Catholic Social Science Review
The Catholic Social Science Review is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original articles and reviews in the social sciences and the humanities, with an editorial focus on topics relevant to the social teaching of the Catholic Church.
Catholic Social Science Review
Members of the Society receive a print copy as a benefit of membership. Non-members may purchase print subscriptions through the Franciscan University of Steubenville Bookstore.
The digital version of the journal is open-access, and both current and archived issues are freely available online through the Philosophy Documentation Center. The contents of the CSSR are copyrighted by the Society of Catholic Social Scientists and cannot be reproduced for commercial purposes without the permission of the SCSS.
CSSR Submission Guidelines
The editors will consider articles or reviews in the social sciences or in the humanities that, at minimum, fulfill the following conditions: exhibition of high-quality scholarship; topical relevance to the Catholic Church’s social teaching; and compatibility with the teaching of the Church’s Magisterium. Submissions to the Articles section may not be submitted simultaneously to other publishers and will be double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two referees. There is no fee to submit or publish articles in the CSSR.
Authors of a symposium, article, review, or documentation piece should submit an MS Word document via e-mail to the appropriate editor below:
Editors
Christopher Beiting
Articles and Symposia Editor; Documentation Editor
Stephen M. Krason
Public and Church Affairs Editor
Andrew M. Essig
Book Reviews or Review Essays Editor
Contributors should observe the following word limits. Submissions outside of these guidelines will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Articles and symposium submissions, 5,000 words
- Book reviews, 1,000 words
- Public and Church Affairs articles, 2,000 words
- Documentation articles, 2,000 words
Articles should be submitted and ready for blind review. The author’s name should appear nowhere in the manuscript and identifying references (such as, “As I have shown in my book…”) should be avoided.
Articles must begin with an abstract consisting of approximately 100 words.
Graphs and illustrations should be placed at the end of the manuscript, one to a page, with their locations and captions clearly indicated in the text of the manuscript. All such non-text items should be submitted as JPG files.
The Review is interdisciplinary. Therefore, any established academic style will be accepted (APA, MLA, CMS, etc.).
Contributors should strive above all to be consistent, paying particular attention to reference and endnote styles.
The Review is printed annually in September. Submissions made by December 1 have the best chance of appearing in the following year’s issue.
