Multiple Book Reviews

BBS does not publish standard book reviews. The service of Open Peer Commentary is primarily devoted to original unpublished manuscripts written specifically for BBS treatment. However, a recently published book may also occasionally be eligible for Commentary. In such a BBS Multiple Book Review, a comprehensive, article-length précis by the author is published together with the commentaries and the author's response. In special cases, Commentary will also be extended to a position paper or an already published article that deals with particularly influential or controversial research or that has itself proven to be especially important or controversial. In normal cases however, BBS submissions may not be already published (either in part or whole) or be under consideration for publication elsewhere and submission of an article is considered expressly to imply this. Multiple book reviews and previously published articles appear by invitation only. Self-nominations cannot be considered, neither can non-spontaneous (i.e. author elicited) nominations. However, the readership of BBS is encouraged to submit book review proposals to the editorial office.