EDITORIAL POLICY

Authors remain responsible for the views expressed in their contributions, and these views do not engage the responsibility of the Editor, the Editorial Board, or the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or the UNHCR Library.

SUBMISSIONS

Authors should submit their manuscript with an Oxford University Press (OUP) form (see below) to the Guest Editor by e-mail in Word for PC (No PDF or postscript files are accepted). The document should use Times New Roman font in 12pt and be set to A4 page size with 1.5 line spacing. Please, do not insert any page numbers at the base or top of each page.

Final deadline of submission

Length of article: 9,000 to 12,000 words (footnotes included).

• The first page of the manuscript should state:
  • Title of article (use bold uppercase letters and centre it).
  • Author’s name (the first note in each article will be “asterisked”, short statement giving the author’s title and position and any brief acknowledgment of assistance provided; no dedications are accepted.
  • An abstract of 100–200 words, which includes a brief summary of the article covering the main points of the subject-matter, the general approach and the general conclusions.
• A separate page should indicate the author's name, postal address, email address and the word count of the manuscript including footnotes.
• No signature at the end of the article.
• No organisation logo or sybols, No PowerPoint figures incorporated.

FOOTNOTES, REFERENCES AND LAYOUT

Authors are expected to follow the style sheet which can be obtained from the Guest Editor or the Editorial Team. Please do not refer to the previous issues of the RSQ, since the style sheet has been revised for the 2008 issues.

PROOFS

Proofs are revised by the Guest Editor in collaboration with the RSQ Editorial Team. The author(s) will be notified if any revision of the article is necessary. RSQ reserves the right not to publish any contribution that has already been published.

AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY

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

EXCLUSIVE LICENCE AND OFFPRINTS

Please note that an author retains his or her rights to publish an article elsewhere, subject to certain conditions, which include the fact that OUP must be the first publisher of the article and that subsequent use of the article properly acknowledges the original publication with Oxford Journals in RSQ. Additional information about the rights that authors retain can be found here.

BOOK REVIEWS

Publishers submitting books for review should send them to the Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Vincent Chetail, Graduate Institute of International Studies, 132 Rue de Lausanne, CH-1211 Geneva. Reviewers should include full publishing details including the ISBN and publisher/location.