Information for Authors

NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS

All submissions of articles and discussion notes should be sent to the editors:

Professor Alexander Bird and Dr James Ladyman
Department of Philosophy
University of Bristol
9 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7826
Fax: +44 (0)117 928 7825
Email: BJPS editors

Articles on any aspect of the philosophy of science will be considered. Discussion notes related to articles previously published in the Journal are welcome.

Contributors should send their submissions either in hard copy or by email. If submitting in hard copy, please send three hard copies, which will not normally be returned, to the editors at the address above. If submitting by email, please send your submission to BJPS editors, preferably in PDF with wide margins.

Submissions:
• should be prepared for blind refereeing, with identifying references removed;
• must be prefaced by an abstract of about 100 words;
• need not be in any particular style on initial submission, but if they are accepted for publication we will require a version in the Journal's style;
• should be accompanied by the telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.

Further details about submitting the final version of your manuscript can be found here.

Details about the style of the journal can be found here.

Every effort will be made to ensure that decisions on all submissions take place within six weeks of receipt.

Language Editing
Particularly if English is not your first language, before submitting your manuscript you may wish to have it edited for language. This is not a mandatory step, but may help to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. If you would like information about one such service please click here. There are other specialist language editing companies that offer similar services and you can also use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.

Funding information
Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.

The following rules should be followed:

• The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
• The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
• Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
• Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
• Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].’

Copyright
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It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors license copyright to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In assigning copyright, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance. Please complete and return the Licence to Publish form.

Open Access option for authors
Authors have the option, at an additional charge, to make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication, under the Oxford Open initiative. After your manuscript is accepted, as part of the mandatory license form required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available immediately. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.

For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science vary depending on the institution at which the corresponding author is based:

Optional Oxford Open charges:
For a corresponding author based at an institution with an online subscription to The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science:

• Regular charge - £900 / $1800 / €1350
• List B developing country charge** - £450 / $900 / €675
• List A developing country charge** - £0 / $0 / €0

For a corresponding author based at an institution that does not subscribe to the online journal:

• Regular charge - £1500 / $3000 / €2250
• List B developing country charge** - £750 / $1500 / €1125
• List A developing country charge** - £0 /$0 / €0

*Visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/ for list of qualifying countries.

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The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and color charges that might apply.

If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete an Open Access charge formonline. You will be automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription to The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Therefore, please make sure that you are using an institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are based at a subscribing institution, please use the Subscriber Test link for The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Please see these guidelines for reuse of Oxford Open content.

Books for review
Books for review should be sent to the editors. All correspondence concerning reviews, other than books for review themselves, should be addressed to the Deputy Editor.

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