The Journal of Biosocial Science publishes original papers, short reports, and debates dealing with social aspects of human biology, including reproduction and its control, gerontology, ecology, genetics and applied psychology, with biological aspects of the social sciences, including sociology, social anthropology, and education, with social and biological elements of nutrition, growth and development, health and epidemiology, and with biosocial aspects of demography. Preference is given to material that is clearly interdisciplinary.

Types of JBS articles

Research articles*

There is no word limit for research articles, but papers should be succinct; verbosity is strongly discouraged.

A short (up to about 350 words), single-paragraph Abstract should precede the text. Subsequent text is then generally divided into Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Reference sections, but deviations from this format are acceptable. Note that Appendices are not allowed. Section headings and subheadings are not numbered.

Short reports*

Manuscripts for publication as Short Reports should be of an overall maximum length of 2000 words, including Abstract and References. This is equivalent to approximately four printed pages of the Journal.

If tables and/or figures are included (maximum of one page), the text should be limited to 1500 words.

The report should have a short Abstract (up to about 350 words), followed by a single text section that is not divided into Introduction, Results and Discussion sections (as in research articles).

Debate articles**

A section is reserved for publishing comments (maximum 500 words) on papers appearing in previous issues. Authors whose papers are involved will be given the opportunity for simultaneous response, and the authors of the original comment will be invited to respond.

Opinion*

The journal accepts Opinion pieces of up to 2000 words (excluding references), with flexible format but including an Abstract of up to 300 words.