In order to submit your work to the journal of the British Society of Criminology, please refer to the guidelines below:
1. Papers should be written in English and should not have been published already, nor be currently under consideration elsewhere. All papers are refereed anonymously by at least two referees.
2. Each paper should come with the following information on a separate sheet:
(a) title of paper, date and word count;
(b) author's full name, affiliation, institutional and email address, telephone and fax numbers;
(c) an abstract of 150 to 200 words;
(d) up to 5 key words;
(e) a biographical note of 25-50 words.
3. Articles must be typed in double spacing throughout on one side of A4 or American Quarto paper with generous margins on all sides. All pages should be numbered. Titles and section headings should be clear with a maximum of three orders of heading. The maximum length should be 8000 words, including notes and references.
4. The typescript should be carefully checked for errors before it is submitted for publication. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of quotations, for supplying complete and correct references, and for obtaining permission where needed to cite another author's material.
5. Essential notes should be indicated by superscript numbers in the text, and presented at the end of the text before the references. Notes and references should be in double-spacing. Articles should have a maximum of ten notes. The first, unnumbered, note should include any acknowledgements and disclaimers.
6. Lengthy quotations (of more than 40 words) should be displayed, indented; shorter quotes should be retained within the body of the text, within single quotation marks.
7. Tables should be presented on separate sheets of paper at the end of the article, with short, descriptive titles. Figures should be of reproducible standard, i.e. clear and well-drawn, clearly numbered, and accompanied by explanatory numbered captions typed on a separate sheet. Both should include source and any explanatory notes. The position of tables and figures within the text should be clearly indicated. Any figures, tables or illustrations created on computer should be supplied on disk as well as in a good hard copy version. Poor quality artwork will not be used.
8. Referencing. Use the Harvard-style system: surname and date cited in the text; with an alphabetically ordered end list, headed References, and typed double-spaced for ease of editing. Use the following style:
(a) Downes, David (1988) Contrasts in Tolerance: Post-War Penal Policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(b) Baron, Stephen and Timothy Hartnagel (1997) 'Attributions, Affect and Crime: Street Youths' Reaction to Unemployment', Criminology 35(3): 409-434.
(c) Andrews, David A. (1995) 'The Psychology of Criminal Conduct and Effective Treatment', pp. 88-103 in J.McGuire (ed.), What Works: Reducing Reoffending. Chichester: John Wiley.
When citing a new edition of a previously published work, include both dates, e.g. Durkheim (1912/1976), in text and references.
9. Cases or statutes cited. Where appropriate, please supply a separate double-spaced list of cases or statutes cited.
10. Our spelling style is based on the Oxford English Dictionary and the guidelines laid down in Hart's Rules for Compositors (Oxford). We also endorse the guidelines provided by the American Psychological Association and the British Sociological Association for non-sexist and non-racist language. Other points of style: italics should be indicated by underlining; single quotation marks should be used, with double inside single, where necesssary; dates should be in the form 24 November 1997; delete points from abbreviations, hence UK, USA etc.
11. Authors will be asked to provide a diskette containing the final version only of their paper following acceptance for publication. The author is responsible for ensuring that the final hard copy and diskette versions of the manuscript are identical.
12. Authors are sent proofs for checking and correction, and will receive a complimentary copy of the journal and controlled access to a pdf of their article after publication.
Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic Word format to:
Professor Gordon Hughes
Cardiff University
School of Social Sciences
Glamorgan Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff CF10 3WT
Email: ccj@cf.ac.uk
Book reviews should be submitted in electronic Word format to:
Dr Matthew Williams
School of Social Sciences
Cardiff University
Glamorgan Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff
CF10 3WT, UK
E-mail: ccj@cf.ac.uk
Criminology and Criminal Justice welcomes requests to review recently published research monographs and text books. Please contact the reviews editor Matthew Williams for further details.
Email: WilliamsM7@cf.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 4853
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