Journal Details
Geopolitics
Instructions for Authors
Geopolitics receives all manuscript submissions electronically via their ScholarOne Manuscripts website located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/FGEO.
ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal communication between authors, editors and reviewers via a web-based platform. For ScholarOne Manuscripts technical support, you may contact them by e-mail or phone support via http://scholarone.com/services/support/ . If you have any other requests please contact the Editors at sdalby@gmail.com or geopol@bgu.ac.il. Inquiries concerning book reviews should be submitted to Marcus Powers at marcus.power@durham.ac.uk or Merje Kuus at kuus@geog.ubc.ca.
Articles submitted should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. There is no maximum length for articles, but 6,000 – 7,000 words is a useful target. Geopolitics welcomes the submission of scholarly articles on matters of space, power, identities, boundaries, borders, globalization, resources, security, the history of geopolitics and related matters which make a contribution to contemporary scholarship on these topics. Scholarly submissions to Geopolitics are double blind refereed so authors are requested to ensure that no material or phrasing that may obviously identify them as such is included in the uploaded files.
Illustrations
Illustrations submitted (line drawings, halftones, photos, photomicrographs, etc.) should be clean originals or digital files. Digital files are recommended for highest quality reproduction and should follow these guidelines:
- 300 dpi or higher
- sized to fit on journal page
- EPS, TIFF, or PSD format only
- submitted as separate files, not embedded in text files
Tables and Figures
Tables and figures should not be embedded in the text, but should be included as separate sheets or files. A short descriptive title should appear above each table with a clear legend and any footnotes suitably identified below. All units must be included. Figures should be completely labeled, taking into account necessary size reduction. Captions should be typed, double-spaced, on a separate sheet.
Notes
Notes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively through the article with a numeral corresponding to the list of 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. In notes, abbreviate Aug. to Feb.; Spell out March to July.
Books: Author's name as it appears on the book's title page, title underlined, with capitals for principle words, place of publication: publisher and date in parentheses, page reference:
1. J. Abun Nasr, A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period (Cambridge: CUP 1987) pp.214-17.
Articles: Author's name, title of article within single inverted commas with principle words capitalized, title of journal underlined, volume/issue number, year, place of publication if in a book, page reference:
2. A. Hodges, 'The Western Sahara File', Third World Quarterly 6/1 (Jan. 1984) p.78.
3. E.G.H. Joffe, 'The International Court of Justice and the Western Sahara Dispute', in R. Lawless and L. Monahan (eds.), War and Refugees: the Western Sahara Conflict (London: Pinter 1987) pp. 24-5.
Subsequent references: A reference to a single source in the previous note may be replaced by 'Ibid'; in later notes by author's surname, note number and page number(s); several titles by one author may be replaced with shortened forms:
4. Ibid, p. 26.
9. Joffe (note 3) p.16.
Or if other works by Joffe are cited:
10. Joffe, 'International Court of Justice' (note 3) p. 21.
Proofs
One set of page proofs is sent to the designated corresponding author. Proofs should be checked and returned promptly.
Offprints
Each corresponding author will receive 1 copy of the issue in which their article appears and 25 reprints of their article upon registration with Rightslink, our authorized reprint provider. Authors will need to create a unique account and register with Rightslink for this free service. The link is provided at the time of page proof review. Complimentary reprints are not available post publication.
