Instructions for Contributors
Topic Areas
The JofSSM invites submissions on the following themes:
- Issues and Debates on Security Sector Reform (SSR)
- SSR’s contribution to International Development
- Management issues in SSR
- Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR)
- Good Governance of the Security Sector
- Defence Diplomacy
- Regional approaches to SSR
- The contribution made by international peacekeeping forces to SSR
- The role of International donors in SSR
- Democratisation of the Security Sector
- The impact of Policing, Judiciary and Penal Institutions on the wider security sector
- The role of civil society institutions in SSR
- Stabilisation
- Rule of Law
Submissions
Articles submitted should be original pieces of work. All articles will be reviewed by an editorial review board, which will ensure the relevancy and accuracy of contributions and will notify potential contributors within approximately 60 days of its decision. Manuscripts must be typewritten and double-spaced, and sent to the editor via e-mail at: a.filippidou@cranfield.ac.uk. Articles must be saved as Microsoft Word for Windows documents. All pages must be numbered consecutively.
Articles submitted should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words, excluding endnotes; commentaries should be between 1,000 and 3,000 words; and book review articles should be approximately 1,500 words. Contributors should include a short biography (50 words). In addition, an abstract (150 words) should be included with article submissions. The author is responsible for obtaining permission for the use of any copyright materials that might appear in the manuscript.
Book reviews should critically evaluate the text and not just offer a succinct restatement of the text’s points. Reviews should take into consideration issues such as: the contribution to the field; the added value to the existing knowledge; who would benefit from the book etc. The book reviews should start off with:
Book title. Author. Place of publication: publisher, date of publication. Number of pages. Price
References should be given in shortened form in an endnote, as follows:
- Anderson, Imagined Communities, 13
- Fielden and Goohand, ‘Beyond the Taliban?’, 7
Anderson, B, 1996. Imagined Communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Verso, London
Fielden, M and Goohdand, J, 2001. ‘Beyond the Taliban? The Afghan Conflict and Untied Nations Peacemaking’. Journal of Conflict, Security and Development 1(3), 82
991-32.
Archive
The JofSSM web site will maintain an archive of all articles published, accessible via its web site.
Copyright
Authors retain the intellectual property rights to their work and the right to reprint the article elsewhere. The Journal of Security Sector Management retains the right to maintain an archive of articles published in the Journal.
The digital copies of each article may be disseminated freely provided the source is acknowledged. Permission is granted to create hyperlinks (deep-links) to the article. Brief extracts from an article may be reproduced, provided the source is fully acknowledged.