Standing Group on International Relations

The submission of material for consideration as a main article, a review article, or a ‘discussion and debate’ article is welcomed by the Editor. Manuscripts must be original and not currently under review elsewhere. Proposals for review articles should be cleared with the editors first. Discussion and debate pieces should normally address earlier content of the journal. Main articles should normally be within 8-10,000 words, and under no circumstances longer than 12,000 words, including all notes and references. Review articles should normally be within 4-6,000 words. All submission should contain a total word count on the title page. Due to length constraints, EJIR is no longer open to special issues. An abstract of up to 150 words must precede the main text. A short biographical note should accompany the manuscript.

Manuscript submission

The European Journal of International Relations has a fully web-based system for the submission and review of manuscripts. All submissions should be made online at the European Journal of International Relations SAGETRACK website.

Note: Online submission and review of manuscripts is now mandatory for all types of papers.

New User Account

Please log onto the website. If you are a new user, you will first need to create an account. Follow the instructions and please ensure to enter a current and correct email address. Creating your account is a three-step process that takes a matter of minutes to set up. When you have finished, your User ID and password is sent via email immediately. Please edit your user ID and password to something more memorable by selecting ‘edit account’ at the top of the screen. If you have already created an account but have forgotten your details type your email address in the ‘Password Help’ to receive an emailed reminder. Full instructions for uploading the manuscript are provided on the website.

New Submission

Submissions should be made by logging in and selecting the Author Center and the ‘Click here to Submit a New Manuscript’ option. Follow the instructions on each page, clicking the ‘Next’ button on each screen to save your work and advance to the next screen. If at any stage you have any questions or require the user guide, please use the ‘Get Help Now’ button at the top right of every screen. Further help is available through ScholarOne’s® Manuscript CentralTM customer support at +1 434 817 2040 x 167.

To upload your files, click on the ‘Browse’ button and locate the file on your computer. Select the designation of each file (i.e. main document, submission form, figure) in the drop down next to the browse button. When you have selected all files you wish to upload, click the ‘Upload Files’ button.

Review your submission (in both PDF and HTML formats) and then click the Submit button.

You may suspend a submission at any point before clicking the Submit button and save it to submit later. After submission, you will receive a confirmation e-mail. You can also log back into your author centre at any time to check the status of your manuscript.

Please ensure that you submit editable/source files only (Microsoft Word or RTF) and that your document does not include page numbers; the European Journal of International Relations SAGETRACK system will generate them for you, and then automatically convert your manuscript to PDF for peer review. Furthermore, it is imperative that authors remove from their submissions any information that will identify them or their affiliations to reviewers. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor’s decision and requests for revisions, will be by email.

If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, or seek advice on the submission process please contact the Editor, Colin Wight, at the following email address: ejir@exeter.ac.uk.

Submitting a Revised Submission

Authors submitting revised manuscripts should follow the instructions above to submit through the SAGETRACK system. To create a revision, go to the ‘Manuscripts with Decisions’ option in your Author Dashboard and select ‘create a revision in the ‘Action’ column. Authors of all revised submissions should, when prompted, provide information explaining the changes in your manuscript. As this will be provided to reviewers, it is important that authors do not identify themselves in these responses.

Style guidelines

Titles and section headings should be brief and clear. Lengthy quotations (exceeding 40 words) should be displayed in the text in indented form, while shorter ones should be retained – using single quotation marks – within the body of the text. Spelling is based on the Oxford English Dictionary and the guidelines laid down in Hart’s Rules for Compositors (Oxford); but US spellings are retained in manuscripts of North American origin. The Journal also endorses the guidelines provided by the British Sociological Association and the American Psychological Association for non-sexist and non-racist language. Tables and figures should have short, descriptive titles, and their position in the text be clearly indicated. All footnotes to tables and their source(s) should be placed under the tables. Column headings should clearly define the data presented.

Essential notes should be indicated by superscript numbers in the text and presented at the end of the text but before the references. References cited in the text should read as follows: Brown (1975: 63-4), (Brown and Smith, 1975: 198). Use ‘et al.’ when citing a work by more than two authors, e.g. Brown et al. (1981) or (Brown et al., 1981). The letters a, b, c, etc. should be used to distinguish citations of different works by the same author in the same year, e.g. Brown (1975a, b). All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full after the notes as following:

Articles in journals: Wallace, Helen (1991) ‘European Governance in Turbulent Times’, Journal of Common Market Studies 31 (3): 293-303.

Books: Ullman, Richard H. (1991) Securing Europe. Twickenham: Adamtine Press.

Edited volumes: Holsti, K.J. (1992) ‘Governance Without Government: Polyarchy in Nineteenth-Century European International Politics’, in James N. Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Czempiel (eds) Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics, pp. 30-57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Unpublished works: Alker, Hayward R., Jr (1993) ‘Return of Practical Reason’, mimeo, Australian National University.

The script should be carefully checked for errors before it is submitted for publication. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of quotations, for supplying complete and correct references, and for obtaining permission where needed to cite another author’s material.

Before publication authors are requested to grant exclusive publishing licence to SAGE and the Standing Group on International Relations of the European Consortium for Political Research, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be published at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.

Authors receive proofs of their articles for checking and correction, and are given access to a controlled pdf of the published version plus one copy of the issue of the Journal on publication.

Who to Contact

Professor Colin Wight (Editor)
European Journal of International Relations
Department of Politics
Amory Building
Rennes Drive
Exeter EX4 4RJ
United Kingdom

Email: ejir@exeter.ac.uk

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