Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors Guidelines

Preparing for Submission

Articles should be within the range of 3,000 and 3,500 words in length. There may be some flexibility where articles are based on original author research.  Margins should be one inch wide. Please ensure that the article is in an accessible word processing format in either Word, WordPerfect, or Rich Text format and Trebuchet size 12 font.

Articles should be preceded by an abstract consisting of approximately 150 words. The abstract should consist of the title, the author's name and a summary of the paper, detailing the topic, method, conclusions and implications of the article.  Keywords should be provided.

Do not use footnotes.

Referencing in the Body of the Article

The Journal of Mediation and Applied Conflict Analysis use the ‘Harvard’ system of referencing. Specify all references in the text by author (last name only) and the year of publication in brackets and page numbers as appropriate.

When there are more than two authors reference is made to them in the text by using the first author's name followed by et al. (meaning 'and others'). The full list of authors is given in the List of References (as below). Do not use footnotes.

Page References and Quotations

You must use exact page references as part of your referencing in the body of the article accompanying a specific fact or a direct quotation.

 Page numbers accompany particular research findings.

 Page number and quotation marks accompany verbatim quotations.

 When quotations are longer than three lines the quotation should be indented, not using quotation marks.

References

Books

When making a reference to a chapter in an edited book you must refer to the author of the chapter (not the editors of the book) in the body of the essay.

 In the list of references, you must begin the reference to a book chapter using the author of the particular chapter, the title of the particular chapter, then the editor(s) of the book and the title of the book.

 See example of Burke (1999) below for how to reference a book chapter in the list of references.

Ordered List

At the end of your article, you must attach an alphabetically ordered list of references that you have used, entitled 'References'.

 Only include books, book chapters and articles that you have referred to in the body of the article.

 A book, a chapter from an edited book, articles and reports in the list of references are referenced differently (see examples below). Titles of books are italicised (or underlined). When referencing an article in a journal or a chapter in an edited book the title of the journal or book, in which they appear, is italicised.

 The initial letter of all main words and subtitles must be in capital.

 Do not use et al. in the list of references - List all authors (you may use et al when referencing in the body of the essay).

 For publications with a number of authors, the initial of the first name of the first author comes after that author's surname. For second and subsequent authors, put the initial of the first name before their surname.

 Do not use abbreviations for titles of books, articles or journals.

Example of how a 'List of References' should appear:

List of References

Burke, H. (1999) Foundation Stones of a Mediation Service, 1831-1951, 11-32 in A. Dardis, P.Connolly, and S. Travers (eds), Social Policy in Context, Dublin, University College Dublin Press.

Coffey, J. (1993) Irish Social Services, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration.

Department of Justice (1995) A Positive Conflict Promotion Strategy, Dublin, Stationery Office.

Jones, A., T.O'Sullivan, A.Quigley D.Marsh, H.Bello, (2003) Conflict & Change Management, Dublin, Oak Tree Press in association with APCT.

Reilly, W. (1992) Social Policy in Ireland, Administration, 26 (3): 318-30.

 Effect of the Civil Liabilities and Courts Bill (2005), Dublin, Stationery Office.

Williams, F. (1989) Social Conflict: An Introduction, Issues of Race, Gender and Class, Cambridge: Polity Press.