Instructions to Authors
SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES
Contributions should be sent by email to the General Editors at the address listed below.
Articles are reviewed on the understanding that they are submitted solely to this Journal. If accepted, they may not be published elsewhere in full or in part without the General Editors’ permission.
Please save your manuscript into the following separate files – Title; Abstract; Manuscript; Appendix. To ensure anonymity in the review process, do not include the names of authors or institution in the abstract or body of the manuscript.
TITLE
A file containing the title of the contribution together with a word count and the author’s name and contact details should be included.
ABSTRACT
A separate file containing an abstract of no more than 150 words should be included.
MANUSCRIPT
As a rule, full articles should not exceed 5,000 words (endnotes and references will not be counted as part of this total). Longer articles will be considered on their merits. All material should be double-spaced. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered. Endnotes should be numbered consecutively and placed together at the end of the article. Short quotations within the text should be marked by single quotation marks. Longer quotations should be inset from the main text and typed single spaced.
Diagrams and tables are expensive of space and should be used sparingly. All diagrams, figures and tables should be in black and white, numbered and should be referred to in the text. They should be placed at the end of the manuscript with their preferred location indication in the manuscript.
Authors are reminded that the Journal is likely to have a substantial practitioner readership as well as an international readership. Articles should be drafted with this in mind.
PERMISSIONS
Permission to reproduce copyright material, for print and online publication in perpetuity, must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors. It is also the author's responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions. For assistance you can contact the Oxford Journal Rights at permissions@oxfordjournals.org
It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission to quote from copyright sources.
REFERENCES
References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper, giving the names of journals in full. Titles and subtitles of articles, books, and journals should have main words capitalized. Titles of books and journals will be printed in italics and should therefore be underlined
Examples:
• Ashworth, A. (1983), Sentencing and Penal Policy. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
• Blumstein, A., and Cohen, J. (1973), `A Theory of the Stability of Punishment', Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 64/1: 198--207.
• Richardson, G. (1985), `Judicial Intervention in Prison Life', in M. Maguire , J. Vagg, and R. Morgan, eds., Accountability and Prisons, 113--54. London: Tavistock.
LICENCE TO PUBLISH
It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to Oxford Journals. 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 an exclusive 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.
Licence to Publish
PROOFS
Authors are sent PDF page proofs by e-mail. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked immediately for typographical errors and returned by fax to Oxford University Press [+44 (0)1865 355863] or by email to Journals Production. The Publisher reserves the right to charge authors for the cost of changes made to the text or the figures at proof stage when such changes are extensive. No charge will be made for corrections of errors made during the editorial process or by the printer.
URL/OFFPRINTS
Upon publication of their article, authors will automatically be sent a free URL of the article by email. This may be printed out and used as a paper offprint.
CONTACT ADDRESS
All correspondence concerning contributions should be sent to:
Policing: A Journal of Policy & Practice
c/o Katie Heath
Police and Law Enforcement, Practitioner Law Department
Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP
E-mail: General Editors