior to submission to discuss alternate options. The Publisher and
Editors regret that they are not able to consider submissions that do not follow these procedures.
Manuscripts must be submitted
in English.
Manuscript Preparation: 1) The first page of the electronic manuscript should contain the following information:
(i) the title; (ii) the name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s); (iii) an abstract of not more than 100 words. A footnote
on that page should give the name, address, and telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author as well as an e-mail address. To
facilitate double-blind refereeing, authors are requested to see that their manuscript contains no information identifying the author(s)
except for the title page. Identifying information on the title page will be deleted at the editorial office from the manuscript sent
out for review.
(2) Acknowledgements and information on grants received can be given in a first footnote, which should not be included
in the consecutive numbering of footnotes.
(3) Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively throughout the text
with superscript Arabic numerals.
(4) Displayed formulae should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript as (1), (2),
etc. against the right-hand margin of the page. In cases where the derivation of formulae has been abbreviated, it is of great help to
the referees if the full derivation can be presented on a separate page (not to be published).
(5) References to publications should
be as follows: 'Smith (1992) report that' or 'This problem has been studied previously (e.g., Smith et al., 1969)'. The author should
make sure that there is a strict one-to-one correspondence between the names and years in the text and those on the list. This list of
references should appear at the end of the main text (after any appendices, but before tables and legends for figures). It should be
double spaced and listed in alphabetical order by author's name. References should appear as follows:
Journal titles are to be presented
in full and are followed by volume number and page numbers. Titles of books are in full followed, in parentheses, by the publisher and
the town of publication. If there is more than one reference to the same author and year, distinguish them by letters a, b, c, etc. added
to the year. Give the publisher's name in as brief a form as is fully intelligible e.g. John Wiley and Sons should be "Wiley". Examples:
Bernard, H.R., McCarty, C., Killworth, P.D., Johnsen, E., Shelley, G.A., 2002. Does global network size matter? Paper presented at
the XXII International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, February 13 17, 2002, New Orleans, USA.
Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G.,
Freeman, L.C., 2002. Ucinet for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis. Analytic Technologies, Harvard, MA. Available at: http://www.analytictech.com/ucinet.htm.
Granovetter, M., 1982. The strength of weak ties: a network theory revisited. In: Marsden, P.V., Lin, N. (Eds.), Social Structure
and Network Analysis. Sage, Newbury Park, CA, pp. 105-130.
Pettigrew, T.F., 1998b. Reactions toward the new minorities of Western Europe. Annual Review of Sociology 24, 77-103.
Robins, G.L., Pattison, P.E., Woolcock, J., 2005. Social networks and small worlds. American Journal of Sociology 110, 894-936.
Wasserman, S., Faust, K., 1994. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.
(6)
Illustrations should be submitted in separated files in any standard high resolution graphics format (e.g. EPS, TIFF, JPEG, PNG or SVG).
Illustrations should not be inserted in the text, and should be titled with their figure number. All graphs and diagrams should be referred
to as figures, and should be numbered consecutively in the text using Arabic numerals.
(7) Tables should be numbered consecutively
in the text using Arabic numerals.
Any manuscript that does not conform to these instructions will be returned for the necessary
revision before publication.
Supplementary Material Social Networks accepts electronic supplementary material
to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting
material such as mathematical derivations, high-resolution images, movies, additional tables, and more. Supplementary files supplied
will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com.
In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended
file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive
caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our author homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/authors.
Supplementary data may be uploaded via the journal's online submission system: http://ees.elsevier.com/son.
Copyright Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to sign a `Journal Publishing Agreement (for more information on this and copyright
see http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
An e-mail (or letter) will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a `Journal Publishing
Agreement form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists
of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale
or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult http://www.elsevier.com/permissions).
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and
credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has pre-printed forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Authors' Rights As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details you are referred
to: http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Conflict of interest All authors are requested to disclose any
actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations
within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See
also http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest
Proofs Accepted papers will be copy-edited and returned
to the corresponding author for approval prior to typesetting. Once papers have been typeset, one set of page proofs in PDF format will
be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper proofs will be sent by post). Elsevier
now sends PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 available free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs. The exact system requirements are given at the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemreqs.html#70win. If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return
to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections
and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail,
or by post.
Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and
figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the
Editor. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that
all of your corrections to the PDF proof are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion
of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading of the PDF proof is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may
proceed with the publication of your article if no response is received.
Offprints The corresponding author, at no cost,
will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes
a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.
Author Enquiries
For enquiries relating to the submission of articles (including electronic submission where available) please visit this journal's homepage
at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/socnet. You can track accepted articles at http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle
and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article's status has changed, as well as copyright information, frequently asked questions
and more.
Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided
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