Issue availability was checked at various times during the 2009 calendar year. Since online versions of the journals at the publishers’ web site were likely to be available earlier than print editions, the online versions were consulted whenever possible. JBL was not available online from the publisher, so it was checked in Business Source Premier, a popular article database from EBSCOhost. To check international editorial conventions, each article from every 2007 and 2008 issue was examined. Finally, all selected journals were in English, and the instructions to authors and the official web site for each journal were consulted to confirm that the journal is peer reviewed: