SPECIAL ISSUE: TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for submission: March 31, 2008

Social Development Issues (SDI) is an international, refereed journal published three times a year. SDI is a forum for linking multiple academic disciplines, nations, and cultures. Our purpose is to promote consideration of issues that affect social justice as well as the development and well being of individuals and communities. SDI is committed to advancement of social, political, and economic theories and policy and practice within a global context.

Manuscripts that present transnational and/or transdisciplinary empirical studies of global and domestic social issues are invited. Topics may include how interdisciplinary research teams explore and examine global social problems, populations, interventions, and evaluations across countries as well as how such teams make recommendations for policy and practice. Comparative frameworks and single-country case study designs are acceptable. Studies that examine the cultural adaptation or indigenization of intervention models across countries are encouraged, as are studies that aim to export effective intervention practice models or research methods from developing countries. Conceptual papers are also solicited that delineate the processes and challenges involved in building transnational and transdisciplinary research teams, defining concepts and operationalizing measures across countries and languages, adapting measures to fit local cultural contexts, and developing and utilizing culturally appropriate data collection methods.

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

1. Manuscripts should be no longer than 5,000 words in length, including references.
2. Citations and reference lists should follow the guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed., available from the American Psychological Association: http://www.apastyle.org.
3. SDI requires the use of nonsexist language.
4. Manuscripts should provide or adhere to the following:
• Contact information for each author (affiliation, address, telephone number, and e-mail address)
• Brief abstract, no longer than 75 words
• Five to six keywords or descriptors for indexing purposes
• Double-space everything: text, abstract, author's notes/acknowledgments, references, block quotations, appendices, and tables
• Left-justify everything with a ragged right-hand margin (no full justification)
• Begin each section on a separate page, and in this sequence: title page, abstract, text, appendix(es), references, table/s, figure/s
• All in-text citations included in the reference list; all references have in-text citations
5. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via email to sdi@socwork.hku.hk. Send the manuscript as a Microsoft Word document or as an RTF document.

For more information about Social Development Issues, please visit http://www.icsd.info, http://sdi.sw.hku.hk
or http://www.lyceumbooks.com. Submission queries should be directed to Professor Leung, Joe C.B. at sdi@socwork.hku.hk

SDI is abstracted in: Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts; Family Index; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; PAIS International in Print (Annual) (Public Affairs Information Service); Social Work Abstracts; and Sociological Abstracts. Social Development Issues is the journal of the International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD) http://www.icsd.info. Published by Lyceum Books, Inc., Chicago ISSN 0147-1473

Kristin M. Ferguson, assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, will be guest editor for this special issue.