Information for Authors
I•CON accepts original material, and material previously published in languages other than English. Articles and correspondence should be addressed to Karen L. Barrett, Managing Editor, and sent by email to law.icon@nyu.edu, or by regular mail to I•CON, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, 110 West Third Street, Second Floor, New York, New York 10012, USA
Format
I•CON accepts submissions by email attachment or regular mail but does not accept submissions by fax. Please use Word only, please do not submit in WordPerfect, this can not be accepted. If submitting by email, please use the article title in the subject heading of the message. If submitting by regular mail, send two copies of the manuscript and a computer disk including the manuscript. In addition, please include a cover letter that provides contact information (including telephone and email address). Curriculum vitae are welcomed.
The desired article length is 10,000 to 14,000 words. Article submissions should include an abstract of no more than 150 words. Where possible, United States English should be used. All manuscripts should be double-spaced and the body text should be formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style. Please use footnotes rather than endnotes.
Footnotes should conform to the 17th edition of the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (see citation guide available at http://www.law.nyu.edu/icon/guidelines.html). Footnotes should be limited to citations and long, "speaking" footnotes are discouraged.
Citation Examples
1. Books:
STEPHEN HOLMES & CASS SUNSTEIN, THE COST OF RIGHTS: WHY LIBERTY DEPENDS ON TAXES 53 (W.W. Norton & Company 1999).
(NOTE: 53 denotes the page in which the citation appears.)
2. Journal Articles:
Charles A. Reich, The New Property, 73 Yale L.J. 733, 737-38 (1964).
(NOTE: Here, 733 denotes the page on which the article begins and, 737-38 represents the range of pages to which citation refers.)
3. Cases:
- Meritor Sav. Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57, 60 (1986).
- Minerva Mills v. Union of India, AIR 1980 SC 1789.
Citation of Foreign Materials
When citing a non-English source, if there is an English translation available, please cite to the translation. If no translation is available, please cite the original title (or a transliterated version, if the language does not use the Roman alphabet) and provide a translation in brackets:
- Marie-Thérèse Meulders-Klein, L'enseignment du droit comparé en Belgique [Teaching Comparative Law in Belgium], 40 REVUE INTERNATIONAL DE DROIT COMPARÉ [R.I.D.C.] 715, 720-21 (1988).
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their citations. However, the editors will endeavor to check all citations made to works in English, French, and Spanish. If I•CON has difficulty confirming a citation, an author may be required to mail or fax photocopies of pages cited.
Conflict of Interest
For more information on the Conflict of Interest policy of the journal, please refer to the journal's policy on the following page.
Copyright
It is a condition of publication in I•CON that authors sign a licensing agreement with Oxford University Press and NYU Schoool of Law. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. Authors may use their own material in other publications provided that I•CON is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance.
Author Self-Archiving/Public Access policy
For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.