Journal of Family Studies
The Journal of Family Studies (ISSN 1322-9400) is a refereed international journal publishing three issues per year from 2008. The focus of the Journal is on the wellbeing of children in families in the process of change.
INDEXED IN Thomson ISI Science Citation Index/Social Sciences from January 2007
Interdisciplinary in nature, content includes research articles, key conference papers, abstracts, practical papers plus multimedia and book reviews. The Journal of Family Studies will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, counsellors, administrators, social workers, educators, mediators, lawyers, and clinicians in the helping professions. The Journal of Family Studies is a necessary and valuable research tool for academics and students alike, who work or study in this field. The Journal aims to promote studies of applied and professional interest.
The purpose of the Journal of Family Studies is to bring together the best research and practices available to support children and families though periods of transition, especially when those periods are associated with high levels of conflict.
Mission of the Journal
In 2003, Journal of Family Studies changed direction under the editorship of A/Professor Lawrie Moloney. Journal of Family Studies now focuses on families in transition, particularly as transition affects the wellbeing of children. Papers that focus on the impact of change and transitional situations on children, either directly or via the impact on parents or close family members, are encouraged
Databases
The Journal of Family Studies is indexed and abstracted in:
- Thomson Scientific Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
- Thomson Scientific Social Scisearch
- Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
- NLM/Medline
- Scopus/Excerpta (Elsevier)
- PsycINFO Database (APA)
- EBSCOhost
- Australian Public Affairs Information Service Database (National Library of Australia) - APAIS
- Australian Family & Society Abstracts (Australian Institute of Family Studies)
- Australasian Medical Index Database (National Library of Australia) - Meditext
- Family & Society Plus Database (Informit)
- Mental Health Abstracts (IFI/Plenum Data Company)
- Psychological Abstracts
- Sage Family Abstracts
- Violence and Abuse Abstracts
- Sociofile/Sociological Abstracts
- The Family Studies Database
Full text articles published in Journal of Family Studies are available in susbscription, aggregated or Pay per View (PPV) form in:
Journal of Family Studies (Atypon-link.com)
Family & Society Plus (Informit) Database
Cengage (Gale)
EBSCO Publishing
ProQuest
Contributions to the Journal
Papers are invited and encouraged from Australian and international authors alike. Instructions for presentation are provided at http://jfs.econtentmanagement.com/page/16
Special issue proposals
Please send expressions of interest in the first instance to Journal of Family Studies’ Assistant Editor, Liz Morrison (l.morrison@latrobe.edu.au)
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