This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

The International Journal of the Legal Profession is an academic journal addressing all issues relating to the work and organisation of legal professions. Interdisciplinary work is welcomed and the journal publishes both theoretical and empirical pieces. Papers accepted become the copyright of the journal unless otherwise agreed.

Manuscripts should be submitted online at the International Journal of the Legal Profession ScholarOne Manuscripts site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website.

Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. Articles will be considered only if two complete copies are submitted, and all submissions will be sent anonymously for the observations of referees. One version should be a complete text, with the names of the authors, including the full postal address of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence and offprints. In the second version all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as “File not for review”. 

Submissions should be typed, double-spaced. All pages should be numbered. Papers will be considered provided that they are not submitted simultaneously elsewhere for publication, and have not previously been published elsewhere.

Tables and Captions should be typed out on separate pages and not included as part of the text. Tables should be numbered by roman numerals and figures by arabic numerals. The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Captions should include keys to any symbols.

Figures and any line drawings should be of a quality suitable for printing and will not normally be redrawn by the publishers.

• Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
• Figures must be saved individually and separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the main document.

References should follow the Harvard system, i.e. they should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name, with the year of publication in parenthesis, e.g. Winterton (1996); or if there are more than two authors - Page et al . (1997). If several papers from the same author(s) and from the same year are cited, (a), (b), (c), etc should be put after the year of publication. The references should then be listed in full alphabetically at the end of the paper on a separate sheet in the following standard form:

Journal Article:
Kselan, T. (1999) The problematics of education in the 1980s: some reflections, Oxford Review of Education , 32(3), pp. 312-332.

Book Chapter:
Young, G. (1981) Hospice and health care, in: C. Saunders, D.H. Summers & N. Teller (Eds) Race, Class and Education (London, Edward Arnold), pp. 115-148.

Book:
Bloch, M. & Parry, J. (Eds) (1982) Death and the Education of Life (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).

Titles of Journals should not be abbreviated.

Cases should be cited in the usual English law form with the name of the case and its date in the text and a list of cases in alphabetical order at the end of the article.

End notes should be short, if possible, and relate to the significance of a cited reference, rather than reflect an idea which could go into the text in parenthesis.

Proofs will be sent to authors, if there is sufficient time to do so. They should be corrected and returned to the publisher within 48 hours of receipt. Proofs are supplied for checking and making essential corrections, not for general revision or alteration.

Free article access: Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

Copyright. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from Taylor & Francis, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as original source of publication, and that Taylor & Francis is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised. Authors retain a number of other rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies documents. These policies are referred to at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authorrights.pdf for full details. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

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