Journal Guide

With over forty years of publication, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JCL) is internationally recognized as the leading critical and bibliographic forum in the field. It provides an essential reference tool for scholars, researchers and information scientists involved in all aspects of Commonwealth and postcolonial literatures. Three of the four issues each year bring together the latest critical comment on all aspects of Commonwealth and postcolonial literature and related areas, such as postcolonial theory, translation studies and colonial discourse. The fourth issue provides a comprehensive bibliography of publications in the field.

Local Economy is a peer-reviewed journal operating as an interdisciplinary forum for the critical review of policy developments in the broad area of local economic development and urban regeneration. It seeks not only to publish analysis and critique but also to disseminate innovative practice.

If you wish your article to be freely available online immediately upon publication (as some funding bodies now require), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Choice upon payment of a publication fee. Manuscript submission and refereeing procedure is unchanged, but on acceptance of your article you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Choice.If funding has been provided for your research, convention dictates that you acknowledge the source and grant information in the Acknowledgements section of your article. Please note that in some cases, grant funders require authors to attribute the funding source, describe the role of the study funding body and include the relevant grant reference numbers.

Lymphatic Research and Biology, a quarterly peer-reviewed journal, provides an interdisciplinary forum for the world's leading biomedical investigators to discuss current and anticipated developments in lymphatic biology and pathology.The Journal features fundamental scientific research of relevance to the lymphatic system. Original work emanates from a variety of investigative disciplines, including genetics, biochemistry and biophysics, cellular and molecular biology, physiology and pharmacology, anatomy, developmental biology, and pathology. The Journal also encourages the submission of state-of-the art reviews in focus areas such as vasculogenesis and angiogenesis, the genetics of lymphatic disorders, muscle cell biology, interstitial signaling mechanisms, and others.

Medical Decision Making Policy & Practice (MDM P&P) is an open access journal that focuses on research that addresses current problems in health care policy and practice. The journal offers rigorous and systematic applications of decision science that are designed to improve the heath and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development. 

Management Communication Quarterly (MCQ), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is an essential resource for scholars of organizational and managerial practice and offers valuable and timely insights for professionals, consultants, and trainers. MCQ publishes conceptually rigorous, empirically-driven, and practice-relevant research from across the organizational and management communication fields and has strong appeal across all disciplines concerned with organizational studies and the management sciences.

Management Learning is a fully peer-reviewed international quarterly journal that publishes original research and review articles on learning and knowing in management and organizations. Management Learning addresses fundamental issues in management and organizational learning and to advance theory and practice through publication of creative enquiry. The Journal is: inclusive, innovative, international and integrative.

Management in Education (MIE) provides a forum for debate and discussion covering all aspects of educational management. Our peer review policy helps to enhance the range and quality of the articles accepted supporting those new to publication and those that are more experienced authors. MIE is a quarterly journal and edited by Linda Hammersley-Fletcher, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Marketing Theory is a fully peer reviewed specialised academic medium and main reference for the development and dissemination of alternative and critical perspectives on marketing theory. Marketing Theory publishes articles covering any aspect of theory, including strategy, consumer behaviour, new product development and more. The journal is now indexed by ISI - Impact Factor pending.

Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original innovative research in solid mechanics and materials science.The central aim of MMS is to publish original, well-written and self-contained research that elucidates the mechanical behaviour of solids with particular emphasis on mathematical principles.

The Institute’s Journal, Measurement + Control, publishes practical technical articles from industry and academia, product and business news and information on technical advances. We welcome and encourage submission of papers and articles on relevant subjects. Please see the authors’ notes for further information and advice on style and content.