Information for Authors
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.
To submit online, please visit this page after reading the instructions below.
For all queries about submissions and questions about the Journal, please contact Joanne Ferrier at [email protected].
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.
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.
Peer Review Policy
This journal operates double-anonymised peer review, meaning that the author’s identity is hidden from reviewers, and the reviewers’ identities are hidden from authors. The Editor has oversight of the reviewers and the authors names. For full details about the peer review process, see Fair editing and peer review.
Book reviews
For information, please visit our page regarding books for review.
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 Fannie Lafontaine, 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 including country; 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 Lafontaine, with information about the title in question. Alternatively, non-returnable titles may be mailed directly to:
Book Reviews Section, JICJ
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 Toll Free Link and Discounts
All corresponding authors will be provided with a free access link to their article upon publication. The link will be sent via email to the article’s corresponding author who is free to share the link with any co-authors. Please see OUP’s Author Self-Archiving policy for more information regarding how this link may be publicly shared depending on the type of license under which the article has published.
All authors have the option to purchase up to 10 print copies of the issue in which they publish at a 50% discount. Orders should be placed through this order form. Orders must be made within 12 months of the online publication date.
Crossref Funding Data Registry
In order to meet your funding requirements authors are required to name their funding sources in the manuscript. For further information on this process or to find out more about CHORUS, visit the CHORUS initiative.
Online licencing and Open Access
Journal of International Criminal Justice offers the option of publishing under either a standard licence or an open access licence. Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution.
Should you wish to publish your article open access, you should select your choice of open access licence in our online system after your article has been accepted for publication. You will need to pay an open access charge to publish under an open access licence.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Language Editing
Language editing, if your first language is not English, to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers is optional. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. Visit this page for further information on this service. Several specialist language editing companies offer similar services and you can also use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.
Figure accessibility and alt text
Incorporating alt text (alternative text) when submitting your paper helps to foster inclusivity and accessibility. Good alt text ensures that individuals with visual impairments or those using screen readers can comprehend the content and context of your figures. The aim of alt text is to provide concise and informative descriptions of your figure so that all readers have access to the same level of information and understanding, and that all can engage with and benefit from the visual elements integral to scholarly content. Including alt text demonstrates a commitment to accessibility and enhances the overall impact and reach of your work.
Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs.
Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article.
Detailed guidance on how to draft and submit alt text.
Tips on promoting your article
At OUP, we ensure that your article is highly discoverable and can be found by the people who need to read it. In addition, as author of your article, you’re uniquely well-placed to raise the profile of your research within your network; our marketing team have put together a list of simple self-promotion tips to help you which can be found here.
Availability of Data and Materials
Where ethically feasible, the Journal of International Criminal Justice strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files, or deposited in a public repository whenever possible. For information on general repositories for all data types, and a list of recommended repositories by subject area, please see Choosing where to archive your data.
Data and Software Citation
The Journal of International Criminal Justice supports the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and requires that all publicly available datasets be fully referenced in the reference list with an accession number or unique identifier such as a digital object identifier (DOI). Data citations should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite:
- [dataset]* Authors, Year, Title, Publisher (repository or archive name), Identifier
*The inclusion of the [dataset] tag at the beginning of the citation helps us to correctly identify and tag the citation. This tag will be removed from the citation published in the reference list.
Software citations should include the minimum information recommended by the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Group:
Author/Developer, Release date, Title, Publisher (repository or archive name), Identifier
If there is an article describing the software, it is recommended to cite both the software and the article.
Preprint Policy
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiving policy page.
