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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.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-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.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Content Guidelines
The Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics publishes the following types of contribution (please see details on the guidelines on style for each contribution below):

  1. Articles – max. 10,000 words (including references, captions and notes, double-blind peer-review)
  2. Short Theoretical Essays or Commentary/Polemical pieces on current events – max. 3000 words (including references, captions and notes, not peer-reviewed only editorial review)
  3. Critical Responses to articles published in the Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics – max. 5,000 words (including references, double-blind peer-review)
  4. Book Reviews – max. 2000 words (including references, captions and notes, not peer-reviewed only editorial review)


The journal does not charge any submission fee or article processing charge.

Prior to submission, please ensure that your manuscript is formatted according to the following guidelines.

The first page should contain a title, and the corresponding author’s name, affiliation, e-mail address, postal address, and telephone number. Affiliations and e-mail addresses of co-authors should also be included. For articles, the second page should contain an abstract of 180 to 250 words. This should indicate the scope of the paper and its main arguments. Along with the abstract, please provide no more than six keywords. No abstract is required for shorter essays, commentary pieces, and polemic contributions.

The rest of the contribution should contain the main body of the text and/or photographs and other visuals, references, appendices, tables, and necessary endnotes (numbered consecutively). Endnotes should be kept to a minimum. Images should be of at least 300dpi and in the JPG format.

Style Guidelines
The Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics intends to take full advantage of being an open-access journal by pursuing a much wider readership that is aimed at both academics, practitioners, and the wider reading public alike. Therefore, we request that all submissions are written concisely and in plain English in a manner that is accessible to a wider audience, by avoiding over-use of obscure academic jargon that will be unfamiliar to non-academic audiences. We do not believe that sophisticated arguments and plain language are mutually exclusive characteristics of scholarly work. The text should be single-spaced (including References and Endnotes), typed in 12-point Times New Roman font and delivered as a Word document. Please do not include page numbers. 

Headings and sub-headings
Headings within the text should be positioned on the left-hand side of the text. Primary Headings should be typed in bold and have initial capital letters. Secondary Headings should be italicised and have initial capital letters.

Endnotes
Endnotes should be kept to a minimum. They should not be used for references, but for explanation and expansion of argument where appropriate. Endnotes reference numbers should appear as consecutive Arabic numerals and must be embedded in the text (so that any endnote additions or deletions will automatically change all the endnote changes throughout the paper). Endnotes should be placed after punctuation.

References
Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics adheres to Harvard reference style. Please see the SAGE Harvard guidelines to ensure your submission conforms to this reference style

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Abbreviations and acronyms should be explained at the first occurrence. They, and other conventions, should be used consistently throughout the paper, and typed without full points. Thus: GNP, PhD. Per cent is preferred to %, unless used frequently, but always percentage.

Quotations
When in the text these should be in single quotation marks, and should be in double quotation marks when appearing as quotations within quotations. Quotations of more than three lines of text should be indented.

Tables, Illustrations and Figures
Tables, illustrations and figures should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and placed in their appropriate location and caption marked in the text.

Illustrations may be provided in colour or greyscale and submitted as .jpeg files with a minimum quality of 300dpi. The online nature of this series means there is no additional cost for the inclusion of photographs, maps, etc. and contributors are encouraged to use illustrations where appropriate.

 

Articles

Maximum 10,000 words (including references, captions and notes, double-blind peer-review)

Short Theoretical Essays

Maximum 3,000 words (including references, captions and notes, not peer-reviewed only editorial review)

Commentary/Polemical

Maximum 3,000 words (including references, captions and notes, not peer-reviewed only editorial review)

Critical Responses

Maximum 5,000 words (including references, double-blind peer-review)

Book Reviews

Maximum 2,000 words (including references, captions and notes, not peer-reviewed only editorial review)

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