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Author Guidelines

Please read the About the Journal and Submission Preparation Checklist sections before offering submissions to ensure this Journal is appropriate for your work. Understanding the bibliographic and formatting standards used for items submitted to IJPJ is essential.

Submissions should include front matter, such as manuscript title, author name(s) and contact information, author bios, an optional cover letter, and an abstract of the article (no more than 200 words). This information must not be included in the manuscript itself when it is uploaded into the system. 

  • Footnotes/Endnotes: Please do not use footnotes or endnotes; please incorporate all relevant information into the body of the article.
  • Figures, Tables, and Exhibits: Do not include graphs or statistical tables unless necessary for clarity. Tables, figures, and exhibits should comply with APA formatting. All figures, tables, and exhibits should have short, descriptive titles and must be called out in the text.

First-Time Authors: It is a daunting task preparing your first article for publication.  May we suggest the following series on Preparing a Manuscript for International Journals, where a seasoned editor Angel Borja, Ph.D. provides suggestions and advice to assist you:

Author(s) is (are) encouraged to recommend reviewers.

Authors must ensure reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research or academic misconduct has occurred. If a journal's publisher or editors know of any research misconduct relating to a published article, the Editor-in-Chief will follow COPE's guidelines in dealing with allegations. (https://academic.oup.com/DocumentLibrary/journals/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_1.pdf)

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.

  • The submission has not been previously published . Published submissions will be rejected.
  • The submission is not submitted to another journal for consideration. If it has, then provide an explanation in Comments to the Editor.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
  • Follow APA (7th Edition) for references.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point Times Roman Numeral Font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Yes, I agree to have my data collected and stored according to the privacy statement.

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Copyright Notice

Copyright Statement/Author Rights Retention

By agreeing to post in IJPJ, authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.  Authors published in the International Journal for Peace and Justice (IJPJ) retain the copyright of their articles, including all drafts and final published versions.

IJPJ is published online in the public domain. IJPJ and its sponsors hold no legal responsibility regarding how the public uses these materials. Please ensure all authors, co-authors, and investigators have read and agree to these terms.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to distribute their work online, including self-archiving in a repository, or posting their work on a personal website after the article is accepted and published. Insertion of a DOI is encouraged.  

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

This journal’s editorial team and its hosting service, the University of Manitoba Libraries, use this data to guide their work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.

Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.