Industrial Relations

Edited by:
Steven Raphael, Trond Petersen

Print ISSN: 0019-8676
Online ISSN: 1468-232X
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 49 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 4/15 Industrial Relations & Labor
Impact Factor: 1.317

TopAuthor Guidelines

Industrial Relations publishes articles on all aspects of the employment relationship. Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/irel. Full instructions and support are available on the site and a user ID and password can be obtained on the first visit. Support can be contacted by phone (434 817 2040), or via the red 'Get Help Now' link in the top right-hanmd corner of the page. If you cannot submit online, please contact the Editorial Office by e-mail ir_journal@berkeley.edu.

Please indicate your understanding that the article will not be under consideration by any other publisher while it is being reviewed by Industrial Relations. Please also alert us if a similar or related article has been accepted, or is under consideration by, another journal. In such cases, we may request a copy of the similar or related article.

In addition, the journal charges a submission fee of $60.00 to non-subscribers (the fee will be waived
in hardship cases). Please make checks payable to UC Regents/IRJ and mail to:

Editorial Assistant
IRJ / Institute of Industrial Relations
University of California
2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720-5555
USA

The fee will be waived, however, by entering a personal subscription with Blackwell Publishing.

Guidelines for Contributors to Industrial Relations*:

Manuscripts: Article length should be no longer than 25-30 double-spaced typed pages with 1-inch margins, inclusive of tables, notes, and references. Quotations of over four lines should be indented. Do not include running heads of author(s)' name(s).

Title page: Please provide a title for the paper that is limited to two lines, 33 letters and spaces per line. Author(s), institutional affiliation(s), current mailing addresses, and phone numbers should appear with the title on one copy of the cover page. Place acknowledgments at the bottom of this page.

Abstract: Please include an abstract of less than 100 words.

Notes: These should be endnotes, restricted to substantive parenthetical statements, numbered consecutively, and placed on a separate sheet(s) at the end of the paper.

Tables should be on separate pages, numbering them consecutively in Arabic numerals. Table notes include the source first, then significance levels given by asterisks, then table notes indicated by lowercase superscriptsa, b, etc.

Variable names: Use English words for variable names whenever possible (e.g., Percentage Union rather than PCTUN), making variable names as descriptive as possible. Use initial capitalization (no italics or bold) of all words in names of variables in the text and in tables.

Figures should appear on separate pages in camera-ready form.

References: In the body of the text, place references in parentheses, giving the author's last name and date of publication (using a, b, etc., if more than one work is cited for a given year). Include page numbers in the text only when quoting material. An alphabetical list of cited references should appear at the end of the manuscript; be sure to include volume number, month, and pages for journal articles and inclusive pages for articles in books. Examples of the appropriate format follow:

Dickens, William T., Laura B. Tyson, and John Zysman, eds. 1988. The Dynamics of
Trade and Employment. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.

Freeman, Richard, and Martin Weitzman. 1986. 'Bonuses and Employment in Japan.'
Working Paper No. 878. Cambridge, MA:National Bureau of Economic
Research.

Slichter, Sumner. 1919. The Turnover of Factory Labor. New York: Appleton.

Thurow, Lester. 1987. 'A Surge in Inequality.' Scientific American 256 (May):30-37.

Verma, Anil, and Thomas A. Kochan. 1985. 'The Growth and Nature of the Nonunion
Sector within a Firm.' In Challenges and Choices Facing American Labor, edited
by Thomas A. Kochan, pp. 89-127. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Authors will be required to assign copyright in their paper to the Regents of the University of California. Copyright assignment is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned. (Papers subject to government or Crown copyright are exempt from this requirement.) To assist authors an appropriate copyright assignment form will be supplied by the editorial office.

*For more complete instructions see the January 1998 issue, pages 1-8.

Book Reviews to be sent to:

Terence K. Huwe
Industrial Relations
Institute of Industrial Relations
University of California
2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720-5555
USA

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