Rural Sociology

Author Guidelines

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All correspondence for the journal should be addressed to Alessandro Bonanno, RURAL SOCIOLOGY, Department of Sociology, Box 2446, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas 77341-2446 (ruralsociology@shsu.edu)

Acceptance of materials for publication presumes transfer of all copyrights to the Rural Sociological Society.

For new manuscript submissions: Please refer to www.ruralsociology.org for style requirements and electronic submission gateway. OR please visit our new online submission system http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rs

Send books for review to: Karen Bradley, University of Central Missouri, Wood Building 202Bl, Warrensburg, MO 64093 (kbradley@ucmo.edu)

Online Open

OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With OnlineOpen, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For the full list of terms and conditions, see http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/onlineopen#OnlineOpen_Terms.

Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at: https://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/onlineopen_order.asp.

Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.