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Author Guidelines

Submissions are accepted online only. The language of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence is English. We accept American or British spelling and terminology, with one or other followed consistently throughout the manuscript.

Articles should preferably not exceed 55,500 characters incl. spaces.

 

Review Criteria

All submitted manuscripts will be subject to a stepwise review process and will be checked by the editoral staff first whether they meet with IJCV's aims, scope and standards, before they might enter the official and standardized double-blind peer review process and be evaluated by at least two experts in the field, following established criteria of scientific eligibility, which are:

 

  • Pertinence to the Focus of the Journal
  • Importance of Findings (Is the "value added" significant?)
  • Adequacy of Literature Review
  • Methodological Adequacy
  • Clarity of Presentation (concepts, clarity of objectives, organisation of the manuscript)
  • Validity of Conclusion

 

 

Manuscript Presentation and Structure

Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word or RTF file formats. Please do not submit PDF files.

The text should be double-spaced, and uses a 12-point font and employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses). All illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

Manuscripts should be formatted for printing on DIN A4 or US Letter paper.

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 150–200 words giving a brief, precise overview of the manuscript. (See here for more details).

Keywords

Please provide a list of three to five keywords below the abstract. The keywords should express the content of the manuscript, as they are used for indexing purpose.

Sections

Number all sections and subsections as follows:

1. A-Level Subhead

1.1. B-Level Subhead

1.1.1. C-Level Subhead

We prefer the introduction to begin without a subhead.

Figures

All figures should be numbered in one consecutive series of Arabic numerals.

Tables

All tables should be numbered in one consecutive series of Arabic numerals.

Quotations

Use double quotation marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotes within quotes.

Citations and Reference List

We use the author-date system (also known as the Harvard system). Detailed instructions may be found in the Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition, sections 16.97–120 and 17). Please follow the pattern of the following examples:

Book

Cohen, Albert K. 1955. Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang. New York: Free Press.

Chapter of book

Link, Bruce G., and Ann Stueve. 1994. Psychotic Symptoms and the Violent/Illegal Behavior of Mental Patients Compared to Community Controls. In Violence and Mental Disorder, ed. John Monahan and Henry J. Steadman, 137–60. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Journal article

Farrington, David P. 1987. Predicting Individual Crime Rates. Crime and Justice: A Review of Research 9:53–101.

Note that we have author first name written out in reference lists (rather than just the initial) and use headline case for all English titles of books, chapters of books, journals, and articles (other languages follow their own rules). If in doubt, please include more information rather than less.

Where available, URLs, URNs or DOIs for the references should be provided.

Text references

Without comma: (Cohen 1955)

Up to three authors, use all names: (Deane, Armstrong, and Felson 2005)

More than three authors, use et al.: (Link et al. 2009)

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF file format.
  3. Where available, URLs, URNs or DOIs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

Upon submitting a contribution, the authors certify that:

  1. They are authorised by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
  2. The submitted manuscript is original and has not been published in a similar form or with generally the same content in an ISSN/ISBN-registered journal respectiv book before, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication has been approved by all the authors and that the authors have full authority to enter into this agreement.
  3. They warrant and represent that they have the full power and authority to enter into and execute this agreement and to convey the rights granted herein, and that such rights are not now subject to prior assignment, transfer or other encumbrance. This also applies to the text and photo originals attained from other sources (for which the authors have secured the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere).
  4. Their manuscript contains nothing that is unlawful, libellous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy.
  5. In the event that the parties to this agreement, either individually or collectively, are held responsible for damages or the costs of a legal process undertaken by a third party as a result of the authors’ actions under points 1, 2, 3, and 4, the authors agree to release the publisher from the claims of the third party and to compensate the publisher for any resulting legal costs.
  6. They agree to the following license and copyright agreement:

Copyright Agreement

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication in print and online. The work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works License (CC-by-nd), which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. However, the work may not be altered or transformed. The license is valid for both electronic and paper copies.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors grant IJCV rights to integrate the work, its title, and its abstract in databases, abstracting and indexing services, and other similar information sources.
  4. German Law shall apply to this agreement. Court of jurisdiction is Bielefeld, Germany.

The full legal code of this license (in German).

 

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Supported by the Institute for interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence and the German Research Foundation.