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Submission of manuscripts

The Journal of International Criminal Justice invites submission of manuscripts on International Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, Criminology, and Penal Philosophy. Manuscripts should be submitted to the Editor in Chief, accompanied by an assurance that the article has not been published, submitted, or accepted elsewhere.

Authors are requested to submit their manuscript by electronic mail (Word or Windows attachment) to jicj@adh-geneva.ch; alternatively, a hard copy of the manuscript could be sent by post to the editorial offices, addressed to:

Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Villa Moynier
Rue Lausanne 120B
CP 67
1211 Geneva
Switzerland

Length of manuscript

Manuscripts submitted to the Journal should range from 3,000 to 10,000 words in length, including abstract and footnotes. In exceptional circumstances, the Journal will extend this limit to 15,000 words for Articles that make an important contribution to the field.

Format requirement

All manuscripts should be double spaced with single spaced abstract and footnotes. Heavy footnoting is discouraged. Authors are invited to follow the Journal’s style-sheet, which may be obtained from the
Editorial Assistant upon request, or from the Journal’s web page at:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jicjus/for_authors/stylesheet 2009.pdf

Consideration of manuscripts

Receipt of all manuscripts will be acknowledged immediately, and after receiving comments from two to three referees, notification of acceptance, rejection or need for revision will be given within eight weeks of receipt of manuscript.

Book reviews

The Journal of International Criminal Justice publishes both short book reviews (500-600 words) and longer review essays (1,500-2,000 words).
If you are interested in reviewing a title, please contact Professor Paola Gaeta, Member, Board of Editors and
Book Reviews Editor, for a list of titles that may be available for review. Please provide the following
information: name; institutional affiliation; language competency; a brief explanation of your experience in
the field of international criminal law and justice.

Unsolicited reviews of 500-600 words are also accepted on occasion.

If you are interested in having a title reviewed, please contact Professor Gaeta, with information about the title
in question. Alternatively, non-returnable titles may be mailed directly to:

Prof. Paola Gaeta,
Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Villa Moynier
Rue Lausanne 120B
CP 67
1211 Geneva
Switzerland

Preference may be given to reviews of non-English language materials and to reviews of newly published
books.

AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.

Offprints

Offrprints can be ordered using the Oxford Journals Author Services site at the same time as signing the licence to publish, details of which are below.

Online Licence

Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.

Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.