Arsoc submission

Delivery Preflight (arsoc-submission)

When to trigger

• "Delivering soon" — last check before handing the commissioned review to Annual Reviews
• Unsure which files, declarations, and permissions the production system expects
• Confirming reference style, format, and figure specs are Annual Reviews-compliant
• Verifying transparency obligations for the coverage account and any quantitative synthesis the review reports

Process facts (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准 — re-confirm on the Annual Reviews author pages)

• Publisher / venue. ARSoc is published by Annual Reviews (nonprofit), founded 1975 (ISSN 0360-0572 print / 1545-2115 online), as an annual volume; it is a review series, distinct from ASR/AJS (sociology's primary-research flagships), Sociological Theory (theory development), and the sister Annual Reviews of Psychology/Economics. Articles are invitation-led: "experienced researchers are invited by journals' Editorial Committees to write Annual Reviews articles." There is no cold-submission portal for unsolicited manuscripts — delivery happens within the invited-article workflow (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
• How a topic gets onto the list / suggesting one. There is no public author-submission portal; the Editorial Committee sets the topic list and issues invitations. The source map records no formal author topic-proposal channel, so if you want to propose a topic or be considered, route it informally to the Editorial Committee (see the Editorial Committee page) — 待核实 whether a formal proposal mechanism exists; confirm on the author pages (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
• Review/acceptance bar. Annual Reviews states that review selections are assessed for accuracy, rigor, and balance (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
• Editors. Co-editors Douglas S. Massey & Mary C. Waters (co-editors since Aug 2023; verified 2026-06-22 — re-confirm on the Editorial Committee page, editors rotate).
• Open access / fees. Current volumes are published open access under the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model: Annual Reviews announced the S2O commitment in 2023 and reports that in 2024 all volumes were successfully published OA. S2O is library/subscriber-funded, not author-funded, so it is not a pay-to-publish APC; treat any author-facing fee as 待核实 on the author pages (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
• Disclosure (required). Annual Reviews requires authors to disclose potential sources of bias / conflicts of interest; funding sources are stated. Prepare the disclosure as the author pages specify (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
• Transparency of the review itself. A pure review reports no new data. The transparency obligation bites on your coverage account (a documented, near-PRISMA-style search/selection record, from arsoc-transparency-and-reproducibility) and on any meta-analysis/bibliometric analysis you contribute — its data and code should be reproducible and depositable (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
• Reference & format style. Annual Reviews applies its own house format and reference style (distinct from ASA author-date) at production; the production editor copyedits to house style, so the delivered draft need not pre-conform, but reference data must be complete and accurate (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
• Figures / permissions. Confirm figure specs and secure permission for any reproduced exhibit (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
• Length / abstract limits. Exact word/abstract/keyword limits are 待核实 and are not asserted from the source map — they are article-specific delivery facts set by the current author resources and your editor correspondence; confirm there rather than assuming a number (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).

Preflight checklist

Article & files

• This is a commissioned/invited article delivered in the invited-article workflow (not a cold submission)
• Manuscript complete; references complete and accurate (house style applied at production)
• Title page: title, complete author affiliations, keywords; abstract in review style
• Figures meet current specs; reproduced exhibits have permission and attribution

Transparency

• Coverage account documented (search strategy, inclusion/exclusion, saturation) — near-PRISMA where applicable
• Any meta-analysis/bibliometrics the review reports: data + code reproducible and depositable (DOI)

Declarations

• Conflict-of-interest / potential-bias disclosure prepared per Annual Reviews policy
• Funding sources stated
• AI not listed as an author

Volatile re-confirms

• Exact length/abstract limits, current reference style, figure specs, disclosure format, S2O/OA status, current editors — re-checked on the Annual Reviews author pages (检索于 2026-06)

Anti-patterns

• Treating ARSoc like a journal with a cold-submission portal — it is invited; deliver through the commissioned workflow
• Treating S2O open access as a pay-to-publish APC (it is not author-funded under S2O)
• Omitting the conflict-of-interest / bias disclosure Annual Reviews requires
• Asserting a length limit, fee, or editor name from memory rather than the live author pages
• Delivering a meta-analysis with no reproducible data/code, or a review with no documented coverage account

Output format

【Article type】commissioned/invited review (not cold submission)? Y/N
【References】complete + accurate (house style at production)? Y/N
【Abstract + front matter】review-style abstract, keywords, affiliations? Y/N
【Transparency】coverage account documented; meta-analysis (if any) reproducible? Y/N
【Disclosure】COI / bias disclosure + funding prepared? Y/N
【Figures】specs met; permissions secured? Y/N
【Volatile re-confirms】length / style / OA / disclosure / editors checked on Annual Reviews pages? Y/N
【Next step】deliver to Annual Reviews → arsoc-revision after the Committee letter

Supplementary resources

• templates/checklist.md — submission self-check
• templates/manuscript_template.md — lightweight review scaffold
• ../../resources/official-source-map.md — official Annual Reviews URLs and volatile facts