The Journal of Politics includes book reviews and review essays on major books across subfields in Political Science.  We are interested in reviews of single books, thematic reviews of multiple books, and review essays.  If you are an author interested in having your book considered for review at The Journal of Politics you can contact Valerie Hoekstra (jopbooks@asu.edu) and ask your publisher's publicity department to send a book to book review office at:   

Professor Valerie Hoekstra, Book Review Editor
The Journal of Politics
Department of Political Science
Campus Box 873902
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-3902

If you are interested in reviewing a book for the Journal, please contact Valerie Hoekstra at Arizona State University (jopbooks@asu.edu).



Style Guidelines for Book Reviews

The JOP follows The Style Manual for Political Science (2001 revised edition, published
by the APSA) supplemented by The Chicago Manual of Style as necessary. The current
author guidelines are posted on this website under “Author Information."

Book reviews for The Journal of Politics should be submitted DOUBLE-SPACED, using
a standard sized, proportional (e.g. Times New Roman) or fixed (e.g. Courier) font. All
material, including long quotes, should be double-spaced. Please use minimal style
formatting in your document. Reviews of single books should be between 750-1000
words.

Please submit your review in a form we can edit (that is, as a .txt or .doc file; not as a
.pdf), as an attachment to e-mail to jopbooks@asu.edu.

The review should begin with a hanging indent paragraph for each book in the review
that includes its title, author, and publishing information in one of the following formats:

FOR SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS:
Book Title: Subtitle. By John A. Author. (Vanity Publishers, 2005.)

FOR EDITED BOOKS:
A Collection of Essays. Edited by Joan C. Compiler and Jane Q. Anthologist. (Prestigious
University Press, 2004.)


All subsequent paragraphs should be indented. “Page numbers for quotations from
the book are done in this matter” (140). There are no footnotes in Journal of Politics
book reviews. References to texts not under review should be parenthetical (Journal of
Politics 47: 212).

Please type your name and institution, exactly as you wish it to be published, at the end
of the review. For example:

Pat E. Buchmacher, Southern River College