Submissions

Author Guidelines

The nature of this journal, which includes the publication of postgraduate work submitted to different institutions, means that we are willining to accommodate different style conventions providing that these meet appropriate academic standards and that the conventions are employed correctly and consistently. Thus, contributions that are based on work submitted for examination at a third-level institution may match the style conventions of that institution. However, the editors reserve the right to ask the contributor to change to an alternative style in circumstances where that is considered more appropriate. Other work (i.e. that not based on postgraduate submissions) should employ the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style for footnotes/citations and the manuscript overall should conform to the style guide used by the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Any submissions based on work completed in support of a postgraduate degree must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the student's supervisor/advisor attesting that the work is of publishable quality. We will only publish work that is considered good enough to achieve high 'A' grades (First Class Honours, Summa Cum Laude). The journal will not normally publish work completed at undergraduate level - unless it is shown to be of exceptional quality. In such cases the work should be accompanied by a reference from an appropriate authority (supervisor, head of department etc).

Quick Style Guide.

Length: submissions should normally be between 7,000 and 10,000 words long (excluding references/bibliography), except in the case of work based in MA theses, which may be up to 15,000 words long. The manuscript should be accompanied by an accurate guide to the word count.

Font: Calibri, 12 point, single line spaced. Use margins of at least 2.5cm.

Title: use Bold for the title, using capital letters for the first letter of proper nouns.

Abstract: provide an abstract (of up to 250 words) on a separate page.

Keywords: provide five or six keywords that can be used to describe your paper. Include these on the same page as the abstract.

References: only the minimum additional material and commentary should appear in endnotes.

References: must be in accordance with the relevant institutional style guidance (for work based on that submitted to a third-level institution) or in accordance with the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.  Endnotes are used in preference to footnotes.

Bibliography: you must provide a full list of cited secondary works. 

Name and contact details: these should be provided on a separate sheet. Do not add your name to the actual submission as papers will be sent for blind (anonymous) peer review.

Funding details: authors should supply details/acknowledgements relating to any relevant funding body.

Disclosure statement: authors should acknowledge any financial interest or other benefit arising from the research.

Biographical note: authors should provide a short (up to 250 words) biographical note.

Figures: figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).

Third-party material: authors are solely responsible for ensuring that they have permission to use any third-party material reproduced in their paper. Use of short extracts of text is usually allowed for purposes of review or criticism but large chunks of text should not be reproduced without permission. Authors must gain written permission to use copyrighted material such as maps, images, figures etc and must provide evidence of this permission before their work will be considered for publication.

Open source: this is an open-source journal and authors must ensure that their work is suitable for publication as such, taking note of copyright and libel legislation and also noting any relevant security considerations (i.e. is the submission in breach of the Official Secrets Act or similar).