A unique feature of the CJHSS is its ability to allow immediate, online article reviews by any person registered with the journal. This capability enhances the academic process by encouraging open, immediate discussion of important issues.

Anyone with a doctorate and academic affiliation may register with the CJHSS and review any article published in the journal. To register, visit our registration link in the top right corner of the site and follow the online instructions. Once you have completed the registration form, our journal staff will validate your registration to ensure that only you can review an article under your name. When your registration has been validated, you will be informed by email that you are registered with the CJHSS. Once registered, you may review any CJHSS article you wish.

It is important to note that any review you provide will be automatically published with your name and academic affiliation attached. This ensures that reviewers can be held publicly accountable for their commentary. For this reason, reviews should be professional, courteous and, where appropriate, properly cited.

The CJHSS provides scholars with an unprecedented opportunity to critique other's academic work. We have provided this functionality to ensure that the article review process is as open, public, and unbiased as possible. Combined with our policy to publish all well written papers we receive, regardless of perceived interest value to readers, scientific importance or ideological conformity with currently accepted views, this review process will provide the first ever platform for open academic discourse within the humanities and social sciences. It is our hope that the CJHSS will play an important role in sharing new ideas of broad importance to the H&SS community.

We expect that reviewers will consider these objectives carefully when publishing reviews. We expect reviews to be:

1. of the highest professional standards. Writing should be grammatically correct and free from colloquialisms,

2. well researched and properly cited,

3. courteous and free from personal, derogatory, demeaning, hateful or belittling language.

Reviews may be either supportive or critical of an article. Data may be presented where necessary. If data is presented, be sure to keep a copy on file in the event that another reviewer or the author of the article requests your data.

Reviews may be any length you wish, but we do encourage reviewers to limit reviews to 1,000 words.

Complete citations should be given at the end of the review in APA style. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) provides a complete description of citation style for APA papers.

A reviewer may leave more than one review to an article. In cases in which the author responds to a review you have given, it is perfectly admissible to reply to the author's response.

If you have any questions regarding the review process, please contact Dr Jeremy Jackson at