Instructions To Authors

Articles should be submitted online. Articles should be around 8000 words in length inclusive of footnotes, though the Journal can occasionally accommodate more substantial pieces. The Journal encourages innovative and sustained appraisals of current and emerging concepts, policies and practice in any field of environmental law, whether national, regional or international. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are welcomed, though contributions from any jurisdiction will be considered. Authors are reminded that the Journal has an international circulation and are therefore encouraged to ensure that the context of the laws are clearly explained (in footnotes where appropriate) to readers who may be unfamiliar with the details of particular national systems. Generally, the Journal avoids articles which are heavily descriptive of new laws and policies unless these have a wider significance which is appropriately explained.

The Journal is published three times a year. Because of the need for refereeing and timescales of production, articles should be in the hands of the Editor at least five months before the issue publication date. Once articles are in proof-form, updating amendments are discouraged, but where law and policy is developing rapidly, it may be possible to include an appropriate postscript at a late stage of production (this should be discussed with the Editor first).

Articles should be submitted online. All article submissions are peer reviewed. The Article should be in English, double spaced (including footnotes) and should include page numbers. The main document should be uploaded so as to appear anonymous, with a title page document uploaded separately containing the name of the author(s) under the title, with an asterisked footnote giving the present affiliation and position of the author(s) and a contact address and email address. All email addresses published online are encrypted and thus cannot be harvested for inappropriate use (e.g. spammers). Articles should be around 8000 words in length inclusive of footnotes and abstract. Please include an all-inclusive word count at the end of the text, along with the date of your manuscript.

• An abstract of the paper, of around 150 words, should be included at the start of the article, followed by up to six key words.
• Article titles should be UPPER CASE AND CENTRED
• Author names should be Title Case and Centred
• Article headings:
  H1> 1. Numbered, Title Case and Ranged Left
  H2> 1.1 Numbered, Title Case and Ranged Left
  H3> 1.1.1 Numbered, sentence case and ranged left
• Please use the tab key when indenting for a paragraph.

Footnotes and References

Footnotes and references should be numbered consecutively and should use OSCOLA citation style. Authors are responsible for checking the accuracy of all references. On publication, all footnotes appear at the bottom of each page. Authors are encouraged to use footnotes for the elaboration of text as appropriate, and in particular to explain the context of national laws and policies, bearing in mind the international readership.

Tables and Illustrations

Tables should be included in the Word file with the main text. Original graphs and line drawings should be supplied as separate image files.

Originality

Work submitted for publication must be previously unpublished and not under consideration for publication elsewhere and, if accepted, it should not then be published elsewhere in the same form or language. Please discuss with the editor in chief if they have previously been published elsewhere in another language. If previously published parts of text are to be included, the copyright-holder's permission must have been obtained prior to submission.

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

In general when citing other legal materials, authors should use the approved form that is standard in the jurisdiction in question; above all consistency within the article is paramount.

Contributors should use the Oxford Standard Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) which is online at: http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/published/oscola.shtml.

Proofs

Authors will receive a PDF proof of their article by email and it is essential that a current email address is supplied with the manuscript. Proofing instructions will accompany the PDF file but the proof should be checked immediately and returned to the editorial office by the deadline indicated. No major changes can be accommodated at this stage and alterations should be restricted to correction of typographical errors. Where major developments have taken place it is sometimes possible to incorporate postscripts—authors should discuss this with the editor at the time.

Copyright and offprints

It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to Oxford University Press. 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. In granting the licence, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance. In consideration for granting the exclusive licence, the publisher will supply the author with a gratis issue in which their article appears (if an completed order form is sent to the Production Editor) together with free url access to their article. The free url allows readers free access to the full text of your paper whether or not they are a subscriber to the journal. Further offprints may be ordered at extra cost when returning proofs. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission to quote material from copyright sources.

Where appropriate, the journal will consider accepting analyses which have originally been published other than in English if all the appropriate permissions for this are granted and if this would bring an analysis of an important recent development of general interest to an English-reading audience. Responsibility for any translation lies with the author.

The copyright conditions for articles apply to analyses. Authors of analyses receive a complementary copy of the Journal.

Address for correspondence on analysis:
Donald McGillivray
Kent Law School
Eliot College
University of Kent
Canterbury CT2 7NS
UK
d.mcgillivray@kent.ac.uk

or
Professor Bob Lee
Cardiff Law School
Cardiff University
Law Building
Museum Ave
Cardiff
CF10 3AX
Wales, UK
leerg@Cardiff.ac.uk

Correspondence for the reviews should be sent to: Professor Mark Stallworthy, School of Law, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK. m.stallworthy@swansea.ac.uk

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