Editorial Policy
The Editor invites contributions from a variety of disciplines, including: International Relations, Political Science, Political Philosophy, International Political Economy, International Law, International Conflict Analysis, and Sociology. The emphasis of the articles should be to advance an understanding of the processes of transnationalisation and globalisation at various levels of social interaction.

Manuscripts accepted by the Editor are normally evaluated by at least two anonymous referees. The Editor acts on the basis of referral reports, but retains final discretion in the decision to publish an article. A manuscript is accepted for consideration on the understanding that its content is original and that it has not been accepted for publication or review elsewhere.

Any submissions that do not conform to the requirements set out below will be deemed to be incomplete and will not be considered for publication.

Format of Manuscripts

All submissions should be made online at the Global Society 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.

Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second 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”. 

 Manuscripts should be saved in A4 format with double-spacing, and should normally be between 8-10,000 words in length. Authors should include a short (3-4 line) biographical statement AND A CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS with submission. Abstracts of no more than 200 words are required for all submissions, and each paper should have between 3 and 5 keywords.

Authors are invited to nominate up to two referees (not from their own institution) although it is not guaranteed that they will be consulted.

Authors are encouraged to use headings within the text for clarity. There should be a clear difference between first-order headings, denoted in all capital lettering, and sub-headings, which should be in the normal variation of capitals and lower-case. Headings should not be numbered.

Imbedded codes, such as for fonts and justification, should be collected at the very top of the document; the body of the text should contain only essential codes for fonts and indentation. Authors should use a bare minimum of emphases in the text; where necessary, italics should be used rather than single quotations.

Quotations must correspond exactly with the original wording, spelling and punctuation. Any deviation should be noted, such as with the use of ellipses to identify omissions. Any emphases added should be noted. Authors should use double quotation marks (" ") for direct quotes and to denote the titles of articles, and should use single quotation marks (' ') to denote a quote within a quotation.

Notation Style
Notations should be in the form of endnotes collected at the end of the article, and noted where appropriate in the text by a superscript number. Notations should form part of the actual text, and should not be generated by imbedded codes as common with wordprocessing packages.

References should be complete, and in accordance with the following examples:

For books: author, title (place: publisher, year), page. For example:
Chris Brown, International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches. (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester, 1992), p. 25.

For articles: author, "article", Journal, Vol., No. (year), page. For example:
Lawrence Kaplan, "NATO in the 1990s", Paradigms: The Kent Journal of International Relations, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1993), p. 11.

For chapters in edited collections: author, "chapter", in editor (ed.), title (place: publisher, year), page. For example:
S. Benhabib, "The Generalized and the Concrete Other", in E. F. Frazer,
J. Hornsby and S. Lovibond (eds.), Ethics: A Feminist Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), p. 270.

Citations should conform to the following format, using ibid to refer to a repetition of a reference immediately above, and op. cit. to refer to a source previously cited:

1. Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society (London: Macmillan, 1977),
pp. 130-135.
2. Ibid., p. 132.
……..
15. Bull, op. cit., p. 99.

Where more than one work by an author is cited, the op. cit. reference should specify a title (i.e. Bull, The Anarchical Society, op. cit., p. 132).

Copyright. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or licence the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to University of Kent at Canterbury. 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 retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Free article access: Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk