EDITORIAL POLICY The Leadership Quarterly
is an international journal of political, social, and behavioral science dedicated to advancing theory, research, and applications concerning
leadership. Contributions to thinking about leadership are desired from many disciplinary perspectives, including political science,
sociology, economics, anthropology, psychology, and history. Equally desirable are contributions from interdisciplinary fields such as
human resource management, international management, administrative science, strategic management, labor studies, and organization theory
and behavior. The aim of the journal is to present scholarly research, theory, and developmental application from the diverse fields
of inquiry about leadership.
The journal would like to review studies of leaders from all walks of social life. This includes formal
leaders in business and industry, government, labor unions, professional associations, human service organizations, and the military.
It also includes people with little or no formal organizational power, such as community elites, consumer opinion leaders, social movement
activists, informal leaders in organizations, and others who produce leadership effects without benefit of formal position. Comparative
studies of leaders detailing differences and similarities based in nation-state, culture, region, social class, race, gender, and age
are welcome.
LQ encourages the submission of articles by authors working from objectivist, interpretive, critical, or other epistemologies.
Given the diversity of perspectives in current research, the journal expect to review a variety of types of articles encompassing the
following: •Traditional quantitative and/or qualitative empirical articles are welcome. Their quality will be judged in terms
of the importance of the issue, the underlying logic of the argument relevant to theory, the rigor and appropriateness of the methods
employed, and the contribution to knowledge resulting from the research. •Integrative research reviews also are welcome. These
articles may be traditional narrative reviews or meta-analyses that result in theories, models, or further research agenda. The use of
meta-analysis is encouraged whenever appropriate data are available. •Traditional theoretical pieces that suggest new theory
are welcome. These articles should advance conventional thought, include testable propositions or hypotheses, correct flawed thinking,
redirect current theoretical views, or advance new research paradigms, thus, bridging the gap between theory construction and theory
testing. •Well-constructed, well-argued conceptual papers that are significantly thought-provoking and on an important topic
also are welcome. These articles, like traditional theoretical pieces, should add new thought to the literature, extend current thought
in a new direction, pose new questions/issues, or propose a new paradigm. Their quality, as with traditional theoretical pieces, will
be judged in terms of insightfulness, creativity, completeness, and the degree to which they are amenable to empirical investigation.
•Research philosophy and research methodology articles are welcome and will be published on a regular basis. These articles may
present new ideas or be tutorials and should include applications of the philosophies or methods to leadership theory or practice.
•The journal is amenable to proposals for special issues or proposals for a series of point/ counter-point articles in which the
proposer takes responsibility for soliciting the articles. All such articles are subject to the regular review process. •Timely
editorials and focused comments on previously published articles also are welcome and subject to the regular review process. •"Research
Notes" are pieces that include exploratory research that lacks a strong theoretical foundation, methodological studies, replications
and extensions of past research, and commentaries with new empirical content. Generally, these will be narrower in scope than manuscripts
submitted as Regular Articles. Research Notes should be no longer than 17 pages of typed text proper; these limits do not include the
title page, abstract, references, tables or figures. Count 25-26 lines of 12-point text with 1-inch margins as one typed page. Upon submission,
indicate whether the manuscript should be considered as a Regular Article or Research Note. The senior editor may suggest trimming a
Regular Article submission to a Research Note. •"Conceptual Notes" are pieces that: (1) provide an in-depth presentation but
in a more narrowly focused domain than Regular Articles, perhaps offering only one or two major propositions or insights; (2) clarify
a certain theoretical aspects by proposing a new concept or defining it better or applying the concept to other leadership phenomena
or presenting a causal path different from that usually predicted or identifying one or more missing interventing constructs; (3) extend
a recent full-scale theoretical/conceptual contribution in a new and meaningful way: and (4) debate concepts or theoretical premises
used in current or previous literature. Length guidelines are the same as for Research Notes and the senior editor may suggest trimming
a Regular Article submission to a Conceptual Note.
The Leadership Quarterly encourages manuscript reviewers to provide meaningful
and informative reviews. They will serve as useful feedback for authors whether or not the manuscript is judged acceptable for publication
as originally submitted. The Leadership Quarterly will strive to publish work of the highest quality without giving preference to dominant
philosophical assumptions or methodological predilections. Manuscripts that "start-up or shut-down" a field of inquiry, and those that
pose. and if appropriate, competitively test, divergent and competing views are particularly encouraged for submission. Synthesis, replication
with advancement, systematic extension, and work that disconfirms assumptions about leadership also are appropriate for submission. Manuscripts
should be written in a clear, concise, and logical manner. The text should appeal to a wide audience by avoiding the use of jargon whenever
possible. The common theme of this work. regardless of type of article, discipline, or philosophy, is leadership.
Manuscripts and
editorial communications should be addressed to: Dr Michael D. Mumford, Department of Psychology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman,
Oklahoma, 73019-2007. Email: mmumford@ou.edu. Phone: +1-405-325-5583. Fax: +1-405-325-7766
Manuscripts may be submitted
either electronically (E) (using Microsoft Word) or in hard copy (H). The instructions below indicate to which of the two media they
apply:
1. Submit four (4) copies and retain the original for your files. Manuscripts will not be returned. (H)
2. To maintain
anonymity, only the title should appear on the manuscript. Attach a cover page with the title of the manuscript, the author(s), affiliation(s),
and a complete mailing address for the corresponding author. (H&E)
3. Include an abstract of 150 words or less and include 3-5
key words. (H&E)
4. Type all copy-including abstract, quotations, tabular material-notes, and references-double- spaced, allowing
a 1-inch margin on all sides. (H&E)
5. Type all tables on separate pages, numbered consecutively, with brief descriptive titles,
and place at the end of the manuscript following references. Placement in text is located by a phrase such as "Insert Table 1 about here"
set off in brackets from the rest of text. (H&E)
6. Illustrations and charts should be referred to as "Figures" in the text.
They must be camera-ready, not needing further artwork or typesetting. (H&E)
7. Notes should be sequentially numbered in text
and all appear, double-spaced as a separate appendix titled "Notes." Notes should be kept to a minimum and used only for substantive
observations. Source citations are made in the text. not the notes. (H&E)
8. References to published works must be cited in text
according to the author/date system and listed alphabetically as a separate appendix titled "References" at the end of the manuscript.
Examples follow: (H&E)
Agor. W. H. (1984). Intuitive management: Integrating left and right brain management skills.
Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press.
Cameron. K. S. & Whetten. D. S. (1983). Organizational effectiveness.
Princeton.
NJ: Van Nostrand.
Trivers. R. L. (1987). The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quarterly Review of Biology.
46. 35-47.
For other examples, consult The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 4th or 5th edition.
9.ll manuscripts
must conform to ethical publication practices as specified in the ethical guidelines published by the American Psychological Association.
Specifically, each manuscript must make a unique intellectual contribution using methods that conform to APA guidelines with respect
to issues such as treatment of human subjects, statistical best practices and data sharing.
10. Final drafts of articles accepted
for publication should be submitted on a disk using Microsoft Word. Further guidelines will be sent to the authors upon acceptance of
articles. (H&E)
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