As Sirous Fozouni stated above, no matter what journal you want to publish in, it is fundamental to be familiar with it before making a submission. So, let's consider Current Sociology.
Current Sociology publishes seven issues a year, including four regular issues, two monographs, and the Current Sociology Review. Included among the regular volumes are special issues and shorter thematic sections: the special subsections. Submissions are open year-round through our Manuscript Central. You can send us your manuscript in any language and we will search for suitable reviewers. Before starting a submission,
however, please contact the editorial office to find out if we can find reviewers in your language.
Articles in Current Sociology must between 6000 and 8000 words including the abstract, notes, references list, etc. In each case, it is important to recall that the reviewers may suggest further additions or corrections that will add to the total word count of an article. As such, we recommend that authors limit their articles as much as possible during their first submission.
An ideal article for Current Sociology is on the cutting edge of sociological research, goes beyond the specific subdiscipline or topic of interest, and discusses theoretical and conceptual questions. As a result, narrative articles are preferred over IMRaD papers. An article could be a bibliographic review, a case study, an international comparative study, or a theoretical discussion, among others. Whatever the case, the debate, and discussion of concepts and theories should be central to the article. Current Sociology is a generalist journal and has a very international readership. Contextualization, in this sense, is fundamental: to make your case understandable for a reader who is not familiar with the social reality you are dealing with, and to make it relevant for an international discussion, bringing out links with core sociological and theoretical issues. Take a look at the articles recently published, see who is publishing and what is being cited. In case of doubts, write to the editor.
All submissions are initially reviewed by the editor and only papers that meet the scientific and editorial standards, and fit within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for external review. Papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by an international panel of sociologists. At Current Sociology, we try to combine a referee from the geographical area you are dealing with, with a referee, say, from the other side of the world,
in order to attain a real international balance.
All in all, there's no algorithm or recipe for writing a good article. There are a plethora of textbooks and tip lists, and even editor's advice like this one that tries to explain how to write and how to successfully publish. And basically, all of them say the same thing.
But there is a savoir-faire that you only get in the field. To be a successful author, you should be a good reader and a committed reviewer. You need to be an active part of the collective sociology endeavor.
