Civil Wars is a refereed journal.

Articles submitted to Civil Wars 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 will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission.

Each manuscript should be submitted in duplicate. Articles should be typewritten on A4/Letter paper on one side only, double-spaced and with ample margins. All pages (including those containing only diagrams and tables) should be numbered consecutively.

There is no standard length for articles, but 7,500-9,000 words (including notes and references) is a useful target. The article should begin with an indented and italicised summary 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. Any acknowledgements should be included on the cover sheet as should a note of the exact length of the article.

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.

Initial submissions of manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be sent to: civilwars.journal@googlemail.com.

All book reviews to be sent to the book reviews editor: Dr Andrew Mumford, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU6 7RX, UK, Email: a.p.mumford@gmail.com

Following acceptance for publication, articles should be submitted on high-density, virus-free 3 ½ inch disks (IBM PC or Macintosh compatible) in Word for Windows together with an exactly matching double-spaced hard copy. To facilitate the typesetting process, notes should be grouped together at the end of the file. Tables should also be placed at the end of the file. Tables should be saved as text using the appropriate function within your word processor. If this function is not available then tables should be prepared using tabs. Any diagrams or maps should be copied to a separate disk in uncompressed .TIF or .JPG formats in individual files. These should be prepared in black and white. Tints should be avoided, use open patterns instead. If mathematics are included 1/2 is preferred over ½.

Each disk should be labelled with the journal's name, article title, lead author's name and software used. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that where copyright materials are included within an article the permission of the copyright holder has been obtained. Confirmation of this should be included on a separate sheet included with the disk.

Authors are entitled to a copy of the issue in which their article appears and either a PDF file of their article or 50 off prints.

Style
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. Clearly mark all headings; sub-headings should be in upper case, ranged left; sub-sub-headings should be in italics upper and lower case, ranged left. They should not be numbered.

British punctuation and spelling throughout: per cent rather than percent or %; single quotation marks, double within single; quotations of five lines or more should be indented, without quotes.

Standard UK spellings: -ise endings. American spelling and -ize endings will be retained in US articles.

Capitalisation: Use capitals sparingly. Capital letter for specific heads of state (President Clinton, King Hassan II) and for unique institutions (the Knesset); lower case for ministers and officials (former Spanish prime minister Felipe Gonzalez). Capitalise left/right when used as a noun (the Italian Left), otherwise lower case (right-wing Lebanese militias). Capitals for the East and West, North and South, when global; lower case for western, eastern, northern and southern.

Dates: 23 December 1971; December 1973; 23 December (no punctuation). Except for titles, abbreviate years to two digits: 1983-84 (not 1983-4); the 1930s (not 'the thirties'): 24bn euros, $1,980m, £65.

Notes
Notes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively through the article with a numeral corresponding to the list of double-spaced notes placed at the end. In this list numbers should be followed by a full point, not a bracket. Harvard-style and bibliographical references are unacceptable.

Books: author's name as it appears on the book's title page, title underlined, with capitals for principal words, place of publication: publisher and date in parentheses, page references:
1. Alan Dowty, Closed Borders (New Haven, CT: Yale UP 1986) pp.145-6.
2. William Brown, 'Prospects for Integration with Europe', New Political Economy 2/2 (1997) p.333-6.
3. Stephen John Stedman, 'The End of the American Civil War' in Roy Licklider (ed.) Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End (NYUP 1993).
4. Ibid. p.26.
5. Brown (note 2) p.335. OR, if other works by Brown are cited.
6. Brown, 'Prospects for Integration with Europe' (note 2) p.335.