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Author Guidelines

Rural Society is published on behalf of the Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University by eContent Management Pty Ltd. The editors welcome contributions within its Focus and Scope on any aspect of rural social issues in the Asia Pacific, Indian Ocean, Australian, New Zealand and Arctic regions, including: rural sociology, rural service delivery, rural health, technology transfer, rural policy issues, rural social work, developmental economics and rural social change.

Articles dealing with rural and regional issues in other societies are welcome but topics must demonstrate relevance to readers in emerging and developed regional economies. The overall quality of Rural Society is maintained by double blind peer review through the Editorial Board.

There are no page charges and no monetary payments for contributors. Upon publication, the Publishers provide Author(s) with an electronic copy of the published article in PDF format, and discounts for requested print copies of the issue.

Overview

Articles should be within the aims & scope of the journal, and of approximately 4000 to 8000 words, unless otherwise agreed with the Editors. All submissions must be based on original research or scholarship. The articles in this journal are fully refereed prior to acceptance.

Prospective contributors are welcome to contact the editors, for advice on their submission. Materials should be prepared and submitted electronically according to the Style Guide below.

Initial submission

The publisher, eContent Management Pty Ltd, uses a semi-automated manuscript tracking system to receive and accept reviews of research articles, case studies and literature reviews. Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to a peer review process. To ensure prompt review of your manuscript, and to preserve anonymity in the review process, please observe the instructions on-screen and take note that:

Manuscripts should be saved as a Microsoft Word or Open Office Writer files. These should contain: title of the manuscript, key words, article text, references, figures, and tables in that order, as one document.
A 100-150-word abstract is loaded into a form on a following page. You should copy/paste it from a existing document.
Do not include any author information or acknowledgements in the manuscript or abstract. In Microsoft Word, please check the box 'Remove personal information from file properties on save' under Tools/Options/Security. Open Office users should consult this online help wiki for removing personal user data.
Your manuscript will be forwarded directly to reviewers and should not contain any identifying information.
Other information such as manuscript title, author postal and email contact details are added on the next page. All correspondence will be sent to the the first listed author.
Please list all authors in the order they are to appear on the title page.
Acknowledgements are added to the manuscript by the author following peer review and acceptance to publish.

Resubmitting manuscripts

It is important that authors re-submitting revised manuscripts indicate how they have addressed the referees' comments, in summary form, accompanying the revised manuscript. This information will be sent with the revised manuscript back to the original reviewers.

These requirements also apply to authors returning revised versions of manuscripts which have been accepted with minor revision.

Please refer to the Style Guide below for references, citation and spelling conventions and to 'Tables and figures' below for acceptable file and photo types for print publishing.

Final submission

The Editors then assess whether reviewers' comments have been addressed before the manuscript is accepted. When a manuscript is accepted, a Publishing Agreement will be emailed to the corresponding author for signature on behalf of all authors listed on the article.

The signed Publishing Agreement must be be faxed or posted to eContent Management Pty Ltd.

Style Guide

Acceptable style guide is the APA Publication Manual (6^th edn) https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/1/. 'American' or 'English' spellings are acceptable, provided they are used consistently within the article. Translations of articles from other languages into English are encouraged and must be provided by professional translators.

No footnotes or endnotes are permitted to appear in manuscripts.

The accuracy and format of reference citations are the authors' responsibility (see also 'Copyright' below).

Images should be sharp with clear resolution to allow direct photo-reproduction. Electronic TIFFs or EPS files are preferred using high resolution (300 dpi and above). GIFFs and JPEG files at lower resolution (below 150 dpi) are NOT suitable for print publishing. Please do not repeat-save JPEG images as JPEGs are 'lossy' and automatically compress with each save, thereby losing detail each time.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Author Warranties: by submission of material to the Rural Society (RSJ), all authors warrant that the material is their own, original material or that copyright clearance has been acquired to reproduce other material from employers, third parties or attributed to third parties, and that the material has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Authors have secured the release of any copyright material and can provide written evidence to this effect to eContent Management Pty Ltd. It is also the author’s responsibility to obtain clearance for reproduction from the organization which commissioned the work if applicable. Submission of material to RSJ implies all authors’ consent to assignment of the material’s copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication.
By submitting material to RSJ, all authors of the material agree to indemnify eContent Management Pty Ltd, and its heirs and assigns in business, against any litigation or claims that may arise from the content of or opinions in the material provided. Submission of material to RSJ also implies all authors’ consent to assignment of the material’s copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication.

If the corresponding author is no longer active any of the other authors may become the corresponding author and they will accordingly be bound by these terms and conditions

(Note: On acceptance for publication, an agreement specifying the terms noted here and above will be sent to the corresponding author for signature by the corresponding author who is duly authorized to sign this agreement on behalf of all authors and contributors. No printers proof will be sent to the author. The copy provided by the author on acceptance is the version used for typesetting. The publisher reserves the right to make editing corrections.)
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
You have created a title-page file from your original manuscript and removed all identifying information from the text and document properties. Note: the submission process requires the abstract and keywords to be copied into the submission form.
All citations refer to a publication listed in the References section of the manuscript and all references have been cited in the text.

Copyright Notice

The author will transfer copyright to the publisher to eContent Management Pty Ltd. However, the author will have an irrevocable non-exclusive licence to make use of their work, which gives them all of the rights specified in the journal's transfer of copyright form. Details of these rights are available on the Journal's website.

Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of research and private study, or criticism and or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 of Australia, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the Publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of the licences issued by

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