SCOPE AND AIMS OF THE JOURNAL

The Journal of World Energy Law (JWELB) is the official journal of the AIPN. It is a peer-reviewed journal of record providing objective coverage of relevant issues. It will provide high-quality articles that combine academic excellence with professional relevance and will benefit from the expertise of a Board of internationally respected academic, lawyers, and other energy professionals.

The Journal publishes articles on legal, business, and policy issues in the international energy industry. This includes upstream oil and gas transactions, finance, taxation, regulation, dispute management, alternative energy resources, energy policy and security, and international energy organizations

The journal will be of interest to legal practitioners, government, and international agency officials, experts from professional, industry, and non-governmental associations; and academics specialising in energy-related issues.

GENERAL NOTES ON CONTRIBUTIONS

Quality standards for academic-style articles will be rigorous, aiming at international leadership and without institutional preferences and authors may be asked to revise their articles before final acceptance

• Except in special circumstances, the Editor will not consider articles published or to be published elsewhere.
• The language of JWELB is English. Authors, in particular authors whose first language is not English, should ensure that the language is edited to a satisfactory standard. JWELB does not provide language editing.
• Submissions must be made in electronic form, submitted as an email attachment to the General Editor, Professor Thomas Wälde at twwalde@aol.com and copied to the Associate Editor, Bayo Adaralegbe at agga96@yahoo.com and the Commissioning Editor, Paul Crick, at paulcrick@mac.com
• Authors are advised to use MS Word format.
• Authors are requested to provide a word count (including footnotes) of any submissions, provide an email and postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and their professional and institutional affiliation.
• Contributions should conform to the guidelines as to style and layout set out below. Footnotes should be numbered from 1-99 and be located at the bottom of each page
• Please adhere to the following naming conventions for file attachment:
  Last name Short Title “for JWELB” day month year.doc (e.g.: Wälde ECT Arbitration for JWELB 1 January 2008.doc)
  

REVIEW OF CONTRIBUTIONS

All contributions will be reviewed by the General Editor as to their suitability for inclusion in the journal and be subject to appropriate peer review. Contributors may be asked to revise their contributions before final acceptance and will have an opportunity to review (electronic) proofs before publication. However, no major changes can be included at proof stage, and corrections must be limited to typographical errors only.

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTION

The Editors especially welcome contributions relating to the following general topics:

• oil and gas upstream development, transportation, refining, and pipelines;
• other relevant energy resources and energy industries;
• practice-related matters, such as litigation and other forms of dispute resolution, including international arbitration, mediation and investment disputes, enforcement, negotiating, drafting, and transactions;
• energy law and regulation;
• business practices, corporate strategy, and governmental and intergovernmental policy (e.g. energy security and energy geo-politics and developments and economics);
• relevant aspects of subjects dealt with in the international energy business, including competition, environment, trade, international conventions, and international guidelines, standards and codes of conduct.

Contributions should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 200 words (in approx. proportion to the overall length of the contribution), a brief list of the most important publications and website references, as well as an author biography note. Contributions should be submitted for potential inclusion in one of the following sections:

Articles

In-depth articles on the full range of legal and commercial issues relating to the energy business, with a focus on upstream industry will be considered for inclusion. There is no absolute upper or lower word limit for submissions, but it is expected that the majority of accepted articles will be in the range of circa 4000 to 8,000 words.

Briefs

Short pieces dealing with current developments, up to 2000 words long (not necessarily with footnotes). Abstracts for briefs should not exceed 100 words.

Forum

Discussion forum of emerging issues, commentary on articles & briefs, letters to the editor and responses.

Book Reviews

Any parties interested in reviewing books for the journal should contact the Book Review Editor, Bayo Adaralegbe, by email.

COPYRIGHT

Contributors will retain the copyright in their work. They will, however, be required to grant the AIPN an exclusive license to publish the article in paper and electronic form, and to confirm that any necessary permissions have been obtained from the copyright owners of any third party material included in the article. Contributors will be asked to confirm that their work is original and has not been published elsewhere.

FREE COPIES AND ONLINE ACCESS TO THE CONTRIBUTION

All contributors will have free online access to a PDF file of their article, to which links can be created from a firm or institutional website. If paper off-prints are required, an order form and relevant prices can be obtained from the journal’s Production Editor at proof stage.

PREPARATION OF TYPESCRIPTS

Style and spelling Oxford English spelling should be used. Authors whose first language is not English are requested to have their typescripts checked carefully before submission. This will help expedite the review process and avoid confusion. Check the final copy of your paper carefully, as any spelling mistakes and errors may be translated into the typeset version.

General format Prepare your typescript text using a word-processing package, ideally Microsoft Word (save in .doc or .rtf format). Please do not submit text as a PDF file. Typescripts should be double-spaced, including text, tables, legends, and footnotes. Number each page. Type unjustified, hyphenating only compound words. Use the TAB key once for paragraph indents. Where possible use Times New Roman for the text font and Symbol for any Greek and special characters. Use the word-processing formatting features to indicate Bold, Italic, Greek, Maths, Superscript, and Subscript characters. Please avoid using underline: for cases, use italic; for emphasis, use bold. Clearly identify unusual symbols and Greek letters. Differentiate between the letter O and zero, and the letters “I” and “l” and the number “1”. Mark the approximate position of any figure or table.

Headings The use of sub-headings at regular intervals through each article is encouraged, as it makes articles more easily readable. If you need to use more than one level of heading, please use a consistent hierarchy of headings to ensure that the relevant importance of each heading is clear, for example I. CAPITALS, then A. Bold, then (1) Italics.

Figures Where articles are to be accompanied by illustrative material, the review process will not begin until all figures are received. Figures should be limited to the number necessary for clarity and must not duplicate data given in tables or in the text. They must be submitted in electronic format and in a separate file to that of the typescript. Figures should be no larger than 125 (height) x 180 (width) mm (5 x 7 inches) and should be prepared at publication quality resolution (a minimum of 300 dpi at final printing size).

Photographs Photographs should be of sufficiently high quality with respect to detail, contrast and fineness of grain to withstand the inevitable loss of contrast and detail inherent in the printing process.

Line drawings Please provide these as clear, sharp illustrations, suitable for reproduction as submitted. All labeling should be on the original.

Tables Tables should be typed with double spacing, but minimising redundant space, and each should be placed on a separate sheet. Tables should be submitted, wherever possible, in a portrait, as opposed to landscape and layout. Each Table should be numbered in sequence using Arabic numerals. Tables should also have a title above and an explanatory footnote below.

Acknowledgements: All sources of funding and support, and substantive contributions of individuals, should be noted in the first footnote to the Article.

Reference Format

References should usually be given in footnotes unless agreed with the Editors and Publishers that the style of the proposed article is more similar to the news items in the Latest Developments section. In this case, the use of footnotes is discouraged. Footnotes should be identified in the text by Arabic numerals and numbered in the order cited. Complete information should be given for each reference cited.

Citation examples:

Books:
JH Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History (3rd edn, 1990) 419–421

Articles:
SC Manon, ‘Rights of water abstraction in the Common Law’ (1965) 83 LQR 47, 49–51
J Griffiths, ‘Copyright in English Literature: Denying the Public Domain’ [2000] EIPR 150, 151

Contributions to books:
A Ashworth, ‘Belief, Intent and Criminal Liability’ in J Eekelaar and J Bell (eds), Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence (3rd Series, 1987) 1, 6

Cases:

UK: Bowman v Fussy [1978] RPC 545, HL

ECJ: Case C–427/93 Bristol-Myers Squibb v Paranova [1996] ECR I-3457

EPO: T585/92 Unilever/Deodorant Detergent [1996] OJEPO 129

OHIM: R7/97-3 Orange Personal
Communications Services/Orange [1998] ETMR 343

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.

For further guidance on points of citation style, contributors should consult the Oxford Standard Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) which is online at: http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/published/oscola.shtml

Supplementary Data for the Online Journal

Supporting material that is not essential for inclusion in the full text of the typescript, but would nevertheless benefit the reader, can be made available by the publisher as online-only content, linked to the online typescript. The material should not be essential to understanding the conclusions of the paper, but should contain data that is additional or complementary and directly relevant to the article content. Such information might include more detailed analysis, extended data sets/data analysis, lists of related materials, or colour versions of additional figures.
All text and figures must be provided in suitable electronic formats on which the journal’s Commissioning Editor or Production Editor can advise. All material to be considered as Supplementary data must be submitted at the same time as the main typescript for peer review. It cannot be altered or replaced after the paper has been accepted for publication. Please indicate clearly the material intended as Supplementary data upon submission. Also ensure that the Supplementary data is referred to in the main typescript where necessary.

Permissions Information

If illustrations or figures are to be duplicated from previously published work, written permission must be obtained both from the publisher and the author and a credit line giving the source added to the relevant Figure Legend. If text material (over 250 words) is to be reproduced from published sources, written permission is required from both publisher and author. For shorter quotations, it is usually sufficient to add a bibliographic credit. The letters containing the permission for the reproduction of either text or illustrations must accompany the typescript. If you have been unable to obtain permission, please indicate this.

Proofs

Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding contributor. Please provide an e-mail address to enable page proofs to be sent as PDF files via e-mail. These should be checked thoroughly for any possible layout or typographic errors. Significant alterations instigated at this stage by the contributor will be charged to the contributor.