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ISSN 1038-2569 Youth Studies Australia is nationally and
internationally recognised for its coverage of youth issues, and each
issue contains a peer-reviewed research section. Focusing on the issues
affecting Australians from early adolescence to young adulthood, Youth
Studies Australia provides readers with interdisciplinary,
research-based information and analysis on subjects such as education,
training, health, housing, juvenile justice, employment, culture and
subcultures. Aimed at practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and
workers in the youth field, Youth Studies Australia is also accessible
and relevant to senior secondary students. In September 2001, Youth Studies Australia introduced
a peer-review system for academic papers. The consulting editors group
includes a special focus group of editors that will be augmented as
necessary. More details Overview of the journal's content (http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/ncys/ysa/overview.htm)
Two regular columns in the journal are
databased and
available online. An
index to all articles in the journal is available
on the web site Airmail overseas rate: US$60 or AUD$90 (4 issues per
year). Back issues: price available on request. Major credit cards are
accepted. All correspondence, including subscription inquiries,
should be addressed to Youth Studies Australia, Australian Clearinghouse
for Youth Studies, GPO Box 252-64, Hobart, Tasmania 7001 Australia. Youth Studies Australia is nationally and
internationally recognised for its coverage of youth issues and
research. Youth Studies Australia welcomes contributions on
all aspects of Australasian youth and aims to present youth issues and
research in a way that is accessible and reader-friendly. Intending contributors should thoroughly familiarise
themselves with the journal. Academic papers will be reviewed by one or more
external reviewers and by the editor and deputy editor. In general, manuscripts should not exceed 4,000
words. Text style should conform to the AGPS Style Manual (5th
edition) with references presented in the author-date system. (APA
style is acceptable.) If including tables and figures, please supply
the raw data as well. Include with the manuscript a short abstract,
and for each author, a short biographical statement, name,
affiliation, mailing address, phone and fax numbers and email address.
Submission of a manuscript implies commitment to
publish in the journal. Manuscripts should not have been published
elsewhere in substantially similar form or content, nor be submitted
simultaneously to other journals. Manuscripts should be supplied on disk in MSWord,
with one hard copy and sent to: The Editor, Youth Studies Australia,
GPO Box 252-64, Hobart, Tasmania 7001. Responses will be sent within
two months of receipt. Rights: Contributors to Youth Studies Australia
retain copyright of their original work. YSA/ACYS holds copyright of
the published version and reserves the right to reproduce all YSA
material on the web site of the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth
Studies and to collect copying fees in relation to all or part of any
ACYS publication. Youth Studies Australia aims to provide readers with
up-to-date research and practice information that might usefully
inform their work in the youth field. YSA encourages authors to
communicate to a wide, often non-academic, audience. Papers that have
been successfully peer reviewed for YSA may therefore differ in
appearance and length from those in traditional scholarly journals but
must nevertheless meet similar criteria. The criteria (adapted from the Society for Research
into Adolescence) for papers published in YSA are: Contributors are asked to write to a word length of
4,000 words or under. (In some cases, scholarly papers may be accepted
at 5,000 words.) Due to this space restriction, background reading and
the methodology or `science' need to be summarised very succinctly.
Authors are encouraged to focus on findings, discussion, implications
and recommendations. While the authors' demonstration of knowledge of
the literature is very important, it need not be unnecessarily
expansive. The space available should be used to `advance' knowledge
of the issue or subject; we therefore prefer that common knowledge be
accepted as `given'. (For example, papers addressing particular
aspects of youth homelessness or unemployment do not need to first
establish, beyond giving current figures, that homelessness and
unemployment exist as problems.) In the peer-review process, reviewers are asked to
respond to the following questions: Papers which do not meet the rigorous standards or
depth required of scholarly, peer-reviewed work, but which are well
written, well sourced and raise interesting issues which deserve
attention, may, with the authors' permission, be published in YSA as
non-peer reviewed articles. Apart from fair dealing for educational purposes,
the contents of Youth Studies Australia may be reproduced only with
the prior permission of the editor and the authors concerned, with
appropriate acknowledgments. The views expressed are those of the
individual authors, not the ACYS or the Commonwealth Department of
Family and Community Services. Contributors to Youth Studies Australia retain
copyright of their original work. YSA/ACYS holds copyright of the
published version and reserves the right to reproduce all YSA material
on the web site of the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies and
to collect copying fees in relation to all or part of any ACYS
publication. Youth Studies Australia is indexed and/or abstracted
by these databases which should be available through your nearest
academic library: and by the following Australian databases: Youth Studies Australia does not carry advertising
on its pages. However, if you have a youth-related product or event to
promote to readers of Youth Studies Australia, note that YSA can
distritute fliers or inserts along with the journal for a fee. Find
out more or send an email to ACYS@educ.utas.edu.au
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