Call for Submissions

Canadian Social Work, the official journal of the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW), reaches social workers throughout Canada and beyond.  The journal is published annually in October in on-line format. Where appropriate a special issue or an additional issue is published.  Canadian Social Work is indexed with Social Work Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.

Journal Goals 

• To provide a forum in which Canadian social workers can share practice knowledge, research and skills, and debate contemporary social work concerns.
• To stimulate discussion of national and regional social policy issues. 
• To promote exchange between:  social workers in different regions and language groups in Canada, the CASW and its member organizations, and Canadian and international social work communities.
• To share information about social work educational resources – books, films, videos, conferences and workshops.

We welcome articles that are consistent with the journal’s mandate and contribute to the profession’s knowledge base.  The journal aims to present perspectives that reflect our diversity as a country and as a profession.  We are particularly interested in receiving submissions from practitioners and students.  All articles are anonymously peer reviewed. 

Each journal profiles a submission that reflects the history of CASW.  We encourage submissions that take the form of an interview with a social work pioneer or are based on original research.

Articles (2,500 – 5,000 words) can be submitted in either French or English. Manuscripts accepted for publication will be printed in the language in which they were submitted, but the abstract will be translated into the other official language.

An information package for prospective authors is available from the CASW website (http://www.casw-acts.ca) or contact:

Canadian Social Work
Canadian Association of Social Workers
383 Parkdale Avenue, Suite 402
Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4R4
Phone: (613) 729-6668  Fax:  (613) 729-9608
casw@casw-acts.ca