Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice is an academic journal that aims to make available academic research and reflections on practice in social intervention to a readership of academics and professionals. The journal focuses on the interface between social policy, organizational innovation, development of methods and professional practice. The subjects featured in the journal are not restricted to any specific domain of intervention, since social intervention is a relevant concept to different domains, such as social pedagogy, social work, community and organizational development, adult education, local social policy, and different sectors of care (e.g. youth care).


The target readership of the journal includes teachers in higher vocational and university education, academics from a range of disciplines, practising social workers and policy officials involved in solving social issues as part of their work.

 

Section Policies

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Articles

The Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice publishes academic articles on theory, research and practice and also features policy papers. Each contribution is assessed according its category. The Journal of Social Intervention therefore has separate assessment forms for articles in the following categories:

  • Theory

  • Research

  • Practice

  • Policy
When submitting articles, authors must indicate the category for their article. More information on how these different types of submissions are categorized can be found under featured articles.

Each year, the Journal of Social Intervention initiates one or more special theme series. Articles devoted to these themes are featured in various issues. The ‘browse by theme’ option can be used to search the journal according to theme. One-off submissions are also welcome. There are no special guidelines or assessment procedures for the different themes.

Author guidelines in PDF can be found here: author guidelines . If you have any questions on submitting articles for this section, please contact the managing editor. For contact details, see contact.

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Books

The goal of the section ‘book reviews’ is to inform about new publications and to discuss the relevance of these publications in the field of social work. This section has its own author guidelines, which can be downloaded in PDF format: book reviews. If you have any questions on submitting a book review, please contact the section editor. For contact details, see Editorial team

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News Higher Social Education

In the section ‘News Higher Social Education’ we provide important space for news from bachelor and master programmes at Universities of Applied Sciences and comparable institutions. If you have any questions on submitting a paper for this section, please contact the section editor. For contact details, see Editorial team.

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News

The News section reports on conferences, workshops, symposia and meetings of working groups. Submitting an item for this section is only possible by sending an e-mail to the managing editor of the journal.

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Peer Review Process

The Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice applies a double blind peer review. Referees remain anonymous for the author and the author’s name is removed from the manuscript under review.

Articles are assessed by two members of the editorial team and by two external referees. The assessment takes account of the article category (theory, research, practice or policy). The editorial team uses four different assessment forms, all of which apply academic criteria and take account of the purpose of the article.

The editorial team aims to complete its assessment and provide feedback within two months. The following responses are possible:

  • The article is fit for publication.

  • The article may be published after revision of the points highlighted by the referees.

  • The article may only be published after a thoroughgoing revision.

  • The article is not fit for publication.

The managing editor collects all the reviewers’ responses and then provides authors with feedback on their articles based on these. A decision is then made as to whether the articles may be published. If there is no agreement on the part of the referees, the editor-in-chief will make the final decision. He may also deploy the services of a fifth referee. If the article requires thoroughgoing revision, as in option 3, the revised version will always be subjected to a further evaluation by at least one editorial team member. In addition, the editorial team reserves the right to subsequently reject any articles that it considers unsuitable for publication.

Articles are published as soon as possible after approval, when space becomes available in the journal.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Publishing process

Articles may be submitted in English, Dutch or ideally in both languages. Authors are requested to provide a summary of their submission in both languages. If required, the journal may have a summary corrected or translated. Any articles written by authors in a language other than their mother tongue will also be corrected by native speakers.
Before online publication, proofs of the articles are sent to the authors. In view of the possibility of error in converting Word files to HTML/PDF, authors are requested to double-check the proofs. The article will not be published online until its author has approved the definitive version.

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