Journal Guide

Journal of School Health is published 12 times a year on behalf of the American School Health Association. It addresses practice, theory, and research related to the health and well-being of school-aged youth. The journal is a top-tiered resource for professionals who work toward providing students with the programs, services, and environment they need for good health and academic success.

The Journal of Second Language Writing is devoted to publishing theoretically grounded reports of research and discussions that represent a contribution to current understandings of central issues in second and foreign language writing and writing instruction. Some areas of interest are personal characteristics and attitudes of L2 writers, L2 writers' composing processes, features of L2 writers' texts, readers' responses to L2 writing, assessment/evaluation of L2 writing, contexts (cultural, social, political, institutional) for L2 writing, and any other topic clearly relevant to L2 writing theory, research, or instruction.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

Journal of Semantics aims to be the premier journal in semantics. It covers all areas in the study of meaning, with a focus on formal and experimental methods. The Journal welcomes submissions on semantics, pragmatics, the syntax/semantics interface, cross-linguistic semantics, experimental studies of meaning (processing, acquisition, neurolinguistics), and semantically informed philosophy of language.

The Journal of Semitic Studies was established in 1955 and since then has built up a reputation as one of the leading international academic journals in its field. Semitic Studies has always been understood by the editors to include the modern as well as the ancient Near (Middle) East, with special emphasis on research into the languages and literatures of the area. The editors continue to maintain the policy of ensuring that each volume contains items of interest to Orientalists and Biblical Scholars. Extensive reviews of selected books, as well as general review notices, remain a feature of the Journal.

Forschung gegründete Zeitschrift veröffentlicht Untersuchungen zu Sprache und Literatur, zur Volksdichtung und Kulturgeschichte der slawischen Völker in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit verdienen die deutsch-slawischen sprachlichen, literarischen und kulturellen Wechselbeziehungen in ihren europäischen Zusammenhängen, die Namensforschung, gattungshistorische und poetologische Fragestellungen, die Baltistik, Sorabistik und Geschichte der Slawistik. Literaturberichte und Rezensionen informieren über aktuelle Tendenzen der internationalen slawistischen Forschung, Tagungsberichte über wichtige wissenschaftliche Konferenzen. #!#!Zeitschrift für Slawistik#!#! publishes critical essays on language and literature, on popular poetry and on the cultural history of Slavic people in the past and present. Special attention is paid to German-Slavic linguistic, literary and cultural relations within their European context, to onomastics, history and poetology of literary genres, Baltic studies, Sorbic studies, and to the history of Slavic studies. Literary reports and reviews give an insight into current tendencies and developments in international Slavonic research. Conference proceedings provide information about important academic events. .

The Journal of Social Archaeology (JSA) promotes interdisciplinary research, focused on social approaches in archaeology, it champions innovative social interpretations of the past and encourages exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues. It engages with contemporary perspectives on antiquity, linking past and present, the local and the global. JSA is now covered by the ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

The Journal of Social History was founded over 30 years ago, and has served as one of the leading outlets for work in this growing research field since its inception. The Journal publishes articles in social history from all areas and periods, and has played an important role in integrating work in Latin American, African, Asian and Russian history with sociohistorical analysis in Western Europe and the United States.

The Journal of Social Philosophy seeks to publish creative approaches to practical and normative issues of contemporary social life, such as those arising from economic and other forms of globalization, violent political conflict, and the multiplicity of cultural experiences worldwide. It places new emphasis on understanding the social contexts for political, legal, moral, and cultural questions, and gives priority to the development of novel theoretical frameworks, from social ontology to care ethics to cosmopolitan theories of democracy, human rights, and global justice. The Journal's editorial process proceeds online, with blind review of articles not only by referees but also by the editor, and aims to deliver timely responses for submissions. The Journal also on occasion publishes special issues focusing on topics of vital practical concern, in the conviction that these can be better understood with the aid of disciplined and innovative philosophical analysis.

* In five issues of 160 pages each per year, the Journal of Sociolinguistics is an international forum for multidisciplinary research on language and society.