Editorial Procedures

All papers considered appropriate for this journal are reviewed anonymously. To ensure anonymity, authors' names, institutional affiliations, and other identifying material should be placed on the title page only. Papers are accepted for publication subject to nonsubstantive, stylistic editing. A copy of the edited paper is sent to the author for final review. Proofs of articles are sent only to authors who reside in the United States. Submission of a paper to a professional journal is considered an indication of the author's commitment to publish in that journal. A paper submitted to this journal while it is under review for another journal will not be accepted for review.

Preparation and Submission of Manuscripts.

1. Type all copy (including indented material, references, and footnotes) double-spaced in no smaller than 10-point type using 11 1/2-inch margins on all sides.
2. Type each table on a separate page. Insert a note in the text indicating where the table should appear.
3. On an article's acceptance, submit camera-ready art for all figures, rendered on a laser printer or as glossy prints.
4. Include an abstract of no more than 100 words.
5. Submit four copies of the paper and retain the original for your files. Enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard so we can acknowledge receipt of your paper.
6. A check or money order for $15.00, payable to the American Sociological Association, must accompany each submission. This fee is waived for papers written by student members of the ASA. The submission fee reflects a policy of the ASA Council and Committee on Publications, which affects all ASA journals. It is a reluctant response to the accelerating costs of manuscript processing.

Reference Format

1. In the text: All references to books, articles, and other works should be identified at the appropriate point
   in the text by the surname of the author and year of publication; add page numbers only when citing statistics or direct quotes. Footnotes should be used only for substantive observations and explanations. Subsequent citations of a source should be identified in the same way; do not use "ibid.," "op. cit.," or "loc. cit."
   
   
   1. If the author's name is part of the narrative, place only the year of publication in parentheses: Duncan (1959). Otherwise, place both the name and the year, with no intervening punctuation, in parentheses: (Duncan 1959).
   2. Insert page numbers, preceded by a colon after the year of publication: (Kuhn 1970: 120-45).
   3. If the work cited has five or fewer authors, list all authors in the first citation; thereafter, include only the name of the first author followed by "et al." If the work has six or more authors, include only the name of the first author followed by "et al." in all citations.
   4. Abbreviate or shorten the names of institutional or corporate authors, making sure that the text citation and the entry in the reference list begin with the same element.
   5. Distinguish two or more works by the same author with the same publication date by appending letters (a, b, c) to the date: (Levy 1965a).
   6. Separate a series of references with semicolons and enclose them in a single pair of parentheses: (Featherman and Hauser 1979; Coleman et al. 1982; U.S. Bureau of Census 1981).
      
      
2. In the Reference List: List all entries alphabetically by author and, within author, by year of publication. List all authors in citations of multiauthor works; do not use "et al." in the reference list. Examples follow:

   Bourdieu, Pierre, 1977. "Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction." Pp. 487-511 in Power and Ideology in Education, edited by J. Karabel and A.H. Halsey. New York: Oxford University Press.
   Coleman, James S., Thomas Hoffer, and Sally B. Kilgore. 1982a. "Cognitive Outcomes in Public and Private Schools." Sociology of Education 55:65-76.

   _______.1982b. High School Achievement: Public, Catholic and Other Private Schools Compared. New York: Basic.
   Mare, Robert D. 1979. "Change and Stability in Educational Stratification." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston.

   Marx, Karl (1867) 1976. Capital. Vol. 1. Translated by S. Moore and E. Aveling. New York: International.
   U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1979. 1970 Census Population and Housing. Fourth Count Population Summary Tape. Machine-readable data file. Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of the Census (producer). Rosslyn, VA: DUALabs (distributor).
   

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