SAGE Perspectives
What is the SAGE Perspectives blog?
The Sage Perspectives blog focuses on highlighting topical and interesting research published in Sage books and journals. The blog includes posts from authors across a wide range of subject disciplines and research areas.
How is an article or book selected for a SAGE Perspectives blog post?
Our portfolio of 1000+ journals are continually publishing new, quality research that can be of wider interest to the public. Sage also publishes numerous books and textbooks each year. Due to sheer volume, we are unable to create Sage Perspectives blog posts for all journal articles and books. Instead, we select them based on the following criteria:
If the article/book is topical and timely - relevant to current events
If the article/book presents new, exciting or significant findings
If the article/book explains complex issues or ideas
If the article/book offers advice or guidance to authors, researchers, students, lecturers or practitioners
Audience
The audience for the Sage Perspectives blog is composed mainly of academics, researchers, graduate students, librarians, undergraduate students, lecturers and practitioners who want to find out more about your article or book prior to purchase.
Style and tone
The most successful blogs are those that have an easily accessible style – ones that can be read by academics and the person on the street alike. To ensure that the blog is as accessible as possible, we ask that contributors write in a way that would be easily understood by a lay audience, as well as an academic one, moving away from niche rhetoric and jargon.
Additionally, we encourage contributors to adopt a friendly and conversational tone in their posts. They should write as if conversing with an author, researcher, student, librarian, editor or society director, and should not fear letting their professional personality come through.
Since these posts are for a blog, and not an academic paper, please be sure to start with the most important point first, and not place it in the concluding paragraph. Keep in mind that, in the limited word count of a post, not everything can be covered so it’s often better to go deeper into one aspect of a subject than trying to be completely comprehensive.
Importantly, all posts should be written with the priorities of the reader in mind, offering useful information that can be taken away. Posts will not be successful if they are promotional in any way; they have to be of general interest to the reader and tie into the industry agenda and commentary.
The site also follows Journalistic writing conventions (AP Style). This includes spelling out acronyms and giving full names and affiliations for people on first reference. This also means that we try to write engagingly, using anecdotes and strong quotes from our subjects to make the posts interesting.
Please note that the views expressed by authors on the blog are those of the individuals, not those of Sage.
Formatting
Length | Posts should be between approximately 500 and 700 words long.
Biography | as we are trying to make the blog as personal as possible, contributors are asked to write the posts as being from themselves and include a short biography and a headshot.
Images | we ask that where possible all contributors supply images for their posts, whether speaker headshots, graphs, logos, or pictures from the field.
Multimedia | other media including videos are also welcome additions to all posts.
Hyperlinks | Contributors are asked to use hyperlinks in their posts and not to include any hyperlinks parenthetically unless they have problems hyperlinking in the text.
References | we do not usually use citations or footnotes. Where authors wish to provide references to other published work, we ask them to hyperlink to the appropriate sources throughout their blog post. If a citation must be used, give the authors’ full names and the name of the source, and not just their names and publication date (e.g. NOT ‘Smith and Jones, 2016’)
Timing
We request that you send through your draft post within 4 weeks of the request being made to you. We will then review, make any necessary edits and will seek your approval for the final post, with the aim of publishing on the blog within 2 weeks.
For further details, please email your Sage commissioning editor or Sage publishing editor.
SAGE Perspectives Blog & DEI commitments
The blog, in-line with the Sage Journals DEI pledge, commits to showcasing a diverse range of content, as well as increasing the representation of people and populations from different backgrounds, and is committed to inclusivity and accessibility.
The Sage Perspectives blog supports Sage’s mission to build bridges to knowledge. Freely accessible content, including posts written with the lay person in mind, enables people from all backgrounds to contribute to, and read, a wide array of perspectives.
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Republishing
We want to make our content available to as many people as possible and so if not otherwise stated the content on the Sage Perspectives blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and you are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. You must however, give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
The material that appears on the Sage Perspectives blog might be suitable for publication on other Sage platforms. If you’d rather your blog post did not appear on another Sage platform please inform us upon submission. If not we will take it that you’re happy for your work to appear across other Sage platforms.
