Submitting material for publication
NB: ALL SUBMISSIONS INCLUDING BOOK REVIEWS MUST BE MADE THROUGH EDITORIAL MANAGER (SEE BELOW)
The Managing Editor of the journal is:
Dr Ian K. McKenzie
Honorary Fellow, School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies, University of Exeter and Associate Fellow of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK, correspondence address: IJPSM, 2 Brook Meadow, Exmouth, Devon, UK, EX8 4HH
T: +44(0) 1395 273502
editor@ijpsm.com
Book reviews should be sent to:
Nikki McKenzie
Faculty of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences, University of West England, Bristol, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay, Bristol, BS16 1QY
T: +44(0) 117 32 82366 F: +44(0) 117 32 82296
books@ijpsm.com
All material is accepted on the understanding that it is contributed solely to the International Journal of Police Science and Management.
Submission & style information
Submission
Manuscripts may be submitted to IJPSM ONLY through Editorial Manager (www.editorialmanager.com/ijpsm) : Submissions by email outside Editorial Manager are discouraged and hard-copy (paper) submissions will not be accepted.
You may, after submission, use the Editorial Manager site to check the progress of your submission, simply log in and follow the links.
On receipt, each article is assigned an identifying number which will be used throughout the review/ revision/ publication process.
You will received a notification of that number shortly after submission. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an email containing that number within 7 days of submission, please contact editor@ijpsm.com as a matter of urgency.
Authors should prepare, as separate items, the following files: A Cover sheet; A Short Biography; An Abstract (250 words); The Main Manuscript; All Tables (optional); All figures (optional); All Plates/Photographs (optional). Each of the forgoing will require separate upload during the submission process.
Anonymity
Identifying data must not be included in the body of the main manuscript file. Please ensure that a Cover Page, containing Authors' contact details is submitted as a separate item during the submission process.
Similarly, please do not embed biographical data in the manuscript, use only the 'Short Biography' submission link.
You will be asked to confirm that such identifying data are not included in the manuscript file.
Submitted articles that do not conform to the above submission instructions will be returned to authors for amendment.
Referencing
The referencing format for the journal is APA. A useful summary of the APA style can be found at http://www.apastyle.org/faqs.html. See also below regarding References and Citations.
Articles
Articles should not normally be more than 5000 words long, including endnotes, and must contain a 250 word abstract providing a concise statement of the purpose of the article and a broad indication of its findings or conclusions. Papers must be accompanied by a short (80 word) description of the author(s) and, if appropriate, details of the organisation of which he or she is a member.
Tables, figures or diagrams must be presented on separate sheets with an indication of their location given in the text. Each should have a self-explanatory title and be comprehensible without reference to the text. Except by previous arrangement with the editor, and as a general rule, authors should avoid having - in total - more than 7 tables/ figures/ plates/ photographs embedded in any article.
Style/Layout
NB: In the body of the text, with the exception of direct quotations, spelling should be British English.
Text should be double spaced and set to the left, not justified left and right.
Headings in the following form may be used: MAIN HEADING (ie., Uppercase BOLD); Second level heading (ie., Sentence Case, bold); Third level heading (ie., Sentence Case, bold italic); Fourth level heading (ie., Sentence case italic)
Titles of organisations etc. (e.g. acronyms) should, on the first occasion of their use, be written out in full. Thereafter initials may be used. No full stops (periods) should be used in the abbreviation e.g. USA, ACPO, UK, FBI, ACJS, etc.
Measurements, including data in tables and figures, should be in units of the international system and confined to two decimal places.
Footnotes should be avoided if possible. Limited endnotes are permitted.
Copyright
It is a condition of publication in the International Journal of Police Science and Management that authors sign and return to the editor (by regular mail) a publishing licence granting an exclusive licence to Vathek Publishing permitting them to reproduce and/or disseminate the author's contribution or elements of it (e.g. abstract, metadata). In signing the licence authors retain the right to use his, her or their own material and Vathek Publishing asks that International Journal of Police Science and Management is acknowledged as the original place of publication. The licencing agreement may be downloaded here.
Authors bear the responsibility for checking whether material submitted to the International Journal of Police Science and Management is subject to copyright or other ownership rights (e.g. photographs, illustrations, trade literature and data).
Where use is restricted the publisher must be informed at the time of submission of the material to the Journal and evidence provided that permission has been obtained to use the material
Copies of the Journal
Authors will receive a final published courtesy PDF of their article (which may be duplicated) and one printed copy of the Journal in which their contribution appears. Further copies may also be ordered on acceptance of a paper for publication in the Journal.
Proofs
Authors are sent a PDF proof of their article. Minor amendments may be possible.
Book reviews
Book reviews are up to 1000 words in length. Very brief book reviews are also acceptable.
References and citations
All references should be placed at the end of the paper. A distinction should be made between references within the paper and any 'further reading’ list or a 'bibliography’ (ie., books read but not cited). Examples are given below. Cases
Cases should be cited in the following forms:
Quick v Taff-Ely Borough Council [1986] QB 809
Case 102/79 Commission v Belgium [1980] ECR 1473, or
Case C-337/89 Commission v UK [1992] ECR I-1613
If specific pages are referred to:
Quick v Taff-Ely Borough Council [1986] QB 809 at 811
No full stops should be used in the law journal abbreviation, e.g. All ER, WLR, EGLR etc.
Articles and books
The American Psychological Association (APA) style of referencing must be used; the author name(s) being quoted in the text with the date of publication. Multiple listings should be given chronologically. If a work has more than two authors, the APA convention is to cite all the authors in full on the first occasion and in the reference list, and thereafter in the text use 'et al’. Where the names of authors are joined by an 'and' and where the citation is part of the text as in: 'Smith and Jones (2003) have suggested that this view is mistaken', the word 'and' is used. If however the citation is in the form: 'Some authors have argued that this view is mistaken (Smith & Jones, 2003)', the ampersand (&) is used.
Examples in the text:
Davies, Morris, Gordon and Lloyd (2000) or (Davies, Morris, Gordon & Lloyd, 2000)
then
Davies et al. (2000) or (Davies et al. 2000)
Examples in the reference list:
Journal article
Cohen, J. W., & Williams, S. P. (2002). Alcohol and crimes of violence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 64, 190–198
Books
Jones, M. A., & Hogg, T. W. (2002). Textbook on Criminal Law. London: Blackstone Press.
Richard, G. (2002). 'Judicial intervention'. In M. Maguire (Ed.), Accountability (pp. 107–123). New York: Wilkins. Legislation
NB: The convention is that Journal names, and book titles are set in Italics
Internet documents
Internet documents may be cited but must include a 'Date Accessed' as part of the entry and must include the full URL.
Legislation
The following forms should be used:
The Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995, s. 3(1)(a)
Conservation (Natural Habitats etc.) Regulations 1994 (SI 1994, No. 2716)
Council (or Commission) Directive 70/157/EEC (OJ L42/16 23.2.70) on waste disposal etc.
but
Waste Disposal Directive when used subsequently in the text
Council (or Commission) Decision C(91)440
Treaty on European Union Official publications
These should be cited in the form:
Law Commission, Family Law: The Ground for Divorce, Cmnd 192 (1990) para. 4.5
Quotations
Quotations within the text should use single quotation marks and quotations within quotations use double quotation marks. If quotations are three lines or more in length they should be separated out from the rest of the text and should not be enclosed by quotation marks; a reference to the page number on which the quotaion occurs must be included.
Disclaimer
Publication in the International Journal of Police Science and Management does not necessarily imply that opinions offered are those of the Editor, Associate Editors or of the Publisher. The Journal does not accept any liability for the accuracy of any comment, report or other technical or factual information. Efforts will, however, be made to ensure that all opinions, technical comment, factual report, data, figures, illustrations and photographs are accurate insofar as it is within its abilities so to do. The Publisher reserves the right to edit, abridge or omit material submitted for publication.
