Articles submitted to European Security should be original contributions and 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 is due to be published elsewhere authors are expected to clearly indicate this at the time of submission.

Articles should be between 8,000 and 10,000 words (including notes and references). Articles should not go over the world limit in the first instance. The article should begin with an indented and italicised abstract of 150 words or less, which should summarise the main arguments and conclusions of the article.

Manuscripts should be submitted double spaced, 12 point font, and in Times New Roman.

Details of the author's institutional affiliation, full postal and email addresses and other contact information must be included on a separate cover sheet. Any acknowledgements should be included on the cover sheet as should a note of the exact length of the article. A short biography of up to 75 words should also be submitted.

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.

Tables should be placed at the end of the file and prepared using tabs. Any diagrams or maps should be supplied separately in uncompressed .TIF or .JPEG formats in individual files. These should be prepared in black and white. Tints should be avoided, use open patterns instead. If maps and diagrams cannot be prepared electronically, they should be presented on good quality white paper. If mathematics are included, 1/2 is preferred over ½.

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Final acceptance of articles for publication requires that all style, formatting and notes conform to the journal guidelines (see below). Citations and references should pertain to the Harvard style laid out below. Authors should include a brief biographical sketch with the submission of the final version of a paper that has been accepted for publication. After acceptance, authors will be informed when proofs of the article will be available for correcting. Authors are expected to submit corrections/amendments within 72 hours of receiving the proofs.

Corresponding authors will be sent a PDF of the final article by email (which can be printed/disseminated up to 50 times). Additional copies of the journal can be ordered. Copyright in articles published in European Security rests with the publisher.

Quotations should be in single quotation marks, double within single. Long quotations of five or more lines should be indented without quotes. British punctuation is to be used throughout. Numbers of 11 and higher should be in figures and per cent rather than percent or %. Dates in the form of 5 September 1990; 1994-98; the 1990s. American spelling and -ize endings will be retained in US contributions, but please be consistent.

Sub-headings should be in capitals, ranged left; sub-sub-headings in italics, also ranged left. They should not be numbered.

Notes should be kept to a minimum and must comply in number and quality with the standards of academic writing. They should be double-spaced and numbered consecutively through the article with a raised numeral corresponding to the list of notes placed at the end. The endnote list should not have raised numbers and should be followed by a full stop (period), not a bracket.

European Security uses the Harvard citation style. Please see examples below:

Article in journal

Baylis, J., 1998. European security in the post-Cold War era: The continuing struggle between realism and utopianism. European Security, 7 (3), 14-27.

Dannreuther, R. 1999. Escaping the enlargement trap in NATO-Russian relations. Survival, 41 (4), 145 - 64.

Book

Gänzle, S. and Sens, A. G., eds., 2007.  The changing politics of European security: Europe alone? Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Sperling, J. 1999. Two tiers or two speeds? The European security order and the enlargement of the European Union and NATO. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Chapter in edited volume

Tams, C., 1999. The functions of a European security and defence identity and its institutional form.  In: H. Haftendorn, R. O. Keohane and C. A. Wallender, eds. Imperfect Unions: Security Institutions over Time and Space. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Article in newspaper

Sevastopulo, D., 2009. Gates under fire for deep defence cuts. Financial Times, 7 April.

According to J. Green (personal communication, 19 Jan 2007).