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The Journal of Strategic Studies is a refereed journal.

Articles submitted to the Journal of Strategic Studies should be original contributions and should not be derived from existing or planning publications. Article should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission.

The standard word length for articles is 7,000–10,000 (including notes and references). The editors will consider articles over 10,000 words in length if the subject matter or material warrants lengthy treatment. The article should begin with an indented abstract of around 100 words, which should describe the main arguments and conclusions of the article.

Details of the author's institutional affiliation, full address and other contact information should be included on a separate cover sheet along with a note onthe exact length of the article. Any acknowledgements should be placed at theend of the article, before the Bibliography.

All diagrams, charts and graphs should be referred to as figures and consecutively numbered. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Each figure and table must be given an arabic numeral, followed by a heading, and be referred to in the text.

Manuscripts and editorial communications should be addressed to:

• Dr Joseph Maiolo, Dept. of War, Studies, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England. Email: joe.maiolo@kcl.ac.uk
Or

• Prof. Thomas G. Mahnken, Strategic Studies Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW., Washington DC 20036, USA. Email: tmahnken@jhu.edu

SPECIAL ISSUES
The editors invite proposals for special issues or special sections on a focused theme. All special issues or sections are refereed in two stages. Contributors interested in organizing a special issue or theme should contact the editors in the first instance.

STYLE
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. Current Journal style should be followed closely. Dates in the form of 1 January 2000. Use figures for 11 and above. US spelling is retained in American contributions. Authors should provide brief biographical details to include institutional affiliation and recent publications for inclusion in the About the Contributors. Subheadings and sub-sub headings should be unambiguously marked on the copy.

FOOTNOTES
Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page and numbered consecutively throughout the article with the raised numerals in the text and in the corresponding footnote. Only the absolute minimum of additional commentary and information should appear in footnotes.

Full reference to be given in first instance followed by abbreviated form thereafter.

• Reference to books should give the author's name, title of the book (italics), and the place, publishers and date of publication in brackets.
  
  E.g. ¹ Samuel P. Huntington, The Common Defense (NY: Columbia UP 1961) Ch.2, 14-18.
  
  ABBREV: ¹ Huntington, The Common Defense, 14-18
  
  
• References to articles in periodicals should give the author's initials and surname, the title of the article in single quotation marks, title of periodical (italics), the number of the volume/issue in Arabic numerals, the date of publication in brackets, and the page numbers.
  
  E.g. ² Douglas M. Fox, ‘Congress and the US Military Service Budgets in the Post War Period', Midwest Journal of Political Science 16/2 (May 1971) 382-93.
  
  ABBREV: ² Fox, ‘Congress and the US Military Service Budgets in the Post War Period', 382-93.
  
  
• References to archival sources should follow the customary form of citation associated with the particular archive. In general, begin with the location of the archive, the name of the archive, the collection and subdivisions (if necessary), file/box number, and then the full particulars of the document, including (if available) page or folio numbers. Cite the full reference for the archive in the first instance and abbreviate thereafter. All material to be left out of the abbreviated subsequent references is to be enclosed in square brackets. Abbreviate months as follows: Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June, July, Aug. Sept., Oct. Nov., Dec.
  
  E.g. ³ [Kew, United Kingdom, The National Archives], ADM[iralty papers] 116/3843, PD04853/35, Captain S. Smith, 23 Jan. 1935.
  
  ABBREV: ³ ADM 116/3843, PD04853/35, Captain S. Smith, 23 Jan. 1935.

REFERENCE LIST
A full reference list of cited secondary works should accompany each submission. Reference lists should follow same style as above, but should only include books, articles and published documents. There is no need to list archives or individual documents from archives.

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