Submissions

Online Submissions

Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions.

 

Author Guidelines

As an interdisciplinary journal, JoC invites contributions from a broad range of traditions that address theories and practice of nonviolence, conflict resolution and peacebuilding; submissions may address theories of non-violence, theories regarding the development and transformation of conflicts, theories of practice, descriptions of the experience of practice, as well as the evaluation of practice. Articles can include policy briefings, review articles, comments and interviews.

Contributions are welcomed at any time.

Articles submitted to the journal should be original contributions and authors should be able to prove it. Otherwise, articles will not be accepted. Generally, contributions that have been published elsewhere are not reprinted. Please indicate whether the contribution is under consideration by another publisher at the time of submission.

Authors from Spain: in order to indicate the professional/institutional  affiliation please follow the guidelines which appear (only in Spanish) at the FECYT Document: Propuesta de manual de ayuda a los investigadores españoles para la normalización del nombre de autores e instituciones en las publicaciones científicas, prepared by FECYT.

 

Length

Manuscripts of articles should normally be up to 6000 words including endnotes.

Policy briefings, comments and interviews are substantially shorter than articles and should not exceed 3000 words. Submissions which exceed this significantly will be returned to the author without review.

We publish book reviews of recommended books, therefore reviews should be positive. Manuscripts should not exceed 1200 words. Reviews comparing two books should not be longer than 3000 words.

 

Presentation

Contributions should be submitted online (see Online Submissions above).

Articles must be prefaced with a title, an abstract of 250 words or less and a list of four to six keywords.

Indicate full name, institutional affiliation of author(s), all contact details including telephone number and e-mail and a brief biographical description of not more than 70 words in a separate document to be attached as a supplementary file.

The word count should appear on the title page.


Format

Contributions to the Journal of Conflictology should be submitted on a word-processing software.

Submit charts and figures separately in jpeg format.

 

Language

All languages are accepted for submission, but each submitted article must include an English translation. Both British and American spelling may be used as long as there is consistency within the article.

 

Referencing

References should be placed in the text. Notes should only be used if necessary and will appear as footnotes in the journal. References are to be provided in alphabetical order and include name, date, title, place of publication, publisher. 

The references must be submitted in accordance with ISO 690 (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ORGANIZATION. Norme internationale ISO 690: documentation - références bibliographiques - contenu, forme et structure. 2e éd. [Genève]: ISO, 1987).


DOI number should be referenced for each item cited. DOIs can be retrieved automatically from CrossRef website: http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/.

 

Example: Referencing in the text

Cormack (1994, pp.32-33) states that 'when writing for a professional readership, writers invariably make reference to already published works'.

OR

‘When writing for a professional readership, writers invariably make reference to already published works' (Comarck 1994, pp.32-33).

 

Example: Creating a reference list

 

1. For books and monographs

SURNAME/S, Complete name (year). Title. Edition number. Place: Publisher. Extension and material details. (Collection; Iss.).

Examples:

NEGROPONTE, Nicholas (1999). The digital world: a future that is already here. 4th ed. Barcelona: Editions B. 281 pages. (SineQuaNon).

BOURDIEU, Pierre; WACQUANT, Loïc J.D. (1994). An invitation to reflexive sociology. Barcelona: Herder. 260 pages.

 

2. Chapters of edited books

SURNAME/S, Complete name (year). "Title of the part of the book". In: Bibliographic information of the complete work, location of the part of the book.

If the author is also the editor of the book:

Examples:

VIDAL, Javier (1999). "Performance indicators for Spanish universities: necessity and availability". In: Indicators in the university: information and decisions. Madrid: Education and Culture Ministry. Council of Universities, pages 7-17.

NARDI, B. A. (1996). "Studying context: A comparison of activity theory, situated action models, and distributed cognition". In: Context and consciousness: activity theory and human computer interaction. Cambridge (Massachussetts): MIT Press, pages 69-102.

If the author is not the editor:

Examples:

ANG, D. B. S.; CHAN, H. C.; LIM, J. L. H. (1999). "Learning communities in cyberspace: a proposed concentual framework". In: CUMMING, G.; OKAMOTO, T.; GOMEZ, L. (eds.). Advanced research in computers and communications in education. Amsterdam: IOS Press, vol. 1, pages 600-607.

DIAS DE FIGUEIREDO, Antonio (1989). "Introducing informatics into education at the national level: objectives, opportunity, strategies". In: UNESCO. Education and Informatics. Paris.

 

3. Articles

SURNAME/S, Complete name (year). "Title of article". Title of journal. Vol., number of issue, first page - last page.

Example:

BENNET, Paul (1994). "The translation unit in human and machine". Babel. Vol. 40, iss. 1, pages 12-20.

 

4. Legal texts:

"Normalized title" [consisting of: number of law, decree, etc.; day and month; official name of the law]. Title of publication (complete date of publication), first page - last page.

Example:

"Organic law 10/1995, of November 23, of the Penal Code". Official State Gazette (November 24, 1995), pages 33987-34058.

 

5. Electronic documents

SURNAME/S, Complete name (year). Title of work [content unit + support type]. Publisher. [Date of consultation].


Example:

PRATS CATALÀ, Joan (2002). Institutions and development in Latin America. A role for ethics? [online article]. UOC. [Date of consultation: June 7, 2002].

 

 

GUIDELINES FOR PROFILES

 

Profiles should answer the following questions:

1. General description of work

- In which area is the organisation active?

- With whom does the organization work? Which population does it serve?

- Which are the main characteristics of the organisation?

- Which are your main objectives and how are they pursued in practice?

- What are the conceptual foundations the work of the organisation is based on?

- Who are the partners and funders of the organization?

- In its concrete application, does the work of the organisation connect with other projects or activities?

2. Case exemplar

3. Optional additional information may include

- the approach to evaluation

- strength and limitations of your work and activities.


Formal requirements

- A Profile should not exceed 1300 words.

- Indicate full contact details including telephone and e-mail address and your website.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

  6. Assignment of intellectual property rights

    The author exclusively transfers the rights to use (reproduce, distribute, publicly broadcast or transform) and market the work, in full or part, to the journal’s editors in all present and future formats and modalities, in all languages, for the lifetime of the work and worldwide.

    If the article is not finally published in the journal, the transfer of these rights shall not take effect, with the rights returning to the author of the work.

    I hereby declare that I am the original author of the work. The editors shall thus not be held responsible for any obligation or legal action that may derive from the work submitted in terms of violation of third parties’ rights, whether intellectual property, trade secret or any other right.

 

Copyright Notice

The texts published in this journal are – unless indicated otherwise – covered by the Creative Commons Spain Attribution 3.0 licence. You may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, provided you attribute it (authorship, journal name, publisher) in the manner specified by the author(s) or licensor(s). The full text of the licence can be consulted here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/deed.en.

Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permission to use copyrighted images.

 

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